Another good video.  Thanks for posting it.

I think on the subject of the fiberglass ramrods, the problem wasn't about the tip wearing the rifling, it was that the fiberglass being somewhat abrasive, it would wear the crown of the barrel.

Long ago and far away, when we owned October Country, we started making brass ramrods.  First we made rods with both wooden and antler handles.  Then we started getting calls for brass undergun rods so we started making those.  We even made 23/64" diameter rods for CVA and Traditions guns.  Then people started complaining about the weight of them so we found a source of hollow brass rod, both 3/8" and 23/64".  I kinda liked making the brass rods.  It made me timagine I was a machinist.

Personally, I am more of a range and trailwalk shooter than a hunter so I always use a brass range rod for my loading and cleaning.  The undergun rod is more of a decoration than a functional item.

On this day in 1843, seventeen Texans were executed at Salado, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

As the members of the defeated Mier expedition were being marched from Mier to Mexico City, they attempted a mass escape on February 11. Some 176 were recaptured, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna ordered that one in ten of the prisoners be shot. The victims were chosen by a lottery in which each man drew a bean from an earthen jar containing 176 beans, seventeen of which were black. This event has come to be known as the Black Bean Episode. The bodies were returned to Texas and are buried on Monument Hill at La Grange, Fayette County.

On this day in 1825, the Mexican legislature, meeting in Saltillo, passed the State Colonization Law of March 24, 1825.

The legislation was designed to bring about the peopling of Coahuila and Texas. It encouraged farming, ranching, and commerce. For a nominal fee, the law granted settlers as much as a square league (4,428.4 acres) of pastureland and a labor (177.1 acres) of farmland. Immigrants were temporarily free of every kind of tax. Newcomers had to take an oath promising to abide by the federal and state constitutions, to worship according to the Christian (i.e., Catholic) religion, and to display sound moral principles and good conduct. After accepting these terms and settling in Texas, immigrants earned the standing of naturalized Mexicans. Empresarios Stephen F. Austin and Green DeWitt, among others, started their colonies under this law.

I saw this this morning and sat here thinking about Longhunter's posts.  I hadn't thought about him in a while.
He must have been one hell of a guy, a real man's man.  I do have one of his knives and it is one that my heirs will have to decide what to do with 'cause I ain't gonna get rid of it.  I know he didn't personally make it, but he marketed it and that's good enough for me.
RIP my old friend, you are missed.
John

Gotcha Kees. At least, I think I do.