Favorite Muzzleloader sayings

[Captndan]

You're full of un-burned Pyrodex!

 

[duca]

Listening to bluegrass and mountain music I would always refer to it as “Pan Priming Music”

 

[Colonial Boy]

“Flash in the pan” also refers to panning for gold, I’ve had both kinds.

 

[Barry Strickland]

I have a card taped to the inside of my shooting box
lid that says;

A - POWDER
B - PATCH
C - BALL
Unfortunately, I do not refer to it often enough . . . : {

 

[Black Powder and Bibles]

Of all the things you must recall, first the powder, then the patch and then the ball, is the most important of them all.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Everything, lock stock and barrel.

 

[Marshhawk]

Clack! ... sigh.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Everything, lock stock and barrel.

That’s a classic…

 

[Alice1885]

PPB
Powder,patch,ball. Pretty important to have’m in that order….
Just sayin !

 

[BuffaloSoldier]

Maggie's drawers...at the Known Distance Range

 

[beardedhorse]

For a more complete list of mountain terms and sayings the AMM (American Mountaim Men) has a directory compiled by Walt Griz - (last name escapes me-Hazard?). Some of the 4th graders I teach have to remember 36 or more of them. During presentations I play stump the mountain man. If they come up with a term I can't remember I have to stand on a wood stump until I can stump them back. Having a vocabulary of over 100 terms gives me a slight advantage but I purposely fudge or pretend to get stumped to keep the fun and kids' interest going on. He has the har of the bar. Keep arras off yer meat bag. This is crimpy weather. I know which way my stick floats. He has his bark on. Gone under. Gone beaver. Feast cakes (are pancakes.)

 

[beardedhorse]

More. Know the difference between fat cow and poor bull. My Hawken or J. J. Henry shoots plumb center. Poor fixin's. Possibles bag. Prime possibles.. Galena pills - lead balls. DuPont - black powder. Averdenty = agua diente - whiskey. Taos Lightning - whiskey from wheat. Shinin' mountains - The Rocky Mountains.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Beaver'll shine again.

 

[BlazingIron]

pesky angels

 

[bubba.50]

His shootin' is so bad he couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of a tree.

 

[bubba.50]

His aim is so bad, safest place to be is in front of him.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.....

Funny..., the earliest reference to that is from 1852... applied to baseball pitching.
The first documented "official baseball game" was in 1846. It seems that the game became so popular so fast, that by 1852 there were people writing stories about teams in the newspapers. The writer was remarking on the quality of a pitcher for a team....,

NOW it WAS also a time period where they were still using muzzleloaders, so the author may indeed have used a term familiar to his audience from shooting to describe a pitcher who was so poor at throwing strikes, that it was said, "He couldn't hit the broad side of a barn"....

LD

 

[bubba.50]

He couldn’t hit the ground with his hat.

 

[bubba.50]

I used to shoot so far I had to salt the bullets so the game didn’t spoil before I got there.

 

[B P Arn]

Time for a little Authentic Frontier Gibberish, awe plum recon...