What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Loja man]

Went antiquing with my Wife today to look for a cheap piece of pewter to melt for knife bolsters. Found one for $5. Also found this thing. I bought it, but I’m giving to my oldest Son, I have no use for it. Ran a more detailed thread in the Antique Forum.

Don’t forget to post pics of the knife when done!

 

[TDM]

Don’t forget to post pics of the knife when done!

Will do!

 

[appalichian hunter]

Day trip to Fort Frederick, sat with the fellas a while then took a stroll through the suttlers. Spoke to J. Gatliff and Larry Calahan a bit. Guess the weather had a lot of folks scared off, there were not many camps and less vendors in past years. But still a decent turn out.

 

[oldwood]

Rasping , filing and sanding , on a walnut smooth longrifle for an hour . Made some progress , but more to be done. Hoping for rain.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Picked up more Schuetzen 3F.

 

[Dutch7]

Carried the flintlock on a spring turkey hunt - messed the setup up and it cost me a bird but getting the lock to full cock on the first day was exciting.

 

[Shiloh]

Contacted an old high school friend that is also retired and lives on Caddo Lake. He’s going get me about a bushel of Spanish Moss for wadding so I can test that.

let us know how that works out. I have it growing close by.

 

[wganz]

Today was like Christmas but had Santa driving the Big Brown Truck of Happiness,
The 2 push-through sizers arrived so I can get loads set up for N-SSA Nationals in May. The brass stud for the cartridge box came in that fell off during Fall Nationals in September was in another box. Last box had an 1842 musket middle band for one of my projects.

 

[Whughett]

Not exactly MuzzleLoading, but black powder, paper cartridges for the Sharps Carbine.
Step one is closing off the Hahn cardboard tube.
Step two, powder and bullet.
Finished Cartridge

 

[mushka]

On a spring range clean up day watch out for poison ivy and oak, chiggers and ticks. The range I used to belong to in Md had a lot of all of them. I know by uncomfortable experience. Maybe even a reptile or two if it's warm.

 

[LANEY REECE]

I was asked to give a demonstration to a group of 5th graders at a local 1787 log cabin in a historical section of my hometown. I really enjoy engaging the students in demonstrations of the harsh lifestyle in KY 240+ years ago.

I talked about the tools of the day..., axes, cooking items, and even an ( unloaded ) flintlock rifle. First thing I did was demonstrate how to tell if the rifle is loaded or not:

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Water was essential during that time...just like today. I let this young girl demonstrate how difficult it was retrieving water and carrying it some distance back to the cabin:

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Told the students they were required to know how to load a flintlock rifle...even at their age. If under attack, those skills would be handy and the girls loaded the extra guns while hunkered down in the cabin...possibly for days. This girl was getting heckled by her classmates ( in good clean fun ) as I was handing her the gun under a simulated attack and telling her reloading is required ASAP. She was slow getting the gun that is as tall as she is loaded in this mock event.

( No actual powder or round balls were used in this demonstration. )
I showed the students how they loaded it quickly without REAL supplies.

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Below is 1/2 of the group that attended this event. Those kids really enjoyed handling the ( unloaded ) guns as you can see on both sides of this group picture. Two of the teachers took the pictures.

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Thank you sir, for what you did.

 

[Gordoncourtney]

Why would I go to the British military forums to ask about a French pistol?

It’s a nice forum and much knowledge there , I guess I did not realise the conversation was a french pistol, in that case Holts uk auctions have much on pistols

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Got to the range at 6:30am just as the sun was coming up. Beautiful spring morning, perfect time to burn some black powder. Just shooting steel this morning on the 50 yard range.

Life is good.

 

[ColonialRifleSmith]

Well, it's been a busy weekend. I put a lot of work into a Jager I'm building for fella. It's an Ash stock, so it's a bear to work with. The lock and all the furniture are inletted. I have started to shape and sand the wood to 'almost final dimensions'. To make it worse, it's a really crappy piece of Ash. It's customer supplied so I had no control over the wood quality. It's like trying to inlet stuff into a Sisal Rope. On Saturday I received a Woodsrunner Kit from Kibler. I have to set it aside for now. I'll get "A Round TUIT". I bought a wood blank from Knob Mountain and a Lock Kit from Chris Hirsch. I'm going to build a Fantail Carbine similar to the one that pic was posted here on ML Forum. Those parts should be here this week. I also received an email that the wood I ordered for 2 guys here on ML Forum will be here this week. I can get started on their guns. I promised them by hunting season. A So, Mountain and an Isaac Haines. I'm looking forward to building these for these guys. I have a F&I Event coming up in June. I'm very much looking forward to this. My grandson is coming up from North Carolina. He's going to spend the days camping out with me at the event. Semper Fi guys.

 

[leam]

Shot in my first ML match in years. Didn't shoot myself or anyone else, so it was a win.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Made a little loop for my short starter on my powder horn strap. Now it's out of my shooting bag and easy to get at. All that's in my bag now is balls & patches. Nothing fancy, my powder horn strap is an old worn out latigo off my saddle with lots of miles on it, and the loop I put on it is from some scraps. Functional is all. I do really like this bag though.

 

[PathfinderNC]

Finished up a horn (#38).

 

[Daryl Crawford]

The way it rained you'll need more than the knee, the whole leg!
Hope you had some luck!

Ended up taking a blind just in hopes of keeping the fusil dry enough! Saw one Jake, 60-70 yards, but couldn't get him to come in.
The blind worked for keeping the gun mostly dry.

 

[Dave Markowitz]

Today I replaced the almost invisible brass cone front sight on my Pietta 1851 Sherrif's Model fantasy gun with a dovetailed-in blade. I have a Grizzly G8689 mini-mill that made this relatively easy. I left the front sight extra tall so I file it to zero. After that's done I'll hit it with some cold blue.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Repaired a pair of moccasins with artificial sinew this afternoon, the soles were coming apart. Better than new now.