What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[rhart]

be delighte to have you. are you in Central Texas?

Unfortunately no. I live in Tulsa Oklahoma.

 

[smo]

Dry fired, dry fired , dry fired…

Made up some more cleaning solution.
Went thru my smoothbore pouch and my rifle pouch cleaning them out and resupplied my flint wallets with fresh , sharp rocks.
Then dry fired, dry fired & dry fired some more…

 

[TDM]

We have a 'possum that loves our back porch trash can. If we forget to close it, and put a rock on the lid, he will be curled up, in the can, asleep in the morning. I have to turn the trash can upside down to make him leave. He goes a few feet, gives me an accusative stare, runs ten feet and does it again. He is so sweet, I could not kill him. Hmmmm? Polecat

Possums get a bad wrap and I feel bad about the ones I’ve shot over the years just because they were eating dog food or whatever. They have their place like all the other critters. This past fall Abby and I were at the camp as usual and she was outside barking and really cutting up, so I grabbed a pistol and flash light and went out for a look. She was barking at something in my fenced in garden. Turned out it was a possum crawling along the top of the fence enjoying the Muscadine grapes that I hadn’t already picked! We left the possum alone, but next day the remaining grapes were no more.

 

[wganz]

did some more Minie ball casting
should finish that batch up tomorrow
the pile of cast just keeps growing larger, got 250 of the Lee 578-485 for the carbine matches.

 

[deerstalkert]

finished browning my .30 whatsit barrel. sure am liking that Laurel mountain stuff.
6* outside today and windy. checked all the equipment for dead batteries and antifreeze, them waxed the barrel.

 

[Shiloh]

Possums get a bad wrap and I feel bad about the ones I’ve shot over the years just because they were eating dog food or whatever. They have their place like all the other critters. This past fall Abby and I were at the camp as usual and she was outside barking and really cutting up, so I grabbed a pistol and flash light and went out for a look. She was barking at something in my fenced in garden. Turned out it was a possum crawling along the top of the fence enjoying the Muscadine grapes that I hadn’t already picked! We left the possum alone, but next day the remaining grapes were no more.

They will kill your chickens if you have any.

 

[nwpahunter415]

posted on my other thread but figured I'd post here to. I ordered more! Track of the Wolf are gonna love me!

 

[TDM]

They will kill your chickens if you have any.

Can’t have chickens here at the camp, too many coons, coyotes too. Never heard of possums eating chickens.

 

[Dale Lilly]

finished browning my .30 whatsit barrel. sure am liking that Laurel mountain stuff.
6* outside today and windy. checked all the equipment for dead batteries and antifreeze, them waxed the barrel.
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Hi Deerstalker. I have used most brands of browning. I have settled on Laurel Mountain. Used as directed, there is no better IMHO. Dale

 

[Rob M.]

Started bedding a Oct. to round , 44" , 20 ga. barrel into a walnut blank and grinding flats onto another barrel , 20 ga. 46"

 

[Ohio Rusty]

It has been strange weather here in Ohio for February, but I'll take a sunny day in the 70's !! Spoils me for spring to come. Tomorrow will be in the low 30's. I hung out at the forge most of the day and just made 'stuff'. It was nice to get out of the house and do some hammering.

 

[Ohio Rusty]

This has taken several weeks but today I think I completed my last step in load and loading development in testing .015 square patches I cut from pillow ticking. Now to use this on the right hand Hawken and see how it works.
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It's nice to have such great eyes you can drill them in the bullseye !! I could see like that in another lifetime ....
Ohio Rusty ><>

 

[Ed C.]

It's nice to have such great eyes you can drill them in the bullseye !! I could see like that in another lifetime ....
Ohio Rusty ><>

I am amazed that the bullets found their way 'cause all I can see is a dark fuzzy dot on the target but the sights are in focus.

 

[Greyrider]

Adding the wolf face to the shooting bag

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

They will kill your chickens if you have any.

yes they will! One day while I was staying with my parents in Arkansas in winter I came out of the shower and my father told me that there was a possum in the chicken coup. I slipped on a pair of shoes and a pair of pajama bottoms, loaded a Colt .22 SA revolver and waded out into the snow to do battle. Found three dead chickens. Added one dead possum then went back into the house.

I got no chickens here though and they don't really eat all that much cat food. 'coons on the other hand....

 

[TDM]

yes they will! One day while I was staying with my parents in Arkansas in winter I came out of the shower and my father told me that there was a possum in the chicken coup. I slipped on a pair of shoes and a pair of pajama bottoms, loaded a Colt .22 SA revolver and waded out into the snow to do battle. Found three dead chickens. Added one dead possum then went back into the house.

I got no chickens here though and they don't really eat all that much cat food. 'coons on the other hand....

Learn something new everyday!

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

Yellow Bird Gun vs. Almond Milk Carton. Target is about thirty yards out. YBG is wearing her 12" .50 caliber T/C Grey Hawk barrel with a 30 grain charge of Old Eynsford under a .490 PRB. Yup, this is the "after blizzard" backyard range... and I forgot my glasses, so this makes it more fun.

 

[rhart]

Yellow Bird Gun vs. Almond Milk Carton. Target is about thirty yards out. YBG is wearing her 12" .50 caliber T/C Grey Hawk barrel with a 30 grain charge of Old Eynsford under a .490 PRB. Yup, this is the "after blizzard" backyard range... and I forgot my glasses, so this makes it more fun.

Excuse my ignorance, but why do you call it your 'yellow bird gun'? Did you shoot a yellow canary with it or something (I've got a story)?

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

Excuse my ignorance, but why do you call it your 'yellow bird gun'? Did you shoot a yellow canary with it or something (I've got a story)?

"Yellow Bird" is a character I created for a series of books and short stories I wrote. She uses a gun somewhat similar based on an English Sea Service pistol lock. I built the gun as a sort of "proof of concept" gun. In her bookverse, the idea for a short-barreled traditional sidelock gun carried muzzle down and ready to be used against a large predator at close range caught on and the general design took her name.

Her's is not exactly like mine... and nobody else's is either. Yellow Bird is genetically engineered and has a few anatomical differences from the main stock of humanity, so her stock has some notches in the breach to accommodate some extra ligaments in her shoulder. The gun is not in one of the books currently published, but it exists in the manuscript for at least one short story and one novel length manuscript.

I will attach a copy of a short story manuscript (still a work in progress) here in PDF format so you can see the drawings. I would respectfully ask that it not be shared online outside of this forum.. story ideas are kind of like trade secrets, but as I will probably croak in the next few years, my unpublished works likely have no real value. Enjoy.

 

[TDM]

Continued to work inletting the silver thumb rest on the Gemmer. Making progress, but still a ways to go.