That's a great looking powder horn Shovelbuck. You do good work. I bought a semi-finished Flat Horn from someplace online..Crow something.. Anyway, I finished it and scrimshawed a gobbler on the front and back. One with India Ink and one with watercolors then sealed to keep the colors. I'll post...
Thanks Blake, I probably worked on it for about a month and a half, few hrs. a day. Even when I came to the knot I was liking the way the gun was looking and did try to take my time with it and do the best I could...fight my patience.
I enjoy working on them, but just want to get them done...
Thanks for the compliments men. Shovelbuck, I'm sure you would do good at carving, if I can do it anybody can. I'm no flintlock builder, only built 4 and this one was my 3'rd. Only reason I built those was because when I decided I wanted to hunt spring gobblers with a flintlock I thought they...
I only got one flintlock rifle left (and one smoothbore) It's my "Lightweight .58". I built it several yrs. ago for deer, hogs and elk....if I ever go elk hunting again.
It's a Berk's Co. Henry Mauger 1790's, at least that's what it started off being. When I got down into shaping the wrist I...
I started shooting doves back in the 1950's, but haven't shot them in more than 20yr's. Thinking about trying to knock off a few this yr. with my 20ga flintlock. Now that I've moved to Southern, Illinois the doves are everywhere. There's a little pond across the road from me that my friend owns...
Thanks Shovelbuck, flintlocks and recurve is all I hunt deer and gobblers with nowadays. I switch back and fourth between a scoped rim-fire and smoothbore flintlock for squirrels.
Don't know how that mangly looking gobbler mount got on my post..I did mount it many yrs ago, but didn't mean to...
Few on my blackpowder gobblers.
Started off with blackpowder turkey hunting using a T/C 12ga. sidelock, percussion
Public land Osceolas
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Then started building flintlocks to hunt with. Been using nothing...
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