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I've been using spit patches. Will try soaking the pillow ticking strips in a lube.

That's what I've been doing. Hoping to find a better patch-ball combo to avoid swabbing the barrel so often. Good insight on the pitting. Got it, especially with an old rifle.

I have a heavily-used 35-year old .50 cal rifled flintlock. New to me. I've been shooting a .490 ball with 0.015" pillow ticking strips, cut at the muzzle. 50 grains of powder. After about 10 shots, I really have to bounce the ramrod to get the ball down the last 6 inches. Someone said my spent...

5-6 oz. I used butted edges, so it's gotta be thick enough for the edges to butt up without overlapping.

Here is the first version of the same ball tube, with the sewn bottom. It looks terrible. See the sloped faces on the stopper? Looks great, but you can't grip that with your teeth. I fixed the stopper with a small half-round wood rasp.

I made another version of the same ball tube as above. This is actually the third version. When I was nearly done with the first version, I didn't know how to close the bottom of the tube. So I just stitched across the bottom. It looked terrible. The second version above has a circular wood...

WANT!!

I am surprised that very few of the historical ball bags had straps to hang on the belt or around one's neck. Almost all of the ball bags were carried in the shooting bag.

Here's another reproduction of a historical ball bag. This one is a ball tube, takes up to .65 caliber balls. ca. 1760-1770. Almost 7 inches long. Simple incised leather tooling, just like the original.

I started making reproductions of historical ball bags. Here is my first one. I have several others in the pipeline. I'm making them true to size. Haven't decided if I'm gonna make them for sale. It would be easy to adjust the scale of the spout for custom orders. This reproduction is for .75...

LOL Is that the worst you got? Come to Alaska with me. We'll cut snow blocks, make an igloo, and poop outside when it's 35 degrees below zero. For a month.

I'm calling B.S. on this. I was there for the spring shoot. The whole thing was a bit of a **** show, not just the primitive range. It was my first NMLRA event, but all I heard from old timers was how good the shoots used to be, but recent mismanagement has driven people away. And the facilities...

Yeah, I was there for 9 days

I been gettin' some from the ladies longer than you've been alive.

And I'm talking about the SHOOTING BENCHES they put in the PRIMITIVE AREA, so people can load from their RANGE BOXES while in the PRIMITIVE range. I think the leadership at NMLRA doesn't have any respect or desire for primitive shooting.

That's true for a lot of events and organizations, not just muzzleloading. Membership everywhere is plummeting. Events everywhere are smaller and smaller. Kids nowadays feel that it's easier to stay home and go virtual shooting on their game consoles than to actually get out and shoot a real...

Tell me more. I just refinished my 35-year old stock with iron nitrate. First I cleaned up the stock with hydrogen peroxide. That got rid of all the crud and lightened the stock. Then I lightly wiped the stock with iron nitrate, applied heat, and washed-down the stock. Finally I rubbed in...

I get it. I'm geriatric, too. But if I want to shoot on a bench, I don't go to the off-hand line and take up a space with a bench. There's a place for bench shooting. I don't ruin other shooter's experience by setting up a bench where it's not appropriate. Likewise, if I want to shoot with a...

The NMLRA even set up BENCHES in the primitive area specifically so people could bring their range boxes there!!