What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Timber Wolf]

I got on the website and read a few posts. I know, pretty pitiful.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Keeping andy52 busy with all my questions about the pants he's going to make for me in the near future....

 

[Zapadach]

Tried to figure out how to put up an avatar.

 

[Erwan]

About muzzle loading......
Nothing, I think...

 

[Frederickdav]

I took my brand spanking new India style Brown Bess to my back yard and created some smoke! I put powder in the pan then dumped the rest down the barrel. I followed that with a ball of tow. Then shot it! Because I live in suburbia, I didn't put a ball in it. I really don't want to go to jail.

 

[Davey Boy]

The gauge block made for evening out the ramrod worked spectacular. It now fits the pipes and seats in the stock terrific. This morning I went out at dark to the workshop and got a second coat of stain on it. Will be machining the brass ends perhaps this weekend.

This is for a 54 caliber and I don't know what the diameter of the ball pushing end should be. Plan was to make an educated guess.

 

[Idaho Ron]

The one issue you have with curved discs for targets is the splatter or ricochets going up and out of the park if you hit the disc on the top curve.
Every range I have been to outlawed them because of that. A properly hung steel is on a 5-8% forward tilt so the bullet deflections are downward and into the ground.
This link has an excellent tutorial on the safe way to mount targets.

I shoot in a very remote area. I could see if a guy was shooting in a very populated area that it might be an issue. But the splatter is not going to go far. The first rule of shooting is what is your target and what is behind it comes to play. If you know there is potentially an issue with what is behind the target then the shooter should not take the shot no matter what.

 

[JohnL]

Cleaned up my Pedersoli Classic sxs .12 for a hunting trip on Saturday and checked the accuracy of a new powder measure someone made for me.

 

[russellshaffer]

I passed on 4 cans of Goex in a store in Rawlins, Wyoming. $44.95 a pound. Decided I didn't need it that bad.

 

[rudy43norvelle]

I received my original bayonet for my original 1842 Musket.

 

[Zapadach]

I passed on 4 cans of Goex in a store in Rawlins, Wyoming. $44.95 a pound. Decided I didn't need it that bad.

I gave up trying to find let alone buy black powder, I now do it myself.

 

[smo]

I loaded my .54…. Season starts at dawn!

 

[Eric Krewson]

Good luck, our M/L season starts Monday week.

 

[APG]

Received 10 lbs. of Schuetzen 2fg black powder along with 1,000 Schuetzen musket caps in the mail from Crater Fireworks.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I got my last from Crater Fireworks as well, the place has a name that would cause most to overlook then for B/P. With shipping an hazmat they are high priced but I needed some powder.

 

[deerstalkert]

heated and aligned the cock on my cva mountain percussion. made a tang bolt for a tc hawken flintlock that screws into the trigger guard. snapped a few caps on the CVA.
Heated and bent the cock on the TC to get it to spark.
Polished the frizzen to get it to spark.
lightened the frizzen spring to get it to spark.
polished the foot of the frizzen to get it to spark.
changed flints 6 times to get it to spark. finally got it to spark fair with english black.
switched to fffg in the pan.
finally got it to ignite 8 out of 10 pans!
and they say tc flintlocks are junk!
hopefully it stops raining long enough to throw some lead.

 

[mushka]

I shot my flint .54 cal rifle and flint .62 cal smooth bore rifle. I did dismally with both. Even off the bench I sucked. Not so much from flinchjing but the guns seemed to jump or buck when they went off. The 50 yard target got missed a lot. I shot the .54 cal 10 times and the .62 4 times and the only good thing about the whole exersize is that both guns went off every time. No long delays. I'm not sure I like flintlocks very much.

 

[deerstalkert]

I shot my flint .54 cal rifle and flint .62 cal smooth bore rifle. I did dismally with both. Even off the bench I sucked. Not so much from flinchjing but the guns seemed to jump or buck when they went off. The 50 yard target got missed a lot. I shot the .54 cal 10 times and the .62 4 times and the only good thing about the whole exersize is that both guns went off every time. No long delays. I'm not sure I like flintlocks very much.

had the same problem when i first started flint shooting. the solution is to burn about 2 lbs of powder. seems to tame the bucking.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Watching The Patriot tonight on TV...does that count?

 

[Davey Boy]

Brass ends to new ramrod completed