When will it end?!?!

[Osprey]

When will it end?!?! I've only gotten into this stuff not quite a year ago and I've built one gun, working on another, been to a half dozen shoots and a rondy, joined a club, built two powder horns and now I'm sitting here with that dang pouch making book, leather tools, a big piece of cowhide and two tanning kits on order for some of my deer hides. Guess I'm starting on pouches now, too. :surrender: :youcrazy: :surrender:

 

[Robert Egler]

Well, if you're lucky, it will never end! :grin: :thumbsup:

 

[smo]

Osprey, Sounds like the bug has got you :thumbsupost some pics of all your stuff,in your spare time :rotf: Good Luck & Good Shootin'

 

[DNICK]

Ya it all starts out innocently doesn't it then before you know it it's a full blown obsesion and you'r still looking and telling you'r self I should make one of those. Good luck and post pictures the rest of us may want to steal an idea or two.

 

[BrownBear]

Seems like the more you do for yourself, the more you think of and want to do. In the last month I've made a full set of wooden powder measures, a horn, some fancy loading blocks and I'm just finishing a knife. Now I've picked up an inkel loom and I've turned out a couple of straps and a wide sash belt.

Perfect antidote for cabin fever and days when it's just too rotten to shoot.

 

[bwhoffman]

It does'nt end! it spreads and grows and consumes your every free thought! sounds like you have yet to get to the chapters on casting, ball block making, the lubes series, the foot wear chronicles ect. then comes the tents and temp. homesteads! you will start thinking about treks, trail food, wanting a "squirell" gun just because....the list goes on and on.
I only got a few years on you with this"disease of ours"!
in short, the only items I buy at this point are caps and goex...and books, lots of books. the history of all this such a pleasantthing to go back in time with!

...set the hook, reel 'em in!

 

[ladysmithtrading]

Brett pretty much hit it on the head... b ut he forgot to mention a Fowler and a Trade Gun too!!!! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: then someone will see something you made for yourself and either beg, borrow or steal it from ya, and if not they'll beg you to build one like it for them, then things just get UGLY from there on! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: maybe time to start those monthly meetings with buckskinners annonymous! good luck!!!!!!!

 

[paulvallandigham]

I think they commit you to an asylum when you buy a wood lathe so you can turn out fancy ends of exotic woods for your loading rods. Until then you are on your own! :grin: :rotf: :blah: :hatsoff:

 

[onepaw]

it don't end
least not till your wife or significant others puts an end to it
or you find yourself on the wrong side of the grass.

 

[bwhoffman]

Brett pretty much hit it on the head... b ut he forgot to mention a Fowler and a Trade Gun too!!!! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: then someone will see something you made for yourself and either beg, borrow or steal it from ya, and if not they'll beg you to build one like it for them, then things just get UGLY from there on! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: maybe time to start those monthly meetings with buckskinners annonymous! good luck!!!!!!!

Ya, Brett's got the trade gun too! and all the stuff to go with it! ...and that got me into making these cute little priming flasks from old kitchen/dinner knives. of course I needed to make a new bag and strap ect.

just waittill you start making stuffat work on your lunch break! been there, doing that! I have been known to bring my cardweaving to work to burn up my hour,some dontknow whether to guess my as weird, or what! this is so addictive!

 

[Osprey]

it don't end
least not till your wife or significant others puts an end to it.

Wife? Heck, I've never been able to keep a girlfriend longer than two weeks into hunting season, and this stuff won't help now! :rotf:

 

[jtmattison]

When will it end?!?!

Never. That's the fun part. There's so much to do!

HD

 

[BrownBear]

Heck yeah. Didn't even think of that stuff when I was making my list. Casting has been part of my routine for almost 50 years, so I didn't even notice when moulds for RBs and conicals showed up in the stack. Tallow from last year's deer is in my lubes, and I'm continuing to tinker those. Then there's the growing stack of books in my library.

My wife says "I guess it's better than you being hooked on drugs, whiskey, women and cable TV...... Barely."

 

[jethro224]

Yeah, and all I wanted was an extra deer tag... :rotf:

3 years later and I got a whole new set of hobbies, guns, books, etc. And 2 orders for more books and stuff on the way. And down to the last few days of waiting for my semi-custom Stroh-built squirrel rifle. :grin: :thumbsup:

 

[Roy]

Personally I think that it all has to do with the addictive smell of blackpowder... :haha:

 

[ladysmithtrading]

Personally I think that it all has to do with the addictive smell of blackpowder... :haha:

Yep, thats it! I DID INHALE! that smoke, musta been it, one puff and I was hooked!!!!!!! :rotf:

 

[Swamp Buck]

it don't end
least not till your wife or significant others puts an end to it
or you find yourself on the wrong side of the grass.

The looks from my wife lately are leading in that direction.

 

[omarick1948]

That's the REAL PROBLEM of blowing down the barrel!...Your lips get a little taste of the black powder fouling and it goes directly to your blood stream....YOUR HOOKED! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

[Charles D. Prokopp]

Now, Paul, you know we wouldn't BUY a lathe. Instead, we'd build a treadle power and tree-limb sprung lathe from scraps, bits and bobs from behind the shed and the neighbor's trash.
And it would work better than one from Habba Flate.

 

[paulvallandigham]

But the guys in the white coats would be looking for you before you got it built! :rotf: :thumbsup: