Made a new ramrod for my trade gun. I gave it a tapered tip to fit a coil worm:
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what load combo did you settle on @WALT53 ?
Why would they restrict BP but allow Pyrodex? They go boom the same.
Yesterday I epoxied the tip on the ram rod. Today 11:00 - 11:30 I drilled and pinned the tip. Took me extra time reviewing Jim's video on build to find the drill bit size. #50. Thankfully I'm a retired A&P Mechanic broke out the Snap-On drill index I used at work, drilled and pinned
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Got to the range, wife was mopping the kitchen floor. The 100 yd target turned out to be a leaverite. The blind squirrel did get 10 shots in the black with 3 slightly close to the bull but nothing worthy of bragging about. After shooting that 25 yard target I was all smiles till I hit the fifty.
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Well cleaned my gun today after going to the range yesterday and used my homemade breach scraper,what a difference in cleaning it took way less patches and cleaned up faster than usual and I mean clean no crude
or black on patches .So I still got a grin on my face,things are finally starting to go my way for a change.
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Spent my 80th birthday on the range passing down black powder shooting to my grandson best birthday in a long time
Finished cleaning up a TC .45 Hawken tonight. I scraped off the old finish, dyed the stock darker, cleaned the pitting off of the barrel, polished the brass, disassembled lock and triggers and cleaned and lubricated them, and cut the curled piece behind the triggers and polished off the stub. Now to go out and shoot it!
It’s the dark stocked rifle 2nd from the left. I need to find a place to put these new rifles - safes are full
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Did you make the sleeve? Looks great
Thanks! I make the sleeves using soft temper elkhide when I can get it. Waiting for some bison leather to arrive to make a case for another rifle
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Got about a half a bushel basket of spanish moss for wadding in the Toyota.
Was going to go shoot this afternoon but I had gotten too hot/dehydrated early on today when bush hogging and spraying earlier today. Not a good/safe combo.
Was going to go shoot this afternoon but I had gotten too hot/dehydrated early on today when bush hogging and spraying earlier today. Not a good/safe combo.
Nice work. Are you hand sewing or machine? I've made a few over the years.
I use either saddle stitching or my machines. I have a small Consew 206 machine for very thin leather and a Cowboy 4500 for thick leather
Oh man!! Lucky! I've got over 30 deer and Elk skins tanned and a few that I brain tanned. For a retired guy I got no extra time to sew.I use either saddle stitching or my machines. I have a small Consew 206 machine for very thin leather and a Cowboy 4500 for thick leather
You are lucky to have a nice assortment of deer and elk. It’s hard to find good quality deer or elk hides. I’ve had some that were real raggedy and some that are really nice. I normally get elk from American Elk and Deer in Colorado. I like to stitch rifle sheaths on a machine just because it takes so long to saddle stitch! I sew them inside out and double stitch them and they are very strong.
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