Help! Black Powder Guns are Addictive

[Gaucho Gringo]

About 3 1\2 years ago I bought my first one to help me quit smoking after 40 years of smoking. It was a Pietta 1858 Remington .44. Then I bought a Pietta 1851 .44 Navy. Next it was an ASM .36 1851 Navy. Then it was a brass framed(the only one) FIE 1849 .31 Baby Dragoon with a 5 1\2" barrel. And then another ASM .36 1851 Navy. And next was a Uberti .31 Baby Dragoon with a 4" barrel. Finally today a Italian made Colt Walker that will be hopefully in my hands by the weekend to shoot. When does it ever stop? I can't keep up on my signature.

 

[Fingers McGee]

When does it ever stop? I can't keep up on my signature.

I guess I'll be the one that breaks it to you............IT NEVER STOPS .

Just relax and enjoy the ride.

Fingers (Who just bought another 2nd Gen) McGee

 

[Hellgate]

There are more expensive addictions that are less fun. I have 14-16 perCUSSIN' revolvers. I've been called the Imelda Marcos of cap&ball.

 

[redman900]

I'd say i feel sorry for you but, i'd be callin' the kettle black. do like i did, join BPA (black powder anonymous) It doesn't help it just gives you an excuse.

 

[mykeal]

Man, this is the wrong place to be looking for a way out. But then, you knew that already, didn't you?

 

[madcratebuilder]

Sorta like going into a bar and asking about the AA meetings. It does get better, somewhere after fifty revolvers you run out of different ones to buy!

 

[snooperman]

I agree- It must be the odor of the smoke.

I really enjoy the rich history surrounding blackpowder guns in general... From the Revolutionary war guns to the blackpowder cartridge guns of the late 19 century. I just wish we could see more authentic movies of this period using "authentic guns".

 

[Fingers McGee]

There are more expensive addictions that are less fun. I have 14-16 perCUSSIN' revolvers. I've been called the Imelda Marcos of cap&ball.

If you're Imelda Hellgate, what does that make me? I've got that more '51 Navies than that.

Sorta like going into a bar and asking about the AA meetings. It does get better, somewhere after fifty revolvers you run out of different ones to buy!

I think it's closer to 75 MCB

FM

 

[snooperman]

Once you smell sulfur smoke..

you are hooked. It must be addictive.

 

[jcowan]

If this is a meeting you started, pass the coffee...... I started a year ago and have 8.

 

[scrat]

Yep addicted to black powder

 

[Texas Moon]

You say it like its a bad thing.

 

[scrat]

You gotta feed the addiction



ya i know its not black powder but only pic i had

 

[scrat]

this is my favorite

 

[Hellgate]

Well, Fingers, now you've made me feel a lot better about myself. I feel like an admitted alcoholic walking down the street with their wife and seeing someone passed out drunk in a pool of vomit, turning to their wife and saying, "Now, see... THAT guy's REALLY got a drinking problem!".
Thanks!

 

[Fingers McGee]

YW Hellgate. Glad to be of assistance.

I'm not adddicted, I can quit anytime I want.

FM

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

And I just made a deal today to buy another one. Now I am going to have to stop for a while as my gun fund is depleted. I am going to start putting my vintage stereo equipment up on Ebay to fund some more. I wonder how many I can buy with the money from 10 reel to reel tape decks and 15 pairs of Sansui, Pionner, Marantz and KLH speakers? This used to be my addiction, I have a room 12x15' literally stacked to the ceiling of vintage stereo equipment. The picture is just a small sample.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

For those of us who succumbed to the call of the black years ago, this is "deja vu all over again."

Wait until you begin annual pilgrimages to places like Friendship Indiana, or Dixon's Gun Maker's fair, or the Eastern Primitive Rendezvous.

In these parts, a journey to consult with the Great Dixon about all mystical things aligned with holy black is encouraged, envied and revered.

 

[Rock Island]

You start with just one, suddenly it's 30 years later and you have them in every corner, on every wall, you are buying true black by the box, flints join the caps and you have more powder flasks than you know what to do with. It never ends, I am even now looking at yet another one.

 

[Fingers McGee]

It never ends, I am even now looking at yet another one.

Only one I've got half dozen or so on my radar at any given time.

FM

 

[ClemBert]

Gaucho...I feel your pain? LOL!

I probably have one of the smaller BP collections here but I only got into it about 14 months ago. I have 7 BP revolvers now. I'm averaging one every two months. I only bought two smokeless guns during that period. Guess some of you think that is two too many. Here's the order that I bought the BP stuff:

1. Ruger Old Army - SS with target sights
2. Ruger Old Army - SS with fixed sights
3. Uberti 1858
4. Pietta 1851
5. Uberti Walker
6. Pietta 1858 - SS shorty
7. Pietta 1861 - shorty

 

[badpenny]

wait till you get a flintlock,then you'll really be in deep

 

[Fingers McGee]

wait till you get a flintlock,then you'll really be in deep

Whew I thought I was already; but I don't have any flintlocks anymore, so I guess that means I'm out now? I sold the five or six I had so I could buy C&B revolvers.