Needed 1st range trip supplies for a percussion rifle?

[Mark Herman]

Dump the Crisco. Spit works better unless you get some Mr. Flintlock or LHV.

 

[SchwartzStock]

I am using pure Schweineschmalz

 

[10acres]

One thing I don’t think I’ve seen said yet is a ball puller.

 

[Colterkid]

Add, a good bank or loaning institution that will let you have an open ended loan to keep borrowing money, cause once you start you'll have to have a muzzleloader of all sizes, shapes, pistols, etc.

 

[FishDFly]

Some ranges will not allow you to load from the can or from a flask/horn. They are afraid of an accidental detonation of a large amount of powder. The solution is loading tubes you can buy from numerous sources. Mine are plastic, hold up to 150grs and fit nicely in a MTM R-50 Series magnum rifle box.

At the range I find loading from the tubes to be much easier and quicker than from the flask. Some of my local ranges are a bit dark at the firing line so the tubes are great.

By the way, Flint is way better than caps!

An advantage to your way, it is easier to keep up with if you powder down the barrel.

 

[FishDFly]

"By the way, Flint is way better than caps!"

Only in the eyes of some.

Wonder which T/C, Lyman and CVA have sold more of percussion or flint?

 

[Grenadier1758]

@zzzippper, you need to be coming to the Gemmer Range to shoot. We have the compressed air, members have the ball pullers and social interaction needed to make your trip to range successful.

 

[user 13896]

I see guys at my range back the truck up and unload a chest big enough to hide inside to go with their one rifle. Not my way of doing it. To each his own. I am a hunter, my range time is practice for hunting. When in the woods, ain't much open country here in Maine, if it isn't in my possibles bag I don't need it. That's how I go to the range, I shoot out of the bag. If I get there and I don't have something I need, I get to drive home with a lesson learned. A lot of the lists above are good advice. Trial and error will tell you what you need.

 

[user 49399]

Ditto. I shoot "out of the bag". I have a bag and horn or flask for each gun ready to grab and go.

 

[Gary Russell]

Some ranges will not allow you to load from the can or from a flask/horn. They are afraid of an accidental detonation of a large amount of powder. The solution is loading tubes you can buy from numerous sources. Mine are plastic, hold up to 150grs and fit nicely in a MTM R-50 Series magnum rifle box.

At the range I find loading from the tubes to be much easier and quicker than from the flask. Some of my local ranges are a bit dark at the firing line so the tubes are great.

By the way, Flint is way better than caps!

I make my loading tubes from shotgun shells work great use a 1/2 dowel for a plug

 

[SchwartzStock]

The MTM box with fitting tubes is a much more efficient and easier to manage solution....

 

[Capnball]

Patches in various thicknesses both dry and lubed. Small pair of cheap binoculars. Extra ear plugs.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Yes, of course. You need shooting glasses, ear plugs or ear muffs.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

This will help you get started:
Straight to the point:

 

[Grenadier1758]

Not a bad little video example with good simple instructions for beginners. Do you have the follow up video for cleaning?

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

Not a bad little video example with good simple instructions for beginners. Do you have the follow up video for cleaning?

This one is several years old using a "pinned" barrel flint gun. I need to film one using a wedged barrel gun but haven't yet. Cleaning videos are tough to avoid criticism because everyone cleans their guns differently.
Here it is using simple materials:

 

[Grenadier1758]

Indeed @B P Maniac Shooter, as one of the senior privates in the Grenadier Company, I am often tasked with conducting the cleaning the musket session at our schooling days. Every one has a different process that they claim is the best and anyone using s different method is just wasting ones time. I think its that way here on the Forum too. What I have learned is that there are many good ways to clean a muzzle loader. If the way you like gets the muzzle loader clean and there is no build up of rust, then its all good. Another observation is that reenactors may have a musket that appears clean, but is a sewer pipe in the barrel. At one event, I put a damp cleaning patch on my jag and the cleaning patch basically slid to the breech on its own weight. One of the other privates had to basically hammer the same patch down the barrel. Took about an hour to get that musket clean with steel wool patching and a lot of scrubbing.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

Indeed @B P Maniac Shooter, as one of the senior privates in the Grenadier Company, I am often tasked with conducting the cleaning the musket session at our schooling days. Every one has a different process that they claim is the best and anyone using s different method is just wasting ones time. I think its that way here on the Forum too. What I have learned is that there are many good ways to clean a muzzle loader. If the way you like gets the muzzle loader clean and there is no build up of rust, then its all good. Another observation is that reenactors may have a musket that appears clean, but is a sewer pipe in the barrel. At one event, I put a damp cleaning patch on my jag and the cleaning patch basically slid to the breech on its own weight. One of the other privates had to basically hammer the same patch down the barrel. Took about an hour to get that musket clean with steel wool patching and a lot of scrubbing.

WOW.....I agree. The "How To" videos are the ones I really have to be careful filming and posting. The most recent one "How to get Started in Muzzleloading" was changed 5-7 times before getting it ready to post. I ran it past a friend to get his opinion and he suggested things I haven't thought of....I changed it & it worked out better.

The often get criticism because of what you're said. Everyone does them different. What I've learned is.....I've watched several different cleaning videos and "developed" my own method. It works for me & that's what counts.