Do I finally get my Baker?

[robinghewitt]

I think Wifelet just agreed to a Baker rifle :thumbsup:

We're selling the old homestead and the valuation was amazing compared to what I payed 15 years ago, I slipped in my Baker request at exactly the right moment and she said "Yes" without even thinking about it.

This probably means I will have to agree when she wants a big slice but I reckon she'll save most of it because she's a regular squirrel

I must get on to the Baker rifle man, he had one by Zeke Baker himself a while ago which would be extra special because I'm kinda sentimental about that kind of thing.

There are two things left on my shopping list, a blunderbus and a Baker.

Please excuse my whoopy-doo, I just wanted to share with folks that could understand :grin: :grin:

best regards

Squire Robin

 

[Slowpoke]

You get that Baker rifle and I'm coming over for a visit....... You did just get her a new puppy... I think that's a fair trade.

 

[Slash]

Congratulations!!! Will we get to see pictures?
Slash

 

[robinghewitt]

Congratulations!!! Will we get to see pictures?

If I get it I'll ask SlowPoke to bring his camera :thumbsup:

 

[patch knife]

Congrats , Squire Robin :hatsoff: , have fun with it :thumbsup:

 

[Stumpkiller]

Congrats! But it must be bitter-sweet. Are you putting the old owl out to fend for himself?

 

[Wes/Tex]

If you come to visit Texas, engrave the lock with the Mexican eagle & snake! You'll fit right in!! Santa Anna's 'rifle' companies carried surplus Bakers. The best source mentions that with the captured mexican weapons at San Jacinto were "jaegers & sabers"...not likely to be real German "Jaegers" rifles but Bakers and their saber bayonets!

 

[davy]

If you come to visit Texas, engrave the lock with the Mexican eagle & snake! You'll fit right in!! Santa Anna's 'rifle' companies carried surplus Bakers. The best source mentions that with the captured mexican weapons at San Jacinto were "jaegers & sabers"...not likely to be real German "Jaegers" rifles but Bakers and their saber bayonets!

It's rumoured that was what killed ol Ben Milam in the Battle for Bejar in 1835, by a sniper in a tree quite a ways off! :shocked2:

Davy

 

[robinghewitt]

Congrats! But it must be bitter-sweet. Are you putting the old owl out to fend for himself?

Cuddly tame owls don't last long in the big outdoors. I lost Alice owl about 15 years ago and she lasted about a week before being hit by a car at Beddingham rail crossing

Sophie owl is coming with me to the new house along with the cats, dogs and budgies. The chickens get rehomed because there are too many foxes where we're going. The pigeons in the dovecot stay, not sure about the fish in the pond, they are probably happiest where they are :thumbsup:

 

[BS]

I think Wifelet just agreed to a Baker rifle :thumbsup:

You know they can change there minds at any minute!

Best of Luck. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

[robinghewitt]

She already has changed her mind, she's just added 4 Baker rifles to the asking price :rotf:

Seems the valuation was wrong. Our agent put a tentative note in their window, (before we had agreed the details fortunately), and someone came in this morning offering to buy it, full price, unseen :shocked2:

Don't reckon I'll get the 4 Bakers, but one looks pretty safe :thumbsup:

 

[cgn1771]

You gotta take the chickens, then use the baker to keep the foxes outta tha hen house. :thumbsup:

Chad

 

[tmdreb]

If you come to visit Texas, engrave the lock with the Mexican eagle & snake! You'll fit right in!! Santa Anna's 'rifle' companies carried surplus Bakers. The best source mentions that with the captured mexican weapons at San Jacinto were "jaegers & sabers"...not likely to be real German "Jaegers" rifles but Bakers and their saber bayonets!

Wes, where did you see this? Sounds really neat, I'm just curious.

 

I was just looking at those on the flintlocks site, they go for one very tidy sum, well over $20,000 US. At least those were the originals in top condition. Too bad about leaving the chickens, they would make great bait for fox hunting, with one of those 28 guage/.36 cal. Paradox guns. :winking: Bill

 

[faw3]

Hey Davy I eat at the Tex-Mex place across the river from the tree the guy shot from ( if you want to belive people that know ) it was at least a good 30 yards :rotf: Fred :winking:

 

[davy]

Hey Davy I eat at the Tex-Mex place across the river from the tree the guy shot from ( if you want to belive people that know ) it was at least a good 30 yards :rotf: Fred :winking:

... been there in Bejar and seen tha elephant too! Who will follow ol Ben Milam boys! :hatsoff:

Davy

 

[Wes/Tex]

Believe the quote about "jaegers & sabers" came from Frank X. Tolbert's "The Day Of San Jacinto" but wouldn't bet money without looking it up again. Ben Milam may very well have been picked off by one of Cos's Cazadores during the Battle of Bexar. One of the members, now deceased, of our Southwest Vaqueros organization was the lead investagators during the excavation of his grave some years ago. The debate had raged for years on whether Milan had actually been buried at the south end of the park as originally said or at the other end where the memorial stone was finally placed. The skeletal remains were of an adult male who'd taken a shot to the forehead. The measurements were "larger than 1/2 inch and smaller than 3/4 inch, sounds right for a .62 ball from a Baker Rifle.

The Toluca Battalion was the probable unit involed though they later were decimated during the assault on the Alamo before dawn on March 6th. Just as they got near the wall, one of the cannons let off a load of lagrange (read: anything that went in the bore) that de la Pena described as follows: "...a single cannon volley did away with half the company of chasseurs from Toluca, which was advancing a few paces from the column."! It was also described from a Mexican source as a "terrible shower"!! General Perfecto de Cos's column was headed for the north wall's make-shift lumber reinforcement. The company lost their Captain, Herrera and severly wounded Lieutenant Vences. The main part of the column was an assault battalion carrying 10 ladders, 2 crowbars and 2 axes. It took some sever "encouragement" to get the column going again...wonder why??!! :hatsoff:

 

[CrackStock]

Robin,

Since she upped the price, you need to go for the blunderbuss!

CS

 

[robinghewitt]

It seems the price of Bakers has risen since I last looked :shocked2:

I think I have to go for it before they get too ridiculous for words :hmm:

 

[robinghewitt]

Well, I've found one, by E BAKER, full ordnance marks with the bayonet clip and in good shooting condition. Apparently the cock wasn't locking back quite like it should but that's being fixed. He's sending me pictures, by post because he doesn't do the web, I have first refusal on it and he's coming down my way in two weeks time. :shocked2: