What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Timber]

Hunting!

 

[TDM]

Gonna snow or rain or something tomorrow (says the weather bureau ) I have a bunch of caps punched out that I need to fill. Kinda tedious but gotta be done.

Gonna be stormy here tomorrow too.

 

[Gtrubicon]

Gonna snow or rain or something tomorrow (says the weather bureau ) I have a bunch of caps punched out that I need to fill. Kinda tedious but gotta be done.

I try to do the maintenance work when there’s no chance of shooting, it kinda makes me feel like I’m shooting, but in a productive way. Then when the clouds align, and I have time, nothing serious to deal with and my first thought is do some shooting, and then I grab me stuff and it’s ready to go. I’m a business owner, construction. My wife is a business owner, CPA and we have an 18 year old son. We are busy! Sometimes all I can do is think about doing something fun and it suffices.

 

[Gtrubicon]

Gonna be stormy here tomorrow too.

It seem like the only time I have to do hobby stuff is when it’s storming, I embrace it nowadays!

 

[TDM]

It seem like the only time I have to do hobby stuff is when it’s storming, I embrace it nowadays!

Sure seems that way most times!

 

[WALT53]

Hunting!

Man them squirrels are twice as big as are little red ones they got a name.

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

Great day in the 50's today, so I dirtied up the old .40 cal flinter with about 30 rounds.

thanks for picture. like that smokepole

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

Cast a few round balls this afternoon, had big plans for a few more calibers but, my ambition subsided. Oh well.

danggg. thats a lot of balls. u sir have been working hard

 

[Timber]

Man them squirrels are twice as big as are little red ones they got a name.

I’m not sure if you’re asking what kind of squirrels those are but they are our common gray squirrels.

 

[Loja man]

Man them squirrels are twice as big as are little red ones they got a name.

Lunch and dinner! Lunch is the one on the right!

 

[Rebel bull]

Finished sawing the 1/2” 516-70 plate yesterday and here is where I picked up today after gluing a drawing of my design on the steel. Today has been spent filing. Nearly done with that little square hole which will be 8mm when finished.
Next step is making a hammer screw. I no longer have a lathe but will have to make one by hand. One easy solution would be to modify a #10-24 carbon steel thumbscrew. I could load the threads into a drill and “machine it” to the proper size with a file. Anyone else with ideas for a quick and dirty solution? I don’t want to cut down some bad stock and thread it.

my local ace hardware has hex head metric screws take one or a round head and and solder a washer on if done right you won't even see the seam unless you know it's there

 

[Terrier]

Hunting!

I like the carving you have on the gunstock.

 

[Timber]

I like the carving you have on the gunstock.

Thank you sir! I can’t take credit for it as it was on there when my uncle bought it from a fella and then my uncle gifted it to me! Let me get a pic of the other side it has more carvings….

 

[Timber]

Other side

 

[Wncman]

I haven't been to a rendezvous in years. I saw on the forum that there is going to be one close to me the end of May.
I told my wife that I was thinking about going and she ask me what I was going to wear. I told her my buckskin pants. She just laughed.
So to prove it to her, I went and pulled them out of storage. I now think I know how Dolly Parton feels when she gets dressed. I could hardly get them pulled on and no way were they going to button.
I think I gained a few inches over the last 30 years.
I guess it is time to make a new pair of pants.

I’m too have experienced such. Seems leather shrinks when not used often.

 

[Terrier]

Other side

Wowzers. Very nice. You must be very proud to have it.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Glad I did my shooting yesterday, today is pouring rain and supposed to turn to a big dump of snow later.

 

[Terrier]

I haven't been to a rendezvous in years. I saw on the forum that there is going to be one close to me the end of May.
I told my wife that I was thinking about going and she ask me what I was going to wear. I told her my buckskin pants. She just laughed.
So to prove it to her, I went and pulled them out of storage. I now think I know how Dolly Parton feels when she gets dressed. I could hardly get them pulled on and no way were they going to button.
I think I gained a few inches over the last 30 years.
I guess it is time to make a new pair of pants.

I’m too have experienced such. Seems leather shrinks when not used often.

I have a pair of buckskin britches that have that same issue. I made a little error when I made them in the 80’s and made the back gusset “decorative” instead of “functional”.

Gonna need to insert some more gussets!

32” waist no mo’!

 

[WALT53]

Glad I did my shooting yesterday, today is pouring rain and supposed to turn to a big dump of snow later.

Yeh that could be hunker down weather your gonna get not like 67 or 79 but your gonna get some moisture providing it stays lol.

 

[WALT53]

I’m not sure if you’re asking what kind of squirrels those are but they are our common gray squirrels.

Is that a 56 smoothy if so what load you shooting in it.thanks .man them greys are easy twice the size of our little reds and there actually more meat than you would think on our reds .