Black Powder Pictures Only!

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Original Colt 4 screw made in 1861 34XXX with original holster.

http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/rr1/RussJackson/colt.jpg

http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/rr1/RussJackson/colt1.jpg

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Nice 60.
Here is my 1861
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa170/72coupe/COLT025.jpg

A couple of years ago I made a bronze signal cannon for my Dad for his birthday.
I turned and bored a piece of 1 1/8" bronze shaft material. I bored with a 7/16" bit, so it's basically a .44 caliber. I made a couple of tools to go with it. A ram/bore swab and a worm.

http://www.villageboatshop.com/June%2013,%202010%20003_small.jpg

http://www.villageboatshop.com/June%2013,%202010%20002_small.jpg

http://www.villageboatshop.com/Boat%20launch%202010%20027_small.jpg

I have a video of a test fire also..
We loaded tinfoil charges with about 1/2 teaspoon of pyrodex and damp paper towel wadding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh-1xeIaBSc

I love black powder stuff. This year, I'd like to get my hands on an 1858 Remington and a flintlock. I'm drawn toward a Lyman trade rifle as well as a .62 cal smoothbore.

I'm looking forward to the pictures that other people have..

Very nice work! How did you attatch the trunnions to the side of the cannon?

Very nice work! How did you attatch the trunnions to the side of the cannon?

Thanks! I drilled through the cannon at the trunnion location with a 1/4" tap sized drill. Then used a centering 3/8" bit to drill the trunnion mortise. I used 3/8" bronze rod for the trunnions. Both the trunnion mortise and trunnions were drilled and tapped for 1/4" bronze threaded rod. The trunnions were then screwed into place with a drop of loctite. Nothing protrudes into the bore.
It was a fun project and fun to shoot as well.

Where do you shoot in Mass? I grew up there and in the past have belonged to Singletary in Sutton and Georgetown in Georgetown.

Upon getting back into blackpowder a couple of years ago after a 40 year absence I was shooting at Bob's public range in Salisbury, MA. I considered the $20 rang fee reasonable but the 60 mile drive each way was increasing the size of by carbon footprint beyond acceptable limits. I recently joined Maynard Rod & Gun which is halfway between home and work. It was a good decision.

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Remington-Beals .36
Colt Signature Series .36 (Custer Commemorative)
5 miles from Bob's in Salisbury, MA.

Gift from a friend. 1851 with a production date of 1862. Could be fired. Hand made trigger/bolt spring.

Pair of Ruger Old Army pistols with accoutrements.


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Hoppy, I love the cannon!

Gift from a friend. 1851 with a production date of 1862. Could be fired. Hand made trigger/bolt spring.
You Booger, you never showed me that one!

Dang, nice score!

My Bobcat.............

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v198/Red96TA/IMAG0172-1_zps0cf9a81d.jpg

Uberti 2nd Mod. Dragoon

http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd392/brushhippie/colts2.jpg

My Confederate repros:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c86/fingersmcgee/ConfederateRevolvers006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/xenomorph_21/zxcvb_zps30b81f75.jpg

http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af11/hut-man/remingtons-1.jpg

16 gauge fowler by Mike Brooks

http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr287/PeteDoyle/0897b08e.jpg
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A 20 gauge fowler by Matt Avance
http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr287/PeteDoyle/FowleronDeck.jpg

.50 cal underhammer by Bob Worthington (Greyhaven Arms)
http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr287/PeteDoyle/Underhammer2.jpg

Pedersoli Model 1861 Springfield .58
Colt 2nd Gen Model 1860 Army .44
Original Springfield Model 1873 dated 1884 .45-70
Uberti Conversion Army .45 colt

http://imageshack.us/a/img6/1207/149dps.jpg

Army and Conversion

http://imageshack.us/a/img708/1773/146ul.jpg

Conversion alone. I've since stripped the Uberti red shellac off the grips which makes the pistol much nicer now in my opinion. Shoots great too, totally love it. It's definitely one of my favs.

http://imageshack.us/a/img64/9607/142tt.jpg

After stripping the grips

http://imageshack.us/a/img849/8776/63926620.jpg

Beretta Stampede .45 SA. Purty color case hardening...

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/mboyd13/Gun%20pictures/cid_49.jpg

Handloads and the holy Black. Nothing else.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/mboyd13/Gun%20pictures/bullets3.jpg

Some more for fun...

This was my late Pop's handmade buckskin shirt, handmade knife and tomahawk, and handmade Hawken .54. The rifle is priceless to me, a fantastic shooter and one of my favorites by far. The hat is older than me, goes back to the mid/late 60s. The lock of hair attached to the top of the hat is my aunt's hair.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/mboyd13/Dads%20BP/004.jpg

Some of my Civil War gear.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/mboyd13/Dads%20BP/001.jpg

Rig and knife Dad made for my wife for her .36 Navy. Awesome.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/mboyd13/shooting/046.jpg

A few of the others he built...

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/mboyd13/Dads%20BP/IMG_1025.jpg

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/mboyd13/Dads%20BP/IMG_1029.jpg

Good to see you here Randy... Love the pics of that under hammer gun!

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Nice pictures Phantom Captain. I enjoyed them.

I love cap guns!
--Dawg

Here are some of my Rugers:

http://www.dakotaskipper.net/ebay/rugers.jpg

Here are some of my 1860s:

http://www.dakotaskipper.net/ebay/1860sa.jpg

I have many rifles -- Here is a pic of my latest acquisition -- TC Seneca in .36

http://www.dakotaskipper.net/ebay/36_Seneca.jpg

I bet that rooster fried up, nice and tasty. :D
Pietta
http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz64/fortj3/58rem.jpg
Pietta
http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz64/fortj3/51navy.jpg
Pedersoli.
http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz64/fortj3/Howdah.jpg
All are fun. The Pedersoli is just about too much fun.

Uberti 1862 Popo, from Buffalo Arms
http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz64/fortj3/62popo.jpg
Ruger Blackhawk .44 Spl
http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz64/fortj3/Holly.jpg
The Holly grips are from Private Schultz. Much better than the thin, checkered cheesegrater grips from the factory. Both the Blackhawk and the EAA Big Bore Bounty hunter below are much more fun to shoot with holy black.

EAA/Weihrauch Big Bore Bounty Hunter .45 Colt
http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz64/fortj3/newholster.jpg

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz64/fortj3/cutlery/ROA.jpg
The ROA is now wearing these beautiful, pink myrtle grips from CLC custom grips.

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz64/fortj3/pinkmyrtlegrips.jpg

Pietts 5.5 in Remington...aka shorty
http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s672/logan5579/2013-01-15190510_zps52f777cb.jpg

Pietta full size Remington, I antiqued a few years ago...aka the old coot
http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s672/logan5579/2013-01-15190648_zps431d4a7a.jpg

Good pictures.

It's silly to get all exercised over appreciative comments.

It's Low Road to get all snarky about private messages--which adults generally keep private. And THR does NOT, repeat, NOT give awards for "Snark of the Day".

Phantom Captain,
I was in BP back in the late Sixties in Indiana and did Friendship quite a few times. Had A lodge on the primitive range with the 64th Virginia Volunteers, the bad boys with the bugle.
I might have known your dad. Knew Capt. Max Vickery President of the NMLRA at the time, personally as he was one of my Mentors, along with Art Holly. I built 19 rifles and 5 Hawken Pups.
You can PM me if you prefer.

Howdy

How's this?

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Here's a couple of mine

Schneider and Glassick

http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s380/dautieng6/SchneiderampGlassickHighStd_zpsdefe4429.jpg

Whitney

http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s380/dautieng6/Whitney_zpse7e3a9ea.jpg

Some Dragoons

http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s380/dautieng6/bc4e385f.jpg

Here's a nice action shot of one of my Ruger Buntlines at the PA State match a coupla years ago:
--Dawg

http://www.dakotaskipper.net/ebay/prairiedawgsbuntlinebelchingsmoke&flame.jpg

Here are a few of my Black Powder guns:

http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af11/Skinny1950/1849PocketColtOct162012001-1.jpg
http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af11/Skinny1950/IMG_2275RobertELee1851-1.jpg
http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af11/Skinny1950/RangeAug292011003crop.jpg
http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af11/Skinny1950/FlintPistol003.jpg
http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af11/Skinny1950/RangeOct242011006.jpg

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w285/towboat_er/2012-05-22_11-46-06_HDR.jpg

towboat_er,

Completely LOVE your rifle. That's definitely at the top of my WANT list. What caliber is yours? I've been looking at the Uberti's and would like one in .45 colt so as to load one cartridge for pistols and rifle.

Plus a brace of USFA SAs, sheesh just gorgeous. Man, the lever guns are just so cool.

Sorry about commenting, I just couldn't help myself.

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w285/towboat_er/2012-04-01_11-17-12_HDR.jpg

Thanks. Its 45lc. Bunch o fun to shoot.

http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af11/hut-man/Pistolas.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/Iggy25/Wall.jpg

Did some ronyvooin' once upon a time.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/Iggy25/MedinaHawken.jpg
Medina Hawken
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/Iggy25/TrapdoorBig.jpg
Trapdoor
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/Iggy25/40flint.jpg
40 Flinter
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/Iggy25/Flintpistol.jpg
40 Flinter pistol out of the same barrel and piece of wood.

A photo from a hunting trip with the Fowler shotgun...

A black powder assortment:
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Wow, that's a nice collection and fine photo.

Not mine, but BP.

(giggle)

-kBob

These are publicly owned. In the Federal park at Pensacola FL.

Unfortunately not functional in present condition.

-kBob

My grandfather gave this percussion cap rifle to me around 1990, it was his fathers passed down to him. I took it to a gunsmith last spring and had it gone over and repaired and shootable again. Took it to our family reunion in Aug and posed for a picture and received this one edited to look old in e-mail later.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn275/eugenenine/Misc/DSCN1666.jpg

The safari and outdoors shirt from cabelas kind of match the look.
I was squinting from the bright sun

Beautiful rifle enine...
you need to photoshop in some horses hitched to a post instead of those late model cars!!

These are publicly owned. In the Federal park at Pensacola FL.

Unfortunately not functional in present condition.

-kBob
If they are publicly owned, then it would be perfectly legal for you to make them operational (you being a member of the public).

A lot of them are still functional, even if rusted a bit.

I'm expecting a new 1842 smooth bore any day now.

In 1814 we took a little trip......

Calumet Plantation in 1990 with a field gun. Supposedly the cane stubble field was much the same that morning in 1814. There burned a bit of black powder there.

My buddy got me monolouging over the gun and looking down range and after a few minutes I turned to find about twenty tourist and three park rangers quietly listening in. What do you do when a tourist you never saw i nyour life says "Don't stop." and the Rangers say "please, continue"?

Believe it or not I am in person rather shy. Still there was much hand waving and pointing and directing folks to look in the drainage ditch befor the parapit. At least my buddy bought supper and refreshment that evening on Burbon street.

Assuming it is still open I believe it is one street over on Charters but you guys have to visit Cohan's an antique arms store in Nyaw Luns and also take the paddle wheeler up to calumet and visit the collection in the tower there.

And I actually have lost a bit of weight in the last 22 years.....

-kBob

I had a similar experience when the Liberty Fleet of Tall Ships came to Boston. I was about 10 at the time and naming the type of ship as it sailed by. In no time a small group had gathered around, fascinated that such a young boy new so much.

Bon Giorno!

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Aged Patersons:scrutiny:http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s380/dautieng6/All%20my%20Patersons/antiquedUbertissepia_zpsa327f65c.jpg

that's about the long and short of it!

Expanding on the current tangeant...

Firing line, first person view.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/mboyd13/49th%20Indiana/2008_10-26_037.jpg

Yours truly, in the middle.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/mboyd13/49th%20Indiana/267678_10150298795383474_687203473_8977389_4070544_n.jpg

150th anniversary of the battle of 1st Manassas 2011.

http://imageshack.us/a/img844/1408/rebels04.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img155/1275/union03.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img51/4573/rebels02.jpg

Antietam Living History on the actual battlefield where I was honored to portray one of the Iron Brigade, 6th Wisconsin, Co. I.

http://imageshack.us/a/img529/2570/ib07firing.jpg

The coolest thing about this picture, besides it being in front of the Dunker Church on the battlefield, is that at the end of the actual battle the 6th Wisconsin was reduced to approximately 130 men, this is how many we had for the living history so our column is actual size. I'm somewhere in there middle/back.

http://imageshack.us/a/img502/7867/ib08.jpg

The wife and her Navy 1861. Is there anything prettier than a beautiful woman and her black powder guns??

http://imageshack.us/a/img819/786/006uosn.jpg

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Cap and ball Army and Conversion.

http://imageshack.us/a/img153/791/001hio.jpg

The wife and HER musket. .58 caliber Richmond rifle. She has claimed it as her own. And she's good with it too!

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/mboyd13/shooting%2008/IMG_4655.jpg

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/mboyd13/shooting%2008/IMG_4659.jpg

some fellows are lucky!

Smith and Wesson New Model Number Three. 44 Russian caliber. Manufactured in 1882.


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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/Driftwood_Johnson/smith%20and%20wesson/My%20New%20Model%20Number%20Three/0422.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/Driftwood_Johnson/smith%20and%20wesson/My%20New%20Model%20Number%20Three/0432.jpg

1851 Navy
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2546/3907879709_8ae8d0b6b5_z.jpg?zz=1

1851 Navy
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2489/3908660308_da16218c14_z.jpg?zz=1


Uberti 1847 Walker
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6239/6246787689_4c57bafc72_z.jpg

1858 Remington 'Buffalo'
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5095/5388398229_0b3c871e59_z.jpg

Armi San Marco 1858 Remington
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4033/4339170726_ec51d612c9_z.jpg

Uberti 1847 Walker
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5262/5699115629_fc9c19f9ce_z.jpg

Single-shot .44 percussion
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5054/5491390056_58816510ce_z.jpg

single-shot .44 percussion -frame 1-
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2427/3898912779_c47b1f63a7_z.jpg?zz=1

single-shot .44 percussion -frame 2-
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3431/3903449240_756f712d31_z.jpg?zz=1

the BP collection at the moment :)
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6237/6246787065_c1562a3c63_z.jpg

Original 1860 Army, passed down through my family since the Civil War
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8160/7499656870_1247fbab0b_c.jpg

Original 1860 Army, passed down through my family since the Civil War
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8162/7499657248_5d00b25142_c.jpg

Pietta 1851 Navy
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3625/3598840697_8ff57b87c8_z.jpg?zz=1

Pietta 1851 Navy
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3337/3599650080_c3016c5761_z.jpg?zz=1


4th of July 2012, .44 single-shot percussion loaded with FFFG, paper and cardboard, no lead
gun is 12" long, to give you an idea of the size of that muzzle-flash :D
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8291/7505851570_bf7e0c0f26_c.jpg


These pics were the easiest to find so far, I have lots more but will take more digging around :)

Yep she is loaded and capped and ready to go to the wall.
She is my Home Defense System ...after they get past the dogs...or maybe before.
She is unfired at this time, but pitted badly on the exterior, (the bores of the cylinder and bbl are perfect),from improper storage. but never mind she will be a shooter
She is a 3 digit S/N , 4 if you count the F as in FXXX. 3rd Model Cavalry. MFG in 1962.

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa40/OldDragoon62/black%20powder%20pistols/Centaur%20Pistols/20130207115530_zpsc5802fcf.jpg

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa40/OldDragoon62/black%20powder%20pistols/Centaur%20Pistols/20130207115445_zps57e32e2d.jpg

Love love love!!!!

Holy cow I want a Centaur sooooooooooo bad!!!!

after seeing post #60, we all feel soooo bad that you don't have a Centaur, Phantom. lol

The Early ones are very good guns, the later 70's run, eh, maybe not so much but all are better than Italian clones now. Try to find 3 or 4 digit s/n ones and they are good. try to find one that isn't beat up, because some of them get loose arbors, that can be fixed by a good gunsmith, but an early unfired one is golden.

Read all about this wonderful pistols here: www.1960nma.org

after seeing post #60, we all feel soooo bad that you don't have a Centaur, Phantom. lol
Haha! Thanks. :D:neener: