In this episode we'll take you back to an Old West blacksmith shop right here on the ranch to talk about the tools available to repair firearms in a bygone era.
Recalling as a boy...70 plus years ago, crossing the road from Grandpa's to Mr. Richardson's blacksmith shop watching him hot shoeing horses. Sometimes he let me pump the bellows. Grandpa's Winchester 38-56 hangs proudly as well as other Winchesters and shotguns of times long past. Hats off to those old fellas and gals that made Oregon a great state. Thank you for jolting the old memory box.
Great video. My grandfather was a blacksmith, I remember helping him. Always coal to haul, clinkers to haul, water to haul. He always said a blacksmith can fix anything but a broken heart.
Great to see someone authentic, articulate, and clearly so genuine making content. Wish more people had the confidence to get in front of the camera. This platform and the people need this type of stuff.
@@thecinnabar8442 I just thought I'd run this by you and get your opinion on this my mother's cousins were hunting back during WW2 and had leaned a rifle against a vehicle and somehow it got ran over and bent the barrel and they sent it back to Winchester at the time and got the rifle back from the factory but surprise surprise instead of the 30-30 barrel on the 94 it came back chambered in 25-35 have you ever heard or ran across this with any of the old guns you've got or dealt with?
@@jeffreyhershey5754 That to me is a strange thing. I'm wondering why Winchester would've done that? I guess back in the day they didn't have great customer service.
The wire repair on that shotgun reminds me of a story from my Father. On a deer hunt in Colorado about 70+ years ago, my father and his ranch hand hunting guide a Ute known to him only as Indian Jim were returning to camp with Jim leading on his horse and my Dad following. A black bear suddenly ran across the trail. "Bear!" shouted Jim as he clawed for his 94 saddle ring .30-30 in the boot. At some point in the ensuing rodeo, Jim either dismounted or was dismounted by the spooked horse and left standing in the trail with a 94 buttstock in his hand and several yards of wire strung between him and his bear spooked horse. Jim's old rifle had been repaired with wire wrap because of a loose fit in the wrist. Jim's rifle was sort of a "found" gun having spent months between fall and winter with the remains of a hunter that had been lost and perished in a blizzard one fall. Jim had been party to or the one to find his remains and had kept the seriously weathered carbine found with the unfortunate fellow. His wire wrap and tack or nail job proved not up to the leverage of a horse, saddle boot, bear, and a rodeo. But it was a story my Dad loved to tell for the remainder of his life.
I have always been interested in the real history of how families in the local communities lived and worked together and actually built the community. Tough people of a bygone era . Growing up with hand dug wells and living off of the land they settled. Only going to (town) for odds and ends that they needed! My family came to Texas before it was a state . Many of the old families were rough and clannish! Hardy is an understatement! Truly appreciate the video of times gone by but not forgotten! I spent my share of feeding the cast-iron stoves for cooking and day to day life on a working ranch! Milking cows and churning butter . Even being the motor on the old treadle sewing machine for my grandmother! A different time of life in this country! Thanks again and God bless you and for keeping the history of the country 🙏!
You're very welcome, Jerry! I'm doing my best to keep history alive. I think it's doubly important in these troubled times when it seems like our history is under such unrelenting attack. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I grew up just outside Monroe, Oregon, and my parents were friends of Harold and Vernetta McCallum. Harold would have loved your videos. My dad bought my first "deer" rifle from him, an 1894 half octagon button magazine 30 WCF. I was just a 13 year old kid and nobody explained to me that 30 WCF was the same as "30-30" so I always worried a bit that I was using the wrong ammo, but it killed a bunch of blacktails and didn't blow up in my face so all was good.
Harold was quite a legend in the Winchester collecting community. My father-in-law even bought a couple of Winchesters from Harold when he was going to college at Oregon State back in the 60's. I still see Winchesters will HAM stamped in small letters and know they once belonged to Harold.
@@thecinnabar8442 Huh! I didn't know he did that, and I don't recall seeing it on my rifle. Wonder if he started doing it after his collection was stolen and then recovered.
Once again, you take the time to bring history alive in a concise and detailed presentation. Many years ago as a young machinist I had the opportunity to repair my grand dad's hand operated grinding wheel. This brought back that wonderful memory. Your videos should be shown in U. S. History classes in every school. In today's instant world, the young people need to see and appreciate how thing were over a century ago. Thank you for sharing these videos.
we always forget there was a time before the internet, on demand readily available parts, and quick gunsmithing. where people had to actually work on them. not just guns too, also every machinery they have.......that's not bubba, that is ingenuity.
Now that was a great subject matter to cover. I’m a Wichita native and we have Old Cowtown Museum here set in 1880’s when Wichita was a major Texas cattle railhead to back East (before Dodge City fame). You surely heard of Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, yep them guys. Many of the very first buildings in Wichita have been moved to the museum, I mean it the real deal. My wife was a re enactor on the grounds and I frequently had time to snoop around the old blacksmith and carpentry shop at my leisure. I loved seeing the old tools and trying figure out their use in the shop. Seems to me you are living in your own museum of the same period. Great video, come visit sometime.
That sounds like my kind of place. I'd love to come and visit someday. We've considered setting up something similar here on the ranch, kind of an "Old West" experience with lots of shooting, of course.
Anyone watching this loves the content. And to get it from someone so knowledgeable and passionate on the subject matter is a real treat. Thank you sir. Keep ‘em comin’ !
So glad I found your channel. Inspiring to see the American Ingenuity from yesteryear put to work, seemingly perfectly preserved. Maybe I'll use some of these on my own ranch someday.
Just amazing that you have all the history of the Cinnabar! I have worked and been on a few ranches, one of them dated to the 1870s, it had a forge very like that one with the hand turned blower. You could have high school classes out there to show how hard work built this country and the Cinnabar. We got up before 6am milked the cows then put up hay for 12 or so hrs then I sharpened the mower bars. Some of the best time I have had. Thank you for showing us all this. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
I'm not sure most kids from populated areas would be able to grasp what life was like. The kids in our tiny, remote school (graduating class of 4 last year) are mostly ranch kids who grow up with this same work ethic.
People today just don't appreciate or seem to care about what our great grand fathers and mothers did to create our beautiful country. They want to focus on the negative stuff it seems. I am so glad you are sharing their history. I kind of feel bad they had to work so hard. I hope they found some enjoyment in their lives. Please keep it coming?
It's refreshing to see even then as a business, their shop is a mess! For some reason was expecting it to be organized and laid out, sweet to see a legit peek into the past!
I live in a mid 1800s village called Roadvale QLD 🇦🇺 which once had a bank, 4 colonial pub/hotels, train station,small store,and the usual logistical support businesses. A fire came through in 1915 and wiped out most of the town and all but one pub is left ( rebuilt )after the blaze....I love history and I quite often wonder what went on back then and when the older people were here they didn’t give up many secrets. Guns......that’s another best kept secret ... When I was a kid back in the 1970s I was always curious as I watched a lot of American cowboy movies . Back then I would ask my grand parent what was life like when they were back ( lol in the olden days ) and they just gave me a blank stare 😶. My step father ( today ) is a blacksmith and if it’s old he’s got it... he grew up in this area and when I ask him what went on all he can say is, “ITS CHANGED” lol 😂 very helpful... Great video 👍🦘
Great to hear from a viewer "down under". Good to hear there are others interested in learning and preserving history. It seems our history is being ignored or whitewashed in these modern times. Thanks for watching our channel!
Thanks for bringing us this episode. You are very fortunate to still have the old shop and the tools used in the 1800's. I grew up on a farm that still had harnesses for a mule team and other old tools much like yours. We even had the old gasoline generators that were used to generate electricity for the house. Thank you.
I found your Winchester 53 video on accident a few nights ago and have been absolutely hooked on your channel. I hope your channel explodes and you get tons of subscribers! Your content is all really, really great stuff.
I love the stories. Thank you. I went to college in Klamath Falls and love the area. Just retired and have contemplated moving back to the area. Thank you for sharing the stories. Amazing. Have done my own gunsmithing, metal fabrication and other work. Too often without the right tools as money has always been an issue. Can appreciate the talent that I cannot replicate that these pioneers exhibited. Amazing people.
Thanks Patrick! I think there's more than a passing chance that you and my wife, Erin, are related. Her maiden name was Colahan and her family homesteaded in the Klamath Falls area. If you ever make it over to our neck of the woods, make sure to stop by the shop for a visit.
@@thecinnabar8442 Wow, that is amazing. Have found very few with that spelling. According to my grandmother, my Great great grandfather Michael O'Colahan came over from Athlone, Ireland. The story, which of course we are known for our stories, is he dropped the O in the ocean on the way over. Supposedly there is another branch, unknown if related, that came from Galway I think. If we ever make it down that way, would love to meet you and see your shop. Have a Happy New Year.
Killer video about history near and dear to my heart and like you would love to apprentice under the man that used those old tools in the day. It does make you wonder about the operating conditions when the shop was active considering the fire hazards. Sound is really good. Thanks for your work.
You're very welcome, Frank! It's up to history buffs like us to pass it on these days since our history seems to be under attack these days. Thanks for the audio equipment, made a heck of a difference.
Extremely interesting to me. I love all this, what a prize you have there. Id love to visit. I too am amazed what got accomplished by people with so few resources and also by those who did have resources. Yankee ingenuity.
I moved from Stratford" CT and I had a Gun maker friend who opened his shop from the farmhouse in Stratford. I had my old Colt M-1911 military rebuild by him using old Colt Part. I also brought Colt 1949 caliber .31 single action in good shape but the cylinder is no longer moving so I send it to the gunsmiths and was told the cost to do research and making parts will cost more than the gun worth. I send it to the gunsmith in CT which used to be the home of Gunmakers and the estimated is much less from what I have heard before. The New Heaven used to have a lots of factory for Rifle and Shotgun makers like Winchester model 70 Remington Model 11 and Win Model 94. I brought a lots of Old Revolver from zHartfordm CT and will keep them or sold some.
Good luck getting that old Colt 1849 shooting again. It sounds like you found the right smith to fix it. Not many out there who want to work on old guns any more.
Mark that was a wonderful video. I agree with you- I’d take a hard working man’s gun over a mint wall hanger any day. The person that uses it adds character to it. Greetings from Canada !
Safe queens are fun to look at, but have no history and no soul. Guns with a hidden story to tell are much more interesting to me as well. Thanks for watching, Johnny
great clip, I know well how difficult it is fixin' guns with those tools...., thanks for reminding about the efforts to get the gun fixed back in the old west....
Absolutely excellent video, Sir. Absolutely excellent! The old blacksmith shop looks like a place I would have been at home in. Thank you for sharing and passing on the knowledge of the days of old. All y'all out that away have yourselves a very Merry, Safe and Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for sharing
This has to be one of my favorites out of all of your videos. I’d love to visit one day and just take in all of the history that’s out there at the ranch. Merry Christmas to you and your family Sir.
I had many more stories to tell about the family who homesteaded the ranch, but I was afraid most people would lose interest. I'll try to work them into future episodes.
Wow That’s A Really Interesting Story and I Have a Shotgun ThatWas Repaired With Copper Wire And 2 Tacks Holding It Just Like The One You Have In The Video Mark 😮😮😀 I Want to Say This Was One Of My Favorite Episodes Mark 😊😊😀 Merry Christmas To You and The Mrs 😀🚨😀👍🏼
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you and your family Mark. Thank you for another fascinating video incorporating ranch history and firearms. I can close my eyes and almost visualize what it would be like to live there in the early days. You’re fortunate to have all that family history at your fingertips.
Thanks. The hardest part of making this was to keep it about firearms and not going overboard on old stories about the early settlers. I may have to do an episode just about the history of the ranch in the future.
Thanks my friend. I am retired Blacksmith worked many hour at a hot forge. I am now 75 but still have the urge to do Smittin every now and then. I have a friend who lets me cut loose every now an a then.
Love your channel keep up the great work! I recently started down the path of opening my own gunsmith business and old west firearms are what I want to specialize in! Smith’s Old West Services
Excellent! The Wyoming State Museum has several firearms with repairs at the broken wrists. An 1874 Sharps Sporting Rifle is wrapped with thick rawhide I like to think is buffalo hide. Others have copper wire wraps. One has sheet copper wrapped and tacked in place. The wrist was apparently the weak point if you had a horse wreck or your rifle was dropped and run over by an ironed tired wagon.
Seems the wrist is the weak link for guns that got used hard by people who were pretty creative in getting them fixed up and back to work. We visit Wyoming regularly. I'll plan to work in a stop at the museum on one of our upcoming trips. History buffs can never pass up a good museum. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@thecinnabar8442 I'm the volunteer firearms historian for the Wyoming State Museum. If you contact us - info on the website - before your visit, I can arrange a behind the scenes look at some of our more interesting firearms.
I'm a new viewer to your channel. Love your content. I know most of your viewers know the cartridges, but could you make a video (maybe on a bad weather day) doing a side by side video showing all the old BP cartridges you shoot. I only know 30/30 and 35 Rem.
Enjoyed this, thankyou, just a note on dating brazed repairs, blacksmiths used powdered brass or spelter to hearth braze long before the use of oxy acetylene. Best wishes in these odd times from the UK
@@thecinnabar8442 oh i missed that im realy tryed its like past midnight now in the netherlands 😁 have a nice day man looking forward to The next vid ps its not realy for repair but i realy like The Brass tacks that mostly native americans put into ther rifles it looks great👍
@@Edwinthemountainman8454 We had an 1852 Sharps with Indian tacks, but it was stolen from the ranch with some other guns years ago. I like the Native American guns as well.
I grew up in Vale, Oregon, and worked on ranches in Malhuer, and Harney counties in my youth. We would meet Granddad in Silver Lake for the deer hunt. I know a lot of these old ranches, and names from east of the Cascades. They were a lot tougher lot than we are today.
Great video. I really enjoyed the way you presented information. You made it very interesting and fun to watch. Hope you have a great 2022. I'm subscribing for sure.
It's got a fairly small firebox, so it would have been limited in the size of project it was used for. I doubt they would have used it for something like forging the ends for axles. Thanks for watching and commenting, Michael
It would be funny if you come across an old letter from a local rancher asking when
the new shoes he ordered for his small horse will be ready.
Saw this video by accident.
Wow what a treat to learn about this history from an actual site as opposed to a book
Thank you very much! I'm glad you liked this episode.
Recalling as a boy...70 plus years ago, crossing the road from Grandpa's to Mr. Richardson's blacksmith shop watching him hot shoeing horses. Sometimes he let me pump the bellows. Grandpa's Winchester 38-56 hangs proudly as well as other Winchesters and shotguns of times long past. Hats off to those old fellas and gals that made Oregon a great state. Thank you for jolting the old memory box.
You're very welcome! Sounds like you have some wonderful memories and some great old guns. Thanks for watching and commenting.
You sir are a great teller of stories
Thanks Miles! I really enjoy talking about history.
Great video. My grandfather was a blacksmith, I remember helping him. Always coal to haul, clinkers to haul, water to haul. He always said a blacksmith can fix anything but a broken heart.
Those must be great memories! Thanks for watching.
Great to see someone authentic, articulate, and clearly so genuine making content. Wish more people had the confidence to get in front of the camera. This platform and the people need this type of stuff.
Thanks a bunch! Much appreciated.
@@thecinnabar8442 I just thought I'd run this by you and get your opinion on this my mother's cousins were hunting back during WW2 and had leaned a rifle against a vehicle and somehow it got ran over and bent the barrel and they sent it back to Winchester at the time and got the rifle back from the factory but surprise surprise instead of the 30-30 barrel on the 94 it came back chambered in 25-35 have you ever heard or ran across this with any of the old guns you've got or dealt with?
@@jeffreyhershey5754 That to
me is a strange thing. I'm wondering why Winchester would've done that? I guess back in the day they didn't have great customer service.
The wire repair on that shotgun reminds me of a story from my Father. On a deer hunt in Colorado about 70+ years ago, my father and his ranch hand hunting guide a Ute known to him only as Indian Jim were returning to camp with Jim leading on his horse and my Dad following. A black bear suddenly ran across the trail. "Bear!" shouted Jim as he clawed for his 94 saddle ring .30-30 in the boot. At some point in the ensuing rodeo, Jim either dismounted or was dismounted by the spooked horse and left standing in the trail with a 94 buttstock in his hand and several yards of wire strung between him and his bear spooked horse. Jim's old rifle had been repaired with wire wrap because of a loose fit in the wrist. Jim's rifle was sort of a "found" gun having spent months between fall and winter with the remains of a hunter that had been lost and perished in a blizzard one fall. Jim had been party to or the one to find his remains and had kept the seriously weathered carbine found with the unfortunate fellow. His wire wrap and tack or nail job proved not up to the leverage of a horse, saddle boot, bear, and a rodeo. But it was a story my Dad loved to tell for the remainder of his life.
What a great story, John!! Thanks for sharing it. My wife and I just had a hellova good laugh while I read it to her this morning.
Everything in that barn seems priceless.
I have always been interested in the real history of how families in the local communities lived and worked together and actually built the community. Tough people of a bygone era . Growing up with hand dug wells and living off of the land they settled. Only going to (town) for odds and ends that they needed! My family came to Texas before it was a state . Many of the old families were rough and clannish! Hardy is an understatement! Truly appreciate the video of times gone by but not forgotten! I spent my share of feeding the cast-iron stoves for cooking and day to day life on a working ranch! Milking cows and churning butter . Even being the motor on the old treadle sewing machine for my grandmother! A different time of life in this country! Thanks again and God bless you and for keeping the history of the country 🙏!
You're very welcome, Jerry! I'm doing my best to keep history alive. I think it's doubly important in these troubled times when it seems like our history is under such unrelenting attack. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I grew up just outside Monroe, Oregon, and my parents were friends of Harold and Vernetta McCallum. Harold would have loved your videos. My dad bought my first "deer" rifle from him, an 1894 half octagon button magazine 30 WCF. I was just a 13 year old kid and nobody explained to me that 30 WCF was the same as "30-30" so I always worried a bit that I was using the wrong ammo, but it killed a bunch of blacktails and didn't blow up in my face so all was good.
Harold was quite a legend in the Winchester collecting community. My father-in-law even bought a couple of Winchesters from Harold when he was going to college at Oregon State back in the 60's. I still see Winchesters will HAM stamped in small letters and know they once belonged to Harold.
@@thecinnabar8442 Huh! I didn't know he did that, and I don't recall seeing it on my rifle. Wonder if he started doing it after his collection was stolen and then recovered.
Once again, you take the time to bring history alive in a concise and detailed presentation. Many years ago as a young machinist I had the opportunity to repair my grand dad's hand operated grinding wheel. This brought back that wonderful memory. Your videos should be shown in U. S. History classes in every school. In today's instant world, the young people need to see and appreciate how thing were over a century ago. Thank you for sharing these videos.
we always forget there was a time before the internet, on demand readily available parts, and quick gunsmithing. where people had to actually work on them. not just guns too, also every machinery they have.......that's not bubba, that is ingenuity.
Good point. Most people today can't comprehend the wide variety of skills it took to survive and prosper in days gone by.
On the other hand you could talk to John Moses Browning about what you really needed in a gun…
Thank you sharing a great piece of history.
You're very welcome, Henry!
A fantastic and hugely interesting subject! Thanks for this. We, as a country…HAVE FORGOTTEN OUR ROOTS!
Yes we have. Unfortunately, it seems popular today to disparage our ancestors and the incredible things they achieved. Thanks for watching.
I love that old history that's what started me collecting coins. i also love the old guns. i enjoyed the video
Thanks Wayne! Glad you liked it.
Now that was a great subject matter to cover. I’m a Wichita native and we have Old Cowtown Museum here set in 1880’s when Wichita was a major Texas cattle railhead to back East (before Dodge City fame). You surely heard of Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, yep them guys. Many of the very first buildings in Wichita have been moved to the museum, I mean it the real deal. My wife was a re enactor on the grounds and I frequently had time to snoop around the old blacksmith and carpentry shop at my leisure. I loved seeing the old tools and trying figure out their use in the shop. Seems to me you are living in your own museum of the same period. Great video, come visit sometime.
That sounds like my kind of place. I'd love to come and visit someday. We've considered setting up something similar here on the ranch, kind of an "Old West" experience with lots of shooting, of course.
Anyone watching this loves the content. And to get it from someone so knowledgeable and passionate on the subject matter is a real treat.
Thank you sir. Keep ‘em comin’ !
You're very welcome! The compliment is much appreciated.
How cool to live in a place with that much history. To see that shop in its prime working condition must have been great.
For a history buff like me, I'm living the dream. Thanks for watching!
So glad I found your channel. Inspiring to see the American Ingenuity from yesteryear put to work, seemingly perfectly preserved. Maybe I'll use some of these on my own ranch someday.
Thanks for watching, Papa! We're fortunate that the old shop has survived as a kind of time capsule.
Just found your channel. Awesome video! Thank you for taking the time to make it, and sharing part of your life with us. Look forward to seeing more!
Thanks a bunch, and welcome aboard!
Excellent work Mark, this video alone keep the history of your state alive and well
Thanks Thomas! Glad you liked it
Just amazing that you have all the history of the Cinnabar! I have worked and been on a few ranches, one of them dated to the 1870s, it had a forge very like that one with the hand turned blower. You could have high school classes out there to show how hard work built this country and the Cinnabar. We got up before 6am milked the cows then put up hay for 12 or so hrs then I sharpened the mower bars. Some of the best time I have had. Thank you for showing us all this. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
I'm not sure most kids from populated areas would be able to grasp what life was like. The kids in our tiny, remote school (graduating class of 4 last year) are mostly ranch kids who grow up with this same work ethic.
You are by far the most knowledgeable gunsmith on the net
what an amazing place to be, walking in history and still being able to experience it as it was
Thanks. It's very enjoyable for an old history buff like me!
Mark, great job, love the history and content. Keep it up and you’ll be the discovery channel of the gun world..!!
Thanks! I might have some stiff competition for that title from Ian over at Forgotten Weapons.🙂
@@thecinnabar8442 I'll take your setting any day to Ian's black cloth.
Love the history you always have to share with your views.
Thanks Rooster!
People today just don't appreciate or seem to care about what our great grand fathers and mothers did to create our beautiful country. They want to focus on the negative stuff it seems. I am so glad you are sharing their history. I kind of feel bad they had to work so hard. I hope they found some enjoyment in their lives. Please keep it coming?
I'd like to think they found some enjoyment in a satisfaction in what they built and, in a job well done.
It's refreshing to see even then as a business, their shop is a mess! For some reason was expecting it to be organized and laid out, sweet to see a legit peek into the past!
It was probably much better organized 100 years ago when it was in use. Too much clutter has found its way in there in the last century.
I live in a mid 1800s village called Roadvale QLD 🇦🇺 which once had a bank, 4 colonial pub/hotels, train station,small store,and the usual logistical support businesses. A fire came through in 1915 and wiped out most of the town and all but one pub is left ( rebuilt )after the blaze....I love history and I quite often wonder what went on back then and when the older people were here they didn’t give up many secrets. Guns......that’s another best kept secret ... When I was a kid back in the 1970s I was always curious as I watched a lot of American cowboy movies . Back then I would ask my grand parent what was life like when they were back ( lol in the olden days ) and they just gave me a blank stare 😶. My step father ( today ) is a blacksmith and if it’s old he’s got it... he grew up in this area and when I ask him what went on all he can say is, “ITS CHANGED” lol 😂 very helpful... Great video 👍🦘
Great to hear from a viewer "down under". Good to hear there are others interested in learning and preserving history. It seems our history is being ignored or whitewashed in these modern times. Thanks for watching our channel!
Thanks for bringing us this episode. You are very fortunate to still have the old shop and the tools used in the 1800's. I grew up on a farm that still had harnesses for a mule team and other old tools much like yours. We even had the old gasoline generators that were used to generate electricity for the house. Thank you.
You are very welcome!
I found your Winchester 53 video on accident a few nights ago and have been absolutely hooked on your channel. I hope your channel explodes and you get tons of subscribers! Your content is all really, really great stuff.
Thank you very much. Welcome to the channel!
I love the stories. Thank you. I went to college in Klamath Falls and love the area. Just retired and have contemplated moving back to the area. Thank you for sharing the stories. Amazing. Have done my own gunsmithing, metal fabrication and other work. Too often without the right tools as money has always been an issue. Can appreciate the talent that I cannot replicate that these pioneers exhibited. Amazing people.
Thanks Patrick! I think there's more than a passing chance that you and my wife, Erin, are related. Her maiden name was Colahan and her family homesteaded in the Klamath Falls area. If you ever make it over to our neck of the woods, make sure to stop by the shop for a visit.
@@thecinnabar8442 Wow, that is amazing. Have found very few with that spelling. According to my grandmother, my Great great grandfather Michael O'Colahan came over from Athlone, Ireland. The story, which of course we are known for our stories, is he dropped the O in the ocean on the way over. Supposedly there is another branch, unknown if related, that came from Galway I think. If we ever make it down that way, would love to meet you and see your shop. Have a Happy New Year.
Fascinating video, Mark. Thank you for blessing us with these great American stories. God bless and Merry Christmas!
Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you!
A lot of history on your ranch. Very interesting. Thank you for this video.
You're very welcome Mike!
Always been a history buff and I really liked this episode. Hope you and yours had a great Christmas season!
Thanks Joe! Happy Holidays to you and your family as well.
A really facinating presentation. It reminded me of an old programme we used to get in the UK called " Out of Town" presented by Jack Hargreaves.
Thanks Stephen! I think I've seen some of his work.
Wonderful video thanks. I always enjoy these visits with you.
You're very welcome, glad you like them!
Killer video about history near and dear to my heart and like you would love to apprentice under the man that used those old tools in the day.
It does make you wonder about the operating conditions when the shop was active considering the fire hazards. Sound is really good.
Thanks for your work.
You're very welcome, Frank! It's up to history buffs like us to pass it on these days since our history seems to be under attack these days. Thanks for the audio equipment, made a heck of a difference.
Another great video Mark. Interesting, informative, and a great snapshot of history. Well done.
Thanks a bunch Mark. Merry Christmas!
Great video. The history of your ranch is fascinating
Thanks Richard! Glad you liked it
I have a blower that looks identical to that one that I salvaged from an old blacksmith setup. Thanks for showing all this history.
Extremely interesting to me. I love all this, what a prize you have there. Id love to visit. I too am amazed what got accomplished by people with so few resources and also by those who did have resources. Yankee ingenuity.
Me too! Walking into that old shop is like stepping back in time.
I moved from Stratford" CT and I had a Gun maker friend who opened his shop from the farmhouse in Stratford. I had my old Colt M-1911 military rebuild by him using old Colt Part. I also brought Colt 1949 caliber .31 single action in good shape but the cylinder is no longer moving so I send it to the gunsmiths and was told the cost to do research and making parts will cost more than the gun worth. I send it to the gunsmith in CT which used to be the home of Gunmakers and the estimated is much less from what I have heard before. The New Heaven used to have a lots of factory for Rifle and Shotgun makers like Winchester model 70 Remington Model 11 and Win Model 94. I brought a lots of Old Revolver from zHartfordm CT and will keep them or sold some.
Good luck getting that old Colt 1849 shooting again. It sounds like you found the right smith to fix it. Not many out there who want to work on old guns any more.
Most interesting. Those people really worked hard day in day out and did not have all our amenities. Praise to them!
Absolutely! Thanks for watching, Tomas!
Real appreciate you keeping that history story alive!👍🏽😀❤️🇺🇸
Gotta love the old guns and the bucking horses I've rode lots of them myself.probably why I can't hardly move some days.
Me too! Well, except for the bucking horses. The older I get, the less I appreciate them.😉
Mark that was a wonderful video.
I agree with you- I’d take a hard working man’s gun over a mint wall hanger any day. The person that uses it adds character to it.
Greetings from Canada !
Safe queens are fun to look at, but have no history and no soul. Guns with a hidden story to tell are much more interesting to me as well. Thanks for watching, Johnny
Great episode Mark. Always love hearing about the history of the ranch. Merry Christmas to you and Erin.
Thanks Jim! Merry Christmas to you and LaDonna and all the family!
Fantastic video Mark! Love the history of the ranch, must have been quite the life back when that blacksmith shop was built.
The more I learn about the early settlers, the more amazed at what they accomplished. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Fascinating look into firearm repair of days gone by. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thanks, and Merry Christmas!
Awesome content. I really enjoy the historical aspects of old places. Thank you for sharing 🤠👍🏼
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Great video and history. Subscribed, I look forward to watching more of your videos. Wish you and yours all the best in the new year!
Thanks Phil and welcome aboard! Happy New Year to you and your family as well.
I always wondered about this. I bet a lot of these guys had to make parts. Prolly dangerous as heck 😂
great clip, I know well how difficult it is fixin' guns with those tools...., thanks for reminding about the efforts to get the gun fixed back in the old west....
Glad you liked it, Matthias!
Absolutely excellent video, Sir. Absolutely excellent!
The old blacksmith shop looks like a place I would have been at home in. Thank you for sharing and passing on the knowledge of the days of old.
All y'all out that away have yourselves a very Merry, Safe and Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Thank you for sharing
You're very welcome, Rodney!
Amen please make more content like this fantastic and many thanks for all your hard work.
Thanks Mike! Will do!
Great job Mark!
Love the real life history of the west.
Very interesting!
Thanks Kevin!
Those repair methods could be useful today, in an emergency!
Thanks for the video, and Merry Christmas!
Good point Karl. Merry Christmas!
just a stoner passin threw, thanks for the info! cool to see people saving and not destroying it and passing on the storys
My pleasure! Thanks for watching
All I can do is echo others and say this is a great video. Well done.
Thank you very much!
Great history and information. Thanks for the history lesson & Merry Christmas.
You're welcome and Merry Christmas!
awesome video!!!!!!!!!!!! Raised in arkansas. seen alot of what you showed. Very pleasant trip down memory lane. Beautiful Barn. thanks for the video.
You're very welcome! Glad you liked it.
Very cool Mark! Didn't even know that shop was there...lol Love to see it someday.
I love these old photos and history!
This has to be one of my favorites out of all of your videos. I’d love to visit one day and just take in all of the history that’s out there at the ranch. Merry Christmas to you and your family Sir.
Thanks a bunch, Benjy. Maybe we'll start a "Dude Ranch" for would be gun slinging cowboys some day😀 Merry Christmas!
@@thecinnabar8442 That Sounds Great!! 👍👍
I love the history as well. keep telling more stories
I had many more stories to tell about the family who homesteaded the ranch, but I was afraid most people would lose interest. I'll try to work them into future episodes.
Great video love the history look forward to more videos like this
Thanks Daniel! We'll try to work some more historical/ranch episode in for the future.
Wow That’s A Really Interesting Story and I Have a Shotgun ThatWas Repaired With Copper Wire And 2 Tacks Holding It Just Like The One You Have In The Video Mark 😮😮😀 I Want to Say This Was One Of My Favorite Episodes Mark 😊😊😀 Merry Christmas To You and The Mrs 😀🚨😀👍🏼
Thanks a bunch, Chris! Merry Christmas!
This was well done and interesting.
Thanks a bunch! Glad you liked it.
I have really enjoyed watching your videos. Please keep these coming!
Thank you! Will do!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you and your family Mark. Thank you for another fascinating video incorporating ranch history and firearms. I can close my eyes and almost visualize what it would be like to live there in the early days. You’re fortunate to have all that family history at your fingertips.
Thanks. The hardest part of making this was to keep it about firearms and not going overboard on old stories about the early settlers. I may have to do an episode just about the history of the ranch in the future.
@@thecinnabar8442 I’m all in on that.
Thanks my friend. I am retired Blacksmith worked many hour at a hot forge.
I am now 75 but still have the urge to do Smittin every now and then. I have a friend who lets me cut loose every now an a then.
Just found this channel.. gotta say I love it.
Thanks a bunch! Enjoy!
This looks like a great episode and i love the intro music you finally settled on. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Love your channel keep up the great work! I recently started down the path of opening my own gunsmith business and old west firearms are what I want to specialize in!
Smith’s Old West Services
Wow want an awesome place you have!!! Love the old ranch life
Thanks Chris!
I appreciate firearms with honest wear, over all others.
I agree. The closet queens are fun to look at, but the ones with honest wear got the work done.
Excellent peek into a golden age.
Glad you liked it, Tom! Thanks for watching.
Excellent! The Wyoming State Museum has several firearms with repairs at the broken wrists. An 1874 Sharps Sporting Rifle is wrapped with thick rawhide I like to think is buffalo hide. Others have copper wire wraps. One has sheet copper wrapped and tacked in place. The wrist was apparently the weak point if you had a horse wreck or your rifle was dropped and run over by an ironed tired wagon.
Seems the wrist is the weak link for guns that got used hard by people who were pretty creative in getting them fixed up and back to work. We visit Wyoming regularly. I'll plan to work in a stop at the museum on one of our upcoming trips. History buffs can never pass up a good museum. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@thecinnabar8442 I'm the volunteer firearms historian for the Wyoming State Museum. If you contact us - info on the website - before your visit, I can arrange a behind the scenes look at some of our more interesting firearms.
@@wsmvolunteers8588 Thanks a bunch! I'll surely be in touch.
To heck with the guns. I want the forge, anvil, blower, hardy tools, tongs, and all that!
That old forge is a real time capsule. Thanks for watching.
What i wouldn't give to get out of the Bay Area and live that life of gun repair and restoration....
I'm a new viewer to your channel. Love your content. I know most of your viewers know the cartridges, but could you make a video (maybe on a bad weather day) doing a side by side video showing all the old BP cartridges you shoot. I only know 30/30 and 35 Rem.
Good idea for an episode. Welcome aboard, Jeffrey!
Thank you so much for doing this video! I really enjoyed it. 😊
You're very welcome, Carol!
Outstanding Sir, Happy New Year.
Thanks Bruno! Happy New Year to your!
Central Oregon huh? Cool, grandma talked about an old family homestead down in Phoenix area.
Enjoyed this, thankyou, just a note on dating brazed repairs, blacksmiths used powdered brass or spelter to hearth braze long before the use of oxy acetylene. Best wishes in these odd times from the UK
Thanks very much for that information. I wasn't aware of it. Thanks for watching.
What a fantastic video! This is so much cool good for thought
They also used rawhide when it Dryed it Gets realy tight and holds everything Nice in place 👍 great vid
Thanks Edwin! I mentioned that in the video as well when I talked about wrist repairs. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@thecinnabar8442 oh i missed that im realy tryed its like past midnight now in the netherlands 😁 have a nice day man looking forward to The next vid ps its not realy for repair but i realy like The Brass tacks that mostly native americans put into ther rifles it looks great👍
@@Edwinthemountainman8454 We had an 1852 Sharps with Indian tacks, but it was stolen from the ranch with some other guns years ago. I like the Native American guns as well.
@@thecinnabar8442 cool man sorry to hear that there where guns stolen such a shame that people do such things
I grew up in Vale, Oregon, and worked on ranches in Malhuer, and Harney counties in my youth. We would meet Granddad in Silver Lake for the deer hunt. I know a lot of these old ranches, and names from east of the Cascades. They were a lot tougher lot than we are today.
Fantastic video as always, thank you!
You're very welcome, Mason! Glad you liked it.
Great video! When you mentioned Lost Cabin it reminded me of a place in Wyoming with the same name.
Great video. I really enjoyed the way you presented information. You made it very interesting and fun to watch. Hope you have a great 2022. I'm subscribing for sure.
Thank you very much! Thanks for subscribing, hope you enjoy our channel.
thank you for this posting I really enjoyed it .
You're very welcome! I'm glad you like it.
That would be the most awesome experience to go and see this history.
Fascinating. Awesome video
Thanks for watching!
Fascinating insight, great work keep it up 👍
Thanks! Will do.
I want a tour sometime mark .And keep the content coming coachand Merry Christmas to you and the wife
Merry Christmas Traves! You're always welcome to drop in.
That forge is very interesting I'm curious to see how well it heated up metal
It's got a fairly small firebox, so it would have been limited in the size of project it was used for. I doubt they would have used it for something like forging the ends for axles. Thanks for watching and commenting, Michael
Your channel is going to explode if you keep going. I got reccomended this on the trending page
Wow! That's great to hear. Thanks for watching and commenting.
New to the channel love the content enjoy it immensely keep up the good work and thank you
You’re very welcome! Glad you found our channel and are enjoying it.