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TMA Raffles and Drawings / Re: TMA 2025 Sept./Oct. TMA Bi-Monthly Cash Drawing
« Last post by KDubs on October 01, 2025, 07:52:11 AM »I'm up for it please.
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TMA Raffles and Drawings / Re: TMA 2025 Sept./Oct. TMA Bi-Monthly Cash Drawing
« Last post by Hank in WV on October 01, 2025, 07:01:06 AM »Well, let's try it again.
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TMA Postal Shoots / Re: OCTOBER POSTAL SHOOT and September Results
« Last post by Salty on October 01, 2025, 05:37:38 AM »Nessmuk, good one. Thank you.
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TMA Raffles and Drawings / TMA 2025 Sept./Oct. TMA Bi-Monthly Cash Drawing
« Last post by rollingb on October 01, 2025, 12:56:52 AM »Our Sept./Oct. TMA Bi-Monthly Drawing will be for a $50.00 CASH PRIZE,.... and the winning name will be drawn at midnight on October 31st.
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TMA Postal Shoots / OCTOBER POSTAL SHOOT and September Results
« Last post by Nessmuk on October 01, 2025, 12:04:55 AM »OCTOBER POSTAL SHOOT and September Results
Well, It's October and our last match of 2025!! It seems that America has been "Zombie Crazy" for a couple of decades so it's time we fought back. This month we'll be shooting a Zombie target and as usual, we'll be shooting the standard target.
Shooters post your targets on this Thread and Good Luck!
Reminder on scoring the Zombie
Head 10 pts.
Torso 5 pts
Legs 2 pts
Arms 1pt.
http://tradmla.org/postal21/tma821.pdf
September Result
Name Reg Target Fun Shoot
Nessmuk 50 25
No Powder 49 2x 50
Salty 49 2x
2nd rate marksman 48 1x 50
WinterHawk 47 1x
KDubs 37 1x 20
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Accoutrements / Re: Horn rehab project
« Last post by Hank in WV on September 30, 2025, 06:07:09 PM »Unless I'm seeing it wrong, I might cut it to just a little over half. I think it might carry well and make a nice trail walk horn.
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Accoutrements / Horn rehab project
« Last post by LongWalker on September 30, 2025, 05:46:26 PM »Well, I did say Kdubs thread here https://tradmla.org/tmaf/index.php?topic=27770.0 gave me an idea or two. . . . 
This one has been posted on the Trade Blanket for a couple years, if it was going to sell it wouldn't be sitting on my shelf. So. . . .
When I first posted it, I wrote:
I bought this one just to see how it was made; once I got that out of my system it is just taking up room on the shelf. The horn measures about 18" around the curve. Lathe-turned and carved plug; the tip is actually 2-pieces (an unthreaded collar, and the actual screw-tip). . . . . Now here's the glitch. The horn is what we'd usually think of as left-hand carry. It has the usual staple up by the spout, and another near the plug (and I have no idea what the maker/re-modeler was thinking when he put that there). With the carrying strap going around the tip, under the staple on the outside, and the other end fastened to the finial on the plug, it carries OK on the right. If you attach the strap to the rear staple, it carries "funny"--not at all comfortable for me. There are also two holes where a previous staple was installed at the tip, now plugged with glued-in wooden pins.
And there it sits:
This is not a horn I would have made into a powder horn. I'm not a fan of the twist, or the way it is so aggressively a left-side carry. I've seriously considered about 4"-5" off the butt, making a new plug and band for the back, and maybe scratching it up. The color doesn't lend itself well to the type of scrimshaw I prefer to do, or it would already be done.
If I'm not going to cut it down, the first thing I need to do is get rid of the staple in the side of the horn. I cun play with locations and (hopefully) find one where I can put a staple in the side of the ring at the big end, resulting in a horn that can be carried on the right.
I may use the screw tip and band to do an experiment in coloration that I've been toying with for a couple months. We'll see on that.
Other thoughts/suggestions?
This one has been posted on the Trade Blanket for a couple years, if it was going to sell it wouldn't be sitting on my shelf. So. . . .
When I first posted it, I wrote:
I bought this one just to see how it was made; once I got that out of my system it is just taking up room on the shelf. The horn measures about 18" around the curve. Lathe-turned and carved plug; the tip is actually 2-pieces (an unthreaded collar, and the actual screw-tip). . . . . Now here's the glitch. The horn is what we'd usually think of as left-hand carry. It has the usual staple up by the spout, and another near the plug (and I have no idea what the maker/re-modeler was thinking when he put that there). With the carrying strap going around the tip, under the staple on the outside, and the other end fastened to the finial on the plug, it carries OK on the right. If you attach the strap to the rear staple, it carries "funny"--not at all comfortable for me. There are also two holes where a previous staple was installed at the tip, now plugged with glued-in wooden pins.
And there it sits:
This is not a horn I would have made into a powder horn. I'm not a fan of the twist, or the way it is so aggressively a left-side carry. I've seriously considered about 4"-5" off the butt, making a new plug and band for the back, and maybe scratching it up. The color doesn't lend itself well to the type of scrimshaw I prefer to do, or it would already be done.
If I'm not going to cut it down, the first thing I need to do is get rid of the staple in the side of the horn. I cun play with locations and (hopefully) find one where I can put a staple in the side of the ring at the big end, resulting in a horn that can be carried on the right.
I may use the screw tip and band to do an experiment in coloration that I've been toying with for a couple months. We'll see on that.
Other thoughts/suggestions?
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The Campfire / Re: Box o' horns
« Last post by LongWalker on September 30, 2025, 05:12:24 PM »I still have camp chair I'm making that I started in July. . . of what year?
I have a partially-completed table (based on a photo of a campaign table from the Crimean War) that I've been working on since, um, '97 I think. I keep thinking I have it figured out, but it doesn't work. . . so I pitch it on the lumber rack for recycling, stumble across it a few months or years later, and try again. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Your pic does inspire a thought or two: we could each post a pic of our raw horn stash. Might get some interesting trades in the works, or share some ideas. I'll try to grab a pic next trip out to the shop.
I've got three on my bench now that are giving me headaches, so I work on one til I hit a wall, set it down, go on to the next. Eventually I'll get one done: then I'll have 2 to fuss with. When they are done, I can pull another out of the box and start afresh.
(I'm going to use the other idea to kick off a new thread)
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The Campfire / Re: Box o' horns
« Last post by KDubs on September 30, 2025, 04:13:01 PM »Maybe I'll send ya a complete one for critique..
The hardest part I think will be taking my time and working with purpose.
The older I'm getting the worse my ADD seems to get.
I'll have 3 or 4 projects going at one time and never seem to finish any of them before I find something else shiny that grabs my attention.
I still have camp chair I'm making that I started in July
The gun season kicks off on Oct 10th so that'll hold my attention for a bit .
Kevin
The hardest part I think will be taking my time and working with purpose.
The older I'm getting the worse my ADD seems to get.
I'll have 3 or 4 projects going at one time and never seem to finish any of them before I find something else shiny that grabs my attention.
I still have camp chair I'm making that I started in July
The gun season kicks off on Oct 10th so that'll hold my attention for a bit .
Kevin
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The Campfire / Re: Box o' horns
« Last post by Bigsmoke on September 30, 2025, 02:57:52 PM »That ain't no box of horns.
It's a box of imagination, a box of excitement and a box of fulfillment.
It can also be a box of frustration.
It is what you make of it.
PM me Kevin if you want to chat about them beauties.
John
PS, if you want to skip over the decision making process, just send them to me.
It's a box of imagination, a box of excitement and a box of fulfillment.
It can also be a box of frustration.
It is what you make of it.
PM me Kevin if you want to chat about them beauties.
John
PS, if you want to skip over the decision making process, just send them to me.