[MeekandMild]

OK. Mrs. Meek's favorite TV show is "Trading Spaces" where two families get to make over each other's houses. What would you do if you were picked to be on a trading spaces show for gunnies? Who would you like to make over and how would you do it? OK let's keep this LIGHT! No seriousness allowed! :D

I for one would like the chance to outfit Skunkabilly in 1840's style mountain man regalia, complete with a 50 Caliber Hawkin Rifle, or maybe even a double barreled rifle, a pair or matching pistols, a Bowie knife, bearskin overcoat, elk leggings, fringed deerskin shirt and breechclout, moccasins and lots of feathers and beads.

Why? I figure that this era may really be his home and he's out of place in the 21st century. (The banjo give you away, Skunk!) All the tactical interest is just because he can't go back 160 years and sit around the campfire playing his banjo and eating elk jerkey and cornmeal fritters and teaching English to the native women. :neener:

[Wanderer]

What if it was Trading Pieces, and you had $1000 dollars to make over your buddies favorite gun any way you saw fit? :what: That'd be scary...

[Pendragon]

The designers would make you paint a wood stocked rifle with a orange and yellow crackle finish or paint your AWs fuscia with lime trim.


That show scares the hell out of me.

Anyone see the one where the lady did a carribean backyard for her hubby? He was UPSET! - made for good TV tho...

[4v50 Gary]

Meek and Mild - you left out the "tactical" tomahawk and throwing knives. Of course, time changes Skunk not a bit and he'll have the latest Bowie knife just in case. Since Skunk will have a Hawkens, he'll probably have a "high-capacity" loading block in case he'll have to fight off a war party. Heck, he may even have a cartridge box for prepared ammo - just like a soljuh.:)

[MPFreeman]

I'd rather to Monster Garage things for a buddy.

Or MOnster House things.

[Preacherman]

Meek, that sounds like a description of C R Sam in his younger days... :D

[seeker_two]

What would you do if you were picked to be on a trading spaces show for gunnies?

1. Shoot Hildie & Doug (can't stand their designs...:barf: )

2. Pair up my wife with Frank (she loves his designs...:) )

3. Meet Genevieve in the hot tub (I REALLY like her "design" ...:evil: )
http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/tradingspaces/bio/gallery/fan_gen.jpg

4. Ask Skunkabilly "How'd you get into those buckskins, anyway?"

[spacemanspiff]

i'd have $1000 worth of .45acp ammo bandoliered and draped on my shooting buddy. he can stand next to me and reload my magazines for me.

[Kharn]

I'd buy him a Bushmaster and some mags to go with it. I hope he'd do the same for me. :D

Kharn

[JSolie]

I'd do what Hilde does.... :evil: :evil: :evil:

blue anything stainless (whether it takes or not)
engrave her visage on the antiques,
envelope everything in the gaudiest fabric that a deranged mind could conceive :barf:
That which isn't swaddled with tacky fabric gets spattered with polka-dots.

Gun related content: the polka-dots could be done with a paint ball gun :D <ducking & running for cover> :D :D :D

-- John

[TonyB]

Being that my wife is an aspiring designer,this show is on continual loop in my house.I'm just waiting till they redo someone's gun room.
For my shooting buddy make over......force my father to shoot 9mm instead of 45......he'd probly freak like that guy w/ his deck....:cool:

[Don Gwinn]

I'd dress El Tejon in full Roy Rogers regalia, only with pointier boots and a taller hat. :D

[Tommy Gunn]

http://www.shooterscatalog.com/Ellett_Pictures/HuntingImages/0509385.jpg

I went over to the website for Connecticut Valley Arms (http://www.cva.com/index2.htm) to check see how much a Hawkens rifle, powder horn, and other accoutrements would cost. Well, check it out.



St. Louis Hawken rifle .50 caliber/flintlock $274.95
CVA Possibles Bag $39.95
Powder Horn $21.95
Primer Flask $13.00
Hunter Powder Measure $8.50
Delux Bullet Starter $7.00
Ramrod Accessory Pack (cleaning jag, ball puller, & swab) $8.75
Barrel Lube $8.95
Range and Cleaning Rod (with T handle) $16.95
Flints $10.95
Shooting Patches $3.50
Lead Round Balls .50 cal (.490" dia) 179 gr. $4.95


Goex FFG blackpowder and FFFFG priming blackpowder were selling for about $10 for each 1lb can the last time I looked.


Total price $439.40

Someone mentioned a bowie knife, its appropiate for the gun so I went over to the website for W.R. Case and Sons Cutlery (http://www.wrcase.com/) and picked out there Bowie knife.
http://casesales.com/knives/images/mainpgminis/286.gif
They don't sell 'em from the factory online, so I found an online dealer www.knifestuff.com and found the case Bowie for $143.95 w/ $6 shipping for a total of $149.95


St. Louis Hawkens rifle & accoutrements $439.40
Case Bowie Knife $149.95

We are now at $589.35


For the buckskins, I went over to the website for Tandy Leather (http://www.tandyleather.com/)


Moccasin Pattern Pack (patterns & instruction book) $9.95
Deerskins Into Buckskins Book $14.99
The Art Of Hand Sewing Leather Book $12.99
Lacing & Stitching For Leathercraft Book $4.99
How To Buckstitch Book $14.99
Tannery In A Box $49.99


This order from Tandy Leather comes out to $107.86 and we are now at $697.21


MidwayUSA (http://www.midwayusa.com/esearch.exe/search?TabID=0&category_selector=all_products&search_keywords=bullet+mold&source=overture) for casting equipment.


Lyman 2-Cavity Mold .490 Diameter Round Ball $49.72
Lyman Large Mold Handles $27.56
Lyman Mini-Mag Furnace With Ingot Mold and Casting Dipper $52.04


This order comes out to $129.32

All together we come out to $826.53, plenty left over to spend at the next buckskinner rendezvous for other useful things I may have missed.