Holy smokes!A little something I built the winter of 1978 at my remote mountain log cabin. Built from parts, not a kit. All made using hand tools. The stock was carved from a maple blank.
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Well, shows how much I know about muzzleloaders, because that's how I thought it was done, too! LOL!I always thought a muzzleloader was a gun you poured gunpowder down the muzzle barrel thingy, then some kind of wadding and a ball and stuffed all of it down the muzzle with a rod then shot it.
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Well, shows how much I know about muzzleloaders, because that's how I thought it was done, too! LOL!
ROFLMAO!Methinks we were thinking of blunderbuses and muskets, lol. I believe those are the only types of firearms that convicted felons are allowed to posses.
I always thought a muzzleloader was a gun you poured gunpowder down the muzzle barrel thingy, then some kind of wadding and a ball and stuffed all of it down the muzzle with a rod then shot it.
I always thought a muzzleloader was a gun you poured gunpowder down the muzzle barrel thingy, then some kind of wadding and a ball and stuffed all of it down the muzzle with a rod then shot it.
Live and learn
Fast Trax -- It is! This is what you are looking at.Beautiful work MsFox! Is that a caplock? Have you fired it?
ROFLMAO!
I didn't know there was a difference between muskets vs muzzleloaders. I thought the two were the same.
Guess I wouldn't make much of a saleswoman in a sports gun shop. LOL!
Thanks for the explanation.All muskets are muzzleloaders, but all muzzleloaders are not muskets. A musket is a smoothbore and a muzzleloader is rifled or has lands and grooves in a twist in the barrel. Think muzzleloader as opposed to a breech-loader like the old Henry's "rollingblocks" where a cartridge was put in the breech end.
While I loathe guns, being a woodworking, I do appreciate the craftsmanship.
Beautiful MsFox, you're very talented! We'll be going camping next week and it will be hunting season, black powder and bow only. We don't hunt but my husband always takes a pistol and a rifle with us for protection if needed, or just target practice. Dog will have his orange collar on with bell, it's good that he's more visible, but hunters over the years here seem to be very responsible, wouldn't be aiming at a labradoodle.A little something I built the winter of 1978 at my remote mountain log cabin. Built from parts, not a kit. All made using hand tools. The stock was carved from a maple blank.
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