Desert Scorpion
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Blackpowder! A description of an earlier time of innovative and ever evolving weapons, a history I at one time knew nothing about. I! readers was something of what you may call judgemental in terms of early designed weapons, never gaining interest in them and finding my money going towards more modernized semi auto's , and the newest coolest thing to be designed. I began my collection and interest in firearms that shot lots of lead down range and unfortunately became very costly. At this time I was very interested in history and found our past to be both interesting and a way to look into how humanity has come to be the way it is now. But at this time I had no interest in historical weapons " for some reason".
Well that all changed eventually some 7 years after my interest in modernized weapons. And that is what my story is about; it's about how I came to be so interested in blackpowder firearms. And it all started with Cabelas, while always going through the catalog I would happen to glance for a short time at there Cap&Ball revolvers but my i Teresa became diminished as I didn't really u deist and what they were, at first I had no idea of there history and for some reason thought they where modern revolvers that had been changed to accept loose ammunition to circumvent federal law in terms of firearms definition and to be used in blackpowder season hunting. So I never gave them a thought really, however that all changed by watching two movies, the first was pale Ryder "Clint Eastwood" in this movie I noticed him in a particular scene wield his remington new army shoot it and subsequently reload it by pulling the cylinder out to the side and place another one in, now I must say in the manner he did it I found it to be very "Differnet" and quite frankly pretty badass. However I still did not have a peak interest in these revolvers. Then again I saw another Clint Eastwood movie " The outlaw josey whales" in this movie he wielded huge revolvers blowing out large volumes of smoke, and just frankly destroying all in his path with this unknown revolver, so while watching this movie I said to myself I want this revolver. A quick Internet search revealed it was a Cap&Ball revolver called the Walker, so googling this revolver turned me up to Cabelas and on there revolver blackpowder page, at first I was confused thinking to myself wait what that was a blackpowder revolver. Searching the historical accuracy turned up that these Cap&Ball revolvers were heavily used in the civil war and aftermath in the ever expanding west.
So I finally just bought the walker with a starter kit and Pyrodex powder, and when it arrived and I held it in my hand I was hooked it just looked so neat, and once I loaded it and fired it I was vastly intreaged but the sound the smoke the fact I made the load. From that point on I have purchased a new army, dragoon, 1860, griswold, 1851, and plan on purchasing a LeMat here soon and to go with my revolvers I purchased an Sharps 1859 paper cartridge model, when I bought the sharps I then got into muzzleloading rifles, now all I shoot is muzzleloading weapons, I find there extremely vast past in history makes them all unique, and it adds a bit of challenge when hunting.
So although I have many modern weapons; I really only shoot older style weapons now, and plan on making a Napoleon III canon here in the next year to add to diversity in my shooting.
So!!!! lets Hear your story how did you get into muzzleloading, was it a movie a friend?
Well that all changed eventually some 7 years after my interest in modernized weapons. And that is what my story is about; it's about how I came to be so interested in blackpowder firearms. And it all started with Cabelas, while always going through the catalog I would happen to glance for a short time at there Cap&Ball revolvers but my i Teresa became diminished as I didn't really u deist and what they were, at first I had no idea of there history and for some reason thought they where modern revolvers that had been changed to accept loose ammunition to circumvent federal law in terms of firearms definition and to be used in blackpowder season hunting. So I never gave them a thought really, however that all changed by watching two movies, the first was pale Ryder "Clint Eastwood" in this movie I noticed him in a particular scene wield his remington new army shoot it and subsequently reload it by pulling the cylinder out to the side and place another one in, now I must say in the manner he did it I found it to be very "Differnet" and quite frankly pretty badass. However I still did not have a peak interest in these revolvers. Then again I saw another Clint Eastwood movie " The outlaw josey whales" in this movie he wielded huge revolvers blowing out large volumes of smoke, and just frankly destroying all in his path with this unknown revolver, so while watching this movie I said to myself I want this revolver. A quick Internet search revealed it was a Cap&Ball revolver called the Walker, so googling this revolver turned me up to Cabelas and on there revolver blackpowder page, at first I was confused thinking to myself wait what that was a blackpowder revolver. Searching the historical accuracy turned up that these Cap&Ball revolvers were heavily used in the civil war and aftermath in the ever expanding west.
So I finally just bought the walker with a starter kit and Pyrodex powder, and when it arrived and I held it in my hand I was hooked it just looked so neat, and once I loaded it and fired it I was vastly intreaged but the sound the smoke the fact I made the load. From that point on I have purchased a new army, dragoon, 1860, griswold, 1851, and plan on purchasing a LeMat here soon and to go with my revolvers I purchased an Sharps 1859 paper cartridge model, when I bought the sharps I then got into muzzleloading rifles, now all I shoot is muzzleloading weapons, I find there extremely vast past in history makes them all unique, and it adds a bit of challenge when hunting.
So although I have many modern weapons; I really only shoot older style weapons now, and plan on making a Napoleon III canon here in the next year to add to diversity in my shooting.
So!!!! lets Hear your story how did you get into muzzleloading, was it a movie a friend?