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08-25-2020, 09:22 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Your horse your dog and your gun: The Life Of A Frontier Gunsmith - An Interview With Mike Miller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpNMmKL2vkg
Mike Miller master gunsmith of 18th century gun making. Your horse your dog and your gun determined how you were looked at in society when you rode to town in the 18th century. I am saving my lunch money to buy one of Mr. Millers guns.
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08-25-2020, 10:01 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: swampeastmissouri
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Great video...
Did you notice that he was barefoot?... |
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08-25-2020, 11:50 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Damn I would give a weeks pay to hang with him for a day and ask a million questions till he told me to GET OUT.  Interesting they had a PSA type supply back in the 1700s. Barrels they bought from Philly and Europe brass parts triggers etc. from foundries in other cities. Available and to time consuming to make themselves. Those old weapons could be scabbed together from numerous different countries manufactures. Our local gunsmith museum here. Mr. Peterson was good friends with Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill and loads of the old mountain men who he made weapons for. Left the Rockies and retired here in Florida in his senior years. MT Dora Florida down the road from me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZly9OV49BQ ADD: A good long rifle in 1775 was around $12.50. Around $$245 in today's money. |
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08-26-2020, 04:55 AM
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slug
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: swampeastmissouri
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Years ago I had to make a bolt...
a left handed threaded metric I understand how time consuming it would be to make a screw |
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