What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Polecat_Tom]

I saw this pattern and sketched it out and put it in my project pile a while back. After making a few changes to the pattern I made myself this pouch. The beadwork is lazy stitched on deer using number 10 beads.

 

[Iceman]

I think his posting privileges are suspended. If you click on his name it doesn't give the option to PM him or anything else, but the fact that it shows he's been online tells me he wasn't banned permanently. We'll be reading his sarcastic comments again as soon as his suspension is up lol

I hope he comes back. Place is kind of boring without him.

While I wait for his return I placed an order with the log cabin shop while I watch my barrel rust. Takes a long time in December in Michigan. I found the wife’s clothes steamer and can bump the humidity up a bit, it helps but not much.

 

[Justin.44]

I hope he comes back. Place is kind of boring without him.

Yeah he's always good for a laugh!

 

[longcruise]

Yeah he's always good for a laugh!

Yeah, 64 can dish it out but he takes it just as well.

 

[longcruise]

Worked on the "Franken 50" that I'm giving my grandson for Christmas. It's an investarms stock and furniture that is being fitted with a tc barrel 50 barrel. I took a chance buying the barrel with its corrosion spots and generally rough exterior. But the bore looked good and in fact, turned out to be excellent.

I put it in my TC stock and shot it with balls and PA conicals. Both shot great with none of the typical fiddling. Then it sat in a corner because I really had no need for it. Recently I go5 an investarms stock from a member with the intention of fitting the TC barrel.

Long story short (I know, too late for that ) it's coming along nicely. Turns out that the tang is a little oversized for the barrel but that's a simple fix. Here it's rough filed to fit.

Still a ways to go. The underrib was just a tiny bit too long but just a few passes with a file and it's just fine.

The tang fits the inlet just fine but with the barrel held tight in the channel it doesn't sit all the way down. Probably due to the slightly smaller barrel ATF. A cardboard test piece of .020 made it a perfect fit.

I contemplated bedding it with epoxy and still might do that but this piece of plastic from a storage container lid is a perfect fit. So...... the shop is cold and I retreated into the house to think about it .

 

[PathfinderNC]

Finished the strap and powder horn.

@TDM I like your horn and strap! Nice job!
Where did you come by the long lamp wick for the strap?

 

[PathfinderNC]

Began a horn this afternoon. A little more trimming down of the nozzle and it will be ready for some line work.

 

[2 shots]

de rusted an unused sharon .45 swamped 42 inch barrel i picked up at a show for $40.00 . just surface rust. cleaned up perfect in 2 hours of soaking.

 

[DCAN]

Barrel bluing today. So far, so good. Considering rubbing it back to gray. Stock finish is going to be (I hope) a dark honey/amber color.

 

[TDM]

@TDM I like your horn and strap! Nice job!
Where did you come by the long lamp wick for the strap?

Thanks! Got it from Amazon, 1” x 6’ roll for $6.95. Just search for lantern wick.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

I attended a Frontier Christmas Festival in my home town yesterday. I put the garb on, showed the public how to dip candles and allowed them to dip them the ol' fashioned way in a 1786 Log Cabin. Below,....the fire has been started & I'm waiting for the public to show up:

I visited other volunteers manning the outdoor kitchen at the boyhood home of Albert Sidney Johnson ( Confederate General killed at the Battle of Shiloh TN in 1862 )

They were brewing up some Burgoo soup over an open fire for the public to try....

I LOVED it....ready to do it again next December...

 

[Justin.44]

Shot in the last club match of the year. 100 yards from X-sticks. Had a few wild shots but most of them were decent. That one to the right that didn't score really hurt me, but it was good enough for 6th place. Had a good time!

 

[waarp8nt]

Converted a T/C Renegade from Caplock to Flintlock. Just a little inletting to get the Lyman Lock to fit. Barrel was completed last winter.

 

[PathfinderNC]

Thanks! Got it from Amazon, 1” x 6’ roll for $6.95. Just search for lantern wick.

Thanks Tom

 

[godutch]

60" OF Fun. No, not 6", 60". I took my Hudson Valley Fowler down off the wall for a breakdown and cleaning. Unfired since the late 90's and didn't I just have a grand time getting the sticky Wonderlube 1000 out of it. I was out of Brakleen but lacquer thinner thinner did the trick finally. Really no rust to speak of but what a sticky coating after all those years. I picked up some Ultimate CLP for the future on my bores etc. And, for those inquiring minds, a five foot bbl. and a 5 foot ramrod plus some working room come out to a min. of 11 or 12' of working space with the bbl. out of the stock. My shop is about 16' square so I did some indoor walking today due to the benches in the middle of the room.

 

[waarp8nt]

Picked up an old Jukar Kentucky Rifle kit. Someone threw stain on it and screwed it together...absolutely no sanding at all. Nothing fitted, looks awful, absolutely awful like the South end of a North bound Whoopi Goldberg....well either end for that matter.

That being said, it might make a fun winter project. It's currently caplock, but pretty certain I have a spare CVA flintlock lock somewhere in the shop. $75 was cheap enough.

 

[aussie pete]

The Wife and I attended the Christmas Dinner at the 18th century fort at Fort Randolph at Point Pleasant W. Va.
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Ah. Wonderful couple! Wonderful table setting!

Cheers, Pete

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

Finishing up a custom Holster for my Derringer.

 

[WALT53]

I saw this pattern and sketched it out and put it in my project pile a while back. After making a few changes to the pattern I made myself this pouch. The beadwork is lazy stitched on deer using number 10 beads.

Tom you are a patient man and do beautiful work with them tiny little beads keep up the good work .

 

[Polecat_Tom]

Tom you are a patient man and do beautiful work with them tiny little beads keep up the good work .

Thank you. I am planning my next project and will keep beading until my fingers or eyes wear out.