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hist_text-digest       Saturday, October 3 1998       Volume 01 : Number 150




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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 00:43:00 -0400
From: "Addison Miller" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Parts needed

My thanks to everyone for all the info on the lock :)  I got the lock
ordered and will report on my successor lack there of... Traditions said it
couldn't be done....

Addison Miller

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From: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Parts needed


>In a message dated 98-09-29 12:16:07 EDT, you write:
>
><< I have a Traditions .50 cal Hawken that I want to convert to a flinter.
I
> can find the touchhole lines, no problem, but I need a source to a lock...
>>
>
>Mountain State Muzzleloading Supplies
>Rt. 2 Box 154-1
>Williamstown, WV 26187
>
>Customer Service [phone]
>
>Keep in mind the older Traditions shared the same locks as CVA, so the CVA
>Hawkin lock will work.  Get some extra main springs -- these locks had a
>tendency to loose tension on the main spring.  Otherwise, they were pretty
>trouble free, but I did break a sear once in the 5 years I used CVA's &
>Traditions.  There's a sear engagement screw in the tumbler you may want to
>take out -- it has the maddning tendency to self adjust to where the lock
>won't hold cock even with the little spring that's supposed to prevent
this.
>If you want to retain this screw, I'd advise a bit of locktite or
fingernail
>polish to remedy the problem, but they do have flys & with set triggers,
the
>screw is unnecessary.  These locks tune up well & perform well for their
>price.  Don't get me wrong -- they're NOT L&R's or Silers, but they do the
job
>& do it pretty well.
>
>NM
>

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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:43:36 -0500
From: "Wefarmasmidgen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [none]

<[e-mail]> wrote:
>Subject: MtMan-List: Frontier
>
>Does anyone know if the History Ch. will be showing , Frontier: the
>Legends of the old Northwest.


The History Channel has a web site at http://www.historychannel.com/.  You
might try contacting them through there to see when (or if) they will repeat
the program.


Sally Bridgham at Wefarmasmidgen
in Beautiful Southwestern Wisconsin
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 17:07:56 +0000
From: Laura Rugel Glise <[e-mail]>
Subject: MtMan-List: Osborne Russell

I am writing a novel, historical fiction, entitled Across the Seasons.
Osborne Russell and the Rendezvous of 1838 are central to the action.

1.  Any passionate opinions on Russell, i.e. his character, why he never
married or mentions women in his Journal, in what ways he differs from
other mountain men?

2.  Anyone well-versed in handwriting analysis?  I would like to have
the title page from Journal of a Trapper
(www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/gif/ruslmanu.gif) analyzed for possible
insights into Russell's personality.

Appreciate it.

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000
From: "F.Vital" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MtMan-List: Frontiers on the History Channel

According to the History Channel's web site, the Frontier series will be
shown again during the morning classroom time (6:am till 7am) October
5,6,7,and 8.  Set your VCRs

- --
Frank Vital

Mechanical Engineers design weapon systems.
Civil Engineers design targets.

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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 23:20:04 -0500
From: John Kramer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: 1830 Shooting Bag Photos

I have posted Hawk Pierce's photos of his original shooting bag and a few
other
items of interest at:
<<http://www.kramers.org/hawknest/1830bags.htm>http://www.kramers.org/hawkn
est/1830bags.htm>

John...


Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without.
john [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 07:44:32 -0700
From: Justin Hall <[e-mail]>
Subject: MtMan-List: info on jp gunstocks

i am interested in buying a flintlock from jp gunstock inc. i am looking
for info good or bad about there guns. thanks

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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 21:43:13 -0600
From: Dean Rudy <[e-mail]>
Subject: MtMan-List: Web site addition

The latest addition to the "Mountain Men and the Fur Trade" web site is the
text of

TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1809,1810, AND 1811
BY JOHN BRADBURY

It may be found at:

http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/bradbury.html

Bradbury was a naturalist who accompanied Wilson Price Hunt and his party
from St. Louis up the Missouri to the Arickara Villages in 1811.
Bradbury's Journal, along with Brackenridge's (also on-line), are the two
important sources of that eventful year in the fur trade - where the
Pacific Fur Co on their way to Astoria and the Missouri Fur Co. on their
way to posts on the Upper Missouri, raced each other up river.


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Dean Rudy   AMM#1530     Email: [e-mail]
Park City, Utah          WWW: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html

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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:37:15 -0700
From: "Terry Landis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MtMan-List: fur on tanning.

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 I shot my first bear this year and I cant afford to send it out to have a
rug made.can anyone help me find a good source for instructions about fur on
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:29:15 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: info on jp gunstocks

Justin, I have been fondling JP products and shooting with people who own them
at rendezvous for many years, and they produce a fine product.  I happen to
own/use a Tennessee Valley 'Southern Poor-Boy' and a CenterMark 'Grenadier'
(tulle musket) and can tell you from personal experience that they also makes
great guns.  But I would never been disappointed had a bought a JP.  humbly,
GunShot

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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 22:54:59 -0400
From: "Fred A. Miller" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: info on jp gunstocks

Justin Hall wrote:
>
> i am interested in buying a flintlock from jp gunstock inc. i am looking
> for info good or bad about there guns. thanks

They're "OK," but you should look at Deer Creek, Jim Chambers, and
Jackie Brown's work first.

Fred

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