You folks talk the talk

Uh uh ahh Uh uh ahh, that gal is my Bride, and she's a keeper. We met at a Rondee Voo... You can meet like mined people at Rondee Voo, and some of em are girls!

There is just one little problem with her though, well 2 really. First of all when I get a new gun, she will say "Oh isn't that nice!" That is a Ruger Super Blackhawk in .44 mag if I am not mistaken, and if I am it's a .357." This is before the gun gets out of the box!

I just used that as one example because she stole my k-98.

The other problem is she shoots a little more accurately than I can.

I maintain that the guys who have wives that can't tell a screwdriver for another gun have it made, so long as they never fill a gun cabinet.



Now I made that dress by hand, sewwed it, beaded it and trimed it, her and me in sterling 'Trade Silver'. But the bead necklaces are real antiques.

We were coming from a real 'Shotgun Weddin' thar... not ours..

I made everything I have too including that drum. One day soon I gotta make some new mocs for the both of us...

talk the talk and walk the walk? I guess that'll separate the real wannabe old-timey shooters from the phony wannabe old-timey shooters...

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rofl.... You know, as a life long motorcyclist, it sorta reminds me of these doctor and lawyer "bikers" running around, like in the movie "Wild Hogs". LOL

I'd like to take in the re-enactment at Goliad sometime. It's just down the road and I've never been over there when they were doing that. It's an integral part of Texas history.

http://www.lsjunction.com/events/goliad_m.htm

Another Uh Oh.... This heya is one of 2 guns that went on the bike from New Hampsta to Cal and back. Even had a pack of clothes for 1805 for 2...


En-route I met a lawyer on a beemer with a flat and 6 other HD guys trying to help, but I knew there was a problem when one guy was reading a tire plug kit.

I even asked if everything was good??? The answer was 'We got it!'

My next question way out on Rt 50 in the middle of no where, was Who has the air? This is the look I got

I carry a 12 dcv compressor too

Wrong

I maintain that the guys who have wives that can't tell a screwdriver for another gun have it made, so long as they never fill a gun cabinet.

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Nope, Macmac, you have it wrong. My wife, she hates guns. She tolerates mine. She does not come shooting with me, does not want the kids shooting (though I take them anyway) and has absolutely no interest in wanting to learn to shoot or know what fun it is.

Yep, I envy you for having a Miss who likes doing what you are doing. I definately do.

The Doc is out now.

(PS, the kids, they both have their own gun, and though they are not as into shooting as I am, they both respect guns and do not play with them. At least, I taught them well on that! )

Macmac you have it going on bro ....
One thing for sure guys and gals that play together stay together ....
I push my old bones to make Rondys because the wife enjoys the shooting matches so much ....
It`s a great hobby and we meet alot of good people with same interest ....I worrie we may be a dieing breed ...

Macmac, that is impressive bead work, very nice.

I imagine if I ran in to you in the woods I would be needing to change my shorts. I don't think I have seen any more period correct. Great job.

Another Uh Oh.... This heya is one of 2 guns that went on the bike from New Hampsta to Cal and back. Even had a pack of clothes for 1805 for 2...

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When I go hunting, I have a 20" 20 gauge SxS Spartan coach gun just for the Wing. I break it down and it goes in the trunk. I checked the Hawken Carbine, the stock won't fit, but the 20" barrel does. I hunt with a contender a lot, though, have a trailer hitch on the bike with a couple of trailers to choose from, but I don't like towing 'em unless I have to. I have gone goose hunting towing my box trailer and deeks and stuff, though. My new 10 gauge 24" H&R breaks down and fits in the trunk, too, though. Hell, I even hauled a hog home on the back of the wing, once, hog on a Honda. I bought that 20 just for the bike 'cause every year I trek up to Waco for dove season at a friends farm. I was taking the Winchester 12 gauge auto in a gun case strapped to the back, but I'd always worry if I had a problem and had to leave the bike with the gun on it, or would I try to hitch a ride carrying a gun case. LOL! I was paranoid stopping for a bite at a restaurant, just better having the gun locked up in the travel trunk.

The old Wing has a built in compressor, kinda neat. I carry one on my little SV650 when I'm on that, too. Tubeless tires are wonderful. I remember in about 1978 getting a flat in the middle of the West Texas desert on the way back from big bend. 100 plus, no shade, had to patch a tube on the rear of my RD350 Yamaha. It was a pain, took over an hour. I had taken a hand bicycle pump on that trip strapped in with my camping gear. Ah, but I was in my late 20s at the time and handled it a little better than I would now, I reckon.

But, back on the subject, my hats off to the re-enacters for keeping history fresh and alive. Schools don't seem to teach much history anymore and it's a good thing to expose folks to the actual history, to see that their ancestors really did fight and die for their freedom, if nothing else.

We're coming up on 175 years of Texas freedom from a Mexican tyrant. The revisionist historians would have you think that it was a white interloper vs native Hispanic war, the USA and manifest destiny, westward expansion by force. Well, nothing could be further from the truth! First of all, there were whole units of Hispanic Texans, Tejanos, such as Juan Seguin's unit that fought with Houston, in the fight. Santa Anna was the Saddam Hussein of his day. He was a tyrant. The whites who came here and originally made treaties with Spain, agreed to become Spanish, then Mexican citizens. It was an agreement that benefited both parties. It went sour because of the chaos in Mexico (which has gone on since the Mexican revolution in one for or another, corruption and such that exists to this day) and a certain tyrant who wished to run the settlers out, destroy the original agreement, take their lands and improvements and send 'em back to the US. No, it wasn't ALL good guys and bad guys, the Texans from the south brought in slaves against the agreement, but hey, a deal is a deal. The Texans didn't like to take poop off dictators, bottom line, they appreciated freedom over their very lives. They were Texans, not Americans, and they were the good guys. I fear students of Texas history don't get taught that anymore and re-enactments might help to make them understand the point. Besides, I hear it's a good show. I'll make it over to Goliad or maybe up to the San Jacinto battle grounds for a re-enactment some time.

A few white beads is impressive?

'Ave yee a nuther look at that SILVER my lad....

http://s290.photobucket.com/albums/ll275/Mac_Muz/silverwork/

There is no current stock with the economy as it is, and I shant know if ever my hands will run the tools again.. So none is for sale, and or this ain't spam.

If you care to see the 2 measely pages one in sterling the other in 'pure coin' know it was the tip if a iceburg as 15 pages with pics on both sides once.



I made everything here too except for weaving the wool as blanlet and cloth.

err well I didn't make the 1860 from a hunk of steel and forge it all, or the Nor West gun, but both were kit guns. The flint pistol is from scratch with the trigger guard, and ear pomell from Dixie. I copied a Siler lock, and altered it my way. Total 51 dollar pistol...

I do all this because i wonder too much.

Nope, Macmac, you have it wrong. My wife, she hates guns. She tolerates mine. She does not come shooting with me, does not want the kids shooting (though I take them anyway) and has absolutely no interest in wanting to learn to shoot or know what fun it is.

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I guess I have a good wife. She's got nothing against firearms, loves to eat what I shoot, just doen't care to shoot or hunt. Best thing is, she don't know one gun from the next! I can walk in here with anything and she won't suspect it's new, but then, I have 40 plus and counting. LOL I always tell here about my purchases, though, and she doesn't mind, so no need for stealth tactics.

I taught my daughter to shoot. She out shoots my Iraq war vet son-in-law. LOL! Fortunately, they put him on a ma deuce, he wasn't a sniper.

Hmm, you guys need to go hit some of the Navajo jewelry hawkers on the side of the roads out in Arizona/Utah. Silver, turquoise, all sorts of native American stuff. I got my wife some of it. It appealed to her hippy years.

Best thing is, she don't know one gun from the next!

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MCgunner, that little .40 is 52.5 inches long and did present problems. I bought a ATV case which was about 2 inches to short. i cut the muzzel tip off, and added truck size radiator hose to make the difference and put the cap end back on again. I painted the case white, and slug in under a trailer i towed.

I used a a series of clamps to hold the case in place under the trailer deck, and used a blue cable pistol lock to lock the case to the trailer and to lock the case closed. I had a new cooler on the trailer and peeled the maxi cool sticker off it and stuck the sticker on the gun case, making the cable lock look like it came from the cooler too.

Anyone looking thought I had some way to avoid using ice... LOL
I crossed almost all texas on my east bound ride back. I entered just east of El Paso since I had been to Carl's bad caverns

Zipped right over into LA. I had a real bad time on a ferry getting over the missisip... Hit a very dusty white flint road getting onto the ferry off a levee.

The ferry had steel high polished diamond plate as a deck, all polished from flint dust and tires. With the engine OFF my bike with the trailer in tow did a 180 crossing the river! I was sitting on the bike holding both brakes, in first gear clutch out, and still moving. There were cars I thought I was going to hit and once had to start the engine and move the bike to avoid any cars!

I was really worried about that and being sued.

Since I'm so much into Archery I should rethink my idea & maybe become a a Native American like you MacMac.

Phantom,
I'm surprised nobody offered a trade to you for that Belle of the Ball you have there.
Now, as it is, I have a Remmie Navy that I would trade, but as was said in that moving picture show by that fellow, Clint Eastwood, "A man has to know his limitations."



Unfortunately, I know mine (sigh).

The Doc is out now.

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DrLaw,

Yep, sorry she's not up for trade! She's a keeper. Like Macmac and his wife as well as others here, my girl enjoys doing the outdoors stuff and reenacting maybe even as much as me! She's got a full compliment of period wear and two fancy shmancy ball gowns to go with it all. On top of that she loves shooting and loves the Holy Black more than anything else by far. I had to buy her her very own '61 Navy which she loves and practices with constantly. Has her own musket as well! I tell her to keep practicing to make sure she can run all the other suitors off. Beware she's even been known to secret it in her haversack at times to feel more secure while her soldier is away at battle!

She even likes casting with me in the winter. Tells me now that running .36 and .44 balls is her job while I do all the other minies and rifle round balls. Won't let me touch the pistol ball molds now. Can't go wrong there eh?

Here's a couple more since we are showing off now...

Here a small Federal squad defends a creek crossing as the cannon smoke roils by. That's me with the leveled musket.



See what happens when Johnny messes with Indiana boys! I'm on the left aiming.



Here's the little lady guarding our home.

Here's the little lady guarding our home.

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Well that about takes the cake . . . separate cots is carrying the realism a bit too far.

Joined cots and a bundling bag would obviously have been sufficient here.

A few white beads is impressive?

'Ave yee a nuther look at that SILVER my lad....

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That's nice work. I want to try my hand at some silver inlay on a revolver. I have done some very simple silver wire work on a stock.

My pistol blankets are a far cry from your cloth work. My wife does a LOT of bead work, been collecting for almost sixty years. She has a good selection of antique glass beads from the South West that her mother collected in the twenties and thirties.

The silver work I do is 'eastern' Was popular in a few ways in trade for furs pre French and Indian War (F&I) About 1761 the types I make became reality in style, and there are some books I work from as well as checking out new items in musems where most are broken and I can see better how they were made because they are broken.

The books also show real items broken, and many that are not.

I do my best in most cases to replicate the real thing. Not very many people know what Trade Silver is, but there are a few more makers now than when I started. I have no site, but a search for it will be found with many sites.

A man named Chuck Lenard brought this lost art back into history, and he has passed. When he was alive i was doing my damndest to mimic his work.

It is a matter of accuracy and respect to me.

The best way to recreate items of the past is to go see them, then sketch them and gets pics anyway you can.

On the other hand there is no problem with just making what you want, in what ever for what ever creative item you like..

I just prefer as close to what was back then, not that I don't alter items, and take ideas and match them with other ideas at times... I get a item like that brass barrel pistol which is ideas from 6 different pistols all made from 1740 to 1746.

Since I'm so much into Archery I should rethink my idea & maybe become a a Native American like you MacMac.

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Does anyone re-enact the battle of Agincourt? I guess not in America, eh? It was a 15th century battle that occurred before Columbus's voyage, but the long bow ruled the day.

I doubt they re-enact that battle in France, either, tell ya the truth.

Mac's the real deal. Why I saw him kill a bar with his knife and eat its liver raw. Then he scalped a demeecrat just cuz he looked at him askew.

Giz... do you bathe? I ain't had a bath in nigh onta 14 year. Yer what's known round these parts as a "poseur." LOL

The problem with the demeecrat seeson is it is sum dang short, but I gut me 2 more since back then 1K

Make fur reel perdy deakerashuns don't they...

Mac, that war club is awesome. Can I get a non-resident tag for demeecrat seeson?

That little sweetie is rock maple and all one piece of wood.. No cuts no joints and no glue....

I'll see about more permits but they are pricey in all, as the come from DHS.

Lololol

Xlint Macmac... the Akwesasne Mohawk of the St. Larwence Valley and beyond take notice.