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Look at the various muzzle loading supplies websites and get yourself something like this. You need to poke out the vent every now and then to insure ignition. You also need to keep your flint, frizzen (also called the hammer) and pan clean. Swabbing out the barrel is good, but there are other...

Not today but yesterday. Had a 6-point walk about 25 yards or less in front of me and it spooked before I could get the Woodsrunner up. So today, I loaded the CVA in case of a longer shot, and then got an upset stomach. (sigh). Anyway, it's not so much the need to down a deer, but just to have...

My eyes must be getting bad or my brain is farting away. I thought this read that you were working on a "...smoothbore buffalo horn..." I was thinking, what is a smoothbore buffalo horn? The Doc is losing it now. o_O

I guess I am spoiled by the SMR, but I find the Woodsrunner to be heavy and a little less, what can I call it, 'agile'? I don't have a Colonial or other like guns from other makers. My flintlock experience had been with a Pedersoli Jaeger prior to that. I will say, I like my Woodsrunner, but it...

I coned my recent acquisition, a .54 Woodsrunner, a couple weeks ago. I loaded it up for the deer season here and was really surprised that I could load the .530, and a .15 patch, which for my bore is a tight fit, and was able to do it with just a thumb press and then using the ramrod to shove...

Salty Cracker, I had the same dilemma as you. Maple or Walnut? Walnut would produce the plain looks of the southern mountain, but the more I saw pictures of Maple, the more I went that way until I finally ordered, in Maple. I was pleased as can be the way it came out. It has never been one of...

I second Hanshi. You did a great job with that one. If this is your first Flintlock, you might look up an article by Paul Valandingham on how to shoot flintlocks. Now the mere fact that you have a Kibler, with its excellently machined lock means that you should not have any problems shooting it...

@ ORBushman. Try running some hot water down the bore, see if that lets you get your patch back. From the color, that looks like rust. The Doc is out now. 😎

Oooh, lucky! You are close to some of the clubs that have ML shoots. Not so here in Wild Western Illinois. The Doc is out now. 😎

First day on the internet, eh, Mike? Perhaps, if you read through this whole thread you would see one very well known build log person making a comment about build logs. He got blasted for his build log. Others on here commented, too. I'm sure they saw the one poster's build log to make the...

Build Log: Day 1. Today I took one of the screws out of the box that the SMR came in. Tomorrow, screw number 2. 🤣 The Doc is out now. 😎

From another thread here, "Waxing Rifle Stocks" in the Flintlocks forum, a thought bubble formed. While collecting the upstairs garbage for tomorrow's pickup, I put a light coat of wax on my Woodsrunner. A very light coat. I will probably try it on my other guns as well, and add coats and see...

Finished coning the .54 Woodsrunner this evening. Missed a local fire department pancake and sausage breakfast because I had no car to get over there. Wife did drop me at the local FD so I could have old-fart-timers Sunday morning coffee and had to ask for a ride home. Started in on the coning...

Getting ready to cone the barrel of my .54 Woodsrunner. All while the wife and daughter are running around trying to clean the house for the visit of the prodigal son coming from Texas in a couple weeks. He won't notice it, and they are distracting me with their fussing around. The Doc wishes...

When filling my measure at the range, I inevitably have some powder spill. So what I do is when I am all packed up and about to drive off, I throw a match towards the bench and watch the conflagration fireball erupt like Vesuvius over Pompei. (not really but it is the thought that counts)...

Well, I heard from a random guy at the local gun store who had a friend from North Carolina who had a buddy who had a pal go near Hanoverton, Ohio once that Jim Kibler was going to make a 9-barrel Nock Gun in .75 caliber with 80 inch barrels for goose hunting, but only sell in India. The Doc is...

TDM. How did you get that red color on the Cherry stock?

If you have the main charge going off before the pan is done you have things absolutely perfect. The Doc is out now. 😎

Please, please, please, share those detailed photos with some of the ones on here (you know who, I bet) and then quietly get to work. I think the forums might be a little pleasanter to read if you do that! 🤣 The Doc is out and hopeful now! :cool:

I shot my round ball rifles since coning them. None suffered accuracy for it. Made loading a lot easier, too. The Doc is out now. 😎