Just joined the forum a week or so ago and just stumbled across this subforum.
Got into BP shooting over 20 years ago, took a break and getting back into it. Started with a CVA St. Louis Hawken in .50 cal and later got a Traditions Crockett Rifle in .32. Used to shoot at Capitol city and Santa Fe Plainsmen BITD.
Fast forward to 2022: Live in Osage City, a stone's throw from the Santa Fe Trail. I'm also Citizen Potawatomi Nation and I've been doing a lot of research into our forced relocation from Indiana to the Sugar Creek reserve in East Central Kansas, a.k.a Trail of Death, with a desire to start doing some living history based off both events. Still got both the Hawken and the Crockett and have added a .45 cal fullstock, a .54 TC Renegade and just recently a 20 ga trade gun built from a North Star West kit. I'm even going to make a trip to Santa Fe Plainsmen Sunday if the weather holds.