Message ? Ime Rudyard From Nelson NZ but very familiar with BC where I lived & its mountains & rivers & our NZ ones .No interest in modern breachloaders or nitro or the camo stuff just Black powder muzzle loaders of most any nation or time period .Even made a Nigierian Dane gun of selected Galved water pipe (warrented not to burst more than once ! ) but it stood 'rabbit hole'proof & a bunny was all I shot with it .I just wanted an example of the sort the celebrated Jimmo Babatundi of Ikarudu lorry park fame (Ogan River school you understand ). But any ethic styles interest me.
If I have made perfectly good English flintlocks .(Ones now in the RA at Leeds Armories collection ) Recently some poster ran a photo of me outside the Te Totara Hut in the Ureaweras forests I had my wheellock rifle a 45 cal . I often used , high cyclitic rate of one every few minuets . A circa 1660s cheek stock stile I knew those forested mountains very well with varios flint & cap lock, MLs ,Only once did I take breech loader a WR Improuved Martini it number 2 Musket . heavy brute & once a 50 pound bow no optics, no camo , just bush savvy. In BC I used mostly percussion the most usefull being an old EX flint Double 16 bore ball in left small shot in right as I did'nt want big creatures just Fool Hens , Spruce Grouse ,Francolins or a Hare . Any way finally that's my Intro .
Patient Rudyard
If I have made perfectly good English flintlocks .(Ones now in the RA at Leeds Armories collection ) Recently some poster ran a photo of me outside the Te Totara Hut in the Ureaweras forests I had my wheellock rifle a 45 cal . I often used , high cyclitic rate of one every few minuets . A circa 1660s cheek stock stile I knew those forested mountains very well with varios flint & cap lock, MLs ,Only once did I take breech loader a WR Improuved Martini it number 2 Musket . heavy brute & once a 50 pound bow no optics, no camo , just bush savvy. In BC I used mostly percussion the most usefull being an old EX flint Double 16 bore ball in left small shot in right as I did'nt want big creatures just Fool Hens , Spruce Grouse ,Francolins or a Hare . Any way finally that's my Intro .
Patient Rudyard
