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At The Range! / Re: Wiener World Championship
« on: May 19, 2024, 09:07:41 PM »Nice pictures, looks like a fun time. What could more fun on a Sunday afternoon than box full of wieners.
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At The Range! / Re: Wiener World Championship
« on: May 19, 2024, 05:51:06 PM »
Cool but I was expecting a wienie bite contest.
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Powder Horns & Flasks / Re: my collection of flasks
« on: May 14, 2024, 02:13:31 PM »I suppose you're giving US measure. The British is a wee bit lower. I'm sticking out my neck here, but I think that for Ringo's spouts, some are in drams (the English?), some in grammes (the French?) and maybe some in grains. Probably the spouts graded 65 to 80 are grains, the spouts graded 8 to 9 to 10 are grammes.
Beautifully complicated.
Yes U.S. measure altho I believe the English used grains in the 19th century.
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Powder Horns & Flasks / Re: my collection of flasks
« on: May 14, 2024, 11:18:22 AM »
Those are nice. I don't have any original or repros. Len, a dram is about 27.5 grains. You still see dram equivalent on boxes of shotgun shells.
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Knives, Swords, 'hawks, etc / Re: Beaded sheath
« on: May 12, 2024, 12:43:55 PM »Crazy Crow is a good place too. I used to get catalogs from them but they may have quit. Everything is online now. I haven't bought anything there for years so they may have dropped me from the list.
Some of their stuff is good, some of it's crap. You pays your money and you takes your chances.
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Knives, Swords, 'hawks, etc / Re: Beaded sheath
« on: May 12, 2024, 09:11:13 AM »Did you get that sheath from a girl named Cheyenne Tremblay?
She does some pretty good stuff at reasonable prices.
I got it from Crazy Crow.
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Knives, Swords, 'hawks, etc / Beaded sheath
« on: May 12, 2024, 04:45:14 AM »
I've been looking for accessories to go with my flintlock and came across this beaded neck knife sheath at a reasonable price. It beats the hell out of the homemade sheath I've been using. The knife is the first one I ever made and didn't really know what I was doing but it's a great patch knife. I made it out of a circle saw blade a long time ago. That's not rust on the blade it's some kind of stain. It will come off. Not that rust bothers me. Most of the knives I've rehafted have been rusty relics. Now that I have this snazzy sheath I may cut it down and add a poured pewter butt cap.
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Knives, Swords, 'hawks, etc / Re: Sharp edges with a handle.....
« on: May 10, 2024, 12:33:19 AM »
I recently got these modern made spear points. I was intending to make a neck/patch knife out of one but they're too big and bulky. I can't find any original points that look exactly like them. They still look cool tho. I've got a couple of pieces of elk antler that will make good handles. Whacha think? Any other ideas on what to do with them?
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Knives, Swords, 'hawks, etc / Re: Long hunter knife
« on: May 08, 2024, 11:13:17 AM »Thanks BC and Z. I made it years ago but it just had rough wood scales. I put the antler and pewter on it I guess about 8 or 9 years ago.
Hawg, The pewter is nice. Did you have to melt the pewter and make a mold or how/what did you do?
I wrapped brown paper around it and taped it down tight then poured the melted pewter in and filed it off smooth. It could use some more smoothing but if I haven't done it by now I probably won't.
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Knives, Swords, 'hawks, etc / Re: Long hunter knife
« on: May 05, 2024, 12:36:32 AM »
Thanks Cap. I may never use it for anything but it will look good hanging on the wall with my rifle and tomahawk. Now I need to find a flint pistol I can afford.
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Knives, Swords, 'hawks, etc / Re: Long hunter knife
« on: May 04, 2024, 02:20:14 PM »
Thanks Z. I just wanted something typical of what long hunters carried in the mid 18th century. To buy a knife and sheath that big is pretty expensive.
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Knives, Swords, 'hawks, etc / Re: Long hunter knife
« on: May 04, 2024, 10:21:44 AM »Not hunter knives for sure, but I just thought, why not add a couple. We had some nice items earlier, from Mazo Kid and Steam Burn et alt. but the pictures seem all to have disappeared.
I'll admit mine isn't "nice" but it's typical of what would have been carried in the 1760's.
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Pocket Models / Re: Defarbed Rem 1863
« on: May 04, 2024, 06:31:57 AM »Shooter. I like it! I guess when it was defarbed they maybe got a little over zealous and didn't care what they removed. Date stamp, etc. wish i had one of those lil' pistols. I really like that guard less trigger. Thanks for sharing.
That's what defarbing is Z. Removing all the Italian markings. I'm wondering why they didn't remove all of the ASM markings since they were so close. That is a neat looking little gun.
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Knives, Swords, 'hawks, etc / Re: Long hunter knife
« on: May 04, 2024, 06:29:03 AM »
Thanks BC and Z. I made it years ago but it just had rough wood scales. I put the antler and pewter on it I guess about 8 or 9 years ago.