What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[smo]

Dry fired, dry fired , dry fired…

 

[Zutt-man]

You hunt turkey with a 24 gauge?! Would not have thought that practical. What does your pattern look like at thirty yards?

I killed a handful with an unmentionable .410 as a kid. This will be my first year using it, but patterns are solid. If I get a free shooting day, I’ll share

 

[SwanShot]

it takes me a full week to clear off my bench top. it takes me 4 hours to get it back to normal!

Thee and me too

 

[Abarnes]

Shheesh! If "they" hear that they will be trying to ban muzzle loaders as weapons of mass destruction.

No more than a shotgun

 

[BackDraft]

Shheesh! If "they" hear that they will be trying to ban muzzle loaders as weapons of mass destruction.

I think “Trudy-boy” up North, is already working on that!

 

[Ed C.]

No more than a shotgun

Just kidding. It would be hard to find a gun less efficient at killing large numbers of people than a muzzle loader......but then we do have to consider the idiots that make our laws. The assault muzzle loader?...fires 600 rounds per minute....can't have that....outlaw muzzle loaders!

 

[Abarnes]

Just kidding. It would be hard to find a gun less efficient at killing large numbers of people than a muzzle loader......but then we do have to consider the idiots that make our laws. The assault muzzle loader?...fires 600 rounds per minute....can't have that....outlaw muzzle loaders!

I get blisters every time I try to hit 600 rounds in a minute, my fingers don't move fast enough.

 

[Sudsy]

Beautiful 65 degree day here in the Peoples Republik of NJ, so I took my new to me Pedersoli .32 Frontier flintlock to the range to see how well it shoots.
Could have done better, 8" circle of holes at 35 yards

Tried 30, 35, and 40 gr of 3f Goex, 310 Hornady swaged balls, with pillow ticking and linen patches with all kinds of different lubes and amounts.
I'm thinking I went too heavy on the powder, going to try 25 and 20 grains, and .311 balls, when I go back Monday.

On a positive note, the lock and ignition were great, very fast.

 

[Ed C.]

I get blisters every time I try to hit 600 rounds in a minute, my fingers don't move fast enough.

Get the muzzle loader that has the full auto feature.

 

[MTplainsman]

Just kidding. It would be hard to find a gun less efficient at killing large numbers of people than a muzzle loader......but then we do have to consider the idiots that make our laws. The assault muzzle loader?...fires 600 rounds per minute....can't have that....outlaw muzzle loaders!

I think "they" are also very concerned about stray sparks from the flash pan sending innocent bystanders to the Grossman Burn Center...

Flintlocks, for one, have got to go!!!

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

It was amazing weather in KY today.
No video work today.
70 F, so, the Lyman's GPR & I had a "woods" time together...

 

[Bunk]

Finished putting the base caps on the last 15 of 50 Hahn Sharps tubes.
Finally completed zeroing in the Sharps carbine for 50 yards. and got a good zero.
Cleaned the carbine and left the breech block to soak overnight.
filled the lube groove on some Sharps ring tail bullets.
In the morning projects are to finish cleaning the carbine and make fresh cartridges for the Sharps.
In two days shot up about 40+ rounds breech block as easy to open as when I started. Hahn machine works fix is why.
For an old codger a very busy and successful day.
Respectfully
Bunk

 

[COTNTOP]

What happened to BPM, there is a new guy in his place.

 

[Shiloh]

No sir, I haven't. I was contemplating doing that, and also running some red scotch brite. on a 40, or 36 cal, jag.

Very practical gun... my own is made from a T/C New Englander/Grey Hawk

I have a blunderbuss from Military Heritage that needs much work to be shootable.

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

This morning I decided to get "better acquainted" with my T/C Renegade Flintlock .50 caliber. Thought I would try a "duplex" charge with 20 grains of Old Eynsford under 50 grains of Pyrodex P. Projectile was a Hornady .45 caliber 200 grain XTP inside an unmentionable. Muzzle velocity tops out around 1600 FPS according to the P-Max black powder internal ballistics simulator Target was a water-filled half-gallon milk carton just short of 25 yards. It made a wonderful "splosion"!

 

[Gordoncourtney]

Ha ha that was a struggle virtually finished my hammer , it works , from a block of steel. All with an angle grinder and a flap disk as previous string Finished with a dremmil and sanding tube. Don’t want it too perfect Barrel .625 rifled Vickers drawn tube , made breach plug also I’ll finish it one day ha ha Took best part of 12 hours to make the geometry of it was the hard bit, not the cutting Wood nice English walnut

The inside parts of the lock are Thomas Bland 1885 shotgun rebounding hammer

 

[TDM]

@Dale Allen Raby i see the snow finally retreated!

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

@Dale Allen Raby i see the snow finally retreated!

Blizzard on the way today. Both hips are giving me grief.

 

[TDM]

Blizzard on the way today. Both hips are giving me grief.

Thought I saw you had more headed your way. It’s storming like the world is coming to an end at my place right now.

 

[LSB]

Finished a sheath for a buddy of mine - his wife had the knife made for him.

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Very nice!!