From: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com (hist_text-digest) To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #150 Reply-To: hist_text Sender: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk hist_text-digest Saturday, October 3 1998 Volume 01 : Number 150 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 00:43:00 -0400 From: "Addison Miller" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Parts needed My thanks to everyone for all the info on the lock :) I got the lock ordered and will report on my successor lack there of... Traditions said it couldn't be done.... Addison Miller - ----Original Message----- From: NaugaMok@aol.com To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 12:27 AM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Parts needed >In a message dated 98-09-29 12:16:07 EDT, you write: > ><< I have a Traditions .50 cal Hawken that I want to convert to a flinter. I > can find the touchhole lines, no problem, but I need a source to a lock... >> > >Mountain State Muzzleloading Supplies >Rt. 2 Box 154-1 >Williamstown, WV 26187 > >Customer Service (304) 375-7842 > >Keep in mind the older Traditions shared the same locks as CVA, so the CVA >Hawkin lock will work. Get some extra main springs -- these locks had a >tendency to loose tension on the main spring. Otherwise, they were pretty >trouble free, but I did break a sear once in the 5 years I used CVA's & >Traditions. There's a sear engagement screw in the tumbler you may want to >take out -- it has the maddning tendency to self adjust to where the lock >won't hold cock even with the little spring that's supposed to prevent this. >If you want to retain this screw, I'd advise a bit of locktite or fingernail >polish to remedy the problem, but they do have flys & with set triggers, the >screw is unnecessary. These locks tune up well & perform well for their >price. Don't get me wrong -- they're NOT L&R's or Silers, but they do the job >& do it pretty well. > >NM > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:43:36 -0500 From: "Wefarmasmidgen" Subject: [none] wrote: >Subject: MtMan-List: Frontier > >Does anyone know if the History Ch. will be showing , Frontier: the >Legends of the old Northwest. The History Channel has a web site at http://www.historychannel.com/. You might try contacting them through there to see when (or if) they will repeat the program. Sally Bridgham at Wefarmasmidgen in Beautiful Southwestern Wisconsin wefarm@pcii.net sally@bridgham.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 17:07:56 +0000 From: Laura Rugel Glise Subject: MtMan-List: Osborne Russell I am writing a novel, historical fiction, entitled Across the Seasons. Osborne Russell and the Rendezvous of 1838 are central to the action. 1. Any passionate opinions on Russell, i.e. his character, why he never married or mentions women in his Journal, in what ways he differs from other mountain men? 2. Anyone well-versed in handwriting analysis? I would like to have the title page from Journal of a Trapper (www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/gif/ruslmanu.gif) analyzed for possible insights into Russell's personality. Appreciate it. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 From: "F.Vital" Subject: MtMan-List: Frontiers on the History Channel According to the History Channel's web site, the Frontier series will be shown again during the morning classroom time (6:am till 7am) October 5,6,7,and 8. Set your VCRs - -- Frank Vital Mechanical Engineers design weapon systems. Civil Engineers design targets. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 23:20:04 -0500 From: John Kramer Subject: Re: MtMan-List: 1830 Shooting Bag Photos I have posted Hawk Pierce's photos of his original shooting bag and a few other items of interest at: <http://www.kramers.org/hawkn est/1830bags.htm> John... Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without. john kramer@kramerize.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 07:44:32 -0700 From: Justin Hall Subject: MtMan-List: info on jp gunstocks i am interested in buying a flintlock from jp gunstock inc. i am looking for info good or bad about there guns. thanks ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 21:43:13 -0600 From: Dean Rudy Subject: MtMan-List: Web site addition The latest addition to the "Mountain Men and the Fur Trade" web site is the text of TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1809,1810, AND 1811 BY JOHN BRADBURY It may be found at: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/bradbury.html Bradbury was a naturalist who accompanied Wilson Price Hunt and his party from St. Louis up the Missouri to the Arickara Villages in 1811. Bradbury's Journal, along with Brackenridge's (also on-line), are the two important sources of that eventful year in the fur trade - where the Pacific Fur Co on their way to Astoria and the Missouri Fur Co. on their way to posts on the Upper Missouri, raced each other up river. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dean Rudy AMM#1530 Email: drudy@xmission.com Park City, Utah WWW: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:37:15 -0700 From: "Terry Landis" Subject: MtMan-List: fur on tanning. This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BDEE22.E9FE5560 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I shot my first bear this year and I cant afford to send it out to have a rug made.can anyone help me find a good source for instructions about fur on tanning? - ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BDEE22.E9FE5560 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Untitled Stationery
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- ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BDEE22.E9FE5560-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:29:15 EDT From: RR1LA@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: info on jp gunstocks Justin, I have been fondling JP products and shooting with people who own them at rendezvous for many years, and they produce a fine product. I happen to own/use a Tennessee Valley 'Southern Poor-Boy' and a CenterMark 'Grenadier' (tulle musket) and can tell you from personal experience that they also makes great guns. But I would never been disappointed had a bought a JP. humbly, GunShot ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 22:54:59 -0400 From: "Fred A. Miller" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: info on jp gunstocks Justin Hall wrote: > > i am interested in buying a flintlock from jp gunstock inc. i am looking > for info good or bad about there guns. thanks They're "OK," but you should look at Deer Creek, Jim Chambers, and Jackie Brown's work first. Fred ------------------------------ End of hist_text-digest V1 #150 ******************************* - To unsubscribe to hist_text-digest, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe hist_text-digest" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.