What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Frontstuffer3491]

Spent my morning sanding down and refinishing the benches I plan to use in my muzzleloader work area I’m setting up. The tops were in rough shape. Still have some scars on ‘em but then so do I. View attachment 282496View attachment 282497

 

[PathfinderNC]

I decided to inlet the barrel on the .62 today. Got it done

 

[Flint.]

Made hotel reservations for the Lake Cumberland Kentucky Rifle Show in February.

 

[Moleman]

I decided to inlet the barrel on the .62 today. Got it done

Looks great!

 

[Moleman]

Redoing a .40 cal. Poor boy I built nearly 40 years ago. I was young, ignorant on rifle builds and had little patience.
I made my my share of uh-ohs on the gun and it will never be museum quality but it's gonna be far better than it was.

 

[garypl]

That should hold them nicely!

 

[garypl]

started punching out caps - tomorrow I will fill them with bang juice!

Read about using mixture of Acetone and a single base smokeless powder to set the mixture in the caps. Has anyone here tried this and had good results?

 

[Urban Coyote]

Spent half the day giving my caplock T/C PA Hunter Carbine a workout. I took along my caplock T/C White Mtn Carbine that I had Bobby Hoyt rebore to .54 with a rb twist. I never got around to shooting the .54, spectators at the range took up too much time. No worries. I only had one gun to clean. I really enjoy these carbines. I have a flintlock PA Hunter Carbine as well I haven't quite mastered. It was a good day.

 

[Bucks Co]

Just finishing up a little day-horn as a gift for a friend. I've had the horn under the bench since 1979 when I used the other half of the pair to make a horn for a 45 I had at the time - no hoarding just saved until wanted!!

 

[bassncrap]

This great book arrived in the mail today. Upon browsing through it I found out it has an entire chapter dedicated to the CVA Mountain Rifle which Im currently building/piecing together. Its a sign!!

 

[Gordoncourtney]

I headed off a couple of hours before last light to check on a small earth tank. I took the camera in the hope of getting a few images of birds as they came in for the last evening drink. It was hot. I traveled light, leaving the heavy Hawken back in camp. The pure-bred dingo female came in fast, obviously thirsty. She drank, walked a little of the perimeter, then nestled down on the grassy berm in the shade, not a full thirty metres from me. She stayed for the next twenty minutes, departing only when I rose up from the jumble-up of timber. The images tell me that she knew I was there; whether she knew I posed no threat is pure conjecture, but man, what a pleasant experience.

Cheers, Pete

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Hello. No I usually use our gas range stove theses days , I recently bought a better propane torch but it kept catching fire , I had bottles for oxy acetalean , argon for tig but gave them away as I was spending £400 a year renting I bought a bottle for mig welding but at £80 a refill I have gone back to stick welding On this job I had run out of decent etch flux, and it was rubbish what I had. I have soldered a number of ribs when i can get the the metal clean the other problem was these barrels were only held together with a putty stuff , and were moving . The top English makers often use pine resin as a flux. I got the barrel perfect for soldering but the rib had deep rust and although I ground much off the steel was still black, I chose epoxy rather than use a new steel rib . It’s the problem with derelict guns. Like the epoxy did not hold the stock together now I have three bits, a lot of the wood was soft and broke away and oils had soaked in ? So now I have been wood scraping in the hope of a good epoxy joint
I have done well on the heavily dented shot barrel so this is a minor problem. Getting on a bit now 81 in March , just a number ,
Nice to chat I wish you well

I love to repurpose things … like old Sucrets and newer Altoids tins, an old 1930s-era library table for a work bench, wood pallets for a host of outdoor things and old found-in-a-closet cammo pants to make sand bags for bench resting my BP rifles at range. I let my imagination take over. Oh, and I don’t fill those bags with sand, I used washed fish tank gravel. Works great.

Well Gordon your keeping busy and moving that’s the important part keep it up and good luck with your projects.By the way your only as old as you feel just keep keeping on .

Some folks have raised them as companion dogs, not a common occurrence though in these times. 'Google' Australian Dingo for a literature review of information. The native dogs in my area are usually very lean, always on the hunt. Wild dogs, or dingo dog crosses, for some reason most always do look heavier.

Pete

. Good day to you. Been from Bumbry down south , cold, to Exmouth WA
Up north , Not warm in November till I got to coral bay north of Canarvon . Cold wind cuts into you Farmers I recall wanted compensation for loss of sheep because of wild dogs , Seems hunters were not enthusiastic about culling them. Nor to cull goats , ??? Where are they !!!! But I have never seen wild dogs let alone a dingo WA is a barren land no sea birds , no snakes, ok non aggressive tiger snakes along the river , but could never find them , one emu spotted and chased out of Canarvon , ok a few kangaroos here and there and magpie type birds dive bombing you, few parrots . And that’s it But Perth a beautiful city and the boat sailing fantastic. A few gun shops with nothing much and a decent range at Jondulup. WA not for muzzle loaders, you are not allowed to hunt with them , on the other hand there is nothing to shoot up, no you cannot shoot those hoppy things .

Yrs I love WA but the Cannaries much better, off there on 13 th and only a 4 hour flight, better than 23 hours to Perth. Git family still there.

Wife just cut my hair, I am cold now, I mean you don’t shear sheep in the middle of winter. I could not stand her droning any more ,” I want to cut your hair”
Life’s hard at 80

 

[Daryl Crawford]

Took the fusil for a walk. 18 degrees F when I started. Flurries now. Love the Pennsylvania woods!

 

[CaptainVane]

I moved my range bag from next to front door to the storage room. No pew pew for me til probably April.

 

[WALT53]

I moved my range bag from next to front door to the storage room. No pew pew for me til probably April.View attachment 282792

Same hear we know have snow and cold weather at least for us winter well hopefully shorter.

 

[RRidgely52]

Spent my morning sanding down and refinishing the benches I plan to use in my muzzleloader work area I’m setting up. The tops were in rough shape. Still have some scars on ‘em but then so do I. View attachment 282496View attachment 282497

Don't consider them as scars... just created character...

 

[RRidgely52]

Same hear we know have snow and cold weather at least for us winter well hopefully shorter.

Sorry guys... I'm heading to the range tomorrow.....

 

[WALT53]

Sorry guys... I'm heading to the range tomorrow.....

Oh sure rub our noses in it .

 

[Justin.P]

I made myself a card and wad cutter, cut some and walked the woods behind the house doing some 7-1/2 shot smoothbore stump shooting. Was hoping for grouse, it closes tomorrow. But had to settle for stumps.

 

[TFoley]

Got ready for a shooting session with my P-H Whitworth match rifle in the morning. Loaded up the powder phials and sorted out 12 bullets within 1gr of each other. I'll be letting a noob have a couple or three shots, too - just so he knows what it's like to shoot a three-band rifle lying down.

It will be the first outing with the Pedersoli-mould hex bullets, too. They are a perfect fit in the bore. Lucky me! Too small and you might just be able to paper-patch them with a VERY thin paper, but too big and you either have to be a genius with a file, or give up.

 

[JBird]

Haven't had a range day with black powder since hunting season kicked off, just been plinking with the unmentionables. With the National Forest clear of blaze orange, I picked up an 8" gong and hiked into the hills today to find me some places I can ring steel instead of punching paper. Best I could find in this area was about a 30 yard shooting lane with backstop.

Burned through a whole flask of powder with my 45 rifle loaded with 35gr 3f and pre-lubed mink oil patches. Never once had a misfire or had need to sharpen my flint or wipe the bore. not sure on # of shots (few dozen?) this is the best this gun has ever run. Finished the trip shooting rimfire, hence the peppering of small impacts all over.