What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?
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I hope he comes back. Place is kind of boring without him.
While I wait for his return I placed an order with the log cabin shop while I watch my barrel rust. Takes a long time in December in Michigan. I found the wife’s clothes steamer and can bump the humidity up a bit, it helps but not much.
Justin.44
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Yeah he's always good for a laugh!
longcruise
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Yeah, 64 can dish it out but he takes it just as well.
longcruise
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Worked on the "Franken 50" that I'm giving my grandson for Christmas. It's an investarms stock and furniture that is being fitted with a tc barrel 50 barrel. I took a chance buying the barrel with its corrosion spots and generally rough exterior. But the bore looked good and in fact, turned out to be excellent.
I put it in my TC stock and shot it with balls and PA conicals. Both shot great with none of the typical fiddling. Then it sat in a corner because I really had no need for it. Recently I go5 an investarms stock from a member with the intention of fitting the TC barrel.
Long story short (I know, too late for that
) it's coming along nicely. Turns out that the tang is a little oversized for the barrel but that's a simple fix. Here it's rough filed to fit.
Still a ways to go. The underrib was just a tiny bit too long but just a few passes with a file and it's just fine.
The tang fits the inlet just fine but with the barrel held tight in the channel it doesn't sit all the way down. Probably due to the slightly smaller barrel ATF. A cardboard test piece of .020 made it a perfect fit.
I contemplated bedding it with epoxy and still might do that but this piece of plastic from a storage container lid is a perfect fit. So...... the shop is cold and I retreated into the house to think about it
.
I put it in my TC stock and shot it with balls and PA conicals. Both shot great with none of the typical fiddling. Then it sat in a corner because I really had no need for it. Recently I go5 an investarms stock from a member with the intention of fitting the TC barrel.
Long story short (I know, too late for that
) it's coming along nicely. Turns out that the tang is a little oversized for the barrel but that's a simple fix. Here it's rough filed to fit.
Still a ways to go. The underrib was just a tiny bit too long but just a few passes with a file and it's just fine.
The tang fits the inlet just fine but with the barrel held tight in the channel it doesn't sit all the way down. Probably due to the slightly smaller barrel ATF. A cardboard test piece of .020 made it a perfect fit.
I contemplated bedding it with epoxy and still might do that but this piece of plastic from a storage container lid is a perfect fit. So...... the shop is cold and I retreated into the house to think about it
.
de rusted an unused sharon .45 swamped 42 inch barrel i picked up at a show for $40.00 . just surface rust. cleaned up perfect in 2 hours of soaking. 
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Thanks! Got it from Amazon, 1” x 6’ roll for $6.95. Just search for lantern wick.
I attended a Frontier Christmas Festival in my home town yesterday. I put the garb on, showed the public how to dip candles and allowed them to dip them the ol' fashioned way in a 1786 Log Cabin. Below,....the fire has been started & I'm waiting for the public to show up:
I visited other volunteers manning the outdoor kitchen at the boyhood home of Albert Sidney Johnson ( Confederate General killed at the Battle of Shiloh TN in 1862 )
They were brewing up some Burgoo soup over an open fire for the public to try....
I LOVED it....ready to do it again next December...
I visited other volunteers manning the outdoor kitchen at the boyhood home of Albert Sidney Johnson ( Confederate General killed at the Battle of Shiloh TN in 1862 )
They were brewing up some Burgoo soup over an open fire for the public to try....
I LOVED it....ready to do it again next December...
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Justin.44
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Shot in the last club match of the year. 100 yards from X-sticks. Had a few wild shots but most of them were decent. That one to the right that didn't score really hurt me, but it was good enough for 6th place. Had a good time!
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Converted a T/C Renegade from Caplock to Flintlock. Just a little inletting to get the Lyman Lock to fit. Barrel was completed last winter.
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60" OF Fun. No, not 6", 60". I took my Hudson Valley Fowler down off the wall for a breakdown and cleaning. Unfired since the late 90's and didn't I just have a grand time getting the sticky Wonderlube 1000 out of it. I was out of Brakleen but lacquer thinner thinner did the trick finally. Really no rust to speak of but what a sticky coating after all those years. I picked up some Ultimate CLP for the future on my bores etc. And, for those inquiring minds, a five foot bbl. and a 5 foot ramrod plus some working room come out to a min. of 11 or 12' of working space with the bbl. out of the stock. My shop is about 16' square so I did some indoor walking today due to the benches in the middle of the room.
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Picked up an old Jukar Kentucky Rifle kit. Someone threw stain on it and screwed it together...absolutely no sanding at all. Nothing fitted, looks awful, absolutely awful like the South end of a North bound Whoopi Goldberg....well either end for that matter. 
That being said, it might make a fun winter project. It's currently caplock, but pretty certain I have a spare CVA flintlock lock somewhere in the shop. $75 was cheap enough.
That being said, it might make a fun winter project. It's currently caplock, but pretty certain I have a spare CVA flintlock lock somewhere in the shop. $75 was cheap enough.
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Finishing up a custom Holster for my Derringer.
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Tom you are a patient man and do beautiful work with them tiny little beads keep up the good work .
Thank you. I am planning my next project and will keep beading until my fingers or eyes wear out.
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