Are we already loosing intrest????

[Chuck Burrows]

By 1979 I had been shooting muzzleloaders and studying the RMFT since 1961 - my folks gave me a copy of DeVoto's Across the Wide Missouri for my birthday in January and when I saw that pic of Ole Bill Burrows (who looked like my Dad) my path was set for life. Then my Great Uncle, who used only muzzleloaders for hunting even after he returned from the War to End All Wars, introduced me to the wonderful world of BP that same fall. I started doing "re-enacting/living history" in 1968 and got real hardcore for the next 8-9 years or so..........

In 1979 I was working as tree faller and worked that year in SE Alaska for a while and then the Olympic Peninsula before wintering back in the Skagit Valley which was more or less home base. By then I wasn't doing much living history due to my work schedule along with dealing with my 3 year old son and a badly broken first marriage. I did trap/hunt beaver, rats, coyotes, and other critters during the off season on both the wet side and the dry side of the North Cascades using mostly "period" methods and gear.

As for the board being slow - well so far the folks that have joined up look to be a good and civil bunch and that's the way I'd like this place to be - besides I've always preferred quality over quantity.......
Being opinionated is one thing but being contentious and a butt head won't shine on this board as long as I run it anyway...

I've got a bunch more things to post in the PDF library but between a bout with some bloody bug last week and catching up with orders ( I've already out in 60 hours since last Monday)hasn't left me much time to "play".........and yes I will take some cheese with my whine ;D

[Half-cock]

Aug 12, 2010 20:04:20 GMT -7 Librarian said:

WHERE WERE YOU LADS in 1979 when I could have used ya?

In 1979 was fightin' wildfire, drinkin' beer and chasin' long haired hippie girls all over the Western U.S. Not necessarily in that order...



As far as the board is concerned, I much prefer quality over quantity of posts. I think things are going fine here so far and I am really glad I joined up.

[Lloyd]

1979.... Hum mm

Seems I was in Bad Kissingen, Germany, with the 2nd Squadron of the 11th Armored Calvary Regiment, repairing their howitzers, tank turrets, 4 duce mortars, and small arms so they could keep the western world free by guarding the Fulda Gap from those rascally Russians.....

1980 and half of 1981 also.....

Somebody had to do it.... I was an Armament Maintenance Foreman....

[Longarm]

In 1979 I was struggling through the first year in a business. I had never even thought of black powder shooting. The only reading I had done of the western experience to that point was Ray Allen Billingtons book "The Far Western Frontier". The part he devoted to the mountain men stuck in my head and it wasn't until the late eighties when I had more free time and a little money that I got my first muzzleloader, it has been an exercise in excessive behavior ever since.