leather patch for balls

[Sir Michael]

Just remembered that in the Practical Instructions for US Military Officers 1811 there was also a reference to the use of leather patches.  The following are the two pages from that book that discuss loading in general and mention the use of leather.

[attachment=1:3knrr1d1][/attachment]Practical_instructions_for_US military_officers 1811 35.pdf[/attachment:3knrr1d1]
[attachment=0:3knrr1d1][/attachment]Practical_instructions_for_US military_officers 1811 36.pdf[/attachment:3knrr1d1]

[Two Steps]

Thanks Michael...

[Buzzard]

If I'm out on the frontier and run out of patching, or char cloth for that matter, i'm certainly not goin to cut up my only shirt for them. But i can make patching out of critter hides purty simple. Gotta be better than leaves! Ya gotta keep all of this in context. Deer, bears and british trespassers are good size targets.

[huntinguy]

Just remembered that in the Practical Instructions for US Military Officers 1811 there was also a reference to the use of leather patches.  The following are the two pages from that book that discuss loading in general and mention the use of leather.

[attachment=1:1i0lvso5][/attachment]Practical_instructions_for_US military_officers 1811 35.pdf[/attachment:1i0lvso5]
[attachment=0:1i0lvso5][/attachment]Practical_instructions_for_US military_officers 1811 36.pdf[/attachment:1i0lvso5]

Where did you find those links. Pretty good stuff.

(I have been listening to Baron Von Stuben's book for the order of troops. I like old stuff... not that it was old when I was young... but they tell me it is old now )

[Hanshi]

One perspective:

The Buffalo Trace: did they dye easter eggs with walnuts or indigo? do you care?

Mario

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I think the Indians (prior to the coming of the Europeans) colored Easter Eggs with the same paint they used for war paint.  Later, after exposure to the European's Easter Eggs, the practice of coloring them with acrylic paint became the norm.  After about 1700, the use of color from berries, nuts and such did begin to catch on.  

I can suggest a book on the subject, "The Easter Bunny and Easter Egg Worship in Paleo Indian Culture and the Early Colonial Period", by Prof. Noble Zand Barnes of the University of Ga. at Bogart.  Interesting reading.

[Sir Michael]

Huntinguy, the pages I posted are from a book I downloaded from Google books.  Because they tended to get rather long winded with titling books in the day, here is the cover.

[attachment=0:wg8bzglg][/attachment]Page 4 from Practical instructions.pdf[/attachment:wg8bzglg]

[mario]

It would seem logical that leather would be easier to get than cloth, say for long hunters, trappers and Indians - yet? So many accounts of those groups wearing cloth articles rather than leather and then char-cloth and patching, but....

Logical, maybe. Factual, not really. The trade was HUGE. Especially that of cloth (cloth took up the largest %). People living in the most remote sections of eastern NA still had fairly good access to trade goods. The myth of the 18th century trans-Appalachian pioneer making everything themselves is just that, a myth.

Not to mention, where rifles were common (PA on south) deerskins were money. 1 untanned deerskin could buy more cloth for patching than the skin itself would provide.

 Kinda like going to the fabric store and buying $5 worth of linen/cotton vs. cutting up a $5 bill for patching.

In an emergency is one thing, but as a regular thing, not so much.

Mario
PS- In the 18th century, "trappers" and "Indians" were the same people. Not many white folks doing it.

[greggholmes]

One perspective:

The Buffalo Trace: did they dye easter eggs with walnuts or indigo? do you care?

Mario

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I think the Indians (prior to the coming of the Europeans) colored Easter Eggs with the same paint they used for war paint.  Later, after exposure to the European's Easter Eggs, the practice of coloring them with acrylic paint became the norm.  After about 1700, the use of color from berries, nuts and such did begin to catch on.  

I can suggest a book on the subject, "The Easter Bunny and Easter Egg Worship in Paleo Indian Culture and the Early Colonial Period", by Prof. Noble Zand Barnes of the University of Ga. at Bogart.  Interesting reading.

"prior to the coming of the Europeans" there was no "easter" in the new world. It is a christian idea.

also dye is not needed
Easter Egger Chickens

[Sir Michael]

And this relates to leather patching how?

[mario]

And this relates to leather patching how?

Joking about the tongue-in-cheek title of the blog post I posted above.

Mario

[Sir Michael]

Understood. Mario.  I just want to keep this discussion on topic.