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A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 1:39:34 PM   
bearswede


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Status: offline 		Recently, forum members were talking about looking for antique bottles in movies... And it got me to thinking about the subject of bottles as they relate to Arts & Entertainment...

I've always liked those Dutch masters paintings that had old onion-type bottles in them... So, we do indeed have bottles represented in the visual arts... And, I do know from prior research, Opodeldoc was mentioned in a short story by O'Henry... But poetry?

Just so happens I wrote one back in the '70's, if ya'll oblige me:

FEBRUARY 26, 1846
(Cody, William Frederick)

Wild Bill
You were born today
Wild Bill
Butcher of the plain
You were born today
With a bullet in your mouth
blood-smeared
leather tassels
You went butchering
With your good clothes on
those showman's
clothes of yours...

Wild Bill
You died today
Under the ****-caked hoof
of the buffalo
A two-bit bottle of bitters
Broken in your calloused hand...

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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 2:18:18 PM   
capsoda


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Status: offline 		You's just the bee's knees Ron.

I like it.

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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 3:01:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Ron,

Cool poem... I think Wild Bill must've downed some "Big Bill's Best Bitters" in his day.

Cool picture, too. Is that a .45 "Peacemaker" I see??!!??

I missed the posts about bottles in the movies, but I'm always excited to see the "Warner's Safe Cure" in Mary Poppins, and James Stewart made sure John Wayne was always stocked with a bottle of Laudenum in "The Shootist"!

Here's my replica 1851 Navy, .38. Fun to shoot..."I Love the Smell of Blackpowder in the Morning!!"






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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 3:18:07 PM   
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Fun to shoot..."I Love the Smell of Blackpowder in the Morning!!"


Yeah, Rick... Me too, altho I haven't shot my percussion pistol or my Hawkin in many a moon...

Yup, Army issue colt 45 replica...

Thanks, glad ya liked it!

Ron

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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 3:20:08 PM   
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I like it.


Thankee, Cap...

d'joo say sumpin' bout sneezin' bees???

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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 4:30:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		You guys gona make me cry. I sold my sharp and authentic 1818 Kentucky squrrel gun back a few years.

Man, dout I could remember how to powder one now.

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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 4:47:24 PM   
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I sold my sharp and authentic 1818 Kentucky squrrel gun


Did you have a Sharp's as well as the Kentucky squirrel gun, Warren?

Ron

PS... you could always look it up ina book, like I did...ROR

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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 5:02:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah Ron, I built the Sharp's from a kit. It was a 54 cal. and was a bitch to shoot. The Kentucky rifle was given to me by an elderly man who's daughter I dated.

Had one of those CFA, CSA, CAS, or what ever it was kit things that was suposed to look like a Civil war rifle and was a piece of inacurate crap. Built it and shot it a couple of times then got rid of it.

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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 5:37:30 PM   
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Rick


Me too !

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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 5:45:30 PM   
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Connecticut Valley Arms.

http://www.cva.com/

I shoot a Thompson Center Arms 50 cal. Hawken muzzleoader rifle.

I took a spikehorn with it last November.

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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 5:55:58 PM   
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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 5:57:49 PM   
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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 6:17:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow... now we've just switched from bottles in movies to guns in movies...didn't Quigley use a Sharps like that in "Quigley Down Under"?? Awesome movie, awesome gun!!



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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 6:38:32 PM   
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I sold my sharp and authentic 1818 Kentucky squrrel gun



Did you have a Sharp's as well as the Kentucky squirrel gun, Warren?


Speaking of squirrel guns, I've used this one a few times... Hy Hunter .58 cal. Hawken.

Why shoot the squirrel when you can blow up the whole tree!!!




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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 7:14:18 PM   
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Had one of those CFA, CSA, CAS, or what ever it was kit things that was suposed to look like a Civil war rifle and was a piece of inacurate crap. Built it and shot it a couple of times then got rid of it.


Warren did you experiment with your grains of powder and patch thickness , I presume you were shooting a round ball ? I have a side hammer CVA Hawken .45 cal. and it's deadly accurate with 80 grains powder and a round ball.
I shoot a more modern Remington Stainless 700 .50 muzzle loader with 100 grains powder and a 245 power belt bullet now a days. Much easier to clean than that CVA.

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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 7:52:16 PM   
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a Thompson Center Arms 50 cal. Hawken muzzleoader rifle.


That's what I have too, Woody...

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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 7:56:05 PM   
bearswede


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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/20/2006 8:32:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Brian, It was more than 20 years ago when I was stationed at Lowery AFB in Denver. Couldn't say what load I used.

It was suposed to be an Enfield and it just didn't suit me. I bought the kit new for about $69 so you can imagine how good it was. Sold it to a buddy who put a modern barrel in it and used it for hunting and I built the Sharp's. Got my first elk with it.

The Kentucky rifle I got in the late 1980s and it was sweet. You could bullseye nearly as far as you could see with that thing. Man it was sweet. Had to sell it to get rid of a pain I married. Now that I think of it I could have kept the rifle and used it to get rid of the pain. LoL

Hey BB, you can always use the powder burner to pop all those clear cylinder whiskeys from 1910. Now that would be A&E. LoL

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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/21/2006 6:30:58 AM   
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all those clear cylinder whiskeys from 1910. Now that would be A&E. LoL


Come on, Warren...

Some day, those'll be highly collectible... Duh!!!


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RE: A&E of Bottles - 2/21/2006 6:32:46 AM   
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