What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

Dale Lilly said:

Sunburn?

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Gordoncourtney said:

I was admiring the strong drop of your stock butt , very nice , and across the pond the Swiss liked it too 1885 in these 7.5/53 target rifles , of course I doubt you will fitting an uncomfortable Swiss target butt plate like my two But , you photo was begging for a comment. Nice But you need a wide plank of expensive wood, now worries ,

Much love from London

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Gordoncourtney said:

For those making cartridge shotgun barrels into muzzle loaders ain’t always easy. Like fitting 28 shotgun barrels onto a .36 ml
Double rifle . I hack as much metal away with a 2mm thick disc in my angle grinder of course a cnc mill is better but not 1880 old school. Gave first pair of breach plugs away and made two more . Now I find my files are suddenly warn out . I am at a file ing or

dremmil stage now final fitting of lugs , not particularly in the mood for precise work , these cancer drugs make me lithargic. Been on immunology for two years and the 4 big tumours have shrunk to under 20mm so
No bother , I am a lucky man at 81, , just


keep taking the tablets and I’ll live forever
might make 100, but 120 is my plan. Ha ha dream on ::::


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Gordoncourtney said:

For those making cartridge shotgun barrels into muzzle loaders ain’t always easy. Like fitting 28 shotgun barrels onto a .36 ml
Double rifle . I hack as much metal away with a 2mm thick disc in my angle grinder of course a cnc mill is better but not 1880 old school. Gave first pair of breach plugs away and made two more . Now I find my files are suddenly warn out . I am at a file ing or dremmil stage now final fitting of lugs , not particularly in the mood for precise work , these cancer drugs make me lithargic. Been on immunology for two years and the 4 big tumours have shrunk to under 20mm so
No bother , I am a lucky man at 81, , just keep taking the tablets and I’ll live forever might make 100, but 120 is my plan. Ha ha dream on ::::


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Gordoncourtney said:

Do like a hot bath. Cutting the breach plug lumps to fit another rifle can be a struggle. Takes ages. I hacked most of the metal away with a 2 mm disc in an angle grinder finishing with a file and dremmil. Still not there yet as still a gap, cannot find why although I was using engineers blue . Tomorrows another day. Hope these notes help in converting cartridge guns to ml Normally you would make the lumps fits and then file up the square hold to fit. , so I do it back to front

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Gordoncourtney said:

For those making cartridge shotgun barrels into muzzle loaders ain’t always easy. Like fitting 28 shotgun barrels onto a .36 ml
Double rifle . I hack as much metal away with a 2mm thick disc in my angle grinder of course a cnc mill is better but not 1880 old school. Gave first pair of breach plugs away and made two more . Now I find my files are suddenly warn out . I am at a file ing or dremmil stage now final fitting of lugs , not particularly in the mood for precise work , these cancer drugs make me lithargic. Been on immunology for two years and the 4 big tumours have shrunk to under 20mm so
No bother , I am a lucky man at 81, , just keep taking the tablets and I’ll live forever might make 100, but 120 is my plan. Ha ha dream on ::::


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Moleman said:

Turned, drilled and fitted a pour spout on my flat priming horn.
Also threaded a wood plug and tapped the base for easy fill.
Plenty of fine finish work and pinning the caps but the tough part is done then onto some skrimsha.

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Gordoncourtney said:

For those making cartridge shotgun barrels into muzzle loaders ain’t always easy. Like fitting 28 shotgun barrels onto a .36 ml
Double rifle . I hack as much metal away with a 2mm thick disc in my angle grinder of course a cnc mill is better but not 1880 old school. Gave first pair of breach plugs away and made two more . Now I find my files are suddenly warn out . I am at a file ing or dremmil stage now final fitting of lugs , not particularly in the mood for precise work , these cancer drugs make me lithargic. Been on immunology for two years and the 4 big tumours have shrunk to under 20mm so
No bother , I am a lucky man at 81, , just keep taking the tablets and I’ll live forever might make 100, but 120 is my plan. Ha ha dream on ::::


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Omahkapi'si said:

Restocked my bag for some flintlock fun tomorrow morning.

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Gordoncourtney said:

Do like a hot bath. Cutting the breach plug lumps to fit another rifle can be a struggle. Takes ages. I hacked most of the metal away with a 2 mm disc in an angle grinder finishing with a file and dremmil. Still not there yet as still a gap, cannot find why although I was using engineers blue . Tomorrows another day. Hope these notes help in converting cartridge guns to ml



Normally you would make the lumps fits and then file up the square hold to fit. , so I do it back to front

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Gordoncourtney said:

Yes tomorrow was: is now , another day. Heavy rain Joan decorating, set the engraver / light mill up to cut away metal for nipples. I hope I get it right this time Just making soup with yesterdays dinner, just did not feel like it last night ,so wanted something ice cold . Yup apple crumble and loads of icecream went down well

At last two squirrels on the lawn, would be great in my soup, but I could not get a bead on them running around. My pcp hills pump is playing up, and not much air left in 177&22 for squirrels either always something Me ??? oh I just don’t feel like doing anything some days.

“Have a nice day” as they say when we were in Florida

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Terrier said:

@WALT53 @longcruise @deerstalkert @Century to late @Dutch7 @snakebit

Pleased to pass on that Thad didn’t!

Just heard back from my PM to him, and he’s doing okay…

“Just decided to fade away for awhile to get other stuff done at home and the camp.”

He’ll be back.

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Gordoncourtney said:

Yes tomorrow was: is now , another day. Heavy rain Joan decorating, set the engraver / light mill up to cut away metal for nipples. I hope I get it right this time Just making soup with yesterdays dinner, just did not feel like it last night ,so wanted something ice cold . Yup apple crumble and loads of icecream

At last two squirrels on the lawn, would be great in my soup, but I could not get a bead on them running around. My pcp hills pump is playing up, and not much air left in 177&22 for squirrels either

“Have a nice day . as they say when we were in Florida

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Moleman said:

Turned, drilled and fitted a pour spout on my flat priming horn.
Also threaded a wood plug and tapped the base for easy fill.
Plenty of fine finish work and pinning the caps but the tough part is done then onto some skrimsha.

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Terrier said:

@WALT53 @longcruise @deerstalkert @Century to late @Dutch7 @snakebit

Pleased to pass on that Thad didn’t!

Just heard back from my PM to him, and he’s doing okay…

“Just decided to fade away for awhile to get other stuff done at home and the camp.”

He’ll be back.

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