What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[smo]

I took my .54 for a short sit in the woods….

 

[deerstalkert]

finished inletting the trigger group on my smr build. it actually works slick with the lock!
the inletting aint perfect but i have an excuse. sometimes the MS causes me to twitch. it picked while i was truing up the inlet and made me create a slight gap. thats my story and i'm sticking to it!
by mid week i will have the rifle ready for the aqua fortis and finish!
i hope

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Picked up a nice little striker & brass tinder box for my larger buffalo all-day bag.

 

[JamesA]

At our local club range. 44 cal 1858 Remington replica, 25 g. FFFG, .454 Dia. round ball, #10 Remington caps. 12 out of 12 at 25 paces, steel silhouette. I love that clank.

 

[leadhoarder]

I actually got out and burned some powder. Put around 30 shots through the renegade. Someone near me at the range took interest and we chatted about the rifle for a while. I let him fire a few shots. He talked about a friend of his buying an inline before hunting season this year and he could not wait to talk about shooting a .54 with him.

 

[Griz44Mag]

I actually got out and burned some powder. Put around 30 shots through the renegade. Someone near me at the range took interest and we chatted about the rifle for a while. I let him fire a few shots. He talked about a friend of his buying an inline before hunting season this year and he could not wait to talk about shooting a .54 with him.

SHHHHHHHHHOOT- don't say that word here...... Mrs. Crabapple will knock your knuckles with her yardstick.....

 

[TFoley]

Went to my LGS and invested in a half-kilo bottle of coarse [1Fg] powder. Getting the usual 10% club discount helped, but it still hurt some.

Had to go outside and sit in the old roadster and watch the birdies for a bit to recover.

 

[D.Summers]

Deerstalker said "unobtainium"!! I'm gonna be using that!!

 

[user 49399]

I've always thought that would be a good combination, let us know how it works for you.

It worked great at the range today. No misfires and easy to load the whole time. Clean up was a breeze. It worked so good, I put it on a single action revolver.

 

[Ajgall]

Took the smooth rifle for a stroll in the woods

 

[John Spartan]

Worked on a cartridge box for my Charleville.

 

[Timber Wolf]

After giving up last night and sleeping on the issue, I “fixed” the action on my old CVA Mountain Rifle. I will post the details over on the Percussion thread.

 

[TFoley]

Not really 'doing', y'unnerstan', but right now I'm giving serious thought to investing in a flintlock duelling pistol. I had a Charles Moore percussion pistol many years ago, but I was then living in Germany, where, at that time, single-shot muzzleloaders were 'freiwaffen' and did not require any kind of permit. Sure, if I had wanted to buy BP, I would have needed a 'sprengstofferlaubnis' for the BP, but that was not a problem, since the stuff was held at my local [German] gun club, so for me it was not needed.

However, all good things come to an end, and moving back to UK, where even such a firearm is classed the same as a .458 Win Mag African game rifle, I wasn't prepared for the hassle, and gave it to a noob in the club.

So now, I'm looking hard in all the adverts here in UK. I'd like to put it in a fitted box with all the doo-dads that go with it, so I'll wait until we are back in Oregon and then go clean out The Gun Works in Springfield for all I need.

I blame Mr Persons and his posting of beautiful pistols he makes, and that guy Belliveau and his Pedersoli Charles Moore pistol video. However, this yen has long been deeply hidden away, and now I'm getting old, it has kinda bubbled to the top of my want list.

Wish me luck!

 

[Stykbow]

Me and my GPR are spending some quality time on the side of an East Tennessee ridge hoping for a deer to stroll by.

 

[JamesA]

Polished the brass fittings on the Hawken. Polished the stock. Checked the bore - no rust.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Checked the bore after cleaning a few days ago, gave my stuff a wipe down with some ballistol. Wife and I ordered new moccs for each other for Christmas.

 

[Justin.44]

Turned this...

Into this...

That's 177 lbs in that bowl!

 

[Rató:rats]

Got out this weekend for an overnight hunting trip. No luck on squirrels but my better half and I had fun blowing up pumpkins with the 20 gauge. Snowed yesterday so probably last camp of the season.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I worked on sighing in my latest Haines rifle build, I didn't like the brass front sight that came with kit and installed a one I found in my tackle box that had a very narrow German silver blade set in a brass base. My rear sight was too low so I filed a lot of the front sight away, in the process of filing a teardrop shaped blade I got too much reflection from where the sight curved up, this made the top of the sight disappear. I just couldn't see it with my 74 year old eyes on a cardboard target at 50 yards. I tried putting a notch at the top of the sight to reflect light a the top, but again, to see it the lighting had to be just right.

I got the sights set to minute of deer accuracy but could only see the sights if the sun was setting behind me to illuminate them.

Frustrated, I went back in the house and ordered a new, wider steel front sight and pulled my trusty .54 Beck rifle out of the gun safe to hunt with. It has a peep and will shoot a cloverleaf at 50 yards. I sure wanted to christen my new rifle but if it ain't right it ain't right. I would always have doubts about taking it to the woods and not being able to get a good enough sight picture when a deer stepped out.

 

[mushka]

You are right. Sights matter a lot. personally I like a fat front sight.