Mike be Bellaview done a lots of good stuff with old black powder revolvers and such pardon me at the last name is not spelled right because I'm using talk to text. I watch a lot of his stuff and old black powder revolvers especially very knowledgeable guy and I've learned a lot from his videos cuz he's still doing anything or still with us?
“I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love, and it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.” John Steinbeck
Thanks, Dwayne. I don't watch much youtube, but do watch some. Will check him out--but might also point out that youtube isn't exactly "gun writing"--though I did note that he's apparently published quite a few articles. But for some reason I have never run across any.
Except for the -30s "cold snap" in late December, which was relatively brief, our winter has been OK! Hope yours has been as well.
John
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
ldholton; Good evening to you sir, I trust the day treated you well down in your part of Missouri.
If you like black powder content and if you're not familiar with this chap, I've found that his channel has some wonderful content as well as a bit of a look into black powder shooting in Europe. The chap in the videos is in Hungary and is a university history prof as well as I believe he's been on or still might be on the Hungarian black powder shooting team.
Here's a video of him with a fairly rare European arm, but he has some with US made black powder arms too.
Hopefully that's of interest to you or someone out there tonight.
ldholton; Good evening to you sir, I trust the day treated you well down in your part of Missouri.
If you like black powder content and if you're not familiar with this chap, I've found that his channel has some wonderful content as well as a bit of a look into black powder shooting in Europe. The chap in the videos is in Hungary and is a university history prof as well as I believe he's been on or still might be on the Hungarian black powder shooting team.
Here's a video of him with a fairly rare European arm, but he has some with US made black powder arms too.
Hopefully that's of interest to you or someone out there tonight.
All the best.
Dwayne
thanks I'll check him out I like history older I get the more I enjoy it. got pretty good collection of old stuff myself and the more I can learn about what I've got and things I might want to get to add to it..
Been watching capandball for a long time. As you said, excellent stuff. Sometimes he goes pretty deeper into the history than my limited attention span can handle, but he’s obviously very proud of his country’s history. We could use some of that here!
Pappy348; Good morning to you sir, I see you're up and about on this middle of the week day and hope it's going at least okay.
My good wife of more than 40 years now calls me a "data miner" and seeing as she knows me better than any other human, she's most likely correct.
Arms of all types have been a lifetime pursuit and passion for me so folks like Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons and Beloz (spelling??) at capandball have been on my radar as well both because of their passion for the projects and for their variety of content.
As far as capandball goes, I mean where else can we see someone firing a cavalry wheellock pistol from the 30 Years War?
In the video I linked, he's shooting that Austrian made Jaeger rifle made for a member of the Esterhazy family which has a bit of a personal connection to me since I grew up north of the town of Esterhazy, SK. Until I watched his video and did some digging, I had no idea the town was named for them.
Not that it changed my world view or anything, but kinda/sorta neat I thought.
While I still read a fair bit, I do enjoy some of the more in depth channels.
Dwayne, I hope everything is good in your part of the world. Thanks for posting that video! I have watched a lot of his videos but somehow I missed that one. I couldn't understand what he was using as a filler although it looked like corn meal.
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Shew me thy ways, O LORD: teach me thy paths. "there are few better cartridges on Earth than the 7 x 57mm Mauser" "the .30 Springfield is light, accurate, penetrating, and has surprising stopping power"
Joe; Good afternoon sir, we're in the fog currently but it's not freezing out so we'll take it!
I hope that you're getting seasonally appropriate weather and you're well.
The stuff he's using is semolina which is coarse ground Durum wheat. We used to have semolina porridge when I was a kid - being from the land of Durum wheat in Saskatchewan that makes sense I suppose?
While I don't know of any chemical reason cornmeal wouldn't work, I'm open to hearing from those who might?
I used cornmeal and lard or shortening to make a few .22-250AI cases and it didn't hurt anything other than it does sort of bake into the barrel a wee bit.
Oh - forgot sir - he uses the filler to put the ball into better rifling on some of the vintage rifles he'd using. If the chamber is a bit corroded, he puts in enough filler - semolina/cornmeal - to have the patched ball/ paper patched bullet start in a better spot.
That's what he's said a couple times if I'm recollecting it all right.
Hope that helped, good luck with your charcoal burners and all the best.
