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WhistlingBadger:
Got a nice bullsnake skin on a juniper/elk sinew bow.  Now I have to let it dry for a month or so before I can really start working on it again.  Tom Petty was right...the waiting is the hardest part.

JW_Halverson:
I spent some time today working out my driving routes and lodging for my trip to Oklahoma for the world famous OJAM.

I am starting to get seriously excited to go, and I am sure it's gonna be a good time. In the next 11 days I am going to sort through unfinished bows and pick the three that are coming along. I'll sharpen up tools and clean/organize the tool box. I'll get started organizing the gear I am taking along as well as plan out some healthy meals and snacks, though I definitely intend to stray off the very carefully constructed diet I am on!

I'm planning on staying in Stillwater on Sunday night when the party shuts down so that I can get a good night's sleep in a clean bed and a shower (or two). Before I leave I plan to do some snooping online and find a good/fancy restaurant in Stillwater for a celebratory dinner. (Any recommendations would be appreciated)

Eric Krewson:
 Last year I was invited to an informal black powder get-together a few miles from my house, I didn't think I would like it but decided to drop by anyway for an hour or so, I ended up staying all day, all of us were of the same mindset. Turns out it is held twice a year, once in the spring and again in the fall. The guy who held it had to move so his range was no longer available.

I have a great friend who said he had a 100yard range I could use but I never went over there and had never seen it. When he heard the spring event was about to be canceled, he invited everyone to his place to shoot at his range.

Turns out his range was perfect; it was in a bowl with a chirt pit and sheltered from the wind.

8 people showed up, we did much more shooting the bull than shooting our guns, there is something about like-minded people sharing their past experiences that is always engaging and interesting. Dave's wife made us some of the best chili and cornbread I have ever eaten, so it was shoot a little, eat together, talk a lot, just a very fun day. Last fall I found out a bunch of the guys were interested in making selfbows so I ended up giving them some wood, a tillering gizmo and a lot of bow making instruction.

One attendee was a member of the North South Skirmish Association, he is only 26 but dedicated to his craft and always has either a period correct replica or an original civil war firearm to shoot. This day he brought an 1855 Springfield that had the Maynard tape system installed, he didn't shoot the taped caps and used the standard cap/nipple configuration. He let everyone shoot his rifle and loaded it with the standard paper cartridges. He was an exceptional shot off hand, I never saw him miss a gong out to 50 yards.

Not Grant but his rifle;

gifford:
Now that sounds like my kind of black powder shoot, more visiting than shooting and yet enough shooting to justify the time and effort needed to clean up the old smokepole the way it should be done.

PS great looking Springfield.

bjrogg:
Looks like a good time JW. Thanks for taking us along.

Bjrogg

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