Ready, Aim ... Fire!
Sep 29, 2015 12:56:40 #
This is a photo I shot for a sports publication in Nashville a few years ago of Lebanon, TN resident Clarence Dies.
Dies is a historian and a stickler for authenticity as is shown in this handmade, authentic 18th-century Barnett long-barreled flintlock replica which Dies made shoots hand-molded lead punkin balls, propelled by a charge of black powder measured from a dried cow horn.
The barrels of these particular guns ranged in length from 40 to 48 inches long. The big bow for the trigger guard was introduced to allow for the mittens the Indians wore.
Additional features the Indians required as a condition of purchase or trade included the dragon side plate, the sheet brass butt plate with square headed nails, the very thin brass ramrod thimbles and a front sight in the shape of a turtle.
They were full stock and smooth bore. Barrels back then did not have any choking in them as they didn't know how to do that.
Flint locks were standard until the 1860's. Cap locks were used mostly thereafter until they stopped trading them sometime in the 1870's.
Other gunmakers built these guns by the hundreds for the American fur companies of which Barnett and Ketland were two of the better known builders.
Dies makes his own buckskins from deer he kills, sews his own moccasins, he even fashioned his beaver-skin hat. In fact he made everything in this photo save for the fingertip gloves.
I thought I would test the HDR toning effect for the firs time with this photo ...
Dies is a historian and a stickler for authenticity as is shown in this handmade, authentic 18th-century Barnett long-barreled flintlock replica which Dies made shoots hand-molded lead punkin balls, propelled by a charge of black powder measured from a dried cow horn.
The barrels of these particular guns ranged in length from 40 to 48 inches long. The big bow for the trigger guard was introduced to allow for the mittens the Indians wore.
Additional features the Indians required as a condition of purchase or trade included the dragon side plate, the sheet brass butt plate with square headed nails, the very thin brass ramrod thimbles and a front sight in the shape of a turtle.
They were full stock and smooth bore. Barrels back then did not have any choking in them as they didn't know how to do that.
Flint locks were standard until the 1860's. Cap locks were used mostly thereafter until they stopped trading them sometime in the 1870's.
Other gunmakers built these guns by the hundreds for the American fur companies of which Barnett and Ketland were two of the better known builders.
Dies makes his own buckskins from deer he kills, sews his own moccasins, he even fashioned his beaver-skin hat. In fact he made everything in this photo save for the fingertip gloves.
I thought I would test the HDR toning effect for the firs time with this photo ...
Sep 29, 2015 14:17:08 #
Frank2013
Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.
donolea wrote:
This is a photo I shot for a sports publication i... (show quote)
Wonder if anyone sold eye protection as an extra.lol Nicely done Don. Enjoyed the story.
Sep 29, 2015 14:32:54 #
Frank2013 wrote:
Wonder if anyone sold eye protection as an extra.lol Nicely done Don. Enjoyed the story.
Thanks Frank.
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