What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[user 31232]

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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Wonderful pictures

 

[PathfinderNC]

Finished engraving, coloring and polishing a horn I made for a friend.

 

[Vtmountaindeerhunter]

Any ideas what we have here. Barrel is rifled and bore is very good just full of spider stuff and light surface rust. How much should I offer??

 

[Terrier]

Any ideas what we have here. Barrel is rifled and bore is very good just full of spider stuff and light surface rust. How much should I offer??
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Well, a new repro of just that lock from L&R looks like goes for $155... First question is, what are they asking? Second, how much do you like it?

How long is the barrel? What caliber does it look like it is? Full stock? Half Stock? What wood species does it seem to be? Is the stock intact or cracked? Need more information if you want decent answers... Does it say, "Black Powder Only" on the barrel anywhere?

 

[Dale Lilly]

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.

Wow! That is great work. I love goo... great beadwork. The other Polecat

 

[Dale Lilly]

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:

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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 )

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

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

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I want to trade my home for that cabin, Dale

 

[PathfinderNC]

Whatever you do, don’t let him change you extra for the spider stuff

 

[deerstalkert]

tried working on my cherry build. Learned one shouldn't shape cheek panels while grieving.
my #2 nephew, my oldest brothers second son died in his sleep night before last. 63 years old.
i guess i couldn't see what i was doing so will have to figure out how to save this stock.
length matches the lock inlet but just got too high with the bottom line trying to straighten it out.
maybe cover it with carving to hide the screw up?

 

[Polecat_Tom]

Wow! That is great work. I love goo... great beadwork. The other Polecat

Dale, thank you. I have been an admirer of beadwork for years. I find it a good way to pass some time. Plus, I have accumulated several kilos of beads that I need to use up.

 

[Walkabout]

Shot my Pedersoli 20 gauge double. It's a very attractive, functional gun, but I much prefer shooting my single barrels.

 

[ajbennettnc]

Tinkered with my Anderson Lamb (Jamestown School) rifle. Verified that a .320 ball and a #11 cap will work in it. Underside of the barrel and breech area appear in solid shape, but I'll have a gunsmith buddy of mine check it over for me before shooting it. I've got to make or get a wrench to fit the nipple, but air flows through. The bore is in good shape to be a late 19th century piece. Some previous owner derusted it and patched a broken piece of the front of the stock. The A. LAMB & CO is barely visible still. However, this old gun is generally in good shape (at leats better than my relic SH Ward rifle.)
Hopefully she'll kill some squirrels after I get me a deer with my fusil or 'Bess.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

Forgot about this picture..it is from The "Frontier Christmas Festival" in ol' Washington KY last weekend....yeah....I gave him my wish list for the Christmas Season.

Good "Health" was all I asked for....

 

[pilot]

I worked on smoothing a buffalo horn. I will cut the big end square tomorrow and work on the nozzle.

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

tried working on my cherry build. Learned one shouldn't shape cheek panels while grieving.
my #2 nephew, my oldest brothers second son died in his sleep night before last. 63 years old.
i guess i couldn't see what i was doing so will have to figure out how to save this stock.
length matches the lock inlet but just got too high with the bottom line trying to straighten it out.
maybe cover it with carving to hide the screw up?

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

tried working on my cherry build. Learned one shouldn't shape cheek panels while grieving.
my #2 nephew, my oldest brothers second son died in his sleep night before last. 63 years old.
i guess i couldn't see what i was doing so will have to figure out how to save this stock.
length matches the lock inlet but just got too high with the bottom line trying to straighten it out.
maybe cover it with carving to hide the screw up?

So very sorry for you and your familys loss.prayers sent for all of yaw.seems like as i get older that death has been knocking on a lot of doors lately.

 

[wiscoaster]

Shot the Pedersoli Frontier to finish up sighting it at 100 yds. Got the job done, didn't take long, and I didn't stick around to have any fun, either, because Dec - Mar in WI can be pretty miserable. Today was about average for the time of year:

... and I'm pretty sure it was colder than that "down in the holler" where the range is.

 

[Terrier]

Shot the Pedersoli Frontier to finish up sighting it at 100 yds. Got the job done, didn't take long, and I didn't stick around to have any fun, either, because Dec - Mar in WI can be pretty miserable. Today was about average for the time of year:

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... and I'm pretty sure it was colder than that "down in the holler" where the range is.

 

[Urban Coyote]

Between family, unseasonably cold weather, and heavy rains since the end of November I was finally able to go shooting. I only got 25 shots in though.

I shot a T/C Seneca having a .45 Douglas barrel someone had made up for it. It showed a definite preference for .445 ball. Next I shot my latest "loaner", a 50 cal Spingfield Hawken having 1 in 66" barrel I picked up a few years back as part of a good internet deal.The "loaner" rationale is my excuse for buying an inexpensive muzzleloader to play with. This gun actually shoots very well, at least at 50 yards and really would make a good loaner. Today I shot 3 five shot groups 50 yards using the 70 grain setting on my measurer, .015 spit patch and .490 cast ball from a T/C mold. Powders included Pyrodex Select, Schuetzen FFFG and Schuetzen FFG blackpowder. All shot fairly close to each other, certainly not enough variation, vertical, to miss game. I'm sure that without the weather related fog obscuring my target I would have shot better. Blackpowder smoke and fog makes for an interesting combination.

Anyway it was a great way to release some of my cabin fever energy. I love shooting blackpowder.

 

[smo]

Packing for a week long hunting trip starting next Monday..

My rifle was loaded on 11/17/23 & I hunted 2 days last week in a light drizzle, but kept the lock covered.

So I fired a few rounds today then cleaned & applied Barricade.

Video is the first shot after being loaded for a couple weeks now..

 

[DrLaw]

I worked on smoothing a buffalo horn. I will cut the big end square tomorrow and work on the nozzle.

My eyes must be getting bad or my brain is farting away. I thought this read that you were working on a "...smoothbore buffalo horn..."
I was thinking, what is a smoothbore buffalo horn?

The Doc is losing it now.