True Muzzleloader T.V.

[bezoar]

Well isaw the episode where gunny had a "reenactor" bring a muzzleloader on the show. They were all dressed up as stereotipical hollywood pirates, and the gun in question was a small wheellock carbine from the later 1500s, and they called it a 15th century (1400's) infantry arm.
Those big screwups really ticked me off, and i changed the channel after they stoped shooting this "60 foot max range weapon".

As far as barta goes, he can sit on his fu fu fletched arrows. most of his so called "radical" adventures such as the goose hunt with longbow,and others like duck hunting on a game farm with a long bow has been done before by many many different people, many of whom were actuall hunters.

 

[bob1961]

maybe someone should contact tred barta....i bet this guy would do a trad muzzleloader hunt....he just had a show on that he went after wild pig with a knife....when he does a bowhunting show it's by long bow....he even did a show on goose hunting with flu flu's out of his bow fer geese..............bob

Some day that boy is gonna get pulled outa Tred's boat, by a big fish, then we won't have to watch his shows any more. :blah:

yeah but compaired to the other hunting shows this one has my vote it's funny :crackup: ..................bob

 

[MacTavish]

The cable system here in NW Ohio has "The Sportsman's Channel" as the fishing/hunting link. It sporadically carries a program called "One Shot Challenge" sponsored by The NMLRA, Austin-Hallack, Dixie, and a bow company who's name escapes me this morning.
The Hostess has been to Friendship - interviewed some of the folks in the Primitive area; (There were pictures during the talk-over introduction of the typical mountain man - skins, furs, beards, bones, beads, finge, & walkin' sticks - NO firearms.) She shot the woodswalk with Mr & Mrs. Fulmer, and the former EX. V.P. (Mary, the hostess, used a modern, scoped rifle from the sponser Austin-Hallack) She interviewed the A-H and Dixie teams from the Manufacturer's match; shot Dixie shotguns on the quail walk and the skeet range; She talked to the Cleland kids and the young Warner girl about shooting and winning the Junior matches.
She visited the Primitive bow range - as a segway into the modern bow stuff; she visited the SHOT show and the Dixie display there.
Other that handling some of the offerings from Dixie, there was no mention of the traditional muzzle-loaders.
I'm not a dedicated viewer of the channel - I'm an impatient fisherman - so there may be some other examples of Muzzleloading on that I haven't found. But I doubt it.

 

[BLAHMAN]

Hmmmmmm, I took some short video clips of a rifling machine in action. They came out pretty good.

How do I post them here so you guys could see them?

I think it would be neat to have a show that illustrates how these rifles are made. Ya know, like showin' how one sets up a barrel to riflr, the difference between a hand rifling machine and something like a Pratt & Whitney, how a barrel starts it's life (reaming and such), the process of wood selection, gettin the barrel and other things inlett into the wood.....that sorta stuff.

 

[Chiefs50]

We get Fred Trost's Practical Sportsman in da U.P. and "up nort" in Wisconsin. I catch it often but I must have missed the sidelock shows.

mike