What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[RobertIN]

Got the $100 rifle dialed in at 50 yards for deer season, and had my first AD with a muzzleloader. My finger slipped off the hammer and BAM I assassinated a tree on the hillside. Whoopsie lesson learned! Thankfully the USMC burnt the weapons safety rules into my head and it was pointed downrange.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Made myself a buckskin breechclout. Turned out ok.

 

[Rebel bull]

we loaded for the the public to shoot 5-6 hundred rounds in 5 guns for the public to shoot at our club and expect to do about the same today only had to clean 2 guns during that time 1 is a mistreated CVA springfield that this is only the second time we've had it to the range. the "chamber area of the bore is rough and tends to get hard to seat the ball we'll know more after today's session if it doesn't start coming around it would be 1 of 2 guns that i've had to use cream of wheat on top of the powder to shoot the other one has a documented 20,000 rounds through it and even with the cream of wheat it still stacks 3-5 rounds at 100 yards off the bench

 

[tunadawg]

Finished filing the trigger guard and got it inlet.

 

[Gordoncourtney]

Banjos horns and things, do you know what a Volvo lap lander is, well most are full of rust , very rare , but a four wheel drive built for off road for the Hungarian army ,1982 ,and built there too , even the axels are off a jeep USA

And for me hunting truck. !!!!!!

1968 1.8 Volvo petrol engine tops 70 mph. Been helping my son getting it going, turns over but it’s Sunday and I need to spend £60 on HT bits , But back home tomorrow 90 miles from Cirencester in the west to Esher in the east . And then eBay I’ll come down in a few weeks again. , wife happy as she sees her grandson . Well I try to entertain with something new

Stephen 53 said I fancy a long term project. He’s a vegetarian , hates guns and hunting but likes fishing

 

[Gordoncourtney]

Banjos horns and things, do you know what a Volvo lap lander is, well most are full of rust , very rare , but a four wheel drive built for off road for the Hungarian army ,1982 ,and built there too , even the axels are off a jeep USA

And for me hunting truck. !!!!!!

1968 1.8 Volvo petrol engine tops 70 mph. Been helping my son getting it going, turns over but it’s Sunday and I need to spend £60 on HT bits , But back home tomorrow 90 miles from Cirencester in the west to Esher in the east . And then eBay I’ll come down in a few weeks again. , wife happy as she sees her grandson . Well I try to entertain with something new

Stephen 53 said I fancy a long term project. He’s a vegetarian , hates guns and hunting but likes fishing

Ps you might ask about the house, it was relatively cheap 5 years ago as it’s out in the wilds of South Cerney , which was a small war time airfield , it’s just offices now. The air ministry built one of these for the commander of each little airfield and there was hundreds of them , previously a bed and breakfast hotel, Stephen knocked the rooms into one up and down . We don’t enjoy coming here as there’s no shops to walk to. An ancient town Cirencester 5 miles away with a shopping mall etc .

Oh well life in uk across the little pond. Love from Joan and me and kids . Even to this in far flung OZ

 

[PathfinderNC]

Made a prototype buckled leather shoulder strap for one of my Powder Horns. It came out well so I might be making these for some of my future horns.

 

[Black_Feather]

Made a buckled leather shoulder strap for a Powder Horn.

Nice! Looks sturdy. I like the way you added a staple also, should hold up to years of abuse, although if I owned one of your horns I would probably treat it like a baby since they’re so artisticly crafted

 

[PathfinderNC]

Nice! Looks sturdy. I like the way you added a staple also, should hold up to years of abuse, although if I owned one of your horns I would probably treat it like a baby since they’re so artisticly crafted

Thank you! Yes that staple was something I came with since the horn lobe was a little thin ( probably fine but just in case!). The adjustable length strap is good sturdy leather as well so it should last the duration

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

Made a prototype buckled leather shoulder strap for one of my Powder Horns. It came out well so I might be making these for some of my future horns.

That's a nice touch Bob.

 

[Capnball]

Here is Horn 68, all finished. This was one that, when I first started engraving it, I felt it would turn out very nicely.
I think I was right.

Beautiful! Really something to look at.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Went shooting with my son and 2 yr old grandson. The little guy watched and every time the rifle went off he'd say "you did it!". Very cute. He also said "me try" which was great to hear....have to wait a few years. My son who does not shoot much is actually a pretty darn good shot.

 

[wiscoaster]

Cleaning and polishing and getting ready to shoot my latest aquisiton (bought from fellow forum member @GREZ55 ):

 

[Bill Bryan]

I sighted in my my .50 cal Kibler Woodsrunner using my newly made folding shooting bench.

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

I worked on Loja Man's Fowler today. The front and middle ramrod pipes are pinned. I'm almost done inletting the entry pipe.

 

[Moleman]

Drilled the tang bolt thru and tapped the tang on my NW Trade gun build. Also more shaping, trigger guard fitting and soldered the lugs on my barrel.
A long way to go but slow and steady wins the race.

 

[Loja man]

I worked on Loja Man's Fowler today. The front and middle ramrod pipes are pinned. I'm almost done inletting the entry pipe.
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Great progress! I’m so excited!
I did pre heat treat grinding on your two patch knives. Also selected a new handle for one of them. The first piece of antler I had picked out mysteriously disappeared after my teenage sons were working in on other projects in my forge. This morning, I got up early to thermal cycled the blades and quenched them. Now they are tempering in an oven!

 

[Rebel bull]

we finished the shooters round up week end having fired 1100-1200 rounds through 4 rifles (3 CVA"S and1T/C ) over the 2 day's (14 hrs ) using 5 lbs of Goex 3f and CCI standard no 11 caps. Both days were in excess of 80 degrees with Sunday the humidity in the eighty percent range. we had less then a dozen misfires all of them attributed to not seating the cap on the nipple properly. Everybody that tried for the clay rabbits ( smaller then a standard clay Pidgeon) the majority scored hits. The 20", and 12" steel gong's were absolutely no problem even for those who said they had never shot a gun of which there were a large percentage. It is a great time to watch when the husband comes up to shoot and doesn't listen to instructions when told that the trigger is better then his deer rifle and he jerks the trigger and misses and the the wife takes her turn and listens to the instructions and busts the clay target and she does a end zone dance! the only bad was the 6-7 hour drive home afterwards.

 

[Norman Brooks]

Starting on the carving. I'm no master at it. With the heat and humidity, this week I will only work on it a couple hours a day.

 

[WALT53]

Drilled the tang bolt thru and tapped the tang on my NW Trade gun build. Also more shaping, trigger guard fitting and soldered the lugs on my barrel.
A long way to go but slow and steady wins the race.

Is that a kit from pecatonica river long rifles .