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Flintlock Long Guns / Re: Gatorade Bottles Taking a Serious Beating...!!
« Last post by No Powder on Today at 10:29:54 AM »Good job buddy. Did you go to school to learn how to catch all those muzzleloaders they keep throwing at you ?
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People of the Times / 2/8/1830: Last Franciscan in early Texas relinquishes missions
« Last post by Craig Tx on Today at 09:55:59 AM »On this day in 1830, Jose Antonio Diaz de Leon, the last Franciscan missionary in prerepublic Texas, reluctantly complied with the Mexican state government decree that missions be secularized--that is, turned over to diocesan authorities.
Diaz de Leon had been appointed ad interim president of all the Texas missions in 1820, three years before the Mexican government ordered their final secularization. Diaz de Leon declined to comply without instructions from his superiors in Zacatecas, the first in a series of delays that lasted seven years. Diaz de Leon surrendered the San Antonio missions to the Diocese of Monterrey in 1824. In 1826 he was officially named president of the Texas missions. But Anglo settlers wanted the mission properties, and in 1829 the town of Goliad (formerly La Bahia) obtained a new decree to enforce secularization. Diaz de Leon continued to resist, but on February 8, 1830, he finally surrendered the last remaining missions. The mission lands, as he had expected, were soon made available to colonists. The bishop of Monterrey assigned him a parish post in Nacogdoches. Diaz de Leon was murdered on November 4, 1834. He was the thirty-first, and last, Zacatecan missionary to die in Texas. In 1926 the German author Robert Streit published a historical novel about Diaz de Leon; the work remains untranslated.
Diaz de Leon had been appointed ad interim president of all the Texas missions in 1820, three years before the Mexican government ordered their final secularization. Diaz de Leon declined to comply without instructions from his superiors in Zacatecas, the first in a series of delays that lasted seven years. Diaz de Leon surrendered the San Antonio missions to the Diocese of Monterrey in 1824. In 1826 he was officially named president of the Texas missions. But Anglo settlers wanted the mission properties, and in 1829 the town of Goliad (formerly La Bahia) obtained a new decree to enforce secularization. Diaz de Leon continued to resist, but on February 8, 1830, he finally surrendered the last remaining missions. The mission lands, as he had expected, were soon made available to colonists. The bishop of Monterrey assigned him a parish post in Nacogdoches. Diaz de Leon was murdered on November 4, 1834. He was the thirty-first, and last, Zacatecan missionary to die in Texas. In 1926 the German author Robert Streit published a historical novel about Diaz de Leon; the work remains untranslated.
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Flintlock Long Guns / Re: Gatorade Bottles Taking a Serious Beating...!!
« Last post by KDubs on Today at 07:49:32 AM »Another cool video mark
Just wish you would buy a left handed gun, probably see you scores increase
Kevin
Just wish you would buy a left handed gun, probably see you scores increase
Kevin
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Flintlock Long Guns / Gatorade Bottles Taking a Serious Beating...!!
« Last post by BlackPowderManiacShooter on Today at 01:04:44 AM »Filmed last summer with the Cicada's roaming about.
Some Gatorade Bottles taking a serious beating ..... FINALLY!!
Some Gatorade Bottles taking a serious beating ..... FINALLY!!
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General Interest / Re: Maintenance ~ Trad Muzzleloaders
« Last post by No Powder on February 07, 2026, 10:59:36 PM »Glad you explained glazing. Cause I sure didn't know what it meant. Definitely a necessary step in the process if it makes it come out of the horn easier.
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General Interest / Re: Maintenance ~ Trad Muzzleloaders
« Last post by Rob DiStefano on February 07, 2026, 06:46:11 PM »... The only rifle I have that will get brown on the patch, is one that had some rust in the barrel when I bought it. Worked on it with Scotch Brite and steel wool wrapped around a smaller caliber brush. I believe the brown is still some minor rust that is still in there and is loosened up by the oily patch that I run down the barrel after cleaning. I believe over a period of time it will finally disappear.
Yup, I totally concur, Sir.
Could the light gray I see on a patch be graphite? 🤔
Could be, but more than likely a highly diluted amount of powder residue. This is kinda like coffee drinkers staining their teeth over a relatively long period of time, and now trying to get the brown out is like pulling teeth or resorting to acids that can/will do harm.
I will add that both post powder corning glazing and graphite is typically done to most commercial powders. I've heard that Swiss uses a Lot of graphite. The reason for the glazing and graphite is to allow the powder to flow more freely. Powder that is neither glazed or graphite coated will clump up in powder measures and horns. I will only glaze and never have a need for graphite. "Glazing" means to mill just the completed powder (no media in the mill, just loose freshly corned/compressed powder) to knock off any sharp edges - again, to make the powder freely flow out of containers.
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The Campfire / Re: The TMA is looking for Webmaster Admin assistance!
« Last post by Rob DiStefano on February 07, 2026, 06:40:00 PM »There's far more power in the cheapest of cell phones (of which ALL are computers) than any DOS or CP/M computer, ever. It is what it is.
When I was a database manager way back in the '70s a buddy in the computer room called to get me over to see the incredible new memory installed on one of our PDP 1170 machines. I ran down and we both ooh'd and ahh'd as he pulled out the file drawer under the refrigerator sized computer and there before our gleaming eyes was box chock fulla 2 dozen 8"x12" sized chip filled boards ... a whopping 256k of memory. Wow! Awesome! Yes, for 1970s. Today, that amount of hard memory would take up half the real estate on a clothes fabric pin head.
So yeah, DOS and CP/M are both dead as the dodo bird. That is, unless yer only need for a computer is to write text files and play pong.
Back to the real world, yer basic choices are WinXX, AppleXX, or Linux, where each will have slight variations but each on its own proprietary hardware/software theme.
When it comes to data productivity, can Linux read/write all the WinXX Office apps? Yup. So save all yer data files, images, videos, etc to a USB drive (CD and DVD are officially now old school and near dodo bird dead - it's all flashdrive media storage) and load back on a Linux machine.
The one and only things that Linux is not great at is games and some multimedia software (high end pro audio, image, video). SO, my only need for a WinXX OS is to run a flight simulator for r/c fixed wing practice, or to help someone with a website/forum on their WinXX PC.
When I was a database manager way back in the '70s a buddy in the computer room called to get me over to see the incredible new memory installed on one of our PDP 1170 machines. I ran down and we both ooh'd and ahh'd as he pulled out the file drawer under the refrigerator sized computer and there before our gleaming eyes was box chock fulla 2 dozen 8"x12" sized chip filled boards ... a whopping 256k of memory. Wow! Awesome! Yes, for 1970s. Today, that amount of hard memory would take up half the real estate on a clothes fabric pin head.
So yeah, DOS and CP/M are both dead as the dodo bird. That is, unless yer only need for a computer is to write text files and play pong.
Back to the real world, yer basic choices are WinXX, AppleXX, or Linux, where each will have slight variations but each on its own proprietary hardware/software theme.
When it comes to data productivity, can Linux read/write all the WinXX Office apps? Yup. So save all yer data files, images, videos, etc to a USB drive (CD and DVD are officially now old school and near dodo bird dead - it's all flashdrive media storage) and load back on a Linux machine.
The one and only things that Linux is not great at is games and some multimedia software (high end pro audio, image, video). SO, my only need for a WinXX OS is to run a flight simulator for r/c fixed wing practice, or to help someone with a website/forum on their WinXX PC.
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The Campfire / Re: The TMA is looking for Webmaster Admin assistance!
« Last post by Hank in WV on February 07, 2026, 06:00:52 PM »Rob took the words right out of my mouth. 
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General Interest / Re: Maintenance ~ Trad Muzzleloaders
« Last post by No Powder on February 07, 2026, 05:39:14 PM »All very good advice Rob. The only rifle I have that will get brown on the patch, is one that had some rust in the barrel when I bought it. Worked on it with Scotch Brite and steel wool wrapped around a smaller caliber brush. I believe the brown is still some minor rust that is still in there and is loosened up by the oily patch that I run down the barrel after cleaning. I believe over a period of time it will finally disappear. Could the light gray I see on a patch be graphite? 🤔
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The Campfire / Re: The TMA is looking for Webmaster Admin assistance!
« Last post by Bigsmoke on February 07, 2026, 05:39:06 PM »DOS IS DEAD?
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Goodness, I guess there is not much hope for CPM then, is there?
Frankly, I really liked my first computer. It was a CPM machine with no hard drive, two disc drives and a built in 5" green tone screen. No modem, either. Pure simplicity in a 35 pound package. Hah hah, they called it portable, too. I ran two small businesses on it and it worked just fine. When I got rid of it many years later, I just donated it to a computer museum.
For some reason, I get accused of living in the past. Go figure.
?Goodness, I guess there is not much hope for CPM then, is there?
Frankly, I really liked my first computer. It was a CPM machine with no hard drive, two disc drives and a built in 5" green tone screen. No modem, either. Pure simplicity in a 35 pound package. Hah hah, they called it portable, too. I ran two small businesses on it and it worked just fine. When I got rid of it many years later, I just donated it to a computer museum.
For some reason, I get accused of living in the past. Go figure.