New Member Intro

[horkeye]

Greetings fellow BP enthusiasts!
I have only been shooting for ten years; I wish I had discovered BP 20 years earlier! I shoot all types of BP firearms inc handgun (revolver, single shot & cart), rifle inc patched ball (cap & FL), Minie, smoothbore, slug, shotgun as well as cartridge shotgun, and rifle. My first firearm was a new DP .50 Frontier cap lock, which I had rebarreled with a GM barrel; it shot well with the DP barrel but since I had the GM fitted it is awesome! Over the last 3 months I have replaced some of my firearms; DP 1861 Springfield replaced with Eurarms 1858 Navy model; DP 1873 Trapdoor Rifle replaced with DP Sharps Creedmoor #2, and DP Tryon Creedmoor .451 BEING replaced with DP Gibbs .451, AND DP Frontier FL being replaced with a CUSTOM Lehigh style FL rifle preferably in the Hermann Rupp style.

I am the President of the Victorian Muzzle Loading Club and host a web site for the Club at:

http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/vmlc//

My family and I used to go to many Rendevous in Australia but work commitments have stopped that over the last 3 years. I am now relegated to shooting once per month at the VMLC.
Jim.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Welcome.

To a fellow Lehigh lover.

Kind of partial to Herman's pappy, John Rupp, myself. I'm hoping mine is arriving in the next few months.

 

[horkeye]

Hi Charlie,

Thanks.

Where are you getting yours from?

Jim.

 

[Mtn-Man2u]

lehigh_county : Welcome To The Camp ! !
Glad your with us. You done so much in ten years,
I'm still messing around with what I have had for fifteen years. I have added a T/C 50cal Hawkens Fintlock rifle.
I can't wait to shoot it. Anyway, again welcome !!
Take Care, Mtn-Man2u

 

[scott k]

Welcome Lehigh County. Like you name heard it someware :thumbsup:
BTW It's where I live.Welcome to the forum.
Lehigh...

 

[shmrck1]

lehigh_county,
welcome to the forum glad to have you with us.
always nice to have another austrailian in the group of
which we have quite a few. hope you will join in and let your opinions be known.
again welcome and stay active
I am snake-eyes eace: :redthumb:

 

[Stumpkiller]

Hi Charlie,

Where are you getting yours from?

Fellow named John Donelson in Minnesota.

http://www.donelsoncustommuzzleloaders.com/longarms.html

The cherry for the stock came from a tree in his woodlot (he also runs a tree-farm).

L.C. Rice 44" swamped barrel
Jim Chambers "Early Germanic" lock
Fred Miller inlet the barrel into the stock
John's forging the furniture out of iron

A wide-area network to be sure.

 

[horkeye]

Fellow named John Donelson in Minnesota

Just checked out web site; $12,995.00 sounds a lttle high for me, but I am sure the quality will be second to none!

Jim. :RO:

 

[Stumpkiller]

Noooooo, no no no no. That rifle is one he built from scratch using only hand tools. Forged the barrel from raw iron as a skelp, lock too. Look farther down the page for the more humanly possible rifles. :haha:

Nice to know someone can make a rifle that even our "tg" couldn't fault for being not period correct, though.

I can just see me telling THE ADMIRAL that I dropped $13K on a rifle. I'd be living under a bridge somewhere.