Hello the camp!
We have details on some great events and camps coming up in Fall of 2023.
Details are posted for the Plum Creek Brigade, Texas Associaton of Buckskinners, Texas Free Trappers, and the Ranger Springs Skinners.
Event details are here. Hope to see you at Rendezvous!
Update on the Plum Creek Rendezvous:
The Plum Creek Rendezvous will be Sept 29,30 Oct 1,2023. We will be on the Trew Ranch that is 66 miles east of Amarillo and 5 miles west of Alanreed Texas highway on I-40 in the Texas Panhandle.
As pulled from Facebook.
A flier and map is available on the Events page.
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!
From Jack “Straight Arrow” Simons:
Several people have already reached out about the Texas Free Trapper fall rendezvous. We are planning it – November 9-12 at our usual site in Shiner, Texas. As we get closer, we’ll send out a flyer.
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 . . .
Spring has sprung and it’s time to get back into the woods for some of your favorite events!
Check out the events page to see what’s happening near you.
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:
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
There’s been a change of location for the Texas Association of Buckskinners Spring Rendezvous.
The voo will now be at:
927 Backwoods Rd, Cameron, TX 76520-5047
Flier is below or you can find more details on the Events page!
Got an update from Jack on the next WSB shoot:
We are going to have a WSB shoot this next Saturday, weather permitting. Here’s hoping you and your families have a Happy Thanksgiving, Jack
White Smoke Brigade – Match 191 – November 27, 2021
Shooting begins around 10:00 AM. There will be at least 3 rifle matches. Got any smoothbores just sitting in your closet? Get those flintlocks out and hit a few targets!
For those of you that might not know, the match is $5. We have a quarters shoot for cold bore. Dues are payable for a calendar year and are only $15.00.
Dues not only go towards WSB, but for Texas Free Trappers too. $15.00 for both!
Flintlocks and percussion rifles and pistols, but no modern muzzleloaders please.
We shoot some paper targets along with metal silhouettes. Bring your own water and snacks. There are no toilet facilities on the property.
If you have any questions, please call.
Rusty Hathaway or Jack Simons
512-422-0377 210-846-6375
Directions – North of Canyon Lake
At “T” intersection of Highways 306 and 3424 turn north on 3424; cross Highway 32;
3424 becomes Mail Route Road; at about 100 yards cross a creek; then turn right
at a driveway with an old yellow Jeep full of cactus; stay right and drive through
living area turning left at the County Line sign on the building, enter and close the gate
behind you; there are horses onsite.
Approximate map coordinates: 29.943840,-98.209012
What could be better than muzzleloaders after Turkey Day!?!