Woody Morgan
62 Cal.
I just stay downwind of the moderns unless one of the regulars gets uppity.Most ranges will have a BP section or area. They just don't mix well with modern shooters. Suits most of us just fine!
wm
I just stay downwind of the moderns unless one of the regulars gets uppity.Most ranges will have a BP section or area. They just don't mix well with modern shooters. Suits most of us just fine!
I know what you mean. These days schools don't teach the young ones much about history. When I was a kid we knew all about Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, The American Revolution and the guns used back then. I knew what a flintlock was long before I actually saw one, Back then, it was a rarity to see someone using one or even having one in their possession. Reproduction flintlocks and percussion muzzleloaders had not yet been invented. For my 8th grade American History class our teacher gave all of us projects to make something that we would today call "period correct." My assignment was to make a powder horn. I knew what it was, but I had no idea how to make one. Living on a farm my dad helped me get it started with one of the horns he had in the barn. I used my great-grandfather's actual powder horn, hanging on display in my bedroom, as a guide.Young guy at the shooting range thought it was great that someone finally invented a muzzleloader that does not need to use the shotgun primers. Really need how the gun was made to look old fashioned. He thought flintlock was a new invention. Makes you wonder what is going on in school these days.
Just about always have people come over asking questions. Most of them have never actually seen a flintlock before.
There is a difference between stupidity and ignorance. By what you said that fellow was ignorant. You missed an opportunity to educate him and let him take a shot or two with your gun. You might have recruited another black powder enthusiasts.I was shooting my GPR at a 100 yard target at a public range probably 20 years ago. A guy comes over and asks what Im shooting at. I say " that target at 100". His reply was "oh, I didnt think those things could go that far", an then walked away. Guy musta watched too many movies where the combatants were only 50 yards apart and thought thats as far as theyd fire.
Nowdays I belong to a club that has a specific black powder range. So now I dont have to hear that kind of stupidity anymore.
There was a young couple shooting some kind of .22 next to me at a 25 yard target. They were on the paper but nothing I'd call a group. They walked over before leaving the range. I was between shots and swabbing the barrel of my .45 Pedersoli Flintlock. After seeing the target out at the 100 yard mark, he asked " Can you actually hit that target way out there. At that moment the Range officer called a cease fire for target changes. I invited him to take a walk with me. I showed him my first shot high and left and I marked it with a #1 then my second shot low and right (over corrected) and the next three shots walking them into the 10 ring. I marked each shot and went back to the shooting bench. I loaded the weapon and let him take a shot. His shot hit just under my number one shot, high and left.At the range yesterday shooting a Deerhunter and a Trapper one of the gals asked to try the Deerhunter. After the boom, flame and smoke cleared away she hollered, "My God! It's like the Fourth of July!!"
What other comments have y'all heard about our chosen firearms?
wm
"Do you think you're in the civil war? (And my favorite) "How can you even lift this thing!?" And regarding the possible bag "Is that a purse?"At the range yesterday shooting a Deerhunter and a Trapper one of the gals asked to try the Deerhunter. After the boom, flame and smoke cleared away she hollered, "My God! It's like the Fourth of July!!"
What other comments have y'all heard about our chosen firearms?
wm
History is just one of the things missing from modern curricula.I know what you mean. These days schools don't teach the young ones much about history. When I was a kid we knew all about Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, The American Revolution and the guns used back then. I knew what a flintlock was long before I actually saw one, Back then, it was a rarity to see someone using one or even having one in their possession. Reproduction flintlocks and percussion muzzleloaders had not yet been invented. For my 8th grade American History class our teacher gave all of us projects to make something that we would today call "period correct." My assignment was to make a powder horn. I knew what it was, but I had no idea how to make one. Living on a farm my dad helped me get it started with one of the horns he had in the barn. I used my great-grandfather's actual powder horn, hanging on display in my bedroom, as a guide.
Out hunting doves with my muzzleloader and a guy came by looking for his dog. When he saw my M/L shotgun he says, " A shotgun muzzleloader, I didn't know they made such a thing!"At the range yesterday shooting a Deerhunter and a Trapper one of the gals asked to try the Deerhunter. After the boom, flame and smoke cleared away she hollered, "My God! It's like the Fourth of July!!"
What other comments have y'all heard about our chosen firearms?
wm
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