What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Gopher0]

Ordered my new 'hessian jaeger uniform' Be on the lookout for rebels by November

 

[Metalshaper]

Surely.


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Dusty,

WOW, I would have been satisfied with a simple pic, but you went above and beyond! I can't thank you enough!!
I build my own Muley's and always plan on building a combo gun. This was amazing..

Respect Always
Jonathan

 

[Polecat_Tom]

Ordered my new 'hessian jaeger uniform' Be on the lookout for rebels by November

Very nice

 

[Ed C.]

Surely.


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Thanks for all those photos. All new stuff to me.

 

[Fisherking]

Ordered my new 'hessian jaeger uniform' Be on the lookout for rebels by November View attachment 238562

This is a level of commitment I haven’t unlocked yet. Very cool!

 

[longcruise]

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Wow! That's a fantastic outfit

 

[user 54092]

Yesterday, shot my Pietta Navy Sheriff, today cast bullets and continue cleaning my Navy Sheriff. As an aside, my homemade caps seem to work better without the paper cartridge load in the Sheriff where it doesn't seem to matter with my Uberti 61 Navy.

 

[Relic shooter]

yesterday i finished fitting a .50 Sharon barrel to a TC stock i had laying around. finished waxing it today. fit some open sight's to it and they were so gosh awful bad i removed them and drilled and tapped the tang for a TC vernier rear sight. lucked out the dove tail in front just needed cleaned up a lick. put the TC matching globe on the front and this is the target at 50 yards off my bench at 92 degrees! the 2 in the 7 ring were pre adjustment.
another nice shooting .50. only wish it was a flintlock.
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Sharon made excellent barrels !
Relic shooter
Kuna, Idaho

 

[leadhoarder]

Ordered my new 'hessian jaeger uniform' Be on the lookout for rebels by November View attachment 238562

Better watch out come Christmas!

 

[pacanis]

Ran a scotch brite through the bore of my TC Hawken towards the muzzle and towards the breech. The two areas it seemed to collect the most fouling in.
I plan on giving it another go here shortly. I already filled the flask back up, as I was running low yesterday.

 

[BackDraft]

Grabbed the JB Weld and mocked up a picatinny base and scope for the .38 smooth Frankenstuffer barrel.

If it delivers good accuracy, I'll have the barrel drilled and tapped for a permanent base. With screws.

Struggling to find a true 1" radius scope base.

Maybe a letter to the folks at Weaver will produce results.

I can already some ‘demanding mommy’ finding that picture and showing it off as a ”10,000 shot per second, 1,000 clip magazine, mass-shooting weapon”…

 

[64Springer]

I can already some ‘demanding mommy’ finding that picture and showing it off as a ”10,000 shot per second, 1,000 clip magazine, mass-shooting weapon”…

Funny you should say that.

I was one millisecond away from inletting and installing a 10 round detachable magazine.

But I decided to not weaken the stock instead.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Shot my flintlock this morning.

 

[deerstalkert]

Funny you should say that.

I was one millisecond away from inletting and installing a 10 round detachable magazine.

But I decided to not weaken the stock instead.

I kept going back and studying your creation. something in the vast emptiness between my ears kept saying something is missing. the two remaining brain cells got together just now and shouted out "a can!!!" it needs a silencer to really cause the nancy's to go postal!
i also think a 30 round banana mag would really stand out!

 

[Banjoman]

Made a vent pick and a 70 grain powder measure.

 

[Polecat_Tom]

Made a vent pick and a 70 grain powder measure.

Nice setup.

 

[Alan O]

I started cleaning up (filing, sanding, steel wool-ing) the butt cap I got from MBS about a year ago. I plan to mount it on my Pedersoli Kentucky pistol. There are lots of examples of this in the book by James R. Johnston and the Kentucky Rifle Association published in 1976. If you're interested, there are still copies out there and they're pretty reasonable. This seems like it might make a good thread on the gun builders bench, but like all of these things for me it's probably going to take a while...

 

[Ohio Rusty]

This weekend I demonstrated for the public frontier knife forging and sheath making at Robbins Crossing Historical Village.

 

[flconch53]

Tried to get the nipples off my Remington. Managed to get four off before the nipple wrench broke. Gave up and bought a replacement cylinder. Didn't fit. Apparently Pietta cylinders are 2.01 long and I have an ASM revolver, and they are 2.00.

Just got a Harpers Ferry 1805, one of the Belgian ones made in the 1960's. Seems fine except the mainspring is too weak to make a spark. I would just buy a new mainspring but now I'm leery about getting a Pietta part and just hoping it works. Of course this thing is over 60 years old and it may just be dirty inside.

And my Jukar Pistol is here with a ball still in it because my first batch of Black Powder that I made in 2019 using no binder and no size sorting (I didn't know any better at the time) and am still using clumped up in the flask and no powder went in the gun.

I did try reworking the powder as I now know mostly what to do, but I used too much water and my 30mm Dabress die jammed, and I destroyed it getting it apart, so I can't puck anything at the moment.

I did manage to make some pucks before that happened, and then ground them through my coffee grinder I got just for that purpose. Didn't do that right either as it came out of the box set for fine grind and it turned everything into 4F.

Another reason to use a powder measure instead of pouring out of a flask

 

[Gordoncourtney]

I think I am certainly very unwell I tided my little workshop up, got to be quite serious, I moved into the cycle shed one cold winter , the bikes went into my big workshop bottom of garden. It was a very cold winter , but I make so many small things there . Yes it’s cosy in winter