Phantom Captain
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It's coming up on four years that I lost my Dad and I thought I would share a bit of his talents with you all. He made this for my wife, at the time girlfriend, as he was really tickled how into shooting and especially black powder shooting she had become. When we first started dating she had never shot anything before and I introduced her to the holy BP first which has become her first love. Even now, after shooting milsurps, modern, .22s, handguns, etc she will always say the holy black is her favorite.
We would visit him every weekend and hang out, make food, talk about shooting, do some casting, drink some beer
, go shoot etc. In the meantime he would always have some project going on as he was retired but always liked to be involved in our lives. He was an old time black powder shooter himself, buckskinner and hunter and made a few BP rifles of his own. He taught me everything growing up. Once my wife really got into shooting I HAD to get her her own pistol and she fell in love with the 1861 Navy. This is her pistol and good luck if you even want to handle it, lol. It's completely HERS. She cleans it, loads it herself, practices with it almost exclusively and said she wishes she could even conceal carry it as that is how comfortable she is with it.
Anyway, before Dad passed he made her her own holster, knife and sheath and put them on his old leather hunting belt. She loved it! So here you go...
Pretty cool that he just took some old brown leather, some nice deerskin and some brass tacks and put this all together. I know it's not modern store bought slickness but it's handmade and made with love. It's a one of a kind which gives it a whole new value unto itself besides the fact it's something he made.
He made the knife too. The color on the antler handle was done by simply submerging it in coffee for a week or so.
He even put an old buffalo nickel on the base!
Just wanted to share as I was going through our stuff today and was thinking about my Pop!
We would visit him every weekend and hang out, make food, talk about shooting, do some casting, drink some beer
, go shoot etc. In the meantime he would always have some project going on as he was retired but always liked to be involved in our lives. He was an old time black powder shooter himself, buckskinner and hunter and made a few BP rifles of his own. He taught me everything growing up. Once my wife really got into shooting I HAD to get her her own pistol and she fell in love with the 1861 Navy. This is her pistol and good luck if you even want to handle it, lol. It's completely HERS. She cleans it, loads it herself, practices with it almost exclusively and said she wishes she could even conceal carry it as that is how comfortable she is with it.Anyway, before Dad passed he made her her own holster, knife and sheath and put them on his old leather hunting belt. She loved it! So here you go...
Pretty cool that he just took some old brown leather, some nice deerskin and some brass tacks and put this all together. I know it's not modern store bought slickness but it's handmade and made with love. It's a one of a kind which gives it a whole new value unto itself besides the fact it's something he made.
He made the knife too. The color on the antler handle was done by simply submerging it in coffee for a week or so.
He even put an old buffalo nickel on the base!
Just wanted to share as I was going through our stuff today and was thinking about my Pop!
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