CONEHEAD RANGE DAY

[Kamu]

I went to the range the other day to work on my zero on my 36 cal. Well shot 5 times then dry balled the rifle. Sure as you know it my ball puller was at the house. Conehead move #1. When I got home I notice that my range rod had lost the T part of the handle so I used pliers yep twisted the ball puller in half. Conehead move #2. thought no big deal I'll just pull the breach plug never done it before so why not give it a try. Scratched the hell out of my barrel and didn't get the plug out it didn't even move. Conehead move#3. Took the clean out screw put 15 grains of power in it and blew it out.. Can't wait until the next range day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Black Jaque Janaviac]

Been there done that.

Now I just skip the ball puller and go right to trickling in powder from the cleanout (or remove nipple).

 

[coloradoclyde]

Good thing you stopped removing the breech plug when you did....Traditions breech plugs aren't removable....You would have ruined the gun.

 

[azmntman]

:metoo:

CONNIERHEAD WOODS DAY:

:redface: I went last day for squirrels a week or so back. Went to clean out oil with a alcohol swab. The patch came off. No patch puller. :hmm: Cut a paper clip off, twisted it up, stuck in hole for attachments and stuffed small pine twig to hold it place. HOME MADE PATCH PULLER!......uh it all came off in the barrel :cursing: More paper clip, tried again sturdier twig. Now we have a patch, two twisted paper clips and two twigs down the bore. Looked around, 3 squirrels watching and dog has gone to sleep in back f car. Having already tried to just blow out the patch with caps I now start pouring powder in the nipple hole (nipple wrench right by the patch puller) the .32 crocket has no clean out screw. Nope. Pliers located....Nope. Tried again with powder down the hole in the nipple and a 10 grain charge down the bore and smacked stock to try to get it past the twigs, paperclips and patch. NOPE (but all the unburned powder came out :idunno: ) Three fingered salute to the now 4 watching rodents, went hoe and first try with my C02 and all came out :grin: So what the heck? I needed to make SURE. Loaded about 5 gr and a PRB and out to the woodpile. Lifted the tarp, looked all around (nobody watching) and POP! Fired fine. WIFE WAS WATCHING :shocked2: Got a lecture about cops n such. Cleaned gun, was now cold so out to the wood pile. :hmm: whats that smell? Lifted tarp silver dollar size smoldering wood burn about to ignite! Took the piece of wood out and stepped on it to extinguish and started a fire in the wood stove. Will look for RB in ashes later.. Alls well!

Lessons for ya'll....TAKE YER STUFF with ya to the woods. Look in upstairs window before firing into woodpile. Look again for fire in the wood pile after firing into the wood pile! :redface:

 

[CapPopper]

:rotf:

Sounds less than fun.... I think everyone has had a day like that no matter what you're doing...

 

[Britsmoothy]

If you ain't screwed up with a muzzloader you ain't no muzzloader!

 

[azmntman]

:thumbsup:

 

[Snakebite]

That's why I don't have a shooting bag, I have a "POSSIBLES" bag. Everything I might possibly need right there on my shoulder. atriot:

 

[azmntman]

Gimme a break, only have 45 years in this....I'll get there :surrender:

:rotf: :rotf:

Ashamedly I have been out to shoot more in the last 2-3 years and not gotten to shoot due to leaving powder or caps or balls or.... than I have been able to shoot :redface: Being busy can suck.

 

[BrownBear]

...and not gotten to shoot due to leaving powder or caps or balls or....

Sure makes a guy creative, don't it! :grin:

Pop the hatch on the glove box in my truck and you'll find lumpy little leather drawstring bags labeled 30, 32, 36, 45, 50, 54, 58, 62, 72 and 75. That's how many calibers I shoot, and those are emergency supplies against my fergetfulness. There's also a rolled up ticking strip, another strip of flannel cleaning patch material, a Copenhagen can of lube, a tin of caps and a little leather wallet with 2 each of four different size flints. There's also a CO2 ball discharger and a small horn of 3f powder.

Takes up about half the space in the glove box, and lives there. Only reason the glove box isn't full, I haven't finished figuring out how to screw up! :rotf:

 

[meanmike8665]

I don't have a possible bag, I have a truck and I take a load of stuff when I am going to the shooting range for the day. I have not have to go home without shooting, since I forgot my rifle, now I even take an extra one of them.

Michael

 

[Britsmoothy]

...and not gotten to shoot due to leaving powder or caps or balls or....

Sure makes a guy creative, don't it! :grin:

Pop the hatch on the glove box in my truck and you'll find lumpy little leather drawstring bags labeled 30, 32, 36, 45, 50, 54, 58, 62, 72 and 75. That's how many calibers I shoot, and those are emergency supplies against my fergetfulness. There's also a rolled up ticking strip, another strip of flannel cleaning patch material, a Copenhagen can of lube, a tin of caps and a little leather wallet with 2 each of four different size flints. There's also a CO2 ball discharger and a small horn of 3f powder.

Takes up about half the space in the glove box, and lives there. Only reason the glove box isn't full, I haven't finished figuring out how to screw up! :rotf:

The last paragraph :rotf: :rotf:

 

[Clovis]

Sometimes I think leaving the rifle hanging on the wall is much better than taking it down. Looks pretty don't it?

 

[azmntman]

I just have dead things and John Wayne pictures on my walls :grin:

 

[Tinker2]

I just have dead things and John Wayne pictures on my walls :grin:

I don’t have anything dead on my wall but do have one of his guns on my wall sometimes :wink:



William

 

[SgtMaj65]

I had one of those days a while back (not quite like yours, however) where I dry-balled twice in one day in two different MLs. I got so mad at myself I just packed up and left the range early, because I figured the next bad luck was shooting my eye out, which would have been darn near impossible, but then, I thought the same thing about dry-balling twice in one day.
:rotf: :rotf:

 

[Adui]

Gimme a break, only have 45 years in this....I'll get there :surrender:

:rotf: :rotf:

Ashamedly I have been out to shoot more in the last 2-3 years and not gotten to shoot due to leaving powder or caps or balls or.... than I have been able to shoot :redface: Being busy can suck.

Been there! The last time I got really really lucky though. I had powder caps and ball, forgot my newly made patches. BUT we live 15 minutes from the range and I had a strip of patch cloth with me. So I sweet talked my wife, (who often comes to watch me shoot but doesn't shoot any more due to bad hands) into running home for the patch container.

While she was gone I got the target set, borrowed a pair of scissors from the range office, (Didn't have a knife with me or Id have cut at the barrel) and tried my hand at spit patches.

Needless to say, I now always have a strip or two of patch cloth in the shooting box so I can use it if I forget the container again (Which usually resides in the box but I didn't put it away after filling it because.. I was lazy... :redface: )

 

[dragnetbill]

I try to be careful about using the word "always"; I believe, ironically, that it is somehow related to the word "never" in that they seem to rarely be used correctly.
Lets form a club. The sometimes I arrive at the range with everything I need to shoot muzzle loaders.
Our motto could be: "Wait a minute, I be right back."

 

[azmntman]

:thumbsup:

 

[Adui]

I try to be careful about using the word "always"; I believe, ironically, that it is somehow related to the word "never" in that they seem to rarely be used correctly.
Lets form a club. The sometimes I arrive at the range with everything I need to shoot muzzle loaders.
Our motto could be: "Wait a minute, I be right back."

Im in! :thumbsup: