First I want to thank you gents for this forum. You guys have a lot of knowledge. When I decided to expand my BP pistol horizons into rifles I did alot of research. Time after time a question I had would bring me to this forum. So I figured that I should just join this group as ya'll were already answering most of my questions.
One of the things that I worry about with the ever forward momentum of technology is the loss of old knowledge and availability of products.
Already we are haveing folks report dificulty geting real powder. Manufacturers going out of buisness or moving on to new projects and abandoning old tech. How soon will it be before we can no longer find percusion caps or replacement nipples or or or....? Just yesterday I was searching around online and I saw a company that was selling a conversion that would allow side locks to employ 209 primers and that put the fear of the gods in me. How long will it be before a standard issue cap lock can no longer be loaded due to a lack of loading materials? Will I be forced some day to convert my piece to a 209 primer system if I want to continue shooting?
This brings me to the unspeakable bullets...Will there come a day when thats all anyone who uses BP shoots?
Lead is banned in many places forcing guys to think out of the box and start experimenting with bismuth alloys. Bismuth!? I know how to refine lead from ore, but I have no clue how to refine bismuth nor do I have the knowledge to alloy the stuff, let alone properly for a bullet.
Then there are the overly sensitive bambi huggers that would bann all guns and hunting. Seems the no hunting gun controlers gain more foot hold every day. Will even our old style smoke poles become illegal some day? They bann our lead, make it so we can not publicly discuss the methods to manufacture powder, and our suppliers of (real) powder are drying up.
Then there is global politics....where it leads and what it means for gun ownership rights in the long run has me very worried.
This knowledge that we have is a disapearing science. I fear we are among the last few generations who will be able to hunt free as our ancestors did. Every one of us who knows something about this sport should take the time and write out everything they know and print it on acid free paper with archive quality ink and stash it back in a place that will not be ravaged by time to much. I fear that such information is going to be eventually banned and deleted wholesale from the net and books rounded up. We could very well be the last free generation for many generations. To be honest, I ain't feeling very free the last decade.
Anyways...
TL/DR version:
Thanks for the forum.
Cyndi has political opinions.
Some crazy idea about storing knowledge for future generations.
One of the things that I worry about with the ever forward momentum of technology is the loss of old knowledge and availability of products.
Already we are haveing folks report dificulty geting real powder. Manufacturers going out of buisness or moving on to new projects and abandoning old tech. How soon will it be before we can no longer find percusion caps or replacement nipples or or or....? Just yesterday I was searching around online and I saw a company that was selling a conversion that would allow side locks to employ 209 primers and that put the fear of the gods in me. How long will it be before a standard issue cap lock can no longer be loaded due to a lack of loading materials? Will I be forced some day to convert my piece to a 209 primer system if I want to continue shooting?
This brings me to the unspeakable bullets...Will there come a day when thats all anyone who uses BP shoots?
Lead is banned in many places forcing guys to think out of the box and start experimenting with bismuth alloys. Bismuth!? I know how to refine lead from ore, but I have no clue how to refine bismuth nor do I have the knowledge to alloy the stuff, let alone properly for a bullet.
Then there are the overly sensitive bambi huggers that would bann all guns and hunting. Seems the no hunting gun controlers gain more foot hold every day. Will even our old style smoke poles become illegal some day? They bann our lead, make it so we can not publicly discuss the methods to manufacture powder, and our suppliers of (real) powder are drying up.
Then there is global politics....where it leads and what it means for gun ownership rights in the long run has me very worried.
This knowledge that we have is a disapearing science. I fear we are among the last few generations who will be able to hunt free as our ancestors did. Every one of us who knows something about this sport should take the time and write out everything they know and print it on acid free paper with archive quality ink and stash it back in a place that will not be ravaged by time to much. I fear that such information is going to be eventually banned and deleted wholesale from the net and books rounded up. We could very well be the last free generation for many generations. To be honest, I ain't feeling very free the last decade.
Anyways...
TL/DR version:
Thanks for the forum.
Cyndi has political opinions.
Some crazy idea about storing knowledge for future generations.