What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Omahkapi'si]

Ringing steel off hand 50 yds. My Frontier .50 affectionately known as Widowmaker. .495 balls today. Goex 2fg 60 gr. 30F with a wind. Darn cold.

 

[smo]

Looks cold RR…
Good thing those trees are blocking the wind…..

Good shooting!

 

[Stykbow]

Went hunting again this morning. I swear I’m having the worst luck this season. I’m seeing deer, but I can’t get it all to come together. That’s ok though because I’m having a good time.

 

[Snapshot in Norway]

I went to a local small competition MLAIC and shot 3 series, did Ok but not great! Good to meet up with old friends..!

 

[waarp8nt]

I accomplished quite a bit today.

Took a spike buck on Friday morning at 7:18 am, first season here in Illinois, was going to let him pass, but he stood right in front of me for over 10 minutes. Figured if the Good Lord was going to set meat in front of me for such a lengthy time, who am I to deny taking it!?! Today, I cut the skull cap to keep the antlers for some sort of future project.

Finished a Golden Age Arms conversion from caplock to flintlock. It had a Russ Hamm caplock and I finally found a flintlock to fit just over the mortise a couple weeks ago, took my time inletting the lock over the last few evenings. Today just needed to cut down the lock screws and install a brass tip on the other end of the ramrod. I was able to set the front screw much higher on the new lock, just touching the barrel, which allowed for the ramrod to push in a fair amount farther into the hole.

Assembled a couple of T/C locks after previously removing parts for another project, a cut down Renegade blanket gun.

Made an interesting discover while tinkering with the locks. I knew there were to different spring guides (one thick & one thin), however they are specific to the lock design and if the thick one is installed in the wrong lock (lock on the right) it will not allow the lock to cock fully before making contact with the spot facing of the lock bolt.

 

[sheriff john]

Finishing a European mount on a buck from last weekend, polishing some old antlers for powder measures, ball starters, and other stuff. Gaseous Bassett Hound and 21-pound yellow tom cat "helping".

 

[RicM]

Visited my son & daughter in law, brought the BP firearms. shown here, his first time shooting the TC Hawken .45 cal Flint Lock. We had a blast way different for him from the typical AR15's style rifles. He's actually taking a liking to the BP muzzleloaders

 

[oldwood]

Stained and put first coat finish on stock. Made a couple attempts at making a custom patch box finial

 

[Cattywompuss]

Shot my current .50 flinter for the first time!

 

[TNBandit]

Been gathering bits for this Norwich Springfield Model 1863 for awhile now. The stock is from Numrich Arms and the barrel is aftermarket from S&S Firearms and everything else is original parts.

 

[RicM]

That’s a beauty!! Nice job on it.

 

[TNBandit]

That’s a beauty!! Nice job on it.

Thank you. I'm already bored so I've got a cut down Model 1842 Harpers Ferry musket coming any day.. lol

 

[Crow-Feather]

I wondered when my new kit would get here.

 

[Paul Nelson]

Spent some time at the range Sunday, working on 100yds

 

[PathfinderNC]

Got started on my next Kibler Colonial (#7). I had a great nine blissful hours in the shop! I finished up carving the patch box, got the butt plate and toe plate on and worked on some of the carving behind the cheek rest and the bottom groove. I am going with a little "Folk Art" flavor on this one.

 

[deerstalkert]

fitted a butt plate to my smr stock. sanded the whole thing with heavy grit to get beneath the 30 years of barn grime.
sanded it again with medium grit to get rid of the heavy grit marks.
ate lunch, and sanded the stock again with fine grit paper to get rid of the medium grit marks. took a hand full of otc pain pills and am thinking about hitting it again with extra fine 320 grit. or not. have to feather it first anyway.

 

[smo]

Wiped down a couple of guns I’ve been handling lately before I put them away.

 

[toot]

Been gathering bits for this Norwich Springfield Model 1863 for awhile now. The stock is from Numrich Arms and the barrel is aftermarket from S&S Firearms and everything else is original parts. View attachment 105797

how much does a stock cost? if you don't mind me asking.

 

[toot]

it is a beautiful piece! have you shot it yet?

 

[TNBandit]

how much does a stock cost? if you don't mind me asking.

Well now.. I'm not finding any listed at all now. It was on sale last year for I believe, 179 but I had to wait almost 4 months to get it because they were closed due to Covid. It may have been on sale because they were dumping off remaining inventory because no matter how I type it into their search box nothing comes up.