Texas Heritage Days at Schreiner University – 9/15/2023

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Schreiner University is hosting a great event this year for us history enthusiasts.    Their Texas Heritage Days event looks to be a good one for sure.

Here is a list of some of the groups in attendance and what they’ll be demonstrating and discussing:

1. AT&T, The Texas Center, E Pluribus Texas

2. Texas Commission on the Arts, Vickie Hayes, Collaborative Art

3. Riverside Nature Center, Fossils

4. Daughters of the Republic of Texas, History Camp Activities

5. Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, Texas Ranger Badges an Selfie Station

6. Aurora and Mariza Betancourt, The Original Way of Making Corn Tortillas

7. Clifton Fifer, Stories and Songs

8. Lenny and Dana Medina, Indian Dancer

9. Company A 9th US Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, Buffalo Soldiers Life on the Frontier

10. Rio San Gabriel Party of the American Mountain Men, Fur Trade in Texas/Plains Indian Sign Language

11. Hill Country Archeological Association, The Archeology of the Prehistoric Texas Hill Country

12. Sons of the American Revolution – Firing demonstrations at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

13. The Alamo, Cannon and Musket – Firing demonstrations at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

14. Frontier History Company, Texas Ranger Camps – Firing demonstrations at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

15. Roy Neal, Moses the Mountain Man

16. Doug Baum, Texas Camel Corps

17. Scott S. Kelly, Chuckwagon Display

18. Russell Tiner, Longhorn Living History

19. Kevin Fitzpatrick, Trick Roper

20. Fort McKavett State Historic Site, The Frontier Army in the Antebellum Era

21. Fort Concho National Historic Landmark, Frontier Army Life at Fort Concho

22. Creative Moondance Treasures, Inc., Harmonica lessons with free harmonicas

I’ll be there with some of my AMM brothers discussing period weapons, and we’ll be doing some plains Indian sign language, displaying period gear, and more.

More details are available on their website – https://schreiner.edu/the-texas-center/texas-heritage-days/

Hope to see you there!

Ethan – Instilling a Passion for History in Future Generations

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Our friend Ethan over at I Love Muzzleloading presented at the 2023 Kalamazoo Living History Show with some concrete ideas of how to share our passion for history and muzzleloading with others.

Here’s his full presentation . .  .

I really liked how Ethan grouped together the various aspects of the muzzleloader hobby – target shooters, woodsrunners, living historians, experimental archeologists, etc into a muzzeloading community.

Ethan has some great ideas for things we can all do to make sure our common passion can be passed down to future generations.

What do you think?

What will you do . . .

The Ballistic Efficiency of 4 Popular Lead Bullets for Hawken Muzzleloaders – from I Love Muzzleloading

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Ethan – from the I Love Muzzeloading Podcast – recently published an excellent study on the Ballistic Efficiency of 4 Popular Lead Bullets for Hawken Muzzleloaders.   Since many of us buckskinners use blackpowder muzzleloaders for hunting, and almost all of us have or have had some variation of a Hawken rifle, I thought this would be excellent to share.

Here’s what Ethan had to say:

This test will be conducted at 50 yards with my Traditions St. Louis Hawken. The Traditions St. Louis Hawken has a 50 caliber 1:48 twist barrel and operates using a percussion lock and a no. 11 percussion cap. I’m using this rifle in this test because 50 caliber muzzleloaders are the most common muzzleloader on the market, and there are a wide variety of off the shelf, non custom, projectiles available for them.

 

We’ll be testing 4 projectiles in this test

 

.495 roundball, 184 grains

 

Hornady PA Conical, 250 grains

 

T/C Maxi Hunter, 275 grains

 

Hornady Great Plains Bullet, 385

 

Each of these projectiles is considered a “Traditional” projectile by many state hunting rules. They are all lead projectiles with no sabot, plastic, or jacket and their designs date back to the mid to late 19th century at the latest.

 

For powder in this test, I’m shooting each shot with 80 grains of Swiss 3F blackpowder measured by volume. Volume is the standard means to measure traditional “real” blackpowder in the field. Many shooters will use 2F blackpowder in their 50 caliber muzzleloaders, but by using this 3F Swiss brand blackpowder, we should be able to get optimum speed out of this rifle.

 

You can see all of the details in the video he posted to YouTube:

Fall 2022 Events Starting to Shape Up

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Things are shaping up for a great Fall 2022 for buckskinning and mountain man events!

I’ve been keeping an eye on many of the active buckskinner groups on Facebook and social media and will be updating their events and listings as soon as I get the details.

Updates are in progress on the Events page!

See you at Rendezvous!

– Many Rifles