patch knife period correct?

[Curt]

The way I see it takin your gear to the woods and learnin how it works or don't work is just part of the fun of ownin it. when I go out back its for bringin home the meat and if I think I need a certain item it goes along ,plenty of powder and r balls horn,knives ,primin horn loadin blocks ect.

I guess we all have different reasons why we do what we do but I like testin new things when I can . JMHO Curt

 

[LRB]

I fully agree, but been there, done that. That's why I carry only what I might need. Actually since I only carry in 3 extra balls, I really only should need 3 charges, but carry 5 in case I fumble. Someone else's needs may easily differ. I've gotten too old to shoot more than one deer at a time. Dragging out one and then working it to meat by myself is all I care to handle in a day.

 

[BrownBear]

...in case I fumble....

Whole lot of that going on for me these days, as well!

Maybe we should start a new group, The Honorable Society of Fumblers? Fumblers Anonymous? Finger Fumbling Flinters? :grin:

 

[Ken Cormier]

Sign me up for all of them. I have poured a charge past the barrel trying to reload before walking up on a downed whitetail. Heart pounding hands shaking. Even after all these yrs lol

 

[Loyalist Dave]

How about The Order of the Bloody Thumb ?

Or am I one of the very few that regularly catch my thumb on the edge of the flint?

LD

 

[nchawkeye]

I cut my finger during a shoot with the flint about 3 decades ago...John Braxton was there and just said, man has been cutting himself with flint for thousands of years.... :haha:

 

[Brokennock]

Yup. Happens to me all the time when cleaning the pan or picking the vent. Usually not enough to draw blood bit often enough that I'm thinking of ditching the leather cover on my frizzen and making one for the flint instead.

 

[tenngun]

The gods of muzzleloading require blood saxcrifices now and then, flints cutting humbs,muzzles skinning knuckles when loading, and nicks of all kinds when building repairing or cleaning :haha: