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Offline Seth Isaacson

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My seven year old shot his first muzzleloader today:
« on: August 20, 2022, 11:25:59 PM »
Does artillery count? We were walking through the local rendezvous, and this nice gentleman offered to let my son shoot his mountain howitzer (with a blank charge of course).

Couple photos and short clip here:
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Re: My seven year old shot his first muzzleloader today:
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2022, 04:02:57 PM »
Seth is that a copy of the type of Mountain Howitzer, that Freemont lost on his expedition to California?
I'm sure your son was thrilled. I definitely was when I lit the wick on a six pownder shooting across the Wabash.
I believe those Howitzers were made out of brass. There is one in the Albuquerque History Museum. complete with limber, and it is a brass tube.
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Offline Seth Isaacson

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Re: My seven year old shot his first muzzleloader today:
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2022, 04:56:35 PM »
It looked like it was probably based on a M1835 or M1841 mountain howitzer but with a smaller bore (2 1/2 inches I think I recall the owner saying) and iron tube, so that would loosely be similar to what Fremont had.
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Re: My seven year old shot his first muzzleloader today:
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2022, 06:37:33 PM »
Very cool!
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