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Gordon Frye
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I have heard different things about The Rifle Shoppe, but have had positive experiences so far. But I have heard lots of negatives as well. Caveat emptor.
Arthur, great pics! I understand that he's making a snaphaunce for himself under Dale's tuteledge, correct? Dale makes absolutely WONDERFUL stuff, and those are great pictures of him. He's a real hoot, and a fine gentleman besides. Here's the website to his English Civil War unit, BTW. He made a Swedish Leather Gun to play with, and it's about as cool an artillery piece as you can find. Light and portable but packs a punch and a serious boom too:
http://home.earthlink.net/~dgshinn/montrose.html
Thanks James, I'd forgotten about Jeff Hedgecock's matchlocks! The stuff he sells is ALL top notch stuff too... EVERYONE I have talked to has had nothing but praise for the quality of his work and products, and his armour is as good as it gets. He's also the only person I have come across, on this continent at least, who has made a period Arming Saddle from scratch. He has some info on the site posted above on how he went about building it. Anyway, total attention to detail from Historic Enterprises, and as I understand, excellent customer service too. I haven't personally bought from them, but know lots of folks who have. (A tad early for what I spend my money on).
Cheers!
Gordon
"After God, we owe our victory to our Horses"
Gonsalo Jimenez de Quesada
http://www.renaissancesoldier.com/
http://historypundit.blogspot.com/
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Michael P Smith
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| Posted: Sun 14 Nov, 2004 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| Patrick Kelly wrote: | Not really related, but I saw an explosion involving one of these.
Years ago my wife and I were attending a Ren Faire in northern California. A party of Musketeers were shooting throughout the afternoon which was very hot. One gunner was priming his matchlock when the combined heat of the weapon and the weather turned his flask into a handgrenade. Thank goodness the flask was made from wood instead of metal. As it was he suffered some pretty serious burns as well as having half of his beard burned off. It was quite dramatic.
Considering how much blackpowder I used to shoot I'm surprised that I've never had anything like that happen to me. |
Same exact thing happened to me about 10 years ago. Very dramtic, but I didn;t get burnt badly, though I did have little bits of black powder embedded in my skin for weeks!
Mike
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Arthur A. Elwell
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| Posted: Sun 14 Nov, 2004 11:42 am Post subject: |
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I know this is not sword related, but, It's cool just the same.
This is the leather cannon, Dale's group uses.
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Arthur A. Elwell
A Work Of Art
http://www.a-work-of-art.net
aelwell45@msn.com
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Nathan Robinson
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Sean Flynt
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Kirk Lee Spencer
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| Posted: Mon 15 Nov, 2004 7:21 am Post subject: |
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Hi all...
Great photos... Brings back fond memories. I was a buckskinner for a few years. I still love the smell of black powder smoke. I have a custom Hawkin's Plains Rifle (50 ca), and a custom Pre-revolutionary war Kentucky Rifle (54 ca) and a Northwest Trade Musket I built from parts.
ks
Two swords
Lit in Eden’s flame
One of iron and one of ink
To place within a bloody hand
One of God or one of man
Our souls to one of
Two eternities
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