What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[deerstalkert]

Tried, unsuccessfully, to modify and mount a taller rear sight on one of my SMRs. Tomorrow I’ll try again with a spare.

hate it when a plan doesn't come together! breech plugs and tangs don't cost all that much but I am on # 3.
the time spent modifying and fitting is what i hate losing. beats sitting in a patrol car sucking exhaust any day though .

 

[DCAN]

Broke out the bore scope and had a look down the barrels of my 58 Colonial, 45 SMR, and 54 Woodsrunner. Things looked far better than expected. My cleaning routine is working, and the quality of the barrel production is great. I've looked at custom barrels on my "other" guns that weren't much better and cost twice as much. Once again, hats off to Kibler's quality control.
On the flip side, I looked down the barrel of my oldest ML(49 years). I knew it was going to be ugly and I wasn't disappointed. Things didn't look too bad until I reached the breach area. That area looked like the inside of a sewer pipe. Not real sure I'd trust shooting it.

 

[TDM]

hate it when a plan doesn't come together! breech plugs and tangs don't cost all that much but I am on # 3.
the time spent modifying and fitting is what i hate losing. beats sitting in a patrol car sucking exhaust any day though .

Yes, I’ve either messed up or come close to messing up several gun projects lately. Old age is creeping in. But seriously, you need to watch your health.

 

[deerstalkert]

Yes, I’ve either messed up or come close to messing up several gun projects lately. Old age is creeping in. But seriously, you need to watch your health.

I have someone watching with eagle eyes now. get up and go out for firewood , turnaround , and bump into her! not unpleasant by any means but her breath on the back of my neck tickles!
she claims she didn't waste all that effort over the years just to feed me to the ravens now!

 

[TDM]

I have someone watching with eagle eyes now. get up and go out for firewood , turnaround , and bump into her! not unpleasant by any means but her breath on the back of my neck tickles!
she claims she didn't waste all that effort over the years just to feed me to the ravens now!

Good Deal.

 

[Urban Coyote]

Scored what looks to be a near mint .45 T/C Hawken caplock at auction, 40XXX range. Not that I really needed it but it looks to be so cherry I couldn't pass. I have a good one I love to shoot in very nice condition but nothing like this one appears to be. My first T/C Hawken caplock, a .50, I bought in 1976 after watching it sit in the rack of a hardware store for about two years is in the 94XXX range so this one is pretty early.

 

[deerstalkert]

today i made some nails to hold the inlet star barrel pin plates. got them set and started sanding the cherry stock.
sat in the recliner and polished the rear sight. realized it is made for raised dovetail and my chisel is missing. totw time.
put all the parts together just so i can sit and stare at it tonight and see what more i need to do to it.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I joined my local range this evening so I can go shoot muzzleloaders any time I want.
Does that count?

 

[Andrewmtnman]

today i made some nails to hold the inlet star barrel pin plates. got them set and started sanding the cherry stock.
sat in the recliner and polished the rear sight. realized it is made for raised dovetail and my chisel is missing. totw time.
put all the parts together just so i can sit and stare at it tonight and see what more i need to do to it. View attachment 294366

That’s sharp looking. Nice job.

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

Shot a few groups with my 40 cal tenn mt flintlock. Cutting at the muzzle was getting old and wanted to see if one inch square patches of the same material would work as well. Well all I can say is I probably won't go back to cutting any time soon. The group on the right is best group I ever shot with the rifle, by a bit. The two groups on the left aren't to shabby for my 75 year old eyes.(they're 1" squares, 3 shot groups and Mr flintlock for lube) Moved the sights for the third group. Then shot some steel at about 150 yd and hit it. Good day for me. Showed the wife and daughter, they couldn't be less impressed. View attachment 294328

Well im impressed. Good shooting

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

I joined my local range this evening so I can go shoot muzzleloaders any time I want.
Does that count?

Yes sir. That counts. Good luck

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

Tried, unsuccessfully, to modify and mount a taller rear sight on one of my SMRs. Tomorrow I’ll try again with a spare.

Hope it comes out good.

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

sorry, JUst saw this.
the test show some kind of enzyme or something at a certain level. That Friday my neighbor called me down to his place to get him up and running on a new Laptop thingy. about half way through that mess i started feeling a bit sick, then had a pain in my chest that felt like i had swallowed a new cast cannon ball. started to sweat like the wife had caught me with a new rifle i just snuck in.
don't understand all the test stuff but the doctor said now my heart matches my IQ in efficiency. scary thought.

Hang in there bud

 

[Tn poor boy]

Been working on this fusil 38 inch barrel

 

[BruceHuxford]

I started making a buckskin shirt to wear with my coat and trousers

 

[Psycho Mike]

Does stripping the plating off a cut down hat brass for use in an inlet / inset coin count? If so, that's what I did

 

[JimFlint]

Still working on some border work- the hours pass by quickly. But it’s coming along.

If I ever get half as good as you, I will be very pleased. Awesome work!

 

[Terrier]

today i made some nails to hold the inlet star barrel pin plates. got them set and started sanding the cherry stock.
sat in the recliner and polished the rear sight. realized it is made for raised dovetail and my chisel is missing. totw time.
put all the parts together just so i can sit and stare at it tonight and see what more i need to do to it. View attachment 294366

That going to look awesome with finish on it…. Already does! Pretty cherry wood.

 

[phdchemeng]

That going to look awesome with finish on it…. Already does! Pretty cherry wood.

I ordered 3 holsters for my 36 1851s and 44 1858s. I got tired of worrying about scratches when I put them in my safe. One holster is the cavalry style with the over-flap, my first like that, but I hunt in the rain and will like to see how it works for protection. And this other stuff is the last 3 weeks work as I got a gun ready for the primitive (sidelock) deer season here. I'd bought a CVA coloradoMM caplock barrel, 50cal, 1:32 twist off -bay for the faster twist to shoot conicals and a cheap composite stock. Bore was shiny, but no sights, thimbles, nipple, bolster screw. So late January I bought FG ramrod, cut it to fit, got M5 machine screw from HD and filed its length to fit the bolster, added nipple from my small stock of them, solder-braised a RR thimble from a steel spacer tube from HD and a chunk of brass (from a dart!), drifted in a low Ruger front sight for a 10/22 from MW (only $6), epoxied some aluminum spacers under it since it seemed too low but then did the simple trig calculation to cross the line of sight at 15 yards and found the original sight height was ok so pulled off the spacers, cut and very carefully filed a ramp for the Williams ghost ring rear from some aluminum stock and screwed it into the tapped scope holes, added sling studs (I always carry on a sling so my hands are free for binoculars) and cut a sloppy hole in the stock to match a wedge to the barrel's wedge slot. It all fit tight, looked decent enough and was much lighter than my T/C Hawken. I hunted hard one day and found it was so barrel heavy that it always rotated backwards on my shoulder, so first night back I added a butt stock pad with zippered pouch and put a couple tins of LRB in it. That worked good enough to keep it stock down on my back without having to keep a hand on the stock. No deer killed after all this, despite walking SLOW and glassing hard. Saw 2 late on day 1 at about 150 yards, nothing on day 2. But it was a state park and I was the only one there, and it was 2 good days outside, and several evenings hacksaw and file work that turned out decent enough. Now looking forward to archery season in September.

 

[JEP]

Making a scoped drop-in barrel for 50cal Hawken Flintlock to use in early Muzzleloader season in Pennsylvania. Using a vintage unused 28 inch CVA barrel, fitting a breech plug with a hook, will locate, drill and tap the touch hole for RMC touch hole liner, fit that, mounting a picatinny scope rail, using Leupold low profile quick mounts. Attaching and fitting a used CVA under rib with steel thimbles and a hickory ram rod. Will mildly fog the surface with glass bead for dull blue finish. Never use sand, it imbeds in steel.
Best of all using and mounting a pre WWII Weaver K4 post reticle scope that came off a Rem Matchmaster 22 cal varmint rifle used to train snipers in WWII. The scope was cleaned internally and tuned by the very best scope guy on the planet. Still has all the patina outside. So for all you panty wadders out there I can always put it back on the Rem 22 and no one can stop me. Quick mounts for scope off the barrel to facilitate a bath. With it mounted on the Flinlock rifle I will kill deer and make white paper packages because I can. I will feed my tribe.