The DIY repairs featured in this video to keep damaged firearms viable, Evan, and your allusion to the "throw-away" mindset that currently dominates, reminded me of an expression that was not uncommon during my childhood but has virtually disappeared since then. "USE IT UP, WEAR IT OUT, MAKE IT DO, OR DO WITHOUT."

Back in the day I suppose they did what they had to do! Good commentary Evan. I'm guessing they will blame President #45's family for the Buffalo almost wiping them out!😊

Enjoyed your video very much. I have a 1950 Emerson 12 gauge double barrel shotgun with a bolt through the grip to hold it together. Hunted a lot of rabbits and ducks with it and it still together.

Thank you very much for this video. Listening to your intonation and what you say is a great pleasure, believe me. What you said at the beginning, in my language we sometimes describe with the phrase “the plastic world has won.” Be healthy and all the best for you :)

I love the firearms from this era because you can just look at them and they tell the story of the American frontier and how tough it is was to live out here

The first time I saw a stock fixed was on TV series Centennial. Robert Conrad fixed a Hawkins with a wrap, which being about 14 or 15 I thought was cool. Great episode

@evangreen9430

4 ай бұрын

Part of the Centennial series was filmed near my home town of Fort Morgan in eastern Colorado. Great series, great book. Mitchener is an easy way to get relatively accurate historical information wrapped into a good story.

It made good sense to do whatever you could to repair your gun back in those days. Just as a for instance, I did some research concerning a Winchester model 94 of mine that was made in 1908 just to get some figures. It appears that back then, it would cost approximately $23 to buy that gun, but back then, according to the online inflation calculator, $23 then was the equivalent of $792.51. Now consider this, the average U.S. worker in 1908 made 22 cents/hr. and had an annual income of $200-$400. At $400. he was earning $33.00 per month. This means that he would have had to work approximately 104 hours to buy that gun, along with food, housing any other bills that needed paying so the need to repair these old guns by any means necessary was definitely important. These facts are not mine, I got them through research online.

@evangreen9430

4 ай бұрын

Those figures are also why much cheaper guns such as "Bulldog" imports from Belgium and domestic makers like Iver Johnson or Harrington Richardson outsold the more expensive Colts and Smith & Wessons. In a reprint of an 1908 Sears Roebuck catalog, IJs and HRs are $4-$5. A Colt Single Action Army was $15.50 and a Smith & Wesson Hand Ejector was $13.80. An A. J. Aubrey in .38 S&W could be had for $3.75. Pearl grips available for an additional $1.00.

Thank you for doing the trade knives I have some and didn't know what they were I got them in Lander from a old guy.

Thanks for sharing these makedo repairs. My grandparents taught me the value of things and making do. You are so right sir we have lost this valuable lesson. Best regards Ron

Thank you very much for all you do for us!👍🏽😀❤️🇺🇸

I have a shotgun that used an old scale plate to repair a crack in the wrist.

My grandfather who came here from Scotland is long dead now but before he died he could have passed for your twin. One story I have is that I had a super BH 44 mag (no they are not built like tanks) After many many rounds the cast transfer bar shattered making the gun inoperable. I was out in the field as we were hunting boar. My 'fix' was a beer can that I trippled up thickness wise and would slide down where the missing transfer bar was. it would work for one shot at a time... sometimes even two.

@evangreen9430

4 ай бұрын

Rugers are tough but not indestructible. I used a pair of the original Vaqueros in Cowboy Action shooting competition. After many thousands of rounds in matches and practice, and many more hammer falls in dry fire, the same small part in each failed with a few days. Easy to replace. But not if in the woods hunting boar.

@doranmaxwell1755

4 ай бұрын

@@evangreen9430 Exactly! I did have plenty of beer cans for some reason tho.

@evangreen9430

4 ай бұрын

@@doranmaxwell1755 I saved myself a towing bill when a battery clamp lost its grip on the terminal. I was a long distance from town. Shimmed it with cuts from a beer can. Next time it needed work, the mechanic called his young assistant over, pointed out the shim, and said "We call that a farmer fix." But it worked. Beer cans, bailing wire, duct tape. And JB Weld.

@doranmaxwell1755

4 ай бұрын

@@evangreen9430 Yeah... most have lost these simple skills that Frankly? are just having used a lot of different tools over the years and thinking outside the box. So one time my brother and I were couple hundred miles from home when hi old Panhead died. The old Panheads (Harley) were generators and went out regularly besides not being that powerful Battery was completely dead. My bike was a more modern shovelhead with 12volt system and big battery because it was kick/electric start. Soooo some rusty barbed wire in the ditch we cut two lengths and used em as 'jumper' cables LOL Not really because mine was 12 volt and his was 6 volt...I had a pair of 'insulated' pliers.... we used that on the hot side rusty barbed wire. what we did was hook up the negative to both batteries and then hold the positive side with the pliers to his positive post (not sure if I am explaining it well) What happened after like 20 sec (can't remember exactly) his little battery would start to boil. That meant it now had some juice. The weak charge was enough to go like 30 miles? we did it like 5 times LOL. Ask me what we did about his condenser that would overheat and shut down the bike one time.

@evangreen9430

3 ай бұрын

@@doranmaxwell1755 The only things worse than old Harley electronics were the Lucas units on BSAs and Triumphs. Left me afoot on several occasions when my 69 Victor died.

Здравствуйте! Спасибо за видео!

Nice Sharps Rifle, missed the caliber.

@evangreen9430

4 ай бұрын

It's not marked. The muzzle gauges .45. The barrel was replaced at some point by Walter Cooper at Bozeman Montana. Cooper established a company in 1869 or 1870 to manufacture, sell, and repair firearms, ammunition, and fishing tackle. He was a major purchaser of Sharps rifles. A part of his business was rebarreling buffalo guns with the bores shot out by hunters. The action is frozen shut so can't do a chamber cast. Could be anything from .45-70 to .45-120.

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