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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Made a brass bit ???! Well to join two off cuts of walnut
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    Making hammers for a percussion gun

    I made a hammer too, took ages with an angie grinder , not that happy with it. I ordered one in uk. The guy kepy “saying yes it in a box on the shelf “. Total ???? He’s well know too .
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    Is there anyone out there that can make a barrel for a muzzleloader rifle?

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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Made a trigger guard for my jager type look alike My pet fox dear little thing
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    I won a .577 Pedrosoli bullet mould on eBay uk £36. Over £100 new
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Heavy rain west of London, but I had half hour respite at 3 pm so got 20 mins sanding my stock down with a flap disc outside , plus caught my glove finger on edge of flap disc , not much but it did right hurt , done that before ha ha Pleased with progress , trying not to get excited...
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    Everything .40 Cal. Muzzleloader

    I was just sawing and grinding away at this new walnut slab , trying to make a new stock , dusty shaping with a flap disc , major roughing it out , just trying to save a old flintlock from becoming a relic .
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    2024/2025 Squirrel Hunting Thread...........

    Brill box traps, got two the same, caught more in them than I have ever shot , squirrels go straight in , but rats study the trap and seldom go in, they got brains. Caught pigeons too , plain stupid things. Warm day London sleep well
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    2024/2025 Squirrel Hunting Thread...........

    I got into blow gun shooting a while back . But I could not get much power out of it . Good fun indoors but wife complained about holes in her chair cloth One guy utube killed a bear with a steel dart , pity the bear did not get him before it died last year plenty of squirrels around the...
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    2024/2025 Squirrel Hunting Thread...........

    I have not heard of anyone hunting squirrels with bow and arrow, illegal to hunt with arrows in uk, However in my archery shooting they would need to be about two foot square at 30 yards , just a stupid bit of passing conversation However my pcp airguns 177&22 get them drop most out to 50...
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    2024/2025 Squirrel Hunting Thread...........

    You mean I can hunt squirrels with my 450-400 double rifle ?????!!!!!!! Amazing news
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Had this relic 1810 ??? for some time , no real value. So cutting out a bit of odd walnut to make a new stock . Well it’s a sunny day London what else is there to do at 81. Shooting arrows too, at 30 yards All good fun I wish you well from across the big pond
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    You are lucky all mine have to hang on the wall UK So stuck with arrows and pcp Scorpio bsa. It could be worse just messing around with my 1885 •5 muzzle loading martini , the firing pin hits the cap internally , nice set triggers, Swiss of course. The peep sight was tricky as it’s...
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    Light hunting rifle, straight stock?

    Two lovely guns and unlike the UK you can hunt with them. We have used muzzle loading shotguns for rabbits and birds but a bullet is a no no reserved for the rich and some farmers using say a .243 unmentionable , we live in a different world. I got excited you talking one smooth bore and...
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    Light hunting rifle, straight stock?

    Better add me at 81 with this rifle Again. Ha ha QUOTE] You got part of it right, don’t think I have seen an English with set triggers in all my days. There’s no big game in uk , more of a rabbit shotgun country with a few small deer .45 ml more than enough. But things change up in Scotland...
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