on 'thread counters', etc....

[robinghewitt]

what are the earliest records you know of for browning as a true gun finnish Runner?

Howard Blackmore says there are many 17th century examples of guns being "russeted" but the British Army didn't do it until 1815, even though they bought browned guns before that and did experiments with browning in 1771-2.

He even gives their browning recipe :thumbsup:

 

[Runner]

Actually, I was quoting an argument from this board. One person was saying you could not while another quoted papers indicating a militia commander requested that his units guns be browned before then and posted commercial ads for browning from before that time period. The answer to the documentation was that the military did not do it at that time, so it wasn't main stream. I don't care myself. I like a browned gun best, so any I do will be browned. My biggest concern is that the solutions don't seem to work as well today as I remmember from the past. There is a browned waxed pistol barrel that I abused until gases started cutting the threads around the drum out in the garage. It has been out there for years. It still looks great. The solution I used on the mountain rifle recently left a copper looking coat in places that is going to have to be removed before I try another solution. Both were done with the same brand.

 

[Mike Brooks]

I'm kinda new here, so I'm a little slow in finding this thread. Kind of amazed that my simple comment about the inappropriateness of an acorn finial trigger guard on an F&I war period gun has turned into all of this.
I'm sure we have all learned a few things from this never ending exchange. The only thing I learned was to never offer any information unless SPECIFICALLY ASKED .
Evidently ,ignorance is bliss in most cases, and what you don't know doesn't make any difference just so long as you're having a good time. To each their own, nothing wrong with that.

I am sorry I wasn't around for the brass versus iron thing, that must have been a great thread....

:hatsoff:

 

[tg]

Don't worry Mike you will learn to dance someday... I would be interested in any commecial adds offering browning before the mid 1770's I have been unable to find any, I think I recall some of the post from the past and it seemed that someone used the military in the field browning documentation to support the practice in general during the F&I era of shortly after? I have done several guns with LMF
cold brown and all have turned out great, my own cutoff date that I go by is 1780 for my own guns.

 

[onefeather]

i did not read the whole thing cause this is turning into a post like all the others.i fall into the HC catagorey,but i dont try to cram it down anyones throat.i would like others to be as pc as they can but everyone likes differant stuff.i have upseted by some fights one here so mike just do what im gonna do after this afternoon.JUST DONT GET BACK ON HERE LIKE IM NOT. im tired of all this manure with people fighting.i used to love to be on here but its just getting old now cause the same people ruin it for the rest of us.like i said i try to be pc but im quick to help people if i know something.i always have a question as most of you can see.but i always learn from people here.so thanks to all i have learned from :hatsoff: bye

 

[pathfinderifh]

Too bad folks take some things SOOO seriously. It's been mentioned before that you can't get the inflections that you'd like to with this damned key board,and some folks just love to argue and show off how much they know without being asked. I've seen alot of posts that really made me laugh at what the guy was saying, but rather than get involved, I ignore them. Maybe they'll go away.

 

[tg]

" I was quoting an argument from this board. One person was saying you could not while another quoted papers indicating a militia commander requested that his units guns be browned before then and posted commercial ads for browning from before that time period."

I think I missed the commercial advertisment documentation post, if it was pre 1780 could someone direct me to that post?

 

[benvenuto]

This is directed to everyone, not anyone in particular. Why is it that we can't discuss something without someone getting all bent out of shape. If you don't agree with a persons response, fine, either ignore it, or discuss it with them civilly. This is supposed to be a place to come and have fun, learn, make friends, discuss the thing we all have in common, MLer's.

I heartily agree!
Lets have more of "I respectfully disagree" instead of "Thats a load of horses**t".

I used to think I knew a lot about old guns before I discovered this place, and I'm not ashamed to admit I've learnt a lot here and had a lot of fun at the same time too.
:thumbsup:

Lets bury the acorn of dissension and instead cultivate the pineapple of friendship. :grin: