What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[smo]

Cut a bunch of patches.. Threw my knife & hawk and shot my longbow..

 

[PathfinderNC]

Your horn work is downright beautiful

Thank you!

 

[64Springer]

Slow Kentuckyish rebuild day.

Stripped and green scrubby padded the stock Traditions lock.

All steel parts will retain a scrubby pad finish and allowed turn on their own. Considering having the brass trigger guard plated a matte silver to match the rest of the rifle. Not dig'in the idea of mixing raw steel and brass

Cut the ramrod channel deeper. Looks mo betta. Need to drill and pin new steel pipes once they arrive from TOW.

Down to the final color choices. Trying to decide what works best with raw steel.

 

[ORBushman]

Took possession of this CVA Mountain Pistol .45 from my local FedEx driver.

 

[deerstalkert]

built up some low spots on the what zit nose cap i poured last week. put the pewter on, take the pewter off! after pouring and failing i think its going to work this time.

 

[SgtMaj65]

Taking my paid Labor Day holiday day today, spent time running a ballistol soaked patch over a .22 cal. bore brush in breech chambers of my Renegade and GPR .50s. Always like to make sure they’re clean despite piston-ing hot water with a little Murphy’s during cleanup from BP patched ball range session. It’s my OCD.

 

[longcruise]

Slow Kentuckyish rebuild day.

Stripped and green scrubby padded the stock Traditions lock.

All steel parts will retain a scrubby pad finish and allowed turn on their own. Considering having the brass trigger guard plated a matte silver to match the rest of the rifle. Not dig'in the idea of mixing raw steel and brass

Cut the ramrod channel deeper. Looks mo betta. Need to drill and pin new steel pipes once they arrive from TOW.

Down to the final color choices. Trying to decide what works best with raw steel.

I like the look of the lock.

 

[skwerleater]

I worked on these pieces today. Aqua fortis on the two rifles and some oil sealer on them and a coat of oil on the smoothbore.
Rubbed some oil on a bunch or wiping sticks. Getting ready for the seasons hunt!!

 

[Ed C.]

I went to my new range today. Very nice. Clean, plenty of grass, shade trees, well run. Shot the .50 Hawken at 100 yards. Not great shooting but that is about as good as my eyes at that distance. Target is dead....good enough!

 

[Tom A Hawk]

I enjoy the challenges of long distance shooting. While I would not take a shot at game at this distance, its fun to dope the wind and get on target. Like John Wayne said in The Undefeated, Windage and elevation Mrs. Langdon, windage and elevation."

This is my .54 Isaac Haines at 200 yards. The peep sight is a big help.

 

[PathfinderNC]

Continuing work on the lobed horn.

 

[TDM]

Put a second coat of stain on the Cherry SMR. I did a bunch of stain test, each time upping the stain to alcohol ratio to get this color. I’d like it to be a little darker, but I found that multiple coats of Tried & True gives a slightly darker finish and the Cherry will darken as it ages too. Also finished sanding, polishing, and blueing the iron work with Jax Black. I’m planning to finish the iron and steel darker than I’ve done previously.

 

[DrLaw]

Shot my .54 Woodsrunner for the first time. .530 balls, .015 patches, 30 grains 3f at 25 yards. It was shooting low and to the left. (about 4" low and 1-1/2" to the left - no wind)
I was only using 30 grains because of the distance, and was kind of sighting it in on past postal targets of this forum. Before I go to shaving some front sight off to raise it, I will be shooting at 50 and 100 yards with larger targets to see the hits and where it hits. I was happy that everything was on paper at 25 yards (with my abilities) but I know I should be able to do better than I was doing. I as not shooting for groups as I was raising the sight picture of the front sight to try to get the ball to go where I wanted it to go height-wise and holding off (for right now as opposed to whacking the sight to one side) to get it to go to the right. I did find my first patch out and reading it, I was happy that I was not ripping or burning it as I forgot my corn-meal filler.

I also found one of my .45 patches and it, too appeared to be just what I wanted it to be after shooting.

The Doc is out now.

 

[Hiverano]

Here's a Warning: Made the mistake of leaving an H.E. Leman trade rifle (GRRW reproduction) in a hot car for an hour. In one hour, the heat wrinkled the finish on the rifle to the point of now having to lightly sand off the original finish at the damaged locations with 400 grit wet/dry sandpaper. Once cleaned up I'll go over it with 600 grit before reapplying the finish again. Seems somedays. you should just stay in bed.

 

[64Springer]

Here's a Warning: Made the mistake of leaving an H.E. Leman trade rifle (GRRW reproduction) in a hot car for an hour. In one hour, the heat wrinkled the finish on the rifle to the point of now having to lightly sand off the original finish at the damaged locations with 400 grit wet/dry sandpaper. Once cleaned up I'll go over it with 600 grit before reapplying the finish again. Seems somedays. you should just stay in bed.

Pics of the wrinkled finish?

 

[Hiverano]

Pics of the wrinkled finish?

Already knocked down, now ready for final 600 grit sanding.

 

[TDM]

Here's a Warning: Made the mistake of leaving an H.E. Leman trade rifle (GRRW reproduction) in a hot car for an hour. In one hour, the heat wrinkled the finish on the rifle to the point of now having to lightly sand off the original finish at the damaged locations with 400 grit wet/dry sandpaper. Once cleaned up I'll go over it with 600 grit before reapplying the finish again. Seems somedays. you should just stay in bed.

Hope you get it fixed up.

 

[Hiverano]

Hope you get it fixed up.

Thank you, if I can't make it look right, I'll make a trip to Roosevelt UT to see Carl Walker, he built the gun originally in 1973.

 

[longcruise]

I finished up the sheath for the knife gifted by my grandson. Anxious for an opportunity to use it.

 

[smo]

Cleaned and applied Montana Pitch too 3 shooting pouches ,2 leather belts and a small flintlock pistol holster….