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Wow!! Very nicely done!!

Great hunt, the culmination of the Thumper! Good job!

Amazing.

You will have to settle on a preliminary formula, and look at the results. Then change one thing at a time to fine tune it, to get the results you want. You may start with a patched ball, and be done, sometimes you get lucky. For instance: I shoot a 54 smooth bore. What works for me is...

Good job!

Great post! Nice looking gun!

Very nice!

Gee whiz! Great buck! Thanks for taking us along!!

Thank you!

Building and shooting my .54 smoothbore was a bit of an epiphany, after 40 years of rifle shooting. The ease of loading, cleaning, and the versatility being able to take small and big game with the same gun is really enjoyable.

I have olive oil that's 5 years old, I use it for lube and to preserve metal. You will know when it has "expired" by the smell. Vegetable oil is the least stable, it hydrogenated. Canola and olive oil might be ok mixed, I am not sure.

Yes, shaped around a dowel, tubes' seams are glued with Titebond, tied with cotton string.

I don't want plastic in my gun. I wrap my shot in butcher paper, and seat it over a lubed fiber wad. Before I ram the shot, I put the shot partially in the bore and tear off the top tie. Ram it home with an over shot card. More layers of butcher paper keeps the group tight. Newspaper and light...

Welcome from Wisconsin!

Thanks!!

September 16th opener here. There won't be anything but full leaf here, so I'll load up the .54 cal with #6 shot and git some bushytails.

Welcome from Green Bay!

I like cloth patches. It gives me an opportunity to keep the bore lubed, and fouling soft, by way of the lube on the patches.

My horns stay filled or partially filled. Never a problem.

Welcome from Wisconsin, USA!