Mike OTDP
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BP shooters use advanced caseless ammunition.
BP shooters clean their guns.
BP shooters shoot to hit, not spray and pray.
BP shooters clean their guns.
BP shooters shoot to hit, not spray and pray.
The difference between BP and smokeless shooters
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zimmerstutzen
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60 years ago, before air conditioners and before most folks had tv, folks sat on the porch in the summer, visiting with those who strolled up and down the sidewalk. It is one of the reasons I like rondys so much. Walk the paths and visit with folks at the campfire, swap stories, jokes and news.
Last time I mistakenly stumbled into a group of smokeless shooters, they disappear and hole up like hermits once the range closes.
Last time I mistakenly stumbled into a group of smokeless shooters, they disappear and hole up like hermits once the range closes.
MCgunner
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For me, black powder is medicinal for the aging. It replaces lost testosterone and is more fun than pills or underarm treatments which can have deliterious side affects that take up 25 seconds of a 30 second commercial. 
BP: Recall the 4th of July where you closed off your own block and you and your neighbors put your picnic tables in the middle of the street and you would have your own block party. Or how in the world did the kids survive shooting bottle rockets? Smokeless: Watch the fireworks on the i-pad not having a clue who lives next door.
44 Dave
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Us old guys still launch bottle rockets from our fingers, don't want to spoil a good bottle of beer.
Loyalist Dave
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The only way to "go hungry" at a black powder event where folks are camping is to completely refuse offers of food, and to forget to bring some of your own. A friend named Scott once went to a four day event at Fort Frederick MD and tried an experiment, ..., to see if he accepted all of the offers for food, would get enough to eat or would he go hungry... didn't bring any food himself...he gained weight.
One more thing... I saw a "heated dispute" once at a BP rifle match at Fort Frederick Maryland... they used to have a "Governor's Firelock Match" before the state went socialist...
Anyway, two veteran BP shooters, strangers to each other, were loudly arguing which of the two was going to help the Nicky-Newbie who was having an engine problem with his car in the parking area... oh and the Nickie-Newbie was a stranger to both veteran BP shooters too, they'd just met him and each other while the hood was up on Newbie's car. One vet had the right tools, the other vet was the master mechanic... wasn't a complicated fix either...
Wow so folks arguing on who could be the most helpful to a complete stranger, for free???
Show me where that happens in the "modern world"!
They finally settled on the master mechanic would direct the tool owner on "the best and shortest method" to effect the repair. Meanwhile Nickie-Newbie just stood there not knowing how to react.
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One more thing... I saw a "heated dispute" once at a BP rifle match at Fort Frederick Maryland... they used to have a "Governor's Firelock Match" before the state went socialist...
Anyway, two veteran BP shooters, strangers to each other, were loudly arguing which of the two was going to help the Nicky-Newbie who was having an engine problem with his car in the parking area... oh and the Nickie-Newbie was a stranger to both veteran BP shooters too, they'd just met him and each other while the hood was up on Newbie's car. One vet had the right tools, the other vet was the master mechanic... wasn't a complicated fix either...
Wow so folks arguing on who could be the most helpful to a complete stranger, for free???
Show me where that happens in the "modern world"! They finally settled on the master mechanic would direct the tool owner on "the best and shortest method" to effect the repair. Meanwhile Nickie-Newbie just stood there not knowing how to react.
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Officers'Wife
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Then again, BP shooters are comfy enough with their fashion sense to carry purses. Of course they call them Possibles bags but you can talk about a manually operated earth excavation tool all you want but it's still a blinking shovel
Shanghai McCoy
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My wife and I both shoot muzzleloaders. She got her first deer with a 50 caliber cap lock but now favors a 50 caliber flintlock.
So, I have to shoot 54 caliber, or larger, since I should have balls bigger than my wife..?
So, I have to shoot 54 caliber, or larger, since I should have balls bigger than my wife..?
Loyalist Dave
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Ah no, the woman's shoulder bag is a 19th century invention... the possibles bag and its ancestor, the rifle bag, predate that by almost a century...therefore:
Women carry a possibles bag and call it today a "handbag" or a "purse".
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Officers'Wife
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You can talk about a manually operated earth excavation tool all you want but it's still a blinking shovelAh no, the woman's shoulder bag is a 19th century invention... the possibles bag and its ancestor, the rifle bag, predate that by almost a century...therefore:
Women carry a possibles bag and call it today a "handbag" or a "purse".
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Loyalist Dave
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The point was first terminology and use, not simply coming up with a different name.
So guys had the possibles bag first.
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So guys had the possibles bag first.
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Crawdad1
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Like saying the Indians wore make up, no, they wore war paint.
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