My foray into black powder
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Very nice. Wait until you want to start making your own powder, then the inevitable internal argument of flint vs percussion caps, paper cartridge assembly, sourcing and casting your own shot.... God forbid you fall in with the reenactors, lest you be scoffed at when your $850 buckskin coat doesnt have period-appropriate buttons.
Black powder is awesome, but its also a slippery slope hahaha. For two summers of my youth I pretended i was a mountain man and hunted rabbits and squirrels with an absolutely beat .32 flintlock rifle- my mom wouldnt buy me .22s unless it was a special occasion but the drug store would sell me black powder without issue. Shit, i even learned basic flint knapping with local choate because nobody local sold flints. Lifelong love affair!
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I'm definitely the type to fall in with the reenactors... I've got the full kit to match the M1, the M14, AKMs, SKSs, Mosins... the gun is always just the start!
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Youre about to walk down a long, spendy road, and youre going to love every minute of it.
Theres an annual mountain man meet up somewhere in the mid/west, iirc it changes location from year-to-year. Ive only been once but it was a trip, basically like an anime convention for dudes into post-colonial wilderness living. Theres all kinds of fun competitions and demonstrations of old skills(brain tanning is much less gross than youd imagine) and some dudes are so into it they only use legit period gear. I saw a dude with an authentic Native trade tomahawk, made from about the shittiest crumbly cast iron imaginable. He also had a Native "rifle," which were mass-produced muskets of inferior quality which were almost never rifled. Saw another guy with a great deal of Comanche heritage demonstrate Comanche horsemanship, it was unreal. Legs locked together around the horse's ribs, he could loose arrows and hit moving targets shooting from under the horse's head/neck.
Pardon my rambles- theres a lot to the black powder community, it'll soak up so much of your time and you wont complain. Shit, thats not even touching cowboy shooting or regimental reenactment.
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I'm headed to Virginia, which was the inspiration to get a flintlock musket. A red brick house with a red brick fireplace in the colonies demands a musket over the mantle! And I intend to see what I can find for revolutionary reenactment there. Fortunately, I've got professional customers in the family, so correct uniforms are the easy part lol
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Oh you you need a Pennsylvania long rifle to put over the fireplace!! The Brown Bess can go underneath it... Maybe great-great opa took it off a British regular!
Im gonna let you look into that hahaha. Its exciting to see someone who i can tell is about to get hooked.
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Jealous. Id love a brown bess carbine on my wall.
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Pedersoli Brown Bess. A flintlock in .75 caliber, my first ever Black Powder! STILL shorter than a Mosin with a bayonet...
Smooth bore?
Yes sir!
have a flint lock I built as a kit yers ago, its fun as hell to bring out to the range, especially getting new shooters to experience with the delay between the flash pan going off to the primary charge going off. I have never not seen anyone walk away with out a smile. Also those balls can take some interesting trajectories, especially if they have a casting defect, accuracy can be minute of overthereish.
I think part of the excitement for me is being able to take new folks through the entire history of firearms now, from Flintlock, through the Garand, to the M14, AKs, and M4s...