Old timers in camp

[jameshunt]

Showing off is the word for it. Here is my friend Montery Jack and I in camp.


And here is one we took for the folks back home just in case we were left for dead out on the plains.

[buckskin billy]

great picture. do you by chance have it in color? i would like to see more in detail your gear

[jameshunt]

No color - those are tintypes. The top one was taken by my daughter pulling off the lens cap on Brass's period camera. Pretty cool huh?

Here is a color picture of same event showing Brass with camera:



Another color photo from a different event:

[jameshunt]

Since they are probably to modest to post it, you know the English, here is a image of an event the Europeans held: Awfully neat eh? We are so busy shooting the gun over here we forget about reenacting the event well.



Here is another my good friend Malpaso who is now on this board sent me, I hope he doesn't mind me posting it. I really like this action shot.

[brass]

Good Mr Hunt - thought I'd put up this tintype scan of you from earlier in the Summer. Though my chemicals were acting up that day it still is a cool shot with your original Remington revolver and the .50-70.

Brass

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[brass]

Also thought I'd add this one made with the late 1850s Holmes, Booth & Hayden portrait lens. This is a classic for sure with your period grinding wheel and knives.

Brass

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[brass]

And finally, here is the practice shot of the camp that turned out good enough to keep.

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[buckskin billy]

great pictures yall. i really like the tin type

[malpaso]

Just completed my Skinning block. as part of my impression

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[jameshunt]

Nice Malpaso - so is that one piece of lumber that you cut into with a saw? how did you go about making it? Regards, Jim

PS: did you have to poach tbe kings deer for that hide? How'd you get that?

[malpaso]

Thanks for the compliment there Jim,
Well, at the risk of boring you all, yes it was indeed a 4x4 piece of timber that i ran through a saw cut the corners off and worked it to a rough shape with a draw knife. selected the knives that i wanted it to hold and then glued a slither of wood into the outside of the saw cut to protect the outer skin. i decide to glue the skin in place to stop the block cracking apart, and finally tacked the edge into place. then i tacked a separate piece if leather to hold the steel on the outside. my fixing to hold the strap was a screw and washer so that the strap would be able to lay down when on a flat surface.. Ideally i would have loved to have a small piece of Buffalo skin to cover it but alas i had to settle for a piece of deerskin. No i did not poach it, it was given to me by a friend.
All the time i was trying to make it look like it had been well used, i have yet to work on the deer covering to age it a bit. Just don't want it to look store bought or new.

[tsalagidave]

Nice camp amigo. So when are we going to go hunting/shooting?

-Dave

[corsican]

Howdy gentlemen the pictures are really great and the boots you are wearing are really nice. May I ask you where you purchase those boots ?