What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

Rebel bull · Oct 30, 2024

Norman Brooks said:
Working on making a drilling fixture for powder horns that will clamp into my big drill press. Also done a little work on a horn I started a couple of weeks ago.

my biggest problem is holding the horn so i can use both hands to shape it or scrimshaw it

waksupi · Oct 30, 2024

I grew a small amount of flax this summer. I rhetted it, and then broke it down in to tow this week. A planter box of around 6" X 24" gave me more than enough tow for a year's supply.

flconch53 · Oct 30, 2024

waksupi said:
I grew a small amount of flax this summer. I rhetted it, and then broke it down in to tow this week. A planter box of around 6" X 24" gave me more than enough tow for a year's supply.

My former wife made the mistake of planting a 100x100 patch. What a mess

lou puleff · Oct 30, 2024

lou puleff said:
Currently deer hunting with my Hawken it’s opening morning of the muzzleloader deer so far no deer and no shots that I’ve heard

No luck yet I had to come home for a day and headed back up north to hunt this afternoon and tomorrow is the last day for my deer tag. Bear is also open it is very unusual to have bear open while deer hunting here in AZ. My camper was invaded by a field mouse but I finally caught him and evicted him at 1:30 am after he chewed up a bunch of munchies he was a little cutie but he's lucky I spared his life !! lol

longcruise · Oct 30, 2024

lou puleff said:
No luck yet I had to come home for a day and headed back up north to hunt this afternoon and tomorrow is the last day for my deer tag. Bear is also open it is very unusual to have bear open while deer hunting here in AZ. My camper was invaded by a field mouse but I finally caught him and evicted him at 1:30 am after he chewed up a bunch of munchies he was a little cutie but he's lucky I spared his life !! lol

We have a site that we have often camped on over the years. We call it "Mouse Meadow

" due to the huge numbers of mice that were there one year. We were in a pop up camper and they were getting inside somehow. We had a little border collie with us and every day her food was eaten from her bowl and mouse droppings left behind. After we returned home one of our party discovered that they were in his car nesting.

lou puleff · Oct 30, 2024

longcruise said:
We have a site that we have often camped on over the years. We call it "Mouse Meadow " due to the huge numbers of mice that were there one year. We were in a pop up camper and they were getting inside somehow. We had a little border collie with us and every day her food was eaten from her bowl and mouse droppings left behind. After we returned home one of our party discovered that they were in his car nesting.

That's what I have a pop up. I found where they were getting in so I'll foam up the spaces to seal them off !

Polecat_Tom · Oct 30, 2024

lou puleff said:
I found where they were getting in so I'll foam up the spaces to seal them off !

you might want to put some steel wool in the gap and then foam as they will otherwise chew threw the foam. they were coming in around the pluming pipe in our house and the foam alone didn't stop them until I put in the steel wool.

waksupi · Oct 30, 2024

flconch53 said:
My former wife made the mistake of planting a 100x100 patch. What a mess

There is enough wild flax growing in ditches I could have just went and collected some, but planting in a planter meant less bending over for me!

lou puleff · Oct 30, 2024

Couple of pics of the camper it's a 2007 Fleetwood E3

lou puleff · Oct 30, 2024

Polecat_Tom said:
you might want to put some steel wool in the gap and then foam as they will otherwise chew threw the foam. they were coming in around the pluming pipe in our house and the foam alone didn't stop them until I put in the steel wool.

Yeah I was just out there looking at it actually they can't get in where I thought. I did find a couple really small gaps but not anywhere they could ever get in so I foamed those gaps but otherwise it's pretty darn tight. I think the only spot they can get in is where the slide out rails come thru they do have some rubber molding but it's appears it would be almost impossible to seal that off 100 percent to allow for it to slide in and out so I may just have to seal it off with a rag or temporary deal while using the trailer then removing it to allow closing it up.

Polecat_Tom · Oct 30, 2024

It is amazing what little space they can get through. Our exterminator told me that if you can get a quarter through the opening a mouse can get through it.

lou puleff · Oct 30, 2024

Polecat_Tom said:
It is amazing what little space they can get through. Our exterminator told me that if you can get a quarter through the opening a mouse can get through it.

Yeah I believe it he was a tiny little sucker maybe 3 or 4 inches long !!

Big Tom 52 · Oct 30, 2024

Made my first batch of char cloth and working on some jute

Terry Lightle · Oct 30, 2024

Sat in the woods in wind gusts up to 30mph,notice I said sat in woods not hunting

Hatchet-Jack · Oct 30, 2024

Finished up draw filing and sanding the barrel, and the trigger guard on Loja Man's Fowler. Did some final wood shaping. I just need to finish up filing and sanding the butt plate then De-Whisker the stock and it's ready to start sketching the carving.

Rob M. · Oct 30, 2024

Got the nose band put on the Carolina Gun today ....clean it up and stain the stock tomorrow ...

DrLaw · Oct 30, 2024

I finished sizing the Fowler Ramrod for the pipes by using both scraping and sanding.

Then I did something almost totally foreign to me. Planning. I printed out a sheet listing all the pins in the Fowler in preparation to removal of the pins. Each pin will be taped to the paper in order of its placement on the gun. Also, I will note which pins still need a little trimming to be lower than the side of the wood, but just enough so I cannot touch a pin. I figure that no pins will be lost, each will be able to be replaced in its proper location on rebuilding the gun after the finish is put on it.

And so far, I am remembering that I will have to re-drill the pin holes after putting the finish on.

It's like I have told a lot of people now. If I can do this, anybody can!

The Doc is out and happier with himself now.

Loja man · Oct 31, 2024

Hatchet-Jack said:
Finished up draw filing and sanding the barrel, and the trigger guard on Loja Man's Fowler. Did some final wood shaping. I just need to finish up filing and sanding the butt plate then De-Whisker the stock and it's ready to start sketching the carving.
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Gordoncourtney · Oct 31, 2024

lou puleff said:
That's what I have a pop up. I found where they were getting in so I'll foam up the spaces to seal them off !

Ha ha. My old export sales guy complained people were stealing his biscuits from his draw. They were long 18” drawers in his old but nice oak desk. After he left we cleaned out his drawer and found a nest of mice right at the back of the drawers full of bits of biscuit's. Yes True !!!

Gordoncourtney · Oct 31, 2024

lou puleff said:
Couple of pics of the camper it's a 2007 Fleetwood E3

That looks more room than my Rapido french Motorhome. 2001, bit tatty on outside but nice inside , got it for £9k five years ago , been across France to Med an another to Bordeaux area It’s home for home 23 mpg now expensive to run at £10 a gallon , do have great trips in it

Love from London , miserable weather here Got to get a “permit to carry “ before I can take any guns to France. Ferrry around £190 return across channel. Plenty of hogs to shoot if I can get a permit

Ps photos french trip wife Joan and son David And and french Forarges intimidating 8 th century castle

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