What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[TDM]

Certainly sounds worth a try @WALT53. I also want to try some of my 20 ga plastic shot cups if I can find the bag. Got a few things hiding from me right now.

 

[Grenadier1758]

As @sheriff john noted, what @deerstalkert is calling a ball stop is a "tompion". Originals were made like the old wooden clothes pins. They were used to keep debris from getting into the musket bore when they were stacked.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

Sir your quit the lady’s man .lol

I LOVE shooting with the ladies...they are a joy to shoot with!
I try to get all of them on camera I can.....

 

[jdw276]

As @sheriff john noted, what @deerstalkert is calling a ball stop is a "tompion". Originals were made like the old wooden clothes pins. They were used to keep debris from getting into the musket bore when they were stacked.

And were sometimes personalized so they could find their firearm in the stack quickly.

 

[Abarnes]

Since the previous thread was shut down (locked) by our new moderator, I thought I would start one up again, as per the suggestion.
So, let's get this thread going again, and share your muzzleloading related adventures of the day!

I ground another batch

 

[Abarnes]

Since the previous thread was shut down (locked) by our new moderator, I thought I would start one up again, as per the suggestion.
So, let's get this thread going again, and share your muzzleloading related adventures of the day!

Today I tried my hand at mixing up some wood dye, I think it turned out alright.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

I went hunting today. Its the tail end of our late ML season. Nothing but does again today however I did find a large true tinder fungus growing on a black birch. If you have ever wondered what chaga looks like - this is it.

 

[bpd303]

I had forgotten all about Tampions

Once I posted about my 1864 Springfield having a Tampon. Took me a while to live that one down.

 

[Dutch7]

I went hunting today. Its the tail end of our late ML season. Nothing but does again today however I did find a large true tinder fungus growing on a black birch. If you have ever wondered what chaga looks like - this is it.

Looks like a human face

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Looks like a human face

Now that you mention it, I agree. Had not noticed. Usually these are rather cone shaped.

 

[Commodore Swab]

Put the blunderbuss pistol together

 

[thixotropy]

That’s what I did too. Used some JB Weld. They were old tubes, but it set up fine. I’ll do a dovetail down the road.

shot a couple matches with fellows who spent the better part of the day looking for the sights they'd started with using that very same method...

 

[TDM]

shot a couple matches with fellows who spent the better part of the day looking for the sights they'd started with using that very same method...

Mine held up fine.

 

[aussie pete]

Wonderful, wonderful rain. Man, we needed it.

Just for grin factor, I went out this morning with the Parker Hale 53 to do what muskets weren't meant to do. I got a couple of round ball moulds; one in .562, the other .570. Both types, cast in roof lead (dead soft) worked a treat with a .015 patch, 50gns of FFFG Wano, and equal amounts of Semolina for filler between powder charge and patched ball. The target shows the results of 12 shots. All to the same point of aim, generally.

Don't get excited, lads and ladies, that's benched at 25 metres. Still, good. And I wasn't walking further in the downpour. I'll take it to 50 metres next time, when the grass will be greener.

Oh. The .562 loaded easily with hand pressure and short starter, with the .570 requiring the slightest persuasion with a rubber mallet on the starter.

Cheers, Pete

 

[TDM]

Very nice @aussie pete !

 

[Terrier]

Wonderful, wonderful rain. Man, we needed it.

Just for grin factor, I went out this morning with the Parker Hale 53 to do what muskets weren't meant to do. I got a couple of round ball moulds; one in .562, the other .570. Both types, cast in roof lead (dead soft) worked a treat with a .015 patch…

Pete,
I’m wondering how .562 and .570 fit in a .53 cal barrel without a hammer? Seems a bit tight.

 

[Piquant]

Pete,
I’m wondering how .562 and .570 fit in a .53 cal barrel without a hammer? Seems a bit tight.

Parker-Hale 53 is the style of the musket not the caliber. It's a .58 caliber.

 

[Gordoncourtney]

Parker-Hale 53 is the style of the musket not the caliber. It's a .58 caliber.

Got thinking makings of a jager rifle need a new slab of walnut as this is full of worm holes . Barrel .625 rifled recall 1/28 twist 32” long. Might be a long winter. God bless you all. Note inside London Marsden cancer hospital , there for blood tests for Mondays infusion They have shrunk my cancer to almost nothing. I’ll live to 90’

 

[Gordoncourtney]

Wonderful, wonderful rain. Man, we needed it.

Just for grin factor, I went out this morning with the Parker Hale 53 to do what muskets weren't meant to do. I got a couple of round ball moulds; one in .562, the other .570. Both types, cast in roof lead (dead soft) worked a treat with a .015 patch, 50gns of
FFFG Wano, and equal amounts of Semolina for filler between powder charge and patched ball. The target shows the results of 12 shots. All to the same point of aim, generally.

Don't get excited, lads and ladies, that's benched at 25 metres. Still, good. And I wasn't walking further in the downpour. I'll take it to 50 metres next time, when the grass will be greener.

Oh. The .562 loaded easily with hand pressure and short starter, with the .570 requiring the slightest persuasion with a rubber mallet on the starter.

Cheers, Pete

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It pissed with rain down south in WA last time I was there. Icy cold too. Took wife to feed the rays . It’s a long 23 hour flight, sadly we probably won’t go again we are 76&80. You cannot hunt with ML in WA. Bloody waste of a flight, haha . Nothing much to shoot anyway . I did chase an emu around Canarvon, he was a better runner than me .

 

[PathfinderNC]

Engraved some lines into Horn 52 this morning. I am thinking about doing a type of “woodcut” style decoration on this one, perhaps a hunting scene.