What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[TDM]

Staked the sights on the .54 Woodsrunner and of course the front sight moved as I started the process, think it’s back where it was, have to check. Used my dial calipers to measure the height of the rear site notch, then applied that to the homemade sight on the .45 SMR. Filed it down pretty close to that measurement leaving a little to play with at the range. Did some reshaping on the sight crown.

 

[deerstalkert]

dove in at the deep end and started cleaning up AGAIN. can see about four feet of bench top.
sold pending funds my little Investarms carbine.
removed slanted breech plug from a 54cal green mountain barrel and installed a tanged plug.

 

[Leadball loader]

Spent two hours doing a more thorough cleaning on my flintlock rifle, smoothbore,and horse pistol on my return from fall rendezvous.The work after the shooting fun!
Looking forward to spring rendezvous already!!!
LBL

 

[Banjoman]

Tried out my new, homemade patch knife. It works fine.

 

[Billy Boy]

Camped the last two nights at our club in Northern Mississippi.
It was our scheduled clean up weekend prior too of Fall rendezvous..

Lots of weed eating , removing down trees on the woods walk.

Hauled & stacked fire wood in preparation of the cold Northern Mississippi winter…

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39 f this morning as we broke camp, one of the first cool snaps of the season..

I noticed what appeared to be two foot drifts in several fields as I drove North on my way home today…

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Mississippi snow cover..

39 degrees….above?

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

I shot the .375 M/L today.
It's 1: 16 twist.
My efforts at PP are improving, learning all the time.
Decent Paper (actually anything BP ) is very hard to come by here in Oz, especially different thicknesses so bullet size is critical.
Have been lapping out a Lee bullet sizer (done it several times before ) but this one seems to be harder than usual. Finding if I don't roll them just right, too loose, they are tight to get down.
If the bullet doesn't go down the barrel smoothly, I know it's going to be off the group. My cleaning ritual has to be right for it to shoot well.
Why bother ??
This old girl was made locally about 40 years ago, ( its a nostalgia thing ), has been shot a lot and the inside of the barrel is only fair. GG bullets give trouble. We'll get there.

 

[smo]

39 degrees….above?

Yes! It felt really good after being 88f two days before!

 

[WALT53]

If you have a proven recipe for keeping out of the old girls hair I could sure use it!

My man cave ( my shed I do all my stuff in ) is out side ,I was tiring flys and she couldn’t stand the smell of the head cement so she told me to order a shed.I only have a little electric heater in it so when it gets really cold then I gotta be careful.lol

 

[TDM]

My man cave ( my shed I do all my stuff in ) is out side ,I was tiring flys and she couldn’t stand the smell of the head cement so she told me to order a shed.I only have a little electric heater in it so when it gets really cold then I gotta be careful.lol

You’d think having a whole camp to escape to I’d be safe! But it just doesn’t work out that way. Oh well, too late to change now.

 

[WALT53]

You’d think having a whole camp to escape to I’d be safe! But it just doesn’t work out that way. Oh well, too late to change now.

She’s just keeping tabes on you thats all to make sure not doing something you shouldn’t be doing ,that’s my old girls excuse any way.
You know it’s a women thing.lol

 

[TDM]

She’s just keeping tabes on you thats all to make sure not doing something you shouldn’t be doing ,that’s my old girls excuse any way.
You know it’s a women thing.lol

Correct.

 

[Dale Lilly]

Beadwork is easy good beadwork is very difficult. That is 'good' beadwork. Dale P.S. Mine is below average or worse

 

[le125verne]

Repurposed an old .51 flashlight spring and made a touch-hole cleaner for my .45 caliber Flint rifle.

 

[le125verne]

Today my son and I attended the offhand meat match at my club that we practiced for yesterday (his first shooting match). We had a great time and he did pretty well! I won 2 of the 12 rounds and got 10 packs of good meat out of it. It was especially satisfying that we were shooting the .490 and .530 balls we made together a couple weeks ago! It was a good day.

What distance?

 

[smo]

Continued prepping for our upcoming Fall Rendezvous at Hatchie Run Longrifles in Ashland Ms.

I’ve been putting off assembling my camp wheel barrow for awhile now…
Well ….it’s still a work in progress, but it’ll haul wood.

 

[Justin.44]

What distance?

The schedule said it was at 35 yards so that's what we practiced at the day before but I think it was actually set up around 25-30 yards.

 

[le125verne]

Continued prepping for our upcoming Fall Rendezvous at Hatchie Run Longrifles in Ashland Ms.

I’ve been putting off assembling my camp wheel barrow for awhile now…
Well ….it’s still a work in progress, but it’ll haul wood.


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Good job. My brother liked my steel wheelbarrow so much it VANISHED and has never seen again. Wheels like these are hard to find.

 

[TDM]

Beadwork is easy good beadwork is very difficult. That is 'good' beadwork. Dale P.S. Mine is below average or worse

Mine too.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Checked my flintlock after a good clean yesterday. Yup, clean and shiny.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Continued prepping for our upcoming Fall Rendezvous at Hatchie Run Longrifles in Ashland Ms.

I’ve been putting off assembling my camp wheel barrow for awhile now…
Well ….it’s still a work in progress, but it’ll haul wood.


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That round thing with the spokes looks like a good invention. You might just be on to something there....