Favorite Muzzleloader sayings

[beardedhorse]

American Mountain Man glossary of Mountain Man terms and expressions by Walt Hayward and another guy. About 17 pages of expressions. Can be downloaded.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

American Mountain Man Glossary, here’s the link

http://www.mtmen.org/amm/gloss.html

 

[Johnny Tremain]

DANG FLATLANDERS

 

[pilot]

That was the name of one of the neighbors kids…you’d hear his parents calling him all the time, “Dammit, get in here…”

That's my dog's name.

 

[Semisane]

From quarrying or mining, not shooting. Drilling a long hole, filling it with explosives, and setting off the fuze. Hence 'fire/fuze' in the hole.

I know that. But it's still a way for the guys on our rifle range to let everyone know he's about to touch one off.

 

[bptactical]

I Powder With My Brother Ball, Hero Like Do Conquer All

 

[Willy]

One I've always used when asked why I'm using a muzzleloader when I could use something newer and unmentionable:
"I'm not sure that those new fangled cartridge guns will catch on" or sometimes I'll say they're "not safe or reliable".

 

[B P Arn]

"Git often mawlon", which is Authentic Muzzleloader Gibberish for "No trespassing".

"Demsh wash th'daysh", which means "I am reminiscing".

 

[BP Addict]

BLACK STUFF FIRST!!!!!

Walt

 

[beardedhorse]

Many of the expressions we hear and use for firearms actually originated with archery. Point blank comes from using a white (blanc) piece of cloth to aim by. Putting point of arrow on the white cloth at a distance that it would hit it was point blank distance. Moving the mark on the target for different ranges to hit the target was called a point of aim system. Highstrung is a bow with a very high fistmele or brace height. Men from young to old were required by royal decree in England to practice shooting arrows at the "butts" (backstops). Think of the CMP - civilian markmanship program on a national level. A "prick" was a mark put on the backstop as a target so there was an expression called "shooting at the pricks". This is not a joke but a fact.

 

[BlazingIron]

That's my dog's name.

I named my dog “Grandma” so I can stand in the front yard and yell, “here grandma, where are you grandma? Grandma stop poopin in their yard”. Lol

 

[J.Campbell63]

In infantry school they called it a “Canadian bull”. Have no idea and none were brave enough to ask. I sure wasn’t. The idea was to be invisible and since my last name starts with “C” I was roster #109 I was in first squad. I damn sure kept my mouth shut.
Oh and it was the Zero target.
I have dreams about Zeroing my ancient M-16. Every one else had A1’s and I had a three prong muzzle break no forward assist original. When it got dirty it doubled and tripled. Still after 40 years I remember the serial number.
THATS how afraid I was of the psychopath on work release who they affectionately called a “Drill Sergeant”..