Morning Constitutional

[Zonie]

As many of you know, each morning I...uh...take some time to read thru old magazines.
While reading the MAY/JUNE 2001 issue of MUZZLELOADER what do I see but a full centerfold of our own Mike Brooks work (and here I thought centerfolds from Playboy were the only ones worth talking about).

As many of you know, Mike builds guns for a living and he takes the time to help many of us here on the Muzzleloading Forum with our projects (along with other bits of opinion). :grin:

You will have to forgive my scanner which couldn't get the full picture, and I rotated it so it wouldn't be shrunk down more than necessary, but, here is what the centerfold looks like.

The magazine says the gun on the left is a classic English fowler c1760, next to it is a pre-Rev Virginia. Second from the right is a North Carolina rifle c1815 and at the lower right is a French "buccaneer" c1720. The top right is patterned after a John Bullard Virginia longrifle c1770.
My only question of Mike is How does one load and shoot the one on the right? :grin:

As I said, this is from MUZZLELOADER magazine, published by Scurlock Publishing Company, Inc. RR 5 Box 347-M, Texarkana, TX. phone (903) 832-4726. The photo was done by Ric Lambert.
MUZZLELOADER and MuzzleBlasts are my favorite magazines and I never throw them away. Really great stuff in them.

A belated congratulations to you Mike!
Zonie

 

[Halftail]

Is that the muzzleloader built for two?Maybe for Newlyweds...The family that shoots together stays together..... :shake:
I know,it's a vain attempt at humour.

 

[mbw907]

I never knew that "siamese" muzzleloaders existed.It must be difficult going through life with two buttplates. But very inexpensive to shoot and quick to clean afterwards. My cheap humor also. Something about this forum brings it out of all of us. :rotf:

 

[aragorn]

It's for duelling.

On a serious note, we hold past masters such as Isaac Haines in such reverence, but there are some contemporary makers - one name springs to mind, but there are several - who stand head and shoulders above many of the 18th c makers whose guns have survived.

 

[Halftail]

On a serious note, we hold past masters such as Isaac Haines in such reverence, but there are some contemporary makers - one name springs to mind, but there are several - who stand head and shoulders above many of the 18th c makers whose guns have survived.

Past masters had have had some of the tools that modern makers have maybe their work would havce been better,also I imagine that they built as tools to be used for survival and everyday use not as works of art and to be shot at the occasional shoot.
My opinion though.

 

[hcook]

Looks like it would be cheap to shoot. Two people can share one ball and shoot it back and forth to each other :youcrazy: .

 

[Mike Brooks]

You're not the only one that keeps those magazines for ever and rereads them. I still get orders from that article yet to this day!