The solid soft lead bullet is undoubtably the best and most satisfactory expanding bullet that has ever been designed. It invariably mushrooms perfectly, and never breaks up. With the metal base that is essential for velocities of 2000 f.s. and upwards to protect the naked base, these metal-based soft lead bullets are splendid.
John Taylor - "African Rifles and Cartridges"
Forget everything you know about loading jacketed bullets. This is a whole new ball game!
Awesome powder horn!
if it does not impede on your sales, I would love to see a write up of how you make those.
Superb!
I would like to have the skill to make one with my family coat of arms.
Dibs if you make it big lol.
Life is so much better with dogs!
There are some good instruction books out now on how to do it. Scott Sibley has a good instruction book available through Amazon. When I did my first one 40 years ago, I didn't have a clue. I met Scott around 35 years ago, when he was just getting started in the horn business. His book gives a better description than I would be able to give you.
The solid soft lead bullet is undoubtably the best and most satisfactory expanding bullet that has ever been designed. It invariably mushrooms perfectly, and never breaks up. With the metal base that is essential for velocities of 2000 f.s. and upwards to protect the naked base, these metal-based soft lead bullets are splendid.
John Taylor - "African Rifles and Cartridges"
Forget everything you know about loading jacketed bullets. This is a whole new ball game!
The solid soft lead bullet is undoubtably the best and most satisfactory expanding bullet that has ever been designed. It invariably mushrooms perfectly, and never breaks up. With the metal base that is essential for velocities of 2000 f.s. and upwards to protect the naked base, these metal-based soft lead bullets are splendid.
John Taylor - "African Rifles and Cartridges"
Forget everything you know about loading jacketed bullets. This is a whole new ball game!
Beautiful Horn Waksupi!
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not
"Thomas Jefferson"
Looks beautiful Ric! How much powder do you think it will hold?
Nice horn Ric....like much of the work you do, it's top notch!
Russ...
When it comes to Muzzle Loaders, Black Powder Matters.
The solid soft lead bullet is undoubtably the best and most satisfactory expanding bullet that has ever been designed. It invariably mushrooms perfectly, and never breaks up. With the metal base that is essential for velocities of 2000 f.s. and upwards to protect the naked base, these metal-based soft lead bullets are splendid.
John Taylor - "African Rifles and Cartridges"
Forget everything you know about loading jacketed bullets. This is a whole new ball game!
Nice looking horn. thanks for the look at it!
Thank you for sharing this with us. your work is excellent.
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You're definitely a horner, Ric !
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Now I lay me down to sleep
A gun beside me is what I keep
If I awake, and you're inside
The coroner's van is your next ride
Some time in the distant past, I read an article on powder horn scrimshaw in Muzzleloader Magazine. I managed to get my hands on some dye to rub into the scratch marks and made a horn for a guy who owns a winemaking outfit in the Santa Cruz mountains of Kalifonistanzikhan. It involved transferring a pattern using tracing paper but it has been so long ago that I forgot how I did it. The horn turned out great and it hangs over his fireplace now. It was a copy of his wine label. Any ideas on a technique like that Waksupi?
I kind of surprised myself with how nice it turned out and it didn't require much artistic talent on my part. Your work shows artistic talent where my success was more like a "paint by numbers" sort of thing.
The solid soft lead bullet is undoubtably the best and most satisfactory expanding bullet that has ever been designed. It invariably mushrooms perfectly, and never breaks up. With the metal base that is essential for velocities of 2000 f.s. and upwards to protect the naked base, these metal-based soft lead bullets are splendid.
John Taylor - "African Rifles and Cartridges"
Forget everything you know about loading jacketed bullets. This is a whole new ball game!
it's beautiful
I have a buffalo horn I want to make into
a powder horn
Hit em'hard
hit em'often
keep it up b-cause your skill is going the way of the DINOSAUR! it is truly a work of art!.
Yeah, funny that I don't remember a thing about how I got that design transferred. It was in the bigger end of the horn. I'm not any sort of an artist by any stretch of imagination. It'll come to me someday I reckon. They say the first thing to go is...is...whatever it was!
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |