As KCSteve noted in the comments to one of Saturday's double-posts about the Fort Leavenworth Militaria Show, he made it there and took some pictures. Click this link to go see them.
A couple of points - the pistols KCSteve believes are mine, are not - they belong to my buddy Beau, who had the most Kewl Stuff there of the four of us (Charley, Beau, Jim and myself). For you M1911 fans, Beau had a Singer and a Union Switch and Signal, just to tease a bit. He also had a M1903A4 sniper, Johnson M41, and a registered DEWAT Thompson M1928A1 on display, along with other stuff. Charley and Jim had uniforms, helmets and ephemera, and I brought mostly artillery, along with the Gyrojet. Neither Beau nor I brought our jeeps. As I told the guys on Saturday - I used to have to ride around in winter (it was snowy) in an open jeep. I no longer have to, and therefore choose not to...
As for the pic above - and my Great Peril - I spent about a half hour chatting with my bud Nils Hansen, who is a serious long-time collector and dealer in pigstickers and the things attached to them. But you'll notice here they're all pointy-end down, and I'm really nowhere close to them. Honest. No blood was spilled Saturday. By me at least.
I did come home from the show with a well-made old school shootable replica 1st Model Brown Bess, which SWWBO immediately decided will go over the bullet board in the living room, as she is really into Bright! Shiny! when it comes to firearms. Polished steel and brass just makes her do the Happy Dance.
Hard to tell who's stuff stopped where when each of you loaded as much as you could onto (and under and around) the tables.
I would have gotten more pictures but as noted I got into a photography discussion and the ever-indulgent wife ran out of patience before we were even done with that so I had to grab what shots I could on a quick scamper and get moving.
Oh, and what John didn't mention is that while he was safe from that impressive display in the foreground, he's leaning on a glass display case full of other - and probably sharper - goodies.
Looked like a great little local show.
If I was going to do that sort of thing, the nice thing about a 1st Model is that they are correct for pretty much all the periods of American history where the Brown Bess made an appearance.
At any rate, y'all have a good end-of-the-world piece there, to go along with the end-of-the-world place, there. I mean, you got yer manure piles for the saltpeter, and I betcha there are some willow trees in the wet places for the charcoal, and didn't they usedta mine a buncha lead around there? I just wonder where you are going to get the sulfur, and the urine of a wine-bibbing bishop (originally and traditionally the best liquid to wet down the dry ingredients of the black powder when mixing it).