What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Omahkapi'si]

Packing a few things for camp this weekend. Filled my powder horn with Schuetzen 3f. Stocked up my bag with .490 lead and lots of .010 patches. Extra lead in my haversack. Tomorrow night I'll pack the Jeep and head to camp early Saturday am. All goes well, have the tent up and coffee on by 8am.

 

[Tanker]

I got my rifle and gear ready for grocery shoot on Sunday. A local BP club hosts a few shoots every year.

 

[deerstalkert]

I had a friend notice something I did not the other day. That was the wood around the lock on my Woodsrunner being high (proud) of the lock around part of it. So today I addressed that. I took the lock out and sanded the areas that were high. I did repeated fittings to see where I was with it and finally, got it to where I wanted the wood to be.
Then I put on Aqua Fortis, followed by a heat gun treatment. After that I opened a stubborn to open can of finish and covered the newly made surface areas. The wood came out nicely striped and you can't really tell the difference.
Now the only problem is that the wood by the tang is a little high, too. However, since that entails taking off the barrel, and removing those dang pins, that will wait for a bit.
In the meantime, since I had it off, I took the lock apart to have a finish applied. However, I do not have a punch for the cock, so I ordered one from Kibler today, and will attend to the lock when the punch comes.

The Doc is out now.

this is where a scraper is your friend.

 

[deerstalkert]

today i went dumpster diving and didn't even leave my garage. have a big roll around tool box i store possibles in.
yesterday i ran out of .300 balls for my whatzit and thought i would have to order and wait to shoot it again after the tune up yesterday.
my bride reminded me of that chest and sure enough, clear in the bottom under the lions and crocodiles was a box of .285 balls. fired two loads with a single .008 patch. then doubled the patches for the remainder of the shots. guess which two shots were with the single patch.
was using the rammer and it broke right at the brass end. guess i should get a composite one for it.

 

[DrLaw]

this is where a scraper is your friend.

I do not know how it would be when a sanding stick worked pretty well.
In the end though, I got it where I wanted it and am a tad happier now.
Thank you, though.

The Doc is out again.

 

[le125verne]

I had a friend notice something I did not the other day. That was the wood around the lock on my Woodsrunner being high (proud) of the lock around part of it. So today I addressed that. I took the lock out and sanded the areas that were high. I did repeated fittings to see where I was with it and finally, got it to where I wanted the wood to be.
Then I put on Aqua Fortis, followed by a heat gun treatment. After that I opened a stubborn to open can of finish and covered the newly made surface areas. The wood came out nicely striped and you can't really tell the difference.
Now the only problem is that the wood by the tang is a little high, too. However, since that entails taking off the barrel, and removing those dang pins, that will wait for a bit.
In the meantime, since I had it off, I took the lock apart to have a finish applied. However, I do not have a punch for the cock, so I ordered one from Kibler today, and will attend to the lock when the punch comes.

The Doc is out now.

You can use an old brass bolt, appropriate size, for a punch.

 

[pacanis]

I topped off my 3F and 2F flasks. And also painted the black blade white on my GTR. Eventually I'll get a sliver blade for it. TOTW has them for Lymans, but I don't need anything else they have at the moment and they would not throw it in with my last order.

Got the range rod and shooting box in the Jeep already. Another glorious day after a night of rain and thunder. I should be shooting in another hour here. We'll see if slicking things up helps my groups. I might have to go to a thicker patch, too.

 

[Mesaflintlock]

The lock on this .54 was covered in browning, along with all the screws and barrel. Slowly trying to make it look better to me. I’ve already done a lot to it, but yesterday’s project was taking the lock apart and removing the browning, I had previously fire blued all the screws and scraped all the brass (poor fit/finish).

 

[Terrier]

Saturday was the club shoot. I'd put a new silver front sight on my SMR earlier in the week and didn't take enough practice to properly get it set just right, so I didn't do particularly well on the targets. I had fun, tho, even in the rain... The rest of the weekend was taken up with yard and domestic type work.

Monday, picked up some deer skin to make some leggings with.

Tuesday saw the delivery of some drop front breeches and a couple of new hunting shirts. I wasn't keen on wearing white pants, so RIT to the rescue. They turned out a nice buckskin tan color. I normally make all my own stuff like that, but here lately I just don't have enuf hours to work on things like I used to, so I elected to go with "store boughten".

Also received a couple of felt hat blanks and turned the brown one into a cocked hat for our Tennessee Longhunter living history events.

If all goes according to plan, Saturday I'll be making a pair of leggings for the Sunday Living History event we'll be doing for the Boy Scouts, and a big pot of venison stew for our lunch that day.

 

[deerstalkert]

today for giggles in my whatzit .30 cal, i tried some 110g conical i have a mold for. they are for a 32/20 originally but, nuthin ventured etc.
they cast at .313 and the whatzit is .30 .
i took a piece of aluminum angle and drilled two holes in it, one .298 and one .30.
wrapped a piece of emery cloth around the bit and polished the holes. ended up at .30 and .306
chucked up a rod and sized those little bullets nose first. being dead soft the rod cupped the base some and a felt wad fit perfect.
results with 30g fffg swiss.

 

[DrLaw]

You can use an old brass bolt, appropriate size, for a punch.

Yeah, I know. But I don't have an old brass bolt.

My wife might say I'm an old crass dolt, but nope on the old brass bolt.

The Doc is out and thanks you, now.

 

[garypl]

Lee 2-cavity .457 mold for my Ruger OA arrived today - will be melting some lead this weekend!

 

[Ed C.]

With the heat and my range temporarily closed things have been slow. Does watching Jeremiah Johnson count? That's the best I can do today. I did get some 1075 caps and FFFg BP last week.

 

[BoomStick]

Patterning work this afternoon. Well, I'm saying work but it certainly wasn't. 16-ga at 30 yards, 75 grains behind 1 1/8 oz of #8 and #9 mixed.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

I live a mile from an historical town here in Kentucky. When the Ohio Riverboat Sternwheeler folks stops by ol' Washington KY for a tour, I volunteer to host the tour of a living history log cabin built in 1787.
I had about 50 guests in 3 waves stop by today.

This fellar on the left just could not pass up the chance to hold that gun….

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Fire bans are on so scrapped camping.

 

[Gordoncourtney]

I live a mile from an historical town here in Kentucky. When the Ohio Riverboat Sternwheeler folks stops by ol' Washington KY for a tour, I volunteer to host the tour of a living history log cabin built in 1787.
I had about 50 guests in 3 waves stop by today.

This fellar on the left just could not pass up the chance to hold that gun….

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What a lovely photo of two old boys

 

[Gordoncourtney]

today for giggles in my whatzit .30 cal, i tried some 110g conical i have a mold for. they are for a 32/20 originally but, nuthin ventured etc.
they cast at .313 and the whatzit is .30 .
i took a piece of aluminum angle and drilled two holes in it, one .298 and one .30.
wrapped a piece of emery cloth around the bit and polished the holes. ended up at .30 and .306
chucked up a rod and sized those little bullets nose first. being dead soft the rod cupped the base some and a felt wad fit perfect.
results with 30g fffg swiss. View attachment 244207View attachment 244208

Fiddling like you. Made a. Brass plug finally finding the minor bore size on my Feltutzer 10.4 1/37” twist. See utube So .433 was a tight fit in the rifling. It’s difficult as the first inch or so is a taper to help bullets go in, made 5 molds so far but getting there. I guess I can go paper patched with .423 dia bullets but I made some and put several in lathe and cut compression groves as photo One mold was a bit undersized so I used a 7/16” whit tap cutting groves in the mould , they left tiny grease groves but the lead did not fill the cut thread Starting to get somewhere. Seems this one is private purchase as a target rifle so there are possibly differences with the military one. Not sure if I love it yet. It’s a strange percussion rifle. But the Swiss are a bit strange anyway what with their clocks Good for 300 yards 1864, we’ll just about

Nice to chat and learn something new. Take care from London

 

[pacanis]

Placed an order with TOTW. Some balls and a front sight.

 

[Coldfingers]

Only 5am and already a productive day.
I have had this old pistol barrel floating around, and I have been wanting to do some witching on my barrel on my longrifle. Well had a thought, practice on the old barrel. Turned out OK, I do need better files.

Might need to get some parts now and put this to use