What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[TDM]

I like it @Tacitus !

 

[ETipp]

Spent the day yesterday cutting and pre-lubing a bunch of new patches. Patches are .015 ticking from October Country lubed with TOTW Mink Oil.

With mother nature being adamant with her bipolar mood, it appears as if it may be days before I can go out back of my house and do some testing with my Crockett Rifle. Still waiting on better and warmer weather before I go to the range to do more testing on my GPR, as well as a couple others.

I did receive another order from TOTW.

 

[Jim K]

Didn’t think I’d get to shoot this weekend due to wind. Walked out of the shop this morning and it was pretty nice. Grabbed my gear and headed to the range. Shot my Kibler SMR for awhile.

 

[Dave Markowitz]

Today I chased the threads in the bolster of the Zouave I bought last week. They were deformed and the replacement nipples I got from Track wouldn't fully seat. All good now. I should be shooting it tomorrow.

 

[TDM]

I’ve never been happy with my Investarms Hawken, way too many hang fires and miss fires, plus inconsistent grouping. And I have a tuned, L & R RPL lock on it. The Investarms vent liner is tiny, smaller than a Pedersoli and off course even smaller than a White Lighting. When I was building the kit I opened the vent up to 1/16”, shot it for awhile, wasn’t happy, so I opened the vent hole to 3/32”. Wish I hadn’t done that, but it didn’t seem to make the ignition better or worse. So today I took the liner out and enlarged the inside chamfer, which almost didn’t exist. Put it back in, and chamfered the outside too. I left enough metal to recut the slot on the edges to remove it for replacement if this doesn’t help. Also considering putting the original lock back on and trying that too. The L & R just seems slow. I’ll shoot it tomorrow and see if any changes occur.

 

[Old Sparky]

trying out some conicals in the pietta 1858

 

[Old Sparky]

The conicals shoot well at short range but they drop like a stone after that LOL.

 

[Rob M.]

On.my NW gun ; stamped LONDON , proof mark and circle fox on barrel , then fixed a boo boo where there is a decent sized gap in the barrel channel . On other NW gun ; cleaned up tang area and sand smooth , cut in tang carving , incised . Then I'm refining the buttstock ....coffee break now . I'll finish the B.S. and then I'm gonna carve the incised carvings and the rear of both mortices . That'll probably be it for the day .... tomorrow start refining the stock forward of the mortices ...can't wait for final sanding ! For both actually !

 

[Eterry]

It was after midnight, so that's today.
I cleaned my 14 bore single barrel. I have jags for 20 and 12 bore, was interesting to say the least. Best i can tell, a nice smooth bore all the way to the breech.

 

[Eterry]

Today I chased the threads in the bolster of the Zouave I bought last week. They were deformed and the replacement nipples I got from Track wouldn't fully seat. All good now. I should be shooting it tomorrow.

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Mine likes 500 gr Lee minies sized at .578, and 60grs fffg. Don't pound the bullet, but use a LOT of pressure seating it. Makes for small groups.
My sights are as follows.
Fine bead hits at 25yards, full bead 2"high at 50, dead on at 75 yards.

 

[ETipp]

Well guys, I tried. I tried to do some testing with my .32 Crockett rifle but the wind was just too much for testing purposes. Shot 4 times, walked back in the house and went to cleaning.

I do have a recommendation for anyone that thinks they would like to live smack dab on top of a mountain......................Don't do it.

 

[TDM]

Well guys, I tried. I tried to do some testing with my .32 Crockett rifle but the wind was just too much for testing purposes. Shot 4 times, walked back in the house and went to cleaning.

I do have a recommendation for anyone that thinks they would like to live smack dab on top of a mountain......................Don't do it.

Shooting in high winds is no fun.

 

[Hawk54]

Went to two gun shows today. Spent the entry fee for each and bought a cup of coffee and an M&M cookie. That was it.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

Talked to a group of the Children of the American Revolution of about 50 kids and adults. Told them about the harshness of living in KY back in 1786, the trapping industry and the guns needed to survive with.
The ladies sure loved trying those furs around their necks on cold day in KY....

And another lady....

Yep....talked about those tools used back in the day....

This fellar REALLY got into holding the ( UNLOADED ) guns...

This is 1/2 of the 2 groups we had this afternoon. Kids learning about history. That's PRICELESS.....!!

 

[Rató:rats]

Got my new knife by Nathan Allen. Nice little skinner. Ebony handle.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Today I installed a very large 3/8" White lightnin vent liner in the .58 swamped barrel. I find the set up for this operation rather stressful but I'm very particular on proper placement. This came out OK.

 

[Alan O]

Sharpened chisels and woodworking tools with my new stones. Also began filing brass butt cap for my Kentucky pistol.

 

[NRFord]

Coned a barrel, .40 cal with Mr. Woods tool. Have another to do this week. Began the last phase of my Kibler SMR build. Rust bluing the barrel. And built the scald tank. Pretty busy after battling a bug for 3-1/2 days!

 

[repawn]

Received my new L&R Manton lock and scraped out a hickory ramrod for my pistol build.

 

[DiMarco_Mercantile]

Been working on my bison powder horn, I got the surface to pretty much how I like it, refined imperfections! Slowly filing away at the plug as we speak.