Traditional Muzzleloading Association
The Center of Camp => The Campfire => Topic started by: rollingb on December 05, 2019, 07:42:31 PM
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Wow,...... I just got home and checked my mail, and there was a box from Mad Irish Jack waiting for me. :applaud
I opened the box and it was stuffed with goodies like, a camp collapsible canvas water bucket, a pair of stocking garters, 2 ball bags, and a pair of woven mitts. :applaud :bl th up ;D
Thank you Mad Irish Jack for the nice gifts. :shake :bow (http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/christmas/christmas-tree-2.gif) (http://www.sherv.net/)
I'd also like to mention in this post that I don't know much about PeaShooterJoe, or where his traditional muzzleloading interests lay,.... so Joe,... if you don't have much use for what I sent you, please PM me with a bit of information about yourself, and I'll include something different. :bl th up :shake :toast :)
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Well what do ya know??! The Mailman just dropped off a package for me...hmm...looks like it came from that oldetexian fella. Thanks Ray :shake
Hey Dan!!...If ya can hear me...I put your box on a fast mule this morning. If they don't have to re-shoe him...he should get to your neighborhood on the 14th :pray:
Al
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Got a very nice surprise from the post man
Thanks Uncle Russ
God bless everyone and merry Xmas
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Got a very nice surprise from the post man
Thanks Uncle Russ
God bless everyone and merry Xmas
Thank you Jake!
Some gifts are made for "lookin" while others are made to use.
I hope you get a lot of use outta your gift.
And, May God bless you and yours too!
Russ...
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I should have posted this sooner, but I received a nice box from Beaverman in the mail last week. He had ordered me NOT to open it until Christmas but then relented and said he was just kidding. As soon as I read that I ripped the package open and found a lovely bullet pouch? container? flask? I'm not sure what it would be called since it is made of leather but a hard shell, so not floppy like a pouch. Anyway, it has already been filled with .54 balls in preparation for the next outing. Thank you for the great and useful gift!
~Kees~
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Good for you Kees!
You can count on 'ol Beaverthang to do a feller right!
It's always good to see his name in the Christmas Gift Drawing!
Uncle Russ...
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I should have posted this sooner, but I received a nice box from Beaverman in the mail last week. He had ordered me NOT to open it until Christmas but then relented and said he was just kidding. As soon as I read that I ripped the package open and found a lovely bullet pouch? container? flask? I'm not sure what it would be called since it is made of leather but a hard shell, so not floppy like a pouch. Anyway, it has already been filled with .54 balls in preparation for the next outing. Thank you for the great and useful gift!
~Kees~
Kees, that would be one of my hand made crappy ball bags, I make them in several calibers along with shot pouches etc. glad you like it!
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Iffen that is "crappy," your good pieces must be museum quality! This one really shines. :bow
~Kees~
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Iffen that is "crappy," your good pieces must be museum quality! This one really shines. :bow
~Kees~
:hairy
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A big shout out to our friend Dan Herda!
:hairy
I received my gift on Saturday evening, didn't get to open it 'till late last night due to other Holiday commitments.
BTW: I made this same post last night shortly before 11pm, but I was wasn't fast enough I guess, because of the "System" goes down every night at 11 pm, my time, for System Maintenance, or whatever it does...but from 11 pm until about 11:10 or 11:15, forget it,......you cant get on if you live on the West Coast.
Anyway, I received a beautiful book; Steel Canvas; "The art of American Arms" by R.L.Wison
It has full-color pages, It has the History of the gun and the engraver that did all the work, to include the beautiful inlays.
These are all "Classic Guns" by Master Gunsmiths and Master Engravers. It has a Glossary, a very in-depth Bibliography, and a 10 page Index....I haven't been able to put it down today, and Mama Bear has yelled at me most of the time.
I also received a very nice Flat Horn, or Pouch Horn, that I believe Dan did himself...it is absolutely stunning.
The book with the Horn;
(https://i.imgur.com/dQvVssc.jpg)
Open pages of the book....
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(https://i.imgur.com/1SH74Zj.jpg)
There are long rifles of every make / model / also...
(https://i.imgur.com/sxXG8Ta.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/QyLuN13.jpg)
Thank you Dan...a wonderful Christmas Present! :bow :bow
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Looks like another book to add to my ever-growing list of books to get!
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And I also received a gift. This from Peashooter Joe. Unlike everyone else, I think I will be able to restrain myself until Christmas Day. I think. So far, I am making it.
So, thank you Joe, I do appreciate your gift and I am surely looking forward to seeing what is in that mysterious box.
John (Bigsmoke)
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And I also received a gift. This from Peashooter Joe. Unlike everyone else, I think I will be able to restrain myself until Christmas Day. I think. So far, I am making it.
So, thank you Joe, I do appreciate your gift and I am surely looking forward to seeing what is in that mysterious box.
John (Bigsmoke)
Good on you John!
Now I'll tell you another little Christmas Gift story....a week or so ago I bought a little item from one of our more stalwart members, a nice little item, in fact, and it promptly arrived, as do all things purchased from this nice fella.
It was packed all nice, in a nice box, however that same package contained a surprise Christmas Gift along with the item purchased.
That gift is safely wrapped and contains a rather one sided but nice note regarding instructions on opening, and says in bold letters, NOT TO OPEN BEFORE CHRISTMAS!
I almost know for sure what the item is, and I'm very anxious to look at it, maybe even play with it a little bit.... but there's that stupid note!
I think that "note" was never necessary in the safe packaging of the gift.....that's what I think!
I also think such things borders Closely on cruel and unusual punishment, especially to an old guy that has the willpower of a big ol' nightcrawler!
I certainly appreciate the gift, and one hundred thanks for the thoughtfulness.
I know this "stalwart Member" pretty good, and I just want to let him know that payback is the mother of all pain....Jus'sayin
Russ...
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A big shout out to our friend Dan Herda!
:hairy
I received my gift on Saturday evening, didn't get to open it 'till late last night due to other Holiday commitments.
BTW: I made this same post last night shortly before 11pm, but I was wasn't fast enough I guess, because of the "System" goes down every night at 11 pm, my time, for System Maintenance, or whatever it does...but from 11 pm until about 11:10 or 11:15, forget it,......you cant get on if you live on the West Coast.
Anyway, I received a beautiful book; Steel Canvas; "The art of American Arms" by R.L.Wison
It has full-color pages, It has the History of the gun and the engraver that did all the work, to include the beautiful inlays.
These are all "Classic Guns" by Master Gunsmiths and Master Engravers. It has a Glossary, a very in-depth Bibliography, and a 10 page Index....I haven't been able to put it down today, and Mama Bear has yelled at me most of the time.
I also received a very nice Flat Horn, or Pouch Horn, that I believe Dan did himself...it is absolutely stunning.
The book with the Horn;
(https://i.imgur.com/dQvVssc.jpg)
Open pages of the book....
(https://i.imgur.com/JRRgFAq.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/1SH74Zj.jpg)
There are long rifles of every make / model / also...
(https://i.imgur.com/sxXG8Ta.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/QyLuN13.jpg)
Thank you Dan...a wonderful Christmas Present! :bow :bow
Uncle Russ, you recently stated "some gifts are for looking and others for using", I hope this falls into those two categories🙂
Merry Christmas my friend
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Many thanks to Two Steps,
I recieved a wonderful priming horn and tin of "moose snot"🙂
Merry Christmas Al
:shake
( I need to find that recipe for the moose snot)
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The recipe is pretty simple. The problem is "milking" that ol' bull moose to get it.
Good luck, and do make sure your health insurance is paid up before you start. :luff: :luff: :luff:
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I'm a bit tardy posting this, I received a couple days ago a very nice hand engraved brass powder measure and a hand engraved NW Company token from Lonewolfe20, was trying to wait until I got home this weekend to take some pics before I posted, needless to say they are top shelf and the Powder measure will fit nicely with the new bag and horn that I'm making for the prom queen! Thanks so much and a Merry Christmas to all, Beav
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Now I'm feeling like a piker for what I sent to Mad Irish Jack! I hope he can forgive me for not sending the equivalent of what others are getting!
~Kees~
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I got mine a few days ago, but it said not to open until Christmas...
So I might wait...
Maybe.....
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I got mine a few days ago, but it said not to open until Christmas...
So I might wait...
Maybe.....
I got one of those the other day and so far I've been pretty good.
I told him then that I had the willpower of huge Nightcrawler, and he shouldn't test me....but so far so good because Mama Bear hid the darn thing....she's such a good woman.
:lol sign
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I got mine a few days ago, but it said not to open until Christmas...
So I might wait...
Maybe.....
I got one of those the other day and so far I've been pretty good.
I told him then that I had the willpower of huge Nightcrawler, and he shouldn't test me....but so far so good because Mama Bear hid the darn thing....she's such a good woman.
:lol sign
LOL!!! Russ, I read your remark and couldn't help but recall when Cindy & I were younger and would always get a Christmas present for each other (we still do) - well, she would hide her's (the one she got for me) then at least two Christmas' she couldn't find it!!! She'd look high and low (and our house just ain't that big)... :lol sign Eventually she'd find it,,, and one time it was in February... :laffing
You all have a Merry Christmas :shake
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Here is a great little banded powder horn from Bigsmoke! I've actually been wanting one for quite awhile.
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Also, my wonderful wife got me a copy of a book I've been wanting.
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That Horn is simply beautiful.
That Ol' John feller is one talented old dude!
Super nice Gift on that Horn, and there ain't no fleas on that nice book either.....Everybody did good!
:hairy
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Well, thank you fellers, but I really cannot take credit for making that horn. I got it from a fellow named Gus Tabor a few years ago. I have yet to make a banded horn. Probably never will. I have decided that I am going to retire effective 1/1/2020. All of my shop equipment will be going up for sale as soon as I get around to cleaning the tools up. I will probably list the specific horn tools here and on the Horner's Bench. Maybe on the ALR site as well. Still have a few cow horns laying around to get rid of. Then Mrs. Smoke has a vision of turning my workshop into an office for her own self. I think that will be good for her. So, Happy New Year to y'all. Effective this day, I am officially retired.
John