What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Woody Morgan]

Went antiquing locally with the wife. Didn't expect to find much but did score a couple of nice wooden cigar boxes with brass hardware to organize my patches, balls, wads, etc by caliber. $7 each.

wm

 

[deerstalkert]

wood cigar boxes ! my wife hates them! i have shelves lined with wood cigar boxes. all my handguns live in them. all my.......... well you get the drift.
i will give you $3 profit! i usually stop at 10 unless they have great lithography.
oh yeah, i made a new ramrod for a Hawken . used antler for ends. neighbor gave me a set of dowel cutters yesterday . worked perfect for cutting the ends. epoxied and pinned. looks better then the black wonder material rod i was using.
also shot the august postal shoot. nuff said about that.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Thinking I might make a fire starter out of a rasp I have. Not sure if I’ll bend it or put an antler handle on the tang. Just a small starter that will whack a flint and spark. A little experiment.

 

[deerstalkert]

my patch knife doubles as my fire starter. stick the point into the middle of my char cloth and usually one strike has it going.
i need to find a youngster to carry all my possibles. i keep making something every day! going to finish my .50 cal ball bag and the RR for my hawken. then i'm going to have a slice of key lime pie, followed by a slice of cheese cake.

then if i can still crawl, i am going to work on some 2f loads in my 54 hawken.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I walked by and looked at the almost finished Haines rifle in my shop that has been siting on the same chair for months, I have the gun builders equivalent of "Writers Block" and can't get motivated. All I have to do to finish the gun is slim the wood in the wrist, forestock and around the cheekpiece.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

Mrs BPMS & drove about 25 - 30 miles down the Rt 127 yard sale last weekend in KY. Stopped at numerous yard sales all along the road. It is known as the "Longest Yard Sale in America....stretching from Michigan down to Alabama. I even ran into Nate, a fellow that watched a BPMS video on how to get a stuck ball out of his BP gun.

Anyway...I found a painters box with artist's paint tubes in it. I bought it for $2.00.
Mrs BPMS went to Hobby Lobby yesterday to pick up some foam. You can see the results of what a boxcutter, spray glue and a strange mind came come up with for this o' neat hobby...
It ain't pretty, but it is functional & that's all that matters for this o' shooter.
Now...I'm ready to go burn some powder....

 

[excess650]

I've been draw filing a 31" swamped barrel. This particular barrel had "chatter" about 4-5" from the breech, from the muzzle, and in the middle, and all the way around in those spots. Now that I have 4-5 hours in it, its looking pretty good. I've draw filed several other barrels, straight, swamped,and from different makers, but this one was the worst.

 

[Terry Lightle]

Shot about 20 through my 32 filing on front sight getting her to minute of squirrel head,hate putting new sights on a gun.

 

[user 49399]

Got ready for next outing

 

[ord sgt]

Spent all of 10 minutes trying to remove the excess wood from my ongoing last build. I had wanted to have the rifle done for an event at my R/P club that happened two weeks ago. At this rate, it might be done by time the event comes around next year.

 

[rchas]

Riveted a rib on the barrel; and drilled and fitted the wedge for a mule ear percussion rifle.

 

[nkbj]

Warming up the melter. Going to record the actually as-cast diameters on some nominally .44 caliber hollow base molds.

 

[deerstalkert]

i am always a day behind everything!
yesterday i built two shooting sticks and started a powder horn.
today i will try to finish the horn. unless that look in momma's eye means she has a chore for me! yikes!

 

[deerstalkert]

finished, almost, the horn. these take some work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! still need to cut the spout and drill.
I'm chicken! this is when i usually mess up!

 

[Omahkapi'si]

A little practice for my August member shoot, tomorrow's the day....this was about 30 yds off hand.....495 ball, .010 patch, 50 grains T7. A little low.....

 

[Jim Wag]

I folded
Laundry
What of it?

Jim in La Luz

 

[nkbj]

Tried melting some of the lead piping from a Gulf Coast chemical plant. May have gotten too much of a drain assembly into the mix.
Once melted it frosted up and formed a glittering ring around the rim of the pot. Wouldn't stop forming a glittering sheath on the dipper.
Either my melting pot is going downhill or this is The Lead From The Black Lagoon (and a future book end).
Emptied the pot and will try a new batch.

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

Went to the CLA show in Lexington KY.

 

[bubba.50]

Replaced all the fugly philips head screws my Hawken arrived with with nice new slotted brass screws from the local Ace Hardware.

 

[Elkhorse]

Got my 2 ball .562 mold in the mail.
Bought .018 patches and some Old Griz lube from DGW.
Handled my ASM Walker Colt.
Looking for .58 single shot percussion pistol.
That's it so far.