That's awesome, it's probably his already.Wiped the dust and cobwebs off my Pietta 58 and took my Grandson out shooting. He had a brand new nickel plated Colt unmentionable. When the Pietta came out it wasn't long till the Colt got put down. Soon enough he was loading up a shooting with no help from me. He only missed the 20 yard plate twice out of 60 shots. The kid showed me up! Now he wants to buy it.
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Shot my Frontier caplock with good results at 75-130 yds.
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longcruise
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Very elegant
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Gordoncourtney
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Anti Cancer infusion Tuesday, you get used to it after 2 years . I’ll stop winging Heavy rain and hot sun west of London
Went down to old workshop and big lathe and turned up some breach plugs converting new cartridge 28 bore barrels to Ml. I tapped the breaches 11/16” photos on a previous string Next to fit them to my .36 double rifle . It’s all straightforward for me. This two sets of ml barrels, .36 rifled and 28bore shotgun I’ll have to go over the threads by hand as they are too tight
Went down to old workshop and big lathe and turned up some breach plugs converting new cartridge 28 bore barrels to Ml. I tapped the breaches 11/16” photos on a previous string Next to fit them to my .36 double rifle . It’s all straightforward for me. This two sets of ml barrels, .36 rifled and 28bore shotgun I’ll have to go over the threads by hand as they are too tight
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I needed a better way to sharpen small inletting tools. Took a piece of 1 1/4 brass tube cut so that a flat face and small triangles remained on 2 sides. Fitted a small axle side to side for 10mm ball bearings as rollers. 2 tabs were silver soldered to the sides as fastening points for a top bar to clamp the chisel to the top of the tube. The bar had a slot milled in it to hold the chisel. You clamp the tool to sharpen in the jig while sitting on your diamond plate with the tool face at the proper angle. Rolling the tool back and forth produces a perfect flat surface on the chisel.
longcruise
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You lost me at 1 and 1/4 inch brass tube. I need pictures to understand this.
I worked on inletting the barrel into my renehawk stock. Pretty close but broke my vice jaw protector and took time to glue it rather than make new.
I have a couple chisels that I got from MBS. they are pretty good and deserving of handles so I mixed up some epoxy and glued them into some chisel handles.
Then it was dinnertime.
We like pictures.
trucks all loaded waiting on the kid 5 hours to track of the wolf then 2 additional stops before the hotel tonight and 8:30 tomorrow set up the range for the shoot at 9 then 6 hours home after the shoot
longcruise
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Wow, I got exhausted just reading that. I guess I was up to that kind of itinerary in the distant past but no more.
Hope you have good luck in your shoot. A visit to TOTW would be fun. What is it like?
I took the Trade rifle and the plains pistol to the range this morning and so far, Between 2F Goex and 3F Goex the rifle shoots best with 65 grains of 3f with a ,018 ticking patch and .490 RB. I didn't think it would make a difference using an over powder wad but found out that I get better groups without using an over powder wad? I only got a couple of quick shots with the pistol. The short 10-yard pistol range is next to the 25-yard range and usually there's only a couple guys shooting but today the range started getting crowded. It was kind of funny, you would hear the sharp crack, crack, crack of the modern hand cannons and then the boom and puff of smoke from me! 
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Gordoncourtney
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Not very good at this job but it’s done , Cutting and shaping breach plug hooks, 28 bore cartridge shotgun barrel, conversion, onto my .36 double muzzle loading rifle
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I met a new muzzleloading friend today. We had a newborn granddaughter in Texas that had some medical issues so my wife and I made a quick trip to the Lone Star State.
After some surgery, she is fine now. Thank God.
While there, my son and I met up with @Songwriter and he graciously invited us out to his place to burn some powder and test out my new Woodsrunner. Yes, I just finished it so I was not about to leave it in Florida.
@Songwriter brought out his Uberti Hawken .54 and we enjoyed making smoke for a couple hours until newborn baby duty forced us to call it quits.
Man that Woodsrunner is the fastest flintlock I've ever seen. Unfortunately my eye issue that I've discussed on here before, did not get any better with this rifle. However, because of its lightweight and quickness, it was much easier for me to shoot left-handed.
We only took a few pictures so here are some of us shooting.
Thanks again @Songwriter for having us out.
After some surgery, she is fine now. Thank God.
While there, my son and I met up with @Songwriter and he graciously invited us out to his place to burn some powder and test out my new Woodsrunner. Yes, I just finished it so I was not about to leave it in Florida.
@Songwriter brought out his Uberti Hawken .54 and we enjoyed making smoke for a couple hours until newborn baby duty forced us to call it quits.
Man that Woodsrunner is the fastest flintlock I've ever seen. Unfortunately my eye issue that I've discussed on here before, did not get any better with this rifle. However, because of its lightweight and quickness, it was much easier for me to shoot left-handed.
We only took a few pictures so here are some of us shooting.
Thanks again @Songwriter for having us out.
Cruzatte
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I had some time to set up for casting some .610 balls this afternoon. I must have cast about two and a half dozen. I used one of those Tanner bronze molds. I think it throws a pretty good ball.
love that smoke.
