Hello the camp

[atrain]

I'm friendly so don't shoot I'm from small town in Kansas
my persona is a 1830s south west trapper And 1870s scout

getting ready to start my first brain tanned hides

Atrain

[brass]

Welcome atrain, glad you're here with us.

Brass

[tsalagidave]

Welcome Atrain. This is a small but friendly community and we look forward to having you along. There are a lot of topics on authenticity and research that you can join in on and I look forward to hearing more from you.

Take care.

-Dave

[beauhooligan]

Howdy Folks, I'm Beauhooligan, a Life Member of the NRA, a Life Member of the Single Action Shooting Society and was very active in these organizations and the local black powder club, The Long Rifles of the San Joaquin here near Stockton, Ca. for many years. Unfortunately, the Long Rifles broke up some time ago over differences between the period campers and the active shooters. The nearest black powder club is the Modesto Muzzleloaders, but they now shoot on a unimproved range near Sonora. I love Ted Hatfield'd muzzle loading rifles, having three of Ted's rifles ; two Lehigh County pattern long Pennsylvania rifles, one .50 caliber caplock and a .45 caliber flintlock, and his first .54 caliber half stock caplock plains rifle; serial number 1 and marked custom, w/ a browned oval patchbox on the stock with my initials engraved on it. Ted is a good man, and produced great rifles from his shop in St. Joseph, Mo. Unfortunately, he entered an agreement with Cabela's to produce rifles for them, and he could not keep up with the order backlog. When this happened Cabela's judged him out of contract, and started having their Blue ridge rifles, line for line copies of Ted's guns, produced by Pedersoli, which simply sank Ted's business. He sold out to a group that have been building rifles much like his, but with barrels, locks and other hardware made by third party vendors. These rifles are poor imitations and I would not buy one for any reason. I also shoot three Lyman Great Plains rifles that I built from kits. Two are in .54, while the third is a .50. I built the .50 and one of the .54s for me, and they turned out looking good and shooting very well. The second .54 I built as a birthday present for one of my brothers who would have no place to shoot it when he moved to San Juan Island in Wash State, so he gave it back to me, and I loan it to pilgrims who have gun problems at shoots and would have nothing to shoot if not for the loaner. I also have two Uberti '47 Walker revolvers, several Remington New Model Army revolvers, with both blue and polished finishes and either 5 1/2 or 8 inch barrels. I also have a pair of Pietta .36 caliber '51 Colt Navy reproduction that I put in an old S&W Model 29 presentation case in the style of old dueling pistols. They are very good shooting revolvers and along with the Walkers are the most reliable BP revolvers I have ever owned. I'm looking forward to participating here with you folks and sharing the period challenge of shooting these firearms with skill. As we used to say in the Navy, "Fair winds and following seas!"
Beau

[Lulz]

Hi there, how are you? Did you hear about october 25 holidays? I think you can like because we're all funny people and we like to have fun, right? And it's great for camp too.