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I know sparks are from flintstone and steel, but would a brass screen and iron spoon not reduce the risk? I remember we used a large feather to mix dangerous chemical (much more dangerous, think phosphor)

Do you ship to Canada?

One of the biggest improvements in my powder came from switching from lead milling media to brass. The difference in how much cleaner burning the powder milled with brass is astonishing. What is the percentage of quebracho bark per batch?

Just found your channel. It is pretty good! I have heard this story and thought it a farce. Apparently it is not.

Make your own mercury fulminate or if you can find red phosphorus (old flares from WW2) make some potassium chlorate. Mix pot Chlorate, 10% phosphorus, 4% aluminium powder/ A ligh spray of varnish to fix it and that's it. I bought my punch from Dixie 20y ago..

Hey Hoffman, has anyone tried hackberry for charcoal, because we have a lot of them here in South Texas.

Hi there, going to use swamp willow for charcoal and mill it for 48 hrs , have you ever used swamp willow or black willow.

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Out of curiosity, have you ever tried the liquid 22 primer material for rim fire reloading? 22 reloading sells it online too.

Also people who can make their own powder caps and ammo could sell to others

Learning to make your own Poweder caps and balls/conicals would be priceless in the event that all hell breaks loose and grid/ internet/ everything goes down. Plan ahead folks.

Nice gun 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 thanks for sharing

Do you ever fall in love with a gun you’ve prepared for a buyer and hate selling it? Would love to have your job👍

Do you guys have a musket building service? Im considering getting a 1742 land pattern parts set from the rifle shoppe in the hopefully near future.

It seems to have quite a different sound from other flintlocks. Was that just a trick of the weather/mike?

Anyone know what year the matchlock went to flintlock? Curious because 12 generation ago in my bloodline a relative fought in the King Phillips War.

Good evening from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing your adventures in history

I was wondering if you could use a gas grill with the lid closed and indirect heat as a temperature controlled way to char your wood.

Beautiful Fowler!

Great presentation! This is a work of art! David Back.

What did you use to get the aged look on the cherry for wood stain?

Not sure how we’ll do this if the grid goes down

Do you defarbing for this Ohio boy? I have a new 61 pedersoli that probably needs it.

For making charcoal doesn't have to be Greenwood.Or dried or doesn't matter

Great video, gives me the incentive to make my own. I make my N°11 caps since donkey's years with mercury fulminate or red phosphorus and potassium chlorate. I will try large musket caps with coke aluminium tins and see the result. Why not using aluminium or steel dies?

That's great information Ben. Now I can get a Ft, Meigs axe and know i can make it functional!

Great video. Subscribed. Look forward to watching more. And many of the historic belt axes and tomahawks were even smaller than that, still proved out on the frontier.

I really like your waist coat, where did you get it?

78:12:10 ... interesting!

Very nice work as always. I’m at Ft. Meigs watching your video.

I first found out about this rifle discovering it at the Cabela's in Polaris, Ohio and I remember immediately falling in love with it!

I got a blacksmith made Fort Meigs axe when I was reenacting. There were some good craftsmen who developed from muzzleloading reenacting. I wish we could make reenacting more popular again.

Looks good. I have one of these myself. I appreciate you giving the info on reworking the axe. I am curious about the cost for you to rework an ax. Thanks

Really cool and great video. I bought one of these, I think from Townsends, and couldn't get it hard at all. I may try again sometime, when I have some time. I like little hatchets, but this is really small.

Great job!

Great job on that little axe, Ben! Looks a lot better than “stock”. 🙌🏼

Good afternoon from Syracuse NY brother

Where did you get your uniform and Kepi?

Have not seen much from you I do love the antique knives you made for me

Ouch!

These "Bigfoot" and "Sasquatch" are the remnants of the Pre Ice Age Giant population that inhabitated North and South America before the Younger Dryas and long before the Siberian nomads crossed Alaska amd killed them off and stole their lands.

That is one of my go-to books for study.

They mostly used the light hatchet or hawk to cut saplings for poles for building half faced lean-to's and for cooking tripods and for breaking up squaw wood for camp-fires. To cut a pole you bend it over and strike at the bent spot. The blade will sink deep into the stressed fibers so it only takes a few strokes to cut through a sapling. There is very little need to cut big green trees. Use a full size axe for big jobs.

Christmas music? really?

Great video, could you possibly do one in the future about what you have in the bag and what type of bag it is that you are carrying, thanks!

Where in Ohio are you . I'd like to get some alder buckthorn

light and could be used on a trap line . as traps are heavy , less to drag around .

Beautiful land!!

If I was an American Soldier during the Revolution and having to walk everywhere while carrying a pack plus a rifle that probably weighed around 15 pounds , I would want everything as light as possible but still capable of doing the same thing as a larger one the larger one's . l live in Michigan and we get very humid weather in the summer plus some day's over 90 degrees and the winters can be brutal especially in Northern Michigan at both of the Fort's there , so again I would choose the smaller lighter axe for sure.

Just happened on to your channel and It's right up my alley . So much so that I liked and subscribed . Thank You.