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Post by darbyfett on Dec 6, 2010 4:21:47 GMT -5
Here is my 73 short rifle, with a braintan case. There are tin cones and buffalo hair on a few pieces of fringe at the front, I wasn't sure how much I liked it so I only got a few in. Its in 44spl, I wanted a 44-40 but the price on this "used" was to good to pass up at the time. Now I really want a 44-40 carbine something fierce.  |
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Post by jameshunt on Dec 6, 2010 16:43:25 GMT -5
In caliber .38-40, about 89 manufacture I think, a bit rough bore but a reasonable shooter out to 100 yards, the .38 is a nice cartridge.  |
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Post by darbyfett on Dec 6, 2010 17:17:42 GMT -5
Great looking 73 short rifle and nice case, its good you use braintan that is the real look. My wish list its a 1873 Trapper 16 1/2" 45LC maybe sometime in the future. Thinking back on it, I don't think I have ever used any buckskin other than braintan. When I started doing leatherwork a while back, the thought never crossed my mind to use anything but. Granted I can't really afford to make much buckskin stuff, but its worth it when I do. Great looking rifle James, I hope I can some day afford to buy and shoot original pieces. But I would be very upset with myself if anything ever happened to an original piece. |
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Post by buckskin billy on Dec 6, 2010 19:07:54 GMT -5
nice looking '73 james and darby. i'm buying a c.sharps right now but i want a 44wcf '73 pretty bad.
darby are you a brain tanner? if so you are in company with others here. me and patriot and girdi olmmi brain tan. i brain tanned 80 deer hides in 2009. had to move this year and one of my freezers quit working on me and lost about 20 hides. i'll get about 25 hides done this year but i'll be playing hell to catch up next year
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Post by darbyfett on Dec 7, 2010 0:56:30 GMT -5
nice looking '73 james and darby. i'm buying a c.sharps right now but i want a 44wcf '73 pretty bad. darby are you a brain tanner? if so you are in company with others here. me and patriot and girdi olmmi brain tan. i brain tanned 80 deer hides in 2009. had to move this year and one of my freezers quit working on me and lost about 20 hides. i'll get about 25 hides done this year but i'll be playing hell to catch up next year No tanning yet, but I hope eventually. Gotta kill my first deer  Do you sell the hides? |
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Post by buckskin billy on Dec 7, 2010 10:16:44 GMT -5
i have hides for sale and trade.
the price is $12.00 a square foot. a average hide from our neck of the woods is about 10 square feet. sometimes i'll get one about 12 square feet but rare.
there is nothing that can compare to the feeling of going out hunting with a old rifle loaded with lead bullets and black powder that you made, dressed in proper buckskin clothing that you made and killing a deer. i have experenced that 3 times in my life. twice was this year. be patience and keep hunting you'll get yours
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Post by darbyfett on Dec 7, 2010 18:39:02 GMT -5
I may purchase some from you in the future when funds allow.
I am supposed to go hunting with my future father in law and his dad...but my fiancée is afraid they will think I am weird because I want to hunt in wool with the sharps I plan on buying. They are your average scoped rifle and realtree hunters(not that there is anything wrong with that, but its not what I am interested in). Plus they have known me for 5 years, so they already know I am weird lol.
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Post by buckskin billy on Dec 7, 2010 22:52:37 GMT -5
you ought to see the looks me and patriot get when we go to the hunting camp. every one clean shaven camo flague and 50 powered scopes in brand new boots. then theres me and patriot in our brain tan buckskins that are stain from beaver and deer blood and black powder funk, worn out holey moccasins and armed with either a muzzle loader or a sharps or a winchester lever gun and got leaves in our hair from sleeping on the ground. yea they think we're weird too, so you aint the only one  |
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Post by malpaso on Dec 9, 2010 5:18:07 GMT -5
This is my Winchester 73 carbine manufactured in 1876 44.40 cal. I still shoot it with BP but there is not one trace of original finish on it. If only it could talk. Attachments:
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Post by malpaso on Dec 9, 2010 5:21:03 GMT -5
You will see that it has a number stamped into the stock, I just dont know what to make of it, military, Canadian mounted police, or Indian police. I would be wonderful to know. Attachments:
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Post by patriot on Dec 9, 2010 12:55:45 GMT -5
I need a night job there is too many toys out there
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Post by buckskin billy on Dec 9, 2010 15:01:19 GMT -5
great looking src. i bet it has a heck of a story to tell
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Post by malpaso on Dec 9, 2010 15:15:22 GMT -5
You may be aware that during the second world war the US sent many old guns across the sea to us for our home guard in the event of an invasion. I just wonder if this could have been one of them. There is one in the Imperial War Museum in London. Going back to the number, the British used this method until it was replaced with a small brass round disc with the number on it for identification.
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