What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Dale Lilly]

Fun time!

 

[ORBushman]

Any luck getting your jag out of the barrel?

Well, the OX-Yoke C02 discharger was a bust and waste of $45! I highly recommend folks not to ever waste their hard money on this piece of crap! It might be good for blowing dust off of your keyboard but, forget about blowing anything out of a barrel! Oh well, still have stuck jag and tempted to chuck the whole thing in the trash.

(I'm just peeved at the moment so, don't think I'm actually going to throw it in trash)

 

[longcruise]

I'm just peeved at the moment so, don't think I'm actually going to throw it in trash)

What model rifle is that?

 

[ORBushman]

What model rifle is that?

It's a Spanish Jukar Kentucky rife. Don't know much about them so, not sure if it's a CVA or what.

 

[Felonious]

I finished my pulley target! I can run jugs out to about 100 ft or so and bring them back without having to do much of anything, just reload and keep shooting. My young son was having a lot of fun with it because I could put the jugs about 5 ft away from the deck where he could actually hit them and see The colored water coming out.

 

[Felonious]

I finished my pulley target! I can run jugs out to about 100 ft or so and bring them back without having to do much of anything, just reload and keep shooting. My young son was having a lot of fun with it because I could put the jugs about 5 ft away from the deck where he could actually hit them and see The colored water coming out.View attachment 269426

Unloaded and heavily supervised, of course, it's a BB gun. He got his first target though! Put a hole right through the center of a milk jug about 5 to 10 ft away. I shoot my muzzleloaders on the back porch all the time, and he watches through the window. He kept trying to stick wads down the barrel to get it to shoot, because I don't shoot modern firearms and he's not familiar with the concept of semi-automatic. He even learned to turn the safety on and off when he's not using the gun, and we learned about the difference between pointing Nerf guns at people and "real" guns at people, it's amazing how fast children learn.

You want to keep a kid for messing around with a loaded gun, show them what it does when it goes off, and the immense amount of damage at the other end.

 

[Banjoman]

Checked my favorite percussion and favorite flintlock for rust. No rust, no surprise.

 

[wiscoaster]

Decided to have some fun today, so took the .58 cal Harper's Ferry pistol to the range to try shooting some pre-lubed .58 cal Minie balls left over from my last trip with the 1861 rifle musket. I was anticipating a target full of keyholes. It didn't turn out quite that way. After shooting a few RBs to see how the pistol was shooting, I loaded and shot some of the Minie balls, using the ones with the tightest fit. My thinking was that there was no way the barrel was long enough to get the skirt expanded, grab the rifling, and spin up the bullet. But surprisingly, there were no keyholes. Though with the paper only about 25 feet away, I don't know if that's enough distance to get an unstablilized bullet to tumble or not. Unsurprisingly, the points of impact were all over the place. The surprise was when I tried patching the base of the Minie ball, and the result was better accuracy and more consistent POI. Even better than RBs!! Didn't make any difference lubed or not. Curious, no? Proves nothing, but great fun anyway.

 

[Terrier]

Well, the OX-Yoke C02 discharger was a bust and waste of $45! I highly recommend folks not to ever waste their hard money on this piece of manure! It might be good for blowing dust off of your keyboard but, forget about blowing anything out of a barrel! Oh well, still have stuck jag and tempted to chuck the whole thing in the trash.

(I'm just peeved at the moment so, don't think I'm actually going to throw it in trash)

Soak it with some motor oil, then put the end of the ramrod in a vice and pull, but only as hard as you have to. I'm wondering if you didn't already pull the end off the ramrod and that's why the CO2 thing came into play. I've stuck ramrods several times with a jag/patch and too much fouling, but soaking and a vice has always worked for me.

 

[Terrier]

Made a deerskin drawstring pouch to donate for the raffle at the club meeting this evening... Tomahawk is just there to show scale.

 

[wiscoaster]

Well, the OX-Yoke C02 discharger was a bust and waste of $45! I highly recommend folks not to ever waste their hard money on this piece of manure!

My experience with a CO2 discharger was much the same.

 

[ORBushman]

I'm wondering if you didn't already pull the end off the ramrod and that's why the CO2 thing came into play.

Not sure why you'd think that as if it had, I would say so. My tip is still on the ramrod and I was able to unscrew it from the jag and pull out the ramrod. Jag and patch are still stuck in bottom of barrel.

 

[BuffaloSoldier]

Made a deerskin drawstring pouch to donate for the raffle at the club meeting this evening... Tomahawk is just there to show scale.

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Nice!!

 

[Greg Y]

Not sure why you'd think that as if it had, I would say so. My tip is still on the ramrod and I was able to unscrew it from the jag and pull out the ramrod. Jag and patch are still stuck in bottom of barrel.

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I'd agree with sending some oil down the bore and spinning back onto the jag. Some spinning as you move it up and down has worked for me.

 

[longcruise]

It's a Spanish Jukar Kentucky rife. Don't know much about them so, not sure if it's a CVA or what.

45 or 50??

 

[Black_Feather]

Randomly met a nice guy while hiking with my dog on the blm behind my house, turns out he makes and sells moccasins and knives we chatted a bit, he’s pretty much into the same stuff we are here on the forum. He’s also got an Etsy page, thought I’d pass along his info if anyone is interested.

 

[bpd303]

BISQUICK IS YOUR FRIEND , just don't tell anyone.

Along with a cast iron Dutch Oven hard to beat.

 

[bpd303]

I'd agree with sending some oil down the bore and spinning back onto the jag. Some spinning as you move it up and down has worked for me.

Just make sure the threaded tip is pinned to the rod.

 

[SciAggie]

I have a three of rifles I love to shoot. A .40 and a .62 flintlock and a .72 caplock with an interchangeable 12 gauge barrel. These take care of 100% of my hunting needs. And by the way, I spent a good amount of time and money buying/trading into these guns as they suit me perfectly.

So why in tarnation do I keep looking at guns in the for sale section and think, “Ooooh - that’s a sweet rifle. I NEED that one.” No - I don’t need it. I need to shoot the ones I already have.


I swear it’s like a disease (with no cure).

PS - and to be clear - I have other muzzleloaders that I already don’t shoot…

 

[ORBushman]

45 or 50??

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