Rudyards intro Yes its been discused to death just run the B

[Rudyard]

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

 

[Rudyard]

their is no reply it's above pics I can do later just finally go with what ive written above I an not good at e gajets (Ime very good at steam engines mind ) Rudyard .

 

[pabearhunter]

Welcome aboard.

 

[kiwi hunter]

Welcome from Victoria, never hunted the Nelson area but have shot most other places in both islands, did meet a spunky young lady at te totara but in 1980, say no more.

 

[Rudyard]

Welcome aboard.

Thank you Pabearhunter Perhaps your in BC? I only shot the one Bear just north of Big Bend on the Canoe River they where building the dam on the Columbia was after a job but it was all Union so I was hitching up to go to a friends in Edmonton long weekend & nobody much on that road I was'nt hunting but I had my 451 I made from a surplus Martini barrel I see a black bear I was low on Tucker so I put it together and stalked it.It hadnt winded me & as it reached a big log I leveled at maybe 4 feet and had a miss fire .. Wel its eyes went like saucers & it bolted off leaving poo in its wake . So I return to the road but later see one on a skidder road so I got to the road & on it came oblivious of me .Well this is it I had my knife & a tomahawk but let go at maybee 20 yards poor sod didn't know what hit it a Sharpes Bailey 500 grain it rolled over dead as a mackerel .& yes I had lots of meat . & rendered much fat for patch lube . But I've regretted it ever since. if I've often been very close to Bears .One I felt its breath on a bar on the lower Homathka. It was asleep in my mosquito net the fire gone down but its sniffing woke me up terrified I gave it a right mouthful of the most unkind sort (.There really wasn't time to chouse words more carefully ) It ran off I got the fire going again & went back to sleep. I wasn't far from the Logging Show at Cumsack creek Where I set on Winterizing for the camp of Camdo logging .

Not the only Bears but enough for now .Now Ide see it as murder Bears are people in my book Non in NZ so not likely .I was a hitch hiker in BC & the Yukon where I got was where I camped .'Astra Castra Numen Lumen'. viz " The Stars My camp providence my guide " Got that of a traction Engine but it fits ...
Regards Rudyard

 

[Rudyard]

Welcome from Victoria, never hunted the Nelson area but have shot most other places in both islands, did meet a spunky young lady at te totara but in 1980, say no more.

Te Totara is a hut I knew well Ime only here on this forum (Eventually after a great tussle with E gajetry !)I knew most all the old huts trips of one or two weeks being normal Some recent poster showed a photo of me hes a Fisherman of the Seyshells & a Ships Skipper friend met him & sent me a pic Youle note I carry a clockwork Rifle its a 45 circa 1660 style wheellock cheek stocked affair . I was once a govt Culler & had a Jungle carbine in 303 but in the dense bush of the Whakatani where I worked , most I shot would be as well if Ide a double shot gun with ball that was 1968 I never hunted with a nitro breach loader since, Barring pea rifles .If I did bowl donkeys on a Station in West Aus & popped a Dingo on the Victoria River in the Territory .
The Wheelock fascinated my Māori friends' not many use them they look odd bit old fashioned perhaps but once you get used to them there no more awkward than any other gun Bit more paraphernalia the stag flask, primer . & spanner trying to stop the bloody thing jangling .That sort of stuff your breach loaders don't have to deal with .I did make A flint BL on the' Turn Off' Principal it shot hard but was too slow to reload & handle in the weeds So gave up & stayed with my muzzle loaders . I've a pic of me after 10 days walking in our local bush Same gun but Ime hopeless at E gajets but my daughter is good at them .

Oh Victoria Echuca was my second home I've fired most all the Paddle Steamers in the Port
Regards Rudyard