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N.E. Missouri - farm house we live in has walnut beams 25 feet long, all hand-hewn, squared - rebuilt in 1914. Mixture around here between debarked round and squared. "Cabin Industries" included cutting wood for steamboats and "Tie Hacking" (making railroad crossties from standing trees to...

I think that type of crack comes from overtightening the screw that holds the lock in place. Usually easily fixed.

Way things are going, best get powder when you can at the price level you can afford. Old guys have cans with $2.90 on the (I do) and the 4F Dupont's still good from the 1960's. Considering $2.00 an hour was average pay, $23 or so for powder's not crazy bad. I try to keep a year's supply of...

Your gun is a percussion (cap fired) example of a many-varied black powder only "trade Gun" that were widely available in the 1960's and 1970's. Many were made is Spain and Belgium for sale to "natives" on 3-world countries where ownership of modern guns was restricted. Fortunately, when the...

Aging eyes. Human eye can only focus on one thing at a time. Young guys can switch between front sight, target, and rear sight rapidly (some to the point they perceive all three to be in focus at the same time). Old guys everything slows down, including the ability to "scan" between the three...

Gratified to learn the black powder addiction virus is still present in our surroundings. There is no cure, but sometimes spousal intervention may foment temporary remission. Pity the fool without a spouse. May your every target leave the range with the "X ring" missing. Welcome to the asylum.

Missouri's Primitive Weapons season's also morphed into the AR Pistol season and moved from early fall to Christmas/New Years. I hunted the first Primitive Weapons season, few realized how great those times were ..until we lost them. As small farms are sold off to large scale operators...

One change is that my older ones from the 60's are about a fourth the thickness of the current one. BTW - Dixie also printed a muzzle loading annual magazine for a bit as well as a collectible firearms catalog with antique guns for sale. Before the internet, antique arms dealers sent out printed...

I'll have to see if she has any Power Wash beneath the kitchen sink. Tube of Crest was easy to find and a video of cleaning headlight lenses brought the idea to mind. Guys are friends, relatives but sometimes just don't really finish what's started. Rancid deer tallow smell lingers longtime.

Old guys can't even remember passwords, let alone where we left a specific spare wedge for a rifle not fired in 20 years. Firecracker fuze?..I know exactly where that's located. Round balls look really similar when those found beneath/behind stuff are tossed into the same ammo can... for years...

Other than the Plano tackle box, I use the Law Enforcement Filing system or "COP" as it is known. If you can't find that thing you're looking for ...Check Other Pile..."Cop". Piles may or may not be just one thing, mostly start out as such, but in a few weeks stuff gets scrambled. Only the...

Makes sense. Most of ours have no "floor", thus nothing to rest the gun butt upon. Short barrelled guns - JBMR, "Hawkens", etc. are less problematic than full-length. Gotta be a trick someone's successfully used. Holding between the knees don't work for me. Still can't reach the muzzle without...

Every year, my hunters leave the farm after butchering their deer and somehow neglect to thoroughly clean my tools they used. Trusty tomahawks & saws, mostly. The fat/gore is admittedly hard to get off and leaves a coating that is nasty. This year, I tried a different approach beyond "Dawn" -...

All well and good - many good thoughts. Now ...HOW DO YOU RELOAD WHEN YOU'RE 15 FEET UP IN THAT THERE STAND? OR DO YOU?

People shot anything they could with whatever they had. "Punt Guns" harvested waterfowl by the cart load with one shot. Game was sold to feed hunters' families. Netting spring waterfowl was an accepted means - when molting or nesting. It was a business as well as subsistence living in those...

Old guy stuff ...on my farm, we have rules about this ...Never hoist a loaded gun of any kind, period. Unlike some others, I prefer to hoist muzzle up to avoid the possibility of having the gun fall muzzle-down into mud/snow. If alone, I tie a cord around the barrel/front portion of the long...

Welcome from N.E. Missouri. We need more muzzle loading hunters to get the attention of those who make the rules in this here state. Glad to have you. Have FUN!!

Been using one over 50 years to hold my oil paints/brushes for painting. Mine's a bit larger, but the same design. I think Hobby Lobby also sold/still sells them. Be careful ...womenfolk may steal yours for silly things like "sewing notions". Best "man it up" quick ..Muzzle Loading Forum...

Hello from Spencer Creek in Ralls County.

Looks to be part of an old-time shotshell reloading kit although it's not exactly the same as others I've had. May be a stand-alone tool for cartridges/shotshells. "Claw" for placing around the base to extract, circle to possibly determine proper circumference, and the other end which looks to...