Favorite Muzzleloader movies

1.Gods & Generals 2.Gettysburg 3.Mountain Men

Although I always thought it would be cool if the movie Deliverance had been about a black powder hunt instead of an archery hunt. Can you picture Burt Reynolds fixing bayonet on his Brown Bess and skewering the Mountain Man from behind and then finishing off the Toothless Man with a ball to the grape?

Yeeeeeee! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

[Darkhorse]

TG,
Go check out Muzzleblasts online. One of the back issues has some photos and text of an original "poor boy".

 

[tg]

I have a pic of that gun in one of my books by James Whisker, I rather fashioned a Carolina gun from JB parts along its lines, this gun and those like it were nearly all post 1800 in make, some may be a little earlier but not much, often the wide buttstock is considered an early trait which is true but many builders carried this on into the end of the flint period, the latest detail is what to look for when dating a gun, this lock is of a later than colonial or Rev war period, Boone may well have carried a gun like this in the 1770's but it would have had a different lock and any furniture would have been iron, When Boone moved to NC he was in a predominately Morovian area with a very Germanicly influence gun building style, most likely he had a gun of German influence but could have been of English as there were English builders in the NC area, the plainer poh-boy types that I have seen have all been dated past 1800 for the most part, that is not to say that a person in 1770 could not have had one but it is less likely than at a later date, and the features of the gun would all have been in line with the earlier period.They are cool guns I enjoy mine and even put some rasp marks and scrapper marks that are still visable to add to the theme of a simple common gun.

 

[Smoke Pole]

Hey,
Has anyone seen the 'Gunsmith of Williamsburg' ???

It's not really a movie, more of a documentary showing a contemporary gunsmith using flint lock period tools and methods to build a rifle. He heats iron in a forge, hammers it around a mandrel, drills it with home made drills, reams it with homemade reamers, rifles it with a big wooden rifling machine, and carves the stock from a piece of maple with an axe and a spoke shave. It's quite an education and humbles you when you feel intimidated by a project when you have a barn full of modern metal working machinery.

 

[musketman]

Hey,
Has anyone seen the 'Gunsmith of Williamsburg' ???

Sounds interesting...
[url] Amazon.com[/url] has this movie from time to time:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301986261/qid=1075608588/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/103-0410724-8113467