Hello from New York State

[Rock Island]

Hello all, I am a lifelong shooter from upstate New York, if it shoots I own it, dreaming of owning it, planning to own it or I got rid of it already. Lifelong country boy, I work for my living, and consider the white smoke out of any of my smoke poles to be the only perfume a man needs. Other than firearms I have a couple of antique cars, I play with spring powered caustic phonographs, and I enjoy a good cigar. I am not much of a computer guy, barely know how to work the thing, and I am not online all that much, but I hope to be able to spend some time around here were people know that bullets were round before they were pointy.
I started with traditional firearms sometime around the Bicentennial, and my collection has grown some since.
Long land Brown Bess
Pedersoli 1816 Harpers Ferry
CVA Kentucky rifle
Pedersoli 1863 Springfield rifle/musket
CVA Kentucky pistol
CVA Hawken pistol .50
Pedersoli 1805 Harpers Ferry pistol
Pedersoli Kentucky pistol ( flint)
LeMat
Uberti 1836 Patterson
Uberti 1847 Walker
Uberti 1849 Pocket .31
Uberti 3rd Model Dragoon
Uberti 1851 Navy
Uberti 1860 Army
Uberti 1861 Navy
Four Pietta brass, and steel frame 51 Navy's
Pietta Starr DA
Two Uberti 1858 Remington millennium revolvers
Euro Arms Rogers & Spencer
Pedersoli screw barrel pistol
Two Tower pistols
Various pepperboxes, and boot pistols

I also have a collection of BP cartridge weapons, and military surplus arms but I suppose this is not the forum for them.

 

[shmrck1]

Rock Island,
WELCOME, you will love your visits here.
Hope you will add your knowledge to the forum.
I am snake-eyes

 

[mazo kid]

Welcome! You certainly have a nice variety if black powder firearms. Please post more and share your knowledge and experiences!

 

[renovato]

Howdy! Welcome aboard. :hatsoff:

 

[Rock Island]

Thank you for the kind welcome, I look forward to sticking around for awhile.

 

[longshot one]

Welcome to the MLF Rock Island! Quite an impressive collection. Look forward to hearing a few of your tales.

 

[larry wv]

Welcome to the site. I type with one finger so you will fit in . Larry Wv

 

[Rock Island]

Well, you ahead of me Larry, on a good day I have difficulty typing at all, I was much better with my old manual typewriter but I am told I can't hook it up to my computer

 

[ny griz]

They say the man with the most guns when he dies,WINs.LOL Griz :surrender:

 

[Gotspark]

Welcome to the site,I type w/one finger as well.Sometimes I use both hands,if anything ever goes wrong on this thing I gotta get the wife or one of my children.

 

[Rock Island]

More toys means more fun while we are still here
I am barely computer literate, I have only had one since '05. I don't travel much on the internet so until the other day I didn't know there were any forums for traditional guns. Had I known about this place 10 years back ( I might have bought a computer earlier), or even in '05 it would have saved me a lot of time. I had to learn to shoot my flinters on my own. I did have the pedersoli, and MVTC how to manuals, but mostly I had to learn by trial and error. Big change going from my BP cartridge rifles and modern shooters to a smoothbore flinter, but I got the hang of it now to the point that I am mass producing musket balls to keep myself supplied. I just ordered one of MVTCo's ships carbines, and if that does not turn into a disaster I am considering the 1740 Potzdam Musket mostly because I like the looks of it, and I have a ever growing supply of .75 musket balls to use up. There is a lot of great information here and I have been sucking up as much of it as I can. I have a new rule this year, I will not be shooting any of my modern shooters unless I make the ammo myself, my supply's of ammo are worth enough now to buy some nice guns should I sell out and I will not use up another round. BP on the other hand is still affordable, I have it on hand, and about 500 pounds of soft lead not including the 60 pounds of musket balls I just cast these last few weekends. I just found a link right here on this forum to a nice possibles bag that I have been needing, and a new hat, the old on is a bit raggedy or so I am told.
The only smokeless rifle cartridge ammo I am currently loading is 8x50r Lebel, the big Bess, and my Harpers Ferry pistol are a lot more fun than my Lebel.

 

[jbg]

Welcome! What part of upstate NY are you from?

 

[Rock Island]

Putnam County in the Lower Hudson Valley