The days of wooden ships and iron men.
Remember this Davy Crockett movie scene?
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That movie cinched my interest in muzzleloaders. That scene always takes me back. That sound, the sound of flintlocks, just nothing like it.
Phil Coffins
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Fess Parker ruined my life! I could have grown up with a good education and useful pursuits but, NO, thanks to him and his like I daydreamed of wilderness adventure and living off the land. Even late in life I still thought building a log cabin in the mountains was a good idea. Well I did but let me assure you it is more work than any gezzer should attempt!
image1 by Oliver Sudden, on Flickr
image1 by Oliver Sudden, on Flickr
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...and their clothes all came from Sears & Roebuck.
Pete G
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That scene is documented in “Davy Crocket’s Almanac”. Davy explains how he did it. Disney used the almanac for inspiration in several scenes.
Yep, now it’s the Wokerful World of Dizzy.
I remember watching the Davy Crockett series on Disney every Sunday evening when I was just Little Tom! If Big foot made the perfect shot and Davy put his ball in the same hole, wouldn't that be a tie?
1955 I went to heaven when I got a coonskin cap and a plastic smokepole ...and the rubber bowie knife.
Well there's the cap for walkin' and talkin' on camera, and the one that along with his hair brushed down near his ears, covers his ear plugs....
LD
Some marvelous shooting but yes still a tie.
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But....but they werent wearing Ties
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My grandad carved up a tree bough to make a rough copy of a ML "long rifle" for my Davy Crocket/ Dan'l Boone impression; I had an old Cow horn slung from a 3 strand length of plaited string and one of my grandmas worn out leather handbags as a shooting pouch.
Problem was sans Coonskin cap, so ol gramps trapped a couple of Foxes using a hole he made in the chicken house wire mesh. Then he skinned them and sewed the untanned hides into a "Coonskin cap", Fox face forward and bushy tail at rear; his idea being that the still damp pliable Fox skin would dry-shrink into shape while I wore it.
Well my grandad had a sense of humour, there I was an "authentic" Crocket / Boone figure covered in thousands of Flies all of them attracted to the untanned Fox hide cap but no way was I going to abandon it. The family still has a couple of photos somewhere of yours truly making a fool of himself.
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Another geezer here who watched Davy and Dan'l growing up and wanting a real live muzzleloader!!!
My other interest was the War of Northern Aggression and thus most of my ML firearms revolve around that time period.
My other interest was the War of Northern Aggression and thus most of my ML firearms revolve around that time period.
Same here. Wanted to be Davy when I grew up. Except for the Alamo part that is…
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I remember watching the river pirates on Disney with my brother. Disney was something special then.
Yes Sir! Back then Disney was something really special. Sunday night Mom, Dad and my brother and I gather round the TV with popcorn to watch the show. Almost always great. Favorites were Davy Crockett and The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Those sure got me interested in flintlocks.
