About 1200 worth of parts, IF you can find them. The entire trade will collapse when the remaining old guys die. We will be knapping our own flints in 5 years, and I'm not wrong.
We owe a debt to guys like Val Forgett of Navy Arms & Turner Kirkland of Dixie Gun Works who started out selling black powder arms out of his car's trunk. Yeah, I was there for the 1970s bp fad, buckskinning, rendezvous, mountain man crafts plus the whole Eastwood western inspired pistola worship that helped hatch all these cool Italian replicas we now have. It was a different world.
I hope that I am wrong but I have a real bad feeling that gunsmithing and flint locks might make a come back within the next few hundred years. If some nation sets off a few emps or nukes.
Especially now with new laws like what NY had recently passed, which classifies black powder guns as Assault Weapons (and thus bans their possession in most cases).
Thanks for doing what you do to pass it on. One can only hope that it sticks, and doesn't get snuffed out by those that think 1776 should only be remembered as an ancient musical.
You are a wealth of knowledge. You made the joke that you were saying everything that could go wrong during the filming but you know alot more about fire arms then most people. I am glad that you shared this with us. Thanks for another great video. Thw look on the guys face after you told him a tiny air pocket could banana the barrel was hilarious.
That kid holding out the powder flask was cracking me up😂 he was like "i dont care how the flint works! I want to see it go boom!" God thats hilarious! His arm was fully extended holding out that powder flask while mark was talking😂 reminds me of myself when i was young
@marknovak8255 I'm sure he was. I just thought it was sweet and funny how much he reminded me of your average eager young boy when they are around something that they're excited by and interested in. By the way, I love your work! It's always a good day when a Mark Novac video comes out!
I once owned a Spanish made flintlock with the cutest tiny little silver lock assembly, that was such a pain to get reliable shots off. I bought a monster sized lock assembly that was ugly as sin, but it never let me down when shooting at meat. The wife tells me that I am looking better with age. And so, at age 71, I wish I could have stayed an ugly 30 something one heck of a lot longer.
I'm 53 and I've been shooting since I was 12, but got into blackpowder guns about 15 years ago. My first bp gun was a Pietta Remington in stainless. Sometime later I got more cap and ball revolvers and then an Indian made Howdah gun from Middlesex Village Trading Co. It's a double barreled 20 gauge percussion. He also sells a double barreled 20 gauge flintlock pistol, but it's the same price as his 20 gauge double barreled shotgun. I got a few Italian Civil War replica rifle muskets, but my favorites are my Indian flintlocks. I also have a .75 caliber British Ship Carbine, a .65" bore steel blunderbus (both from Middlesex) and a screen used 1866/68 French Charleville from Veteran Arms. I have all my flinters fine tuned, they go off instantaneously like a modern centerfire shotgun. I use 2F in all of them, even in the pan, just like they did back in the day.
Mr. Novak, sir you are an excellent teacher and a proper gusmith as well. Going down the rabbit hole with you is both a great lesson and and great fun. Well done sir.
The logisitcs of doing this are daunting, if the quality of the video is to be maintained. I estimate it would take 6 or more months of elapsed time to do this, and we have a shop to run. You're NOT the first to ask this question. I have not taken a commission to build one, and I cannot justify the involvement on a non customer project. YET
For what it's worth, and I know it's not Mark doing it, @Duelist1954 has done several flintlock builds. He did a 31 part Bucks County flintlock build and a 30 part York County flintlock rifle build.
Good 'ole VHS. It was like magic when it first came out. Prior to that we had good 'ole super 8mm, and the only sound you heard was clickity-click-click-click from the projector. I wonder what's next. Time marches on, but these days it feels like it's marching right across the small of my back. Cool video, and thanks for the walk down memory lane!
It's hard to say this without it sounding like a backhanded compliment, but I'll take a shot. You've really gotten good at tailoring your explanations to the competence level of your audience since then. And I'm not just talking about Anvil. You were kicking science ass with high-schoolers before most of us were high-schoolers. You're the kind of teacher we need more of.
great as always Mark...would have loved to known you then... I've got bout 4 yrs. on you but i would have killed [well...maybe not that far but you get my drift] to have had the chance to study under you...but alas I did not so I've reverted to watching all of your videos at least ten or more times to try and adsorb all of the knowledge i can from them...please if at all possible don't stop... the wealth of skill and know how you show is unbeatable and worth ever min. of ones time to spend and learn and a special thanks to Bruno for all the work he puts in to film these videos...I was a Master electrician and HVAC tech before a injury took me out and I've always tinkered with gunsmithing and you videos got me back into that with more "learning" in that field thanks to you that i feel knowledgeable enough to do the work i used to go to the gunsmith for
Mark.. as i am sure you know, there is NOTHING like the first shot out of a gun which you have made yourself! Outstanding! Edit to add.. I run a stall at a Game Fair in Scotland and one of the quirks of UK firearms law is that I can let members of the public shoot a smoothbore. I have a Land Pattern Musket and we shoot about 300 ball out of it over a couple of days.. silly grins are golden!
I know, for 100% certain, that I gave seen this exact video here on youtube before, but in a better quality. I dont remember how I came across it, but I thought it was pretty cool to see an old video of Mark “Gun Enthusiast” Novak outside of Anvil.
Love it. I’ve been watching a lot of Anvil lately and it’s really relaxing. It feels like talking with an old friend, or the dad I never had, just learning stuff. Thanks for your work.
Thanks for sharing this piece of history with us Mark! I hope that in another generation there are still people who can make these guns and parts! Id give my left toe to apprentice one of these old timers.
Log cabin is an amazing shop! I’ve just reached my black powder phase…. And it’s definitely the go-to place for all things that go boom and generate smoke!
Awesome stuff brother! Mark the way you teach and convey information is quite frankly addicting. As someone easily bored by a boring teacher, you keep my focus of attention! Hope to meet you one day!
Very cool video Mark! I love blackpowder anything. My first gun was an Italian replica of the blackpowder Remington 1858 Civil War era revolver (which I still own). I recently picked up a "shed find" Dutch/Belgian Liege made early 1800's Naval flintlock pistol. It was a Bannerman's special at one time (mounted to a plaque) and is totally complete but sadly frozen up. It definitely needs to be conserved and I'm not sure if I want to tackle it or let a professional handle it (hint hint). A good thing is that not a single screw on it is buggered up! Keep up with the great vids Mark!
Thank you Mark, excellent walk down memory lane. There are a few channels on YT keeping the old BP ways alive. From making your own powder to building muskets and rifles.
Thanks for this one in particular Mark. I have been considering making a flintlock for some time. Lately, I've been looking at Jim Kibler's kits (for a first-timer like me).
I try not to look in the boxes of old VCR tapes.... Hopefully most of them have been destroyed. There is a 30s version of me teaching automotive computer controlled carburetors somewhere in the world. Nothing good ever comes from "Can you show us how to ______" But, some of us have taken the bait for most of our lives......lol
I love it, i have tried both smokeless and blackpowder and i have got to say that the latter is more fun. the experience, history and craftmanship of these old firearms made me buy a couple of antique muzzleloaders a few years ago and by this point i have a small collection of them. my favorite is the Swedish M/1815-45 .70cal musket that i fixed up to working order without taking away the patina.
Great old video, Mark! I wish we could find the time to get out to CTLR one day. Oh, if you are only 56, how did you get 10 years smarter than me when I am 10 years older than you!😂 Oh, r buxton here.
This weekend at Backwoods is the Jr US open sporting clays tournament. My son used to shoot in the youth leaga in SC. Back in the early 2010s we would have 500 kids in tournamentsvand was a great way to teach kids gun safety. He had a ball.
Great to see, Mark. x2 Black powder shotgunning is an experience. I've taken mine out to the trap field a few times and while I never score well, it still gets a lot of interest.
Our club in Ontario Canada has a black powder clay league for juniors. A few years ago one out the juniors won a gold medal and another won a silver medal in Portugal.
Love this joint. I too love cigars and old steel. After this going down to sight in a new to me 1947 Winchester 75. Installed a Weaver K10 which is almost period. Regards from Appalachia
When I was still a junior shooter at a rondy they were doing some shooting with black powder cartridge shotguns and a guy let me shoot his Miroku Brown Bess. Breaking birds with that thing made me feel like the greatest shooter that ever lived lol! Fast forward a couple decades and I've got a whole fleet of smoothbores. Ten minutes of putting a kid on a gun can change their whole trajectory.
Great video. I am going to have to get me a black powder shotgun and a Civil War rifle replica rifle as soon as I can move to a free state as I feel restrictions coming where I currently reside. They just enacted a number of bans. Once those don’t work (they never do), they will enact more and more, curse them. Please share as many of these older videos with us as you have.
If you love what you're doing, it's hardly working. Ya just gotta take care not to neglect the bottom line. Like freedom, food, shelter and clothing are not free. Thanks, Mark. I have not yet disliked a single one of your videos. Bravo zulu.
I'm 24 and i've always had a fascination with black powder to the point that i often reach for my muzzleloader more than my rifles. My buddies jokingly pick on me, but i love black powder. One day i hope i can cross paths with a nice black powder shotgun, i've never shot one. I want to try and bag my first turkey with a old black powder. Thanks for really cool video Mr Novak!
Bet you STILL HAVE Her!! I'm one older and built my 1st BP in 77 with paper rout monies and she is still shooting GREAT Looking Great Now You Did it, I want to build a nice light on the swing English Fowler maybe a stoner and capper.
That's cool. I was 11 in 1976. We went Williamsburg for vacation. I spent an entire day at the gunsmith shop. My dad came in and wanted me to come watch the fife and drums but I begged off to stay and watch the guy finish a piece of lockwork. I was so jealous when my older cousin talked his way to a long rifle I coulda spit
Cool, thanks for sharing! I definitely second the motion on giving the flintlock thing a try. I just got involved in flintlocks this year, kind of got bored with cartridge guns and leery of digging any deeper into the powder and primer magazines. My self-introduction was to bring a wallhanger back to shooting condition as a learning experience, then bought a really high quality mountain rifle kit and completed that, then built a left-handed 20-gauge fowling piece/trade rifle from a board, a free barrel, new L&R lock, and flat mild steel stock. I also learned how to make my own sporting grade black powder from scratch and more recently have been teaching myself how to knap decent flints from local chert. While I primarily shoot home-cast, tightly patched round balls with it (historical/hysterical "correct" nazis need not respond!), as a matter of practicality I also have been making paper shot cartridges and fine-tuning patterns with the one -trip-with-the ramrod-concept, I think I've got all that dialed in pretty well for this fall's dove season, looking forward to giving it a go.
Flints, BP, VCR …. Now just how cool is that !!!! I had an uncle who took me to Friendship at the tender age of 9, and made quite the impression !!! People walking around in Mountain man buckskins, Civil and Revolutionary War Uniforms was just SO cool. I remember the firing lines being completely full. Tomahawks and axe throwing. The one that left the best impression was the large caliber contest of hitting an axe blade dead center, with two smaller targets to either side. The competition had to be judged very closely as many had hit both targets. One of my shooting buddies just presented me with a .54 Hawken he & his father made, Browned furniture & Walnut stock. Always had cap & ball, But …. As we all know …. Real men shoot flints !!! 😆 Had quite a few bad experiences with them early on, so I stayed with percussion. This was back in the 70’s, haven’t made it back to Friendship in the past decade but plan on attending once again.
We were all taught that way until the21st century "tacticool' kids decided a thousand years of marksmanship tradition was not "tactically sound" in the 21st century ... I'll stick with the chicken wing, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
@@InstructorRandy They became a "thing" a thousand years ago in China, showed up in Europe in the 1100s, probably traded thru modern day Turkey and the trade routes to and from Asia. ...
@@robertsmith4681 I guess you are one of the trolls on Mark's UA-cam. Marks too much of a treasure to crap on, but more comments help the views so yeah...
I built a half stock Hawken type cap lock in .45 caliber, 12 lands of rifling flats were milled while barrel was mounted between centers. I haven't shot it in a while but I still have it 50 years later. Nothing is more fun than shooting black powder.
Thank You Mark, that was great. As much as I enjoy the restoration stuff, I think this is the best episode. As always, keep up the good work, and be safe.
About 1200 worth of parts, IF you can find them. The entire trade will collapse when the remaining old guys die. We will be knapping our own flints in 5 years, and I'm not wrong.
You are correct not just in your trade but countless other trades as well...Mark you are a young man cause i am in my 80's thanks...
Shoe🇺🇸
Yikes! Hoping young guys like myself can keep it from going off the edge.
We owe a debt to guys like Val Forgett of Navy Arms & Turner Kirkland of Dixie Gun Works who started out selling black powder arms out of his car's trunk. Yeah, I was there for the 1970s bp fad, buckskinning, rendezvous, mountain man crafts plus the whole Eastwood western inspired pistola worship that helped hatch all these cool Italian replicas we now have. It was a different world.
I hope that I am wrong but I have a real bad feeling that gunsmithing and flint locks might make a come back within the next few hundred years. If some nation sets off a few emps or nukes.
Especially now with new laws like what NY had recently passed, which classifies black powder guns as Assault Weapons (and thus bans their possession in most cases).
Mark Novak, gunsmith, veteran, and teacher.
I was a student in your mechatronics class back in the day. Watching this in class was a real treat.
Thanks for doing what you do to pass it on. One can only hope that it sticks, and doesn't get snuffed out by those that think 1776 should only be remembered as an ancient musical.
You are a wealth of knowledge. You made the joke that you were saying everything that could go wrong during the filming but you know alot more about fire arms then most people. I am glad that you shared this with us. Thanks for another great video.
Thw look on the guys face after you told him a tiny air pocket could banana the barrel was hilarious.
That kid holding out the powder flask was cracking me up😂 he was like "i dont care how the flint works! I want to see it go boom!" God thats hilarious! His arm was fully extended holding out that powder flask while mark was talking😂 reminds me of myself when i was young
He was actually a very good helper, and the extra hands were most appreciated.
@marknovak8255 I'm sure he was. I just thought it was sweet and funny how much he reminded me of your average eager young boy when they are around something that they're excited by and interested in. By the way, I love your work! It's always a good day when a Mark Novac video comes out!
"gun enthusiast". I remember when you could see that on tv and not have 50 blue haired freaks shrieking on the ground.
I once owned a Spanish made flintlock with the cutest tiny little silver lock assembly, that was such a pain to get reliable shots off. I bought a monster sized lock assembly that was ugly as sin, but it never let me down when shooting at meat. The wife tells me that I am looking better with age. And so, at age 71, I wish I could have stayed an ugly 30 something one heck of a lot longer.
I never realized that radiant heat from the pan is what actually ignites the main charge. Makes sense, just hadn't ever thought about it. Cool!
Long touch holes burn like a fuse. Short, coned holes allow the charge to ignite before the fire even gets there.
@@marknovak8255on that note, does a cone hole wear faster with use, eventually increasing the diameter of the touch hole?
I'm 53 and I've been shooting since I was 12, but got into blackpowder guns about 15 years ago. My first bp gun was a Pietta Remington in stainless. Sometime later I got more cap and ball revolvers and then an Indian made Howdah gun from Middlesex Village Trading Co. It's a double barreled 20 gauge percussion. He also sells a double barreled 20 gauge flintlock pistol, but it's the same price as his 20 gauge double barreled shotgun. I got a few Italian Civil War replica rifle muskets, but my favorites are my Indian flintlocks. I also have a .75 caliber British Ship Carbine, a .65" bore steel blunderbus (both from Middlesex) and a screen used 1866/68 French Charleville from Veteran Arms. I have all my flinters fine tuned, they go off instantaneously like a modern centerfire shotgun. I use 2F in all of them, even in the pan, just like they did back in the day.
Mr. Novak, sir you are an excellent teacher and a proper gusmith as well. Going down the rabbit hole with you is both a great lesson and and great fun. Well done sir.
Many thanks!
It'd be really cool if you did a series building a black powder rifle and explaining a lot of the nuances that come with it
The logisitcs of doing this are daunting, if the quality of the video is to be maintained. I estimate it would take 6 or more months of elapsed time to do this, and we have a shop to run. You're NOT the first to ask this question. I have not taken a commission to build one, and I cannot justify the involvement on a non customer project. YET
For what it's worth, and I know it's not Mark doing it, @Duelist1954 has done several flintlock builds. He did a 31 part Bucks County flintlock build and a 30 part York County flintlock rifle build.
Good 'ole VHS. It was like magic when it first came out. Prior to that we had good 'ole super 8mm, and the only sound you heard was clickity-click-click-click from the projector. I wonder what's next. Time marches on, but these days it feels like it's marching right across the small of my back. Cool video, and thanks for the walk down memory lane!
The older I get the smarter i WAS. Just sayin
"Smokeless powder is a passing fad." Even this early in the morning I know that is the QotD.
It's hard to say this without it sounding like a backhanded compliment, but I'll take a shot. You've really gotten good at tailoring your explanations to the competence level of your audience since then. And I'm not just talking about Anvil. You were kicking science ass with high-schoolers before most of us were high-schoolers. You're the kind of teacher we need more of.
great as always Mark...would have loved to known you then... I've got bout 4 yrs. on you but i would have killed [well...maybe not that far but you get my drift] to have had the chance to study under you...but alas I did not so I've reverted to watching all of your videos at least ten or more times to try and adsorb all of the knowledge i can from them...please if at all possible don't stop... the wealth of skill and know how you show is unbeatable and worth ever min. of ones time to spend and learn and a special thanks to Bruno for all the work he puts in to film these videos...I was a Master electrician and HVAC tech before a injury took me out and I've always tinkered with gunsmithing and you videos got me back into that with more "learning" in that field thanks to you that i feel knowledgeable enough to do the work i used to go to the gunsmith for
Thanks for sharing, Mark! Nice fowler. I just obtained my first flintlock, a long land pattern King's musket (1742 Brown Bess). I absolutely love it!
34 years old back then? Wow, and I thought I was old (22 years ago feels like yesterday almost)… great video ofc!
Mark.. as i am sure you know, there is NOTHING like the first shot out of a gun which you have made yourself!
Outstanding!
Edit to add.. I run a stall at a Game Fair in Scotland and one of the quirks of UK firearms law is that I can let members of the public shoot a smoothbore. I have a Land Pattern Musket and we shoot about 300 ball out of it over a couple of days.. silly grins are golden!
Great video, Mark. Thanks for the look back.
Where did your handy helper end up? His enthusiasm to see the shotgun run and be ready for each step to get there😂
Full on Diesel engine mechanic, and a damn good one at that.
I know, for 100% certain, that I gave seen this exact video here on youtube before, but in a better quality. I dont remember how I came across it, but I thought it was pretty cool to see an old video of Mark “Gun Enthusiast” Novak outside of Anvil.
Love it. I’ve been watching a lot of Anvil lately and it’s really relaxing. It feels like talking with an old friend, or the dad I never had, just learning stuff. Thanks for your work.
That is a beautiful flintlock, Mr. Novak. What a great vid!
Great video, thanks! Definitely enjoyed your blast from the past.
Oh how Droll!!! 🤠👍
Thanks for sharing this piece of history with us Mark! I hope that in another generation there are still people who can make these guns and parts! Id give my left toe to apprentice one of these old timers.
Log cabin is an amazing shop! I’ve just reached my black powder phase…. And it’s definitely the go-to place for all things that go boom and generate smoke!
Awesome stuff brother! Mark the way you teach and convey information is quite frankly addicting. As someone easily bored by a boring teacher, you keep my focus of attention! Hope to meet you one day!
In an alternate universe: Mark has a bad day and stars in Falling Down. 😅 ❤
How cool is to have a glimpse of the past .
Thanks for sharing this with us. I really enjoy and appreciate the wisdom and knowledge you share with us through your videos.
I live 15 minutes from the log cabin. I go there 4, 5 times a year. Wasn't expecting to hear that name in this video.
Great flashback Mark. Black powder shotgun is my favorite. So much fun!!!
Great video, definitely early 2000s style, well spoken even in your younger years!
1997
@Mark Novak I was 3 lol
Looks like that shirt made its way out of the chief's locker of the USS Key West or similar, yes? Great video and presentation.
Wonderful, thanks for the blast from the past.
Log Cabin in Lodi is still in business.
Same great sense of humor. I would've loved to have you as a teacher back in my school days.
Fun video Mark, thanks for sharing it with us.
Even younger Mark was an information encyclopedia.
Very cool video Mark! I love blackpowder anything. My first gun was an Italian replica of the blackpowder Remington 1858 Civil War era revolver (which I still own). I recently picked up a "shed find" Dutch/Belgian Liege made early 1800's Naval flintlock pistol. It was a Bannerman's special at one time (mounted to a plaque) and is totally complete but sadly frozen up. It definitely needs to be conserved and I'm not sure if I want to tackle it or let a professional handle it (hint hint). A good thing is that not a single screw on it is buggered up! Keep up with the great vids Mark!
Thank you Mark, excellent walk down memory lane. There are a few channels on YT keeping the old BP ways alive. From making your own powder to building muskets and rifles.
Excellent video, thank you. In the late 1970's, one of my friends built a rifle similar to that. Heavy machine. I fired it once.
Thanks for this one in particular Mark. I have been considering making a flintlock for some time. Lately, I've been looking at Jim Kibler's kits (for a first-timer like me).
Kiblers gear top knotch, and priced correctly. Recommend highly
Thank you Mark.
Id like to see a future video about shooting with blackpowder, maybe even starting from charcoal.
I try not to look in the boxes of old VCR tapes.... Hopefully most of them have been destroyed.
There is a 30s version of me teaching automotive computer controlled carburetors somewhere in the world.
Nothing good ever comes from "Can you show us how to ______" But, some of us have taken the bait for most of our lives......lol
Absolutely fantastic video. I love how formal you were then.
So you've always had that star quality 😄
Log Cabin Gunshop in Lodi Oh. Fantastic place and a worth stop for any history or antique firearm lover
Great video Mark! Love those ''black powder'' guns! My wife loves shooting them as well. Thanks for sharing with us! From Sophia, N.C.
I love it, i have tried both smokeless and blackpowder and i have got to say that the latter is more fun. the experience, history and craftmanship of these old firearms made me buy a couple of antique muzzleloaders a few years ago and by this point i have a small collection of them. my favorite is the Swedish M/1815-45 .70cal musket that i fixed up to working order without taking away the patina.
There are NOT evough Mark Novaks in the world.... we need more Men in the world.
Great old video, Mark! I wish we could find the time to get out to CTLR one day.
Oh, if you are only 56, how did you get 10 years smarter than me when I am 10 years older than you!😂
Oh, r buxton here.
Amazing Mark as ever, thanks for showing us the past.
It's so cool that you've been to the log cabin I love that place
This weekend at Backwoods is the Jr US open sporting clays tournament. My son used to shoot in the youth leaga in SC. Back in the early 2010s we would have 500 kids in tournamentsvand was a great way to teach kids gun safety. He had a ball.
Great to see, Mark. x2 Black powder shotgunning is an experience. I've taken mine out to the trap field a few times and while I never score well, it still gets a lot of interest.
This was fun. I own a number of black powder revolvers and I've shot a few black powder rifles, but never BP shotguns.
Our club in Ontario Canada has a black powder clay league for juniors. A few years ago one out the juniors won a gold medal and another won a silver medal in Portugal.
Outstanding sir this took me back into time thank you very much six stars
!!!! No one word about Piccatini, Red Dots , JPS,Tfctical eq, no hatred towards Russians........... Thank You very mach Miste Mark.
LOL. I was probably in SWAT school around the same time. It was also filmed with a shoulder-mounted VHS potato. LOL
Awesome blast from the past. I’ve always wanted a flintlock Fowler like that. Maybe I’ll have to build one.
Love this joint. I too love cigars and old steel. After this going down to sight in a new to me 1947 Winchester 75. Installed a Weaver K10 which is almost period. Regards from Appalachia
When I was still a junior shooter at a rondy they were doing some shooting with black powder cartridge shotguns and a guy let me shoot his Miroku Brown Bess. Breaking birds with that thing made me feel like the greatest shooter that ever lived lol! Fast forward a couple decades and I've got a whole fleet of smoothbores. Ten minutes of putting a kid on a gun can change their whole trajectory.
Great video. I am going to have to get me a black powder shotgun and a Civil War rifle replica rifle as soon as I can move to a free state as I feel restrictions coming where I currently reside. They just enacted a number of bans. Once those don’t work (they never do), they will enact more and more, curse them. Please share as many of these older videos with us as you have.
That was a great video, thanks for sharing it with us.
If you love what you're doing, it's hardly working. Ya just gotta take care not to neglect the bottom line. Like freedom, food, shelter and clothing are not free. Thanks, Mark. I have not yet disliked a single one of your videos. Bravo zulu.
Nice watch on a rainy Saturday morning . Cheers.
Thank you so much for all you do.
I'm 24 and i've always had a fascination with black powder to the point that i often reach for my muzzleloader more than my rifles. My buddies jokingly pick on me, but i love black powder. One day i hope i can cross paths with a nice black powder shotgun, i've never shot one. I want to try and bag my first turkey with a old black powder.
Thanks for really cool video Mr Novak!
Ah now i feel young again, if for just a brief moment!
Bet you STILL HAVE Her!! I'm one older and built my 1st BP in 77 with paper rout monies and she is still shooting GREAT Looking Great Now You Did it, I want to build a nice light on the swing English Fowler maybe a stoner and capper.
Well done. I enjoyed this video a great deal.
Thanks Mark, as always educating and entertaining!
At first it looked like you were still in the military or were you? Great stuff sir. Glad to see VHS still lives in other places...
Out for 4 years at this point
Still an eighth of a ton solid gold my friend
That's cool. I was 11 in 1976. We went Williamsburg for vacation. I spent an entire day at the gunsmith shop.
My dad came in and wanted me to come watch the fife and drums but I begged off to stay and watch the guy finish a piece of lockwork. I was so jealous when my older cousin talked his way to a long rifle I coulda spit
Too cool! Thank you, Mark
When i was a kid i modified my cap gun, basically turned into a percussion revolver, used crushed match heads for powder and shot airgun BBs at cans.
Cool, thanks for sharing! I definitely second the motion on giving the flintlock thing a try. I just got involved in flintlocks this year, kind of got bored with cartridge guns and leery of digging any deeper into the powder and primer magazines. My self-introduction was to bring a wallhanger back to shooting condition as a learning experience, then bought a really high quality mountain rifle kit and completed that, then built a left-handed 20-gauge fowling piece/trade rifle from a board, a free barrel, new L&R lock, and flat mild steel stock. I also learned how to make my own sporting grade black powder from scratch and more recently have been teaching myself how to knap decent flints from local chert. While I primarily shoot home-cast, tightly patched round balls with it (historical/hysterical "correct" nazis need not respond!), as a matter of practicality I also have been making paper shot cartridges and fine-tuning patterns with the one -trip-with-the ramrod-concept, I think I've got all that dialed in pretty well for this fall's dove season, looking forward to giving it a go.
Excellent video as usual!👍👍
Brings back memories, thanks man.
This is fantastic Mark. Just like all your content!!!
Fun video Mark!
Loved this freaking video.
Thank you Mark I really injoy watching this video.
MOUNT PLEASANT,S.C. I lived there from 1970-72,Mathis Ferrry road ,Navy Brat.
Brilliant! I shoot black powder here in the UK. It's great fun.
Flints, BP, VCR ….
Now just how cool is that !!!!
I had an uncle who took me to Friendship at the tender age of 9, and made quite the impression !!!
People walking around in Mountain man buckskins, Civil and Revolutionary War Uniforms was just SO cool.
I remember the firing lines being completely full.
Tomahawks and axe throwing. The one that left the best impression was the large caliber contest of hitting an axe blade dead center, with two smaller targets to either side. The competition had to be judged very closely as many had hit both targets.
One of my shooting buddies just presented me with a .54 Hawken he & his father made,
Browned furniture & Walnut stock.
Always had cap & ball,
But ….
As we all know ….
Real men shoot flints !!!
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Had quite a few bad experiences with them early on, so I stayed with percussion. This was back in the 70’s, haven’t made it back to Friendship in the past decade but plan on attending once again.
What a Friday Treat!
That chicken wing! Throwback for sure .
We were all taught that way until the21st century "tacticool' kids decided a thousand years of marksmanship tradition was not "tactically sound" in the 21st century ... I'll stick with the chicken wing, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Firearms haven't been around that long bro.
@@InstructorRandy They became a "thing" a thousand years ago in China, showed up in Europe in the 1100s, probably traded thru modern day Turkey and the trade routes to and from Asia. ...
@@robertsmith4681 I guess you are one of the trolls on Mark's UA-cam. Marks too much of a treasure to crap on, but more comments help the views so yeah...
I built a half stock Hawken type cap lock in .45 caliber, 12 lands of rifling flats were milled while barrel was mounted between centers. I haven't shot it in a while but I still have it 50 years later. Nothing is more fun than shooting black powder.
Thanks guys, enjoyed it!
Thank You Mark, that was great. As much as I enjoy the restoration stuff, I think this is the best episode.
As always, keep up the good work, and be safe.
Used my Brown Bess on birds when I wanted some excitement in my hunts, tons of fun
Imagine that you once were young 😁Cool video!!
Sherman, fire up the way-back machine!
i picked up a nepalese brunswick rifle a few years ago and hadnt had a chance to take it out, this video makes me want to find a place to shoot it