Fort Roberdeau Market Fair & Rifle Frolic 2016
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- The fourth annual Fort Roberdeau Market Fair and Rifle Frolic in 2016 was held on the anniversary of the 40th year after the reconstruction of Fort Roberdeau. The Rifle Frolic is the main draw for this event, with three days of muzzleloading shooting matches held in the mountains just north of Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Wow congratulation's on the rifle and thank you for the tour of the fort and the market shops.
congratulations on winning that beautiful rifle!!!!
We have here in Kentucky some big events..the recreation of the battles at Boonsboro, Harrodsburg, and Blue Licks...also, if ya'all get the chance, the Feast of the Hunters Moon in West Lafayette is most excellent as well..
Belated congratulations on winning the raffle rifle. That's a beautiful piece of work. Good luck with getting used to it and I hope it serves you well. 🙂
Outstanding. Congrats on winning that beauty! Hope the shoulder heals up quicker....
Yes, sir! I enjoy your informative videos and the range of subjects from flintlocks to percussion, to modern arms and how to handle them. You and I have about the same interests and probably similar experience over the last decades (?). We enjoy the shoots if the weather holds. Much wetter her, even in the summer. Rendezvous and shoot camps are made of mostly tepees instead of tents, otherwise we do the same things, trail walks, tomahawk and axe throws, specialty targets, fire-making! (brrr)...Thanks a lot for the realistic and accurate info.
hi I am Brazilian and I like a lot of your videos..
Congratulations on winning the rifle Mike! Thanks for filming all this for us!Great video
Mike I've been looking to buy a flintlock rifle from an event like this but I live quite a ways away. Which event do you recommend is the best for a guy who is rifle shopping?
Congratulations on the rifle! That is a nice looking piece. One of these years I am going to make it up there, if just for a visit.
Bonjour Mr Beliveau, i love watching all your vidéo and glade that your are in good health. Best regards !
Looks like an awesome event. And congratulations on winning the raffle rifle. It is beautiful!
Congrats on your win Mike, what a thrill!
The rifle you won is beautiful!
Looks like a great time, thanks for sharing it with us!
Worth the trip, is Fort Ligonier.along rt. 30 about 70 miles Southwest of Roberdeau. Absolutely stunning.
Joe Eckley I agree. Fort Ligonier is one of the best timber forts
@@duelist1954 After I has written that, I came across your video of your tour of it.... I spoke too soon.
Good job!
Congrats on the rifle . I need to try to make it up next year.
Thanks for posting!
Congratulations Mike..............
I would love to see more about that rifling rig.
Really enjoy the videos, all of them. I don't know how you didn't spend 10 minutes just gloating about winning the rifle. Awesome piece. I am unable to get to events such as this anymore, please do more video of the events, take your time, you do a good job Mike.
I was looking for a first traditional muzzleloader. I am a poor college student and was wondering between a Lyman Great Plains Rifle, and an Armi Sport (Chiapa) Enfield replica. Which would be better for a beginner? I know the Enfield is more meant for Minnie balls but how would it handle patched round balls?
Nathan Mueller not so well.Unless you are into Civil War reenacting, I would go with the Great Plains in .54
duelist1954 Thank you sir.
Beautiful rifle. Congratulations!
Now THAT'S a beautiful rifle. Congrat's on winning it. I would expect you still have it. Correct?
Lovely. ....the cream of America right there. ....would love to visit.
Sweet William didn't look very sweet there. ....lol ;-)
Congrats on the raffle win! ....beautiful piece.
He looks a little rough, but he is a very nice guy...builds a good rifle too...
Thanks
Fantastic Mike. I watched just about all you videos for years, sometimes more then once or twice...three times.:o) Love the build videos.
I have a North West Trades gun, 62 caliber flintlock. great fun. Now I am looking to build a Great Planes Rifle, 1:60 twist . Can you recommend where to get a kit? Keep up the fun videos.
Check Mid-South Shooters. They used to have them at very good prices.
Great video and congratulations on winning that beautiful rifle
Lucky dog winning that rifle
Is there a trick to get a flint lock to spark reliably? Could you do a video on how to set one up? I bought my first muzzle loader a Brown Bess and I can get the thing to reliably spark.
who made your Bess?
Question, are kids allowed to come? I'm 13 and wandering if I would be allowed to come and shoot. I am good with guns and am looking into getting my first black pounder rifle. I am good with my 12 gauge and 22lr. Any suggestions on the gun I should get with a very small budget?
I don't know if they allow junior shooters on the line. You should ask them
beautiful rifle i bet you were stoked to win .
Very good...Beautiful rifle. Greetings from Brazil...
That's a beautiful rifle have to travel to Pennsylvania to start shooting
I recently watched this video, probably again, because I enjoy your flintlock shooting videos and learn so much. I don't recall seeing any video done separately with the gun you won. Would you consider doing a video maybe at the range and at Duellist den? Also, I have a few questions about gun storage, could we possibly communicate thru email somehow?
I gave that rifle to my son Rob for deer hunting. You can email me at mike.beliveau@hotmail.com
Even with the rain it looks like a lot of fun.
Looks like you got a great set up. The tent looks great. Is the Market as big as the one in Friendship, IN ?
Congrats on the rifle win !
Vengenace Early No...not even close.
Well I hope to see you in Friendship some day. : - ) .
Must have felt awesome to win that rifle !
Congratulations.
Thanks. It was quite a surprise
That new rifle of yours is mighty handsome. If you don't have room for it, I'll keep it safe for you here. ;-) Are you just on a break from your rifle build because of your shoulder? I'm anxious to see you finish it.
Do you know if fort voss (spelling?) had a website?
vaux or vaus...I'll try to find out
fortvauseoutfitters.com/
Dear Mike: I know you have lots of experience with Blackpowder. I have noticed that Grafs import from Germany a blackpowder that they market for $14.95, almost $10 per pound less than the Swiss which I really like. I never could warm up to Gerhardt Owens (GOEX), it is dusty and I think inconsistent. My favorite was Curtiss and Harvey, it seems that it and Swiss are about equal in quality, Curtiss and Harvey has been extinct now for many, many years. If I can get enough information, favorable information about the Grafs product, I'll stock up with it, but I really want a better powder than GOEX. Can you help me out and give me some guidance on this matter? My last big buy(truly a very large buy) is almost gone, (it was a very large one made more years ago than I care to remember) all those cans read Du Pont which is almost the same as GOEX, I've got a few odd cans of GOEX, Swiss, and Elephant left, bought as samples in order to evaluate them, Swiss is really nice, but it is really expensive. If you can, please advise me on my next purchase of powder, I'll be buying FFFg, FFg, and Fg, I still have a lifetime supply of FFFFg left. Help me if you can please.
Donald Denison I like the Graff's powder. It is made by Wano in Germany...also imported by Petro-Explo as Schutzen. It is not quite as powerful as Swiss, but much better than Goex.
Dear Mike: Much of my shooting will be using the Big Lube 250 gr bullet using an over powder wad of .060 thickness and .455 diameter I'll be compressing the powder with one of Buffalo Arms powder compression sets. I have been able to load 40grains of Swiss FFg this way without the wad, but with mediocre accuracy. I usually shoot at about 50 yards and with the Unique load of 9 grains with a rudimentary rest I usually get 3-3 1/2" groups, the 40 grain load without the wad is much worse than the Unique 9 grains load that I have shot since 1954. I'm thinking perhaps about 38 grains compressed with the wad using Dick Dastardly's Pearl Lube II will give me full power and soft fouling with accuracy in my Cimarron Uberti revolvers. I was amazed to find the throats were a uniform fat .452 diameter, my old Colts are up to 456 diameter. I'll be using 16-1 alloy. Black powder is usually in stock at Grafs, Unique which I really like with a 9 grain load is never in stock. Does Grafs powder have that nice finish like Swiss and Curtiss and Harvey? Thanks for your help, I'll try not to be a pest. Been watching your Bucks County build, fascinating, I just built a Lehman Trade Rifle in .54 and with a flint lock using a Green River Barrel I had on hand, a very accurate rifle, and a relatively easy build. May God Bless you and yours Don D Bear104172 AKA Don Denison
Great vid. Thanks.
sir, you speak about how black powder substitutes are "not liked" in flintlock rifles. BUT, can they be made to work, for those of us that have a difficult, if not an impossible, time acquiring satisfactory volume of real black powder? Could you do a video or series on how to make subs, like Pyrodex, work in flintlocks of such bores as .40, .45, .50? Thank you much!
hui Heavies it is pretty hit or miss. They don't work as priming powders in flintlocks. They best bet is to duplex them with a 10 or 15 grain charge of real B-P down the bore first, to catch the flame from the pan, topped with Triple 7
duelist1954 , thank you very much. does accuracy suffer much doing it this way?
Great video!
looks like a great experience,maybe a covered shooting range to combat the elements imagine all the techniques pioneers employed keeping the powder dry.Percussion caps were a huge advancement
Man, I would so love to go to something like that. We have mountain man rendezvous here in Idaho. I went to a couple when I was younger. Probably the same idea basically except it's based on the mountain men out west like liver eating Johnson and others. He actually ran around some of the areas here that I camp, hunt, fish, ride quads etc. I've never participated in a rendezvous, I went as a spectator. At that time I didn't own a black powder rifle, just a junk brass '51 Navy that never really worked right and it finally went totally tits up lol. I did buy a nice horn flask that I still use. It's full of Goex ffg now lol.
Awesome prize well done.
I remember going to Ft. Roberdeau when I was in elementary, it was a fun time!
Is this open to the public?
frank123612 Yes
During the fair and shooting range?
frank123612 yup
Ah ok didnt know that, I need to check it out sometime. Thank you!
Oh yes, very nice rifle! Go light on the loads until that shoulder is 100%. I am glad not to be in that rain though.
Cool stuff.
This
event will be changing this year, The fifth annual will be this year.
It will be run by the Fort itself, unlike prior events. We are looking
for input and opinions on how to improve this event for the future. Feel
free to contact me here, or the fort itself with ideas opinions and
hopes.
Cat, my email is mike.beliveau@hotmail.com please send me an email, I'd like to talk to you about the event. Thanks, Mike
Another great video Mike. Didn't get up there this year. Fine rifle prize! Sounds like the weather didn't really spoil anything.
Fort Vause does have a website. fortvauseoutfitters.com
The bloke who says, "I know you," at about 7.16 sounds like he's about to pull a tomahawk on you!!
He's a good friend of mine...so he might be...LOL
You should go to fort ligonier in ligonier Pennsylvania
Evan Jayson I love Ligonier...I have a video on the channel on it.
very good
well Mike I never win anything, just spend my tokens to help out. I am so glad you won that is a bueatiful rifle, presume twist is for balls. Good shooting from another shldr repair buddy.
Cool
nice