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  1. deerstalkert

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    finished drilling the rammer hole on the fowler i just started. sweating that process and it turned out fine. ended up with a 3/16 web so all is good. wife is having a total hip replacement Thursday and i can't concentrate on the build so i put the barrel in and clamped it all together so the...
  2. deerstalkert

    November 30 is National Mason Jar Day!

    it really helps to be able to see the target, front and rear sights! plus that bull on that jar was just the right size. and the moon and stars were in alignment, I had slept well, had put politics out of my mind, the wind wasn't blowing, the sun was just right, and there was a partridge in my...
  3. deerstalkert

    Hard, brittle, and fast PRB for more damage?

    please take everything i write as it is meant, as a discussion, not an attack. ballisticians have been striving for centuries to design the perfect projectile. The PRB ain't it! that said what a prb does supply is a projectile that if sufficiently propelled will upset and many times will...
  4. deerstalkert

    How to polish this sideplate

    another tool I used before the birth of the dreaded Dremel was a pencil chucked in a drill motor. dip the eraser in valve grinding paste. slow will polish, fast will cause engine turning, AKA jewelling. nowaday's I steal those emery boards my wife uses to polish her talons. she got so tired of...
  5. deerstalkert

    How do you prime?

    I made a antler priming horn with the 3g spring doohickey. probably posted this before, but still use it and it works so well don't think I will replace it any time soon. poured pewter cap, with turned buffalo horn plug.
  6. deerstalkert

    Flintlock accuracy and need help finding load

    back when i started out i would load the pan to the brim. I think i still have some "freckles" from powder splashing my face, ruining my good looks! now i see how little i can use and I can't remember the last time i even noticed the pan flash. plus you get to save money.
  7. deerstalkert

    OK, so it may not be HC correct.......

    this rifle was built from odds and ends. I was between builds and find if i take a few weeks off from building i get confused as to where i am in a build. (being old sucks sometimes) the parts i had laying about were parts i had earmarked for myself so they are nice Quilty parts. turns out this...
  8. deerstalkert

    Flintlock accuracy and need help finding load

    one more thing folks do that reinforces the flinch, is filling the pan to full with prime. using 3f swiss, a 1/16th vent hole, many times if i see as many as 10 granules of powder trickled out into the pan through the vent, I can forego any additional priming. when folks fill the pan they are...
  9. deerstalkert

    November 30 is National Mason Jar Day!

    that rifle just gets better. it is the plain Jane of my collection and shoots the best. those patches are some canvas I bought in December so I could find the shot patches easy in the snow. I also bought some "white" just because. the cloth is pre shrunk and measures out at .018 snug. if i...
  10. deerstalkert

    My current situation

    If i were a deer I would be pleased to die by that rifle.
  11. deerstalkert

    November 30 is National Mason Jar Day!

    last month was not good to me and i didn't get the target shot. picked up my new glasses the DR. had ground just to pickup the front sight. I am a happy dog. the rifle is my birch stocked .54. basically it is a truck gun. boy can it shoot! I have hoped i could score maximum someday. today is the...
  12. deerstalkert

    T.O.W.

    seems available now
  13. deerstalkert

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    started a walnut fowler. got the barrel inlet....... mostly.
  14. deerstalkert

    Toe Plate on your rifle

    I have one rifle that I use the "bump" the butt on the ground method. I have a sheep skin on the ground to protect the butt though. this particular rifle will self prime with a fffg main load. being of the inveterate lazy sort, i utilize this feature. and yes i know the vent is a hair over 1/16...
  15. deerstalkert

    Duffer

    next time make the terminal edges random rather than straight. that will hide better. now that you have mastered shaping the butt piece, find a full length blank and just do a full stock replacement! Love those CVA mountain rifles.
  16. deerstalkert

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    decided to finish the day by burning some powder. hadn't shot my birch stocked .54 for a while. dug up the patches, .535 balls, some swiss fffg, and swiss ffffg just for giggles. loaded up 55 grains under a .018 patch and the .535 ball. had to hammer start the ball with that patch, but it went...
  17. deerstalkert

    Repair or replace

    here is a picture of the breaks on my Mortimer. don't have any after pictures handy. one thing, I did lose the wrist checkering. basic line of the rod. align and glue the break first or you run the risk of stuff misaligning
  18. deerstalkert

    Fire Retardant Paper Cartridges

    how about eliminating smoldering paper? treat your paper with nitrate and have it burn up in the barrel. i have never had nitrated paper leave my pistol barrel to smolder in the grass so i imagine it would be gone by the time it exits a rifle barrel. I would worry more about a smoldering patch...
  19. deerstalkert

    Repair or replace

    identical break to my Mortimer. twice. first one i just glued. second one was 3/8 in front of the first. glued the second break and popped the lock, barrel and trigger guard, drilled from the breach table down through the breaks. poured some epoxy into the drilled hole and then threaded a all...
  20. deerstalkert

    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    took a break from rolling up hoses, blowing out water lines, and picking up all the summer leaverites to meet the big brown truck. got a looong box full of fun stuff. now i can shelve the maple stock and work on a walnut for a while. going to be a fowler. Colerain barrel, and other quality parts...
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