Just a report from our club meeting last night.
Excellent meeting last night. I didn't do a head count, but it looked to be around 35 in attendance.
The meeting got started with the minutes, followed by a representative of Friends of the NRA telling about the upcoming banquet this coming weekend.
Lots of great things were brought in. A local dentist donated two pristine Thompson Center rifles, powder, and other accouterments to the club. It was voted to give them to the youth shooting group.
Tom Reynolds brought in some quarter scale birch bark canoes of different designs.
One was fully outfitted with scale model working traps, snowshoes, trap basket, paddles, along with an Indian with a trade gun.
Tom has built multiple full size birch bark canoes, but he says at 85, he doesn't figure he will be building any more. So, he donated his strongback, materials, full instructions and video he had put together to the club. Three eager members were all over that, and I will bet we see a finished canoe sometime this summer from them.
He also had information on making the pitch and tallow mixture correctly for the canoes, although he said he recommends using the modern asphalt roof patch now.
Rod, Mark, and Shawn brought in some fine copper kettles they had made following dimensions from original examples.
Mark also brought a collection of original English snuff boxes that had been made for the Colonial trade.
Mary and Amber were happy as kids in a candy store, both showing off their new trade guns!
Robert brought along a long rifle he had just finished, beautiful work as usual.
Excellent meeting last night. I didn't do a head count, but it looked to be around 35 in attendance.
The meeting got started with the minutes, followed by a representative of Friends of the NRA telling about the upcoming banquet this coming weekend.
Lots of great things were brought in. A local dentist donated two pristine Thompson Center rifles, powder, and other accouterments to the club. It was voted to give them to the youth shooting group.
Tom Reynolds brought in some quarter scale birch bark canoes of different designs.
One was fully outfitted with scale model working traps, snowshoes, trap basket, paddles, along with an Indian with a trade gun.
Tom has built multiple full size birch bark canoes, but he says at 85, he doesn't figure he will be building any more. So, he donated his strongback, materials, full instructions and video he had put together to the club. Three eager members were all over that, and I will bet we see a finished canoe sometime this summer from them.
He also had information on making the pitch and tallow mixture correctly for the canoes, although he said he recommends using the modern asphalt roof patch now.
Rod, Mark, and Shawn brought in some fine copper kettles they had made following dimensions from original examples.
Mark also brought a collection of original English snuff boxes that had been made for the Colonial trade.
Mary and Amber were happy as kids in a candy store, both showing off their new trade guns!
Robert brought along a long rifle he had just finished, beautiful work as usual.
