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It's August. You still have time to sell Christmas presents.
No one seems to be interested, that's why Buck suggested that I have a sale.OldMtnMan said:It's August. You still have time to sell Christmas presents.
Thanks Buck, but my sale doesn't seem to be generating any interest? I have 2 more of the patch knives very similar to the one that Russell Shaffer won in the postal shoot, but it seems like a waste of time to photo them and ask Jonathan to post the photos?Buck Conner said:For 30 years we ran several major muzzle-loading shooting events in Colorado. I got stuck with handling the prizes, write the beg letters to the manufactures, go to shooting sports type businesses, anyone that would donate something. After a few years our sources started to dry up with some folks closing their doors with a lack of interest in black powder.
Then one day I was thinking about this while doing our yearly inventory for taxes and it hit me we have some old inventory that has been counted several times (dead items). The following day I had to go to town and stopped by a friend's store, looked around at the items that never seem to move. I asked Mike (the owner) if he would think about donating his dead old inventory and get a donation slip for his taxes. For taxes 1/3 back off retail is better than zero with the donation slip, it took about 30 seconds and he's handing me items that haven't sold in several years. I used the same approach at every store that had old stock we knew about and usually came away with some good shoot prizes.
This is why I told Stoney to have a sale on slow items, at least he'll get the material cost back and a little for his labor.
PeteOldMtnMan said:I'm going to have an Isaac Haines rifle built Stoney. I'll be getting a patch knife from you and maybe some other stuff.
It will be a while, but i'll do it.
BuckBuck Conner said:There you go A SALE ....
Thank you Pete.OldMtnMan said:Not at all bud. I wouldn't buy something I didn't like.
PaperPunch1PaperPunch1 said:In case anyone wonders about other subs besides the white stuff, when I first got into BP a friend of mine sold me his almost new PA Hunter and I had read a lot of "horror" stories about black powder rusting up your gun.....so naturally I wanted to avoid all that.
I began thinking on my own and came up with the idea that maybe I'd use triple se7en with 4F in the pan. It shot.
Then I tried Shockeys Gold (Amer.Pioneer) 2F and it shot. There was very little fouling with either one, but there were TWO flaws in my neophyte plan.
1) There was a crust ring just where the base of the PRB seated down in the barrel, which could have been problematic.
2) The ignition was reliably slow, that is to say both reliable AND slow. Now I was smart enough to be very picky and careful to keep the flash channel open, and my 4F away from plugging the hole, so I had no problems lighting the replica powders except slow ignition (which did cause some accuracy issues).
After shooting with my buddy one afternoon, I asked the question of him why was his firing sequence so much quicker than mine......As the good friend that he is, he smiled and answered "I shoot black powder"!!!
Now I shoot black, and I'll never go back!
I leave the other GREAT SUBS for my inline rifle. That's where they really shine!
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