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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:40:46 -0700
From: "Daniel L. "Concho" Smith" <hrd7@lycos.com>
Subject: RE: MtMan-List: Blunderbusses
Hardtack,
Buck Conner has a like new blunderbuss (original) that he picked up for a present for his father in the late 50's. After his father received it he checked the bore and found it was loaded, this is what's interesting.
Buck has an old glass rolling pin used for baking that his father put the contents of the brass barreled blunderbuss in; 1st load removed was old cloth with a stripe print, small square cut nails and broken green glass, more of the same cloth, then very fine powder (like cigar ash) - 2nd load was similar patching/different print, a half dozen lead balls about 36 or 38 cal., a small handmade iron chain (8-9" long), more patching and then fine powder like first load removed. The lock is very large with a "French Amber" flint wrapped in leather and it still throws a shower of sparks. From the proof marks and inspector marks this blunderbuss belonged to the British Navy and has a pre-1760's date.
Write him and see if he'll sent you a picture, it is a very nice piece. What a tipi sweeper this would have been in a mountain camp.
Later
Concho [HRD]
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 9:3:14 -0
Randal Bublitz wrote:
>Scatter guns were a popular item for the camp guard at night, also would
>come in handy during an attack. an escopeta is a spanish smooth bore
>carried by the spanish soldiers, etc... hardtack
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>> [Original Message]
>> From: <Wahkahchim@aol.com>
>> To: <hist_text@lists.xmission.com>
> > Date: 8/8/02 3:05:51 PM
>> Subject: MtMan-List: Blunderbusses
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>> Why were they used as a camp tool by Mountain men? My family history
>lists several in old records in California as "escopetas". What were they
>for?
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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:46:17 -0700
From: "Daniel L. "Concho" Smith" <hrd7@lycos.com>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Birchbark Canoes
Todd,
Contact Buck Conner, he has done a dozen of them made of aluminum to kelvar and they look good, he did a series years ago for the COHT on doing what you want, and I saw those photo's at his place a few months ago. He not on this list but you can contact him through the AMM site.
Later
Concho [HRD]
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"ANISCHIK"(is how the Moravians saw it) THANK YOU.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Double Edge forge http://www.bright.net/~deforge1
Buck's Base Camp: http://buckconner.tripod.com/
Historical Research & Development: http://hrd7.tripod.com/
See the AMM site for more supporters of this event.
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 23:06:42
Todd Glover wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I just purchased a used Aluminum canoe and would like to "artifake" it
>by painting it to look like a birchbark.
>Does anyone have any good photos or links which would give me some ideas
<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"><B>Check out these sites. There are pics of Algonquin, Mic Mac, Ojibwe, Mohawk, Aboriginal and a heap of others scattered throughout..... <BR>
Hope this is of some help. Barney<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.squeedunk.com/bbcanoe.htm">Squeedunk Period Correct Canoes & Kayaks</A></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"> <BR>
when I finish building my santa Fe saddle ,I would like to join y'all
jim branson
Inez Tx
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