The Baxter girls swipe the new issue of Muzzle Blasts as soon as it arrives in their home. Sorry Mom and Dad!
In this month’s issue
A Moment Frozen in Time Part 2
A Noble Idea Worth Copying
Deer Horns and Rut Nuts - Making Unique and Useful Hunting Trophies
Journey to Flint Part 2
Making a Shotgun Wad Cutter
John Brown’s Hawken Rifle
Focus on Family
Rendezvous Monthly
And MORE
From the Editor
One of the new efforts at Muzzle Blasts this year is an effort to
focus on the families at Friendship. Many families are in their
3rd and 4th generations as they travel across the continent
to visit with old friends, share stories, celebrate births,
graduations, weddings and changes in home, work and life.
But the key ingredient in all of this is the story of “friendship”
in Friendship. Lonnie Vermillion was brave enough to be the
first in sharing a vignette of a storied gentleman by the name
of Jack McDonald . . . and we at MB are looking forward to
yours.
On the Cover, “Night Camp” by Dave Hasler
View more of Dave’s work here
“I have been interested in art since I was a boy taking all the drawing and painting possible in high school, and majoring in art at college. I taught art for 32 years and retired 10 years ago.
My paintings reflect the people and places of the early eastern frontier with an emphasis on historic accuracy of the period. I use many reenactors as models and much of the landscape here in western New York as the backgrounds. I have reenacted mainly French and Indian War and Revolutionary War impressions since 1976.
My Americana paintings depict a more rural and simplistic lifestyle when the country was being settled. Barns and cabins set in landscape compositions along with still-life painting reflect the beauty of early American stoneware pottery and other utilitarian pieces. ”