What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[WALT53]

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I got to go pick this up from the post office

Open ur up let’s have a peak at what’s in side your teasing us .

 

[Urban Coyote]

Shot my Uberti SS 5.5" 1858 Remington for the first time in a few years. I'll be doing more cap and ball shooting, if I can find the caps.

 

[deerstalkert]

waited until the wife was asleep and sneaked my new Brown Bess into the gun safe.

 

[deerstalkert]

sanded and stained the cherry stock. started the browning process on the barrel.
will be fun to get the stock color i want. of course i could use it to shoot the dirt that poured pink on the Constitution case.
maybe leave it and gift it to my wife. she looked at it and actually laughed!

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

Fitted some sling swivels and a sling to my Penderoseldi double gun;

 

[BruceHuxford]

Got my shirt finished

 

[Psycho Mike]

Open ur up let’s have a peak at what’s in side your teasing us .

Ok...I peeked (not quite ready to go big on it yet....but I can do a few things to start.)

Here's what is inside....

And from the look of the comb / wrist area, it looks like I have some curl, as well as beautiful grain, that I can play with... by feel, it's a smooth area, so that looks like it will be legit (I haven't worked with curly maple before, so the adventure begins).

 

[longcruise]

Here's what is inside

Nice! I thought for sure it was a new snow shovel.

 

[Rebel bull]

I needed to cut some patches today. Here is how I do it. Bought 1 yd .014 cotton ticking at JC Penney. It is 60” wide. I use a 1 1/4” iron pipe nipple (6” long from Lowe’s) and a 2” steel ball Amazon). After folding a 2” wide strip of the cloth so that the strip is 8 layers thick, it is layed over the pipe and the ball is set on top.
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A blow or two from a 3# hammer cuts the material, nice and slick.
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Moving the cloth and continuing to cut patches out of that 2” strip and 1 yd of 60” wide fabric, I figure I can get about 1000 patches. Possibly that yard of fabric could last a while.
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the bevel bros. did a test in muzzle blasts several years ago that showed that there was no statistical difference in accuracy weather or not a patch was cut at the muzzle or cut square so after that i lube up the material and cut it into patches while watching tv can do several matches worth in a hour

 

[Ohio Rusty]

This week I forged a new double hook to hold both the bag and horn. Today I finished fitting and dyeing a couple of powder horn plugs from fiddle pegs.

 

[Rebel bull]

i made a hunting short starter for a friend

 

[SciAggie]

Fitted some sling swivels and a sling to my Penderoseldi double gun;

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That's a nice looking shotgun. Are the barrels a matt finish? I like it for a hunting gun

 

[deerstalkert]

put second coat of tru-oil over the laurel mountain cherry stain that i topped with aqua fortis.
got exactly what i wanted for a color. best i can do as far as picture's. phone camera.
another 6 coats of finish and she will be ready to shoot.
first coat with 12 hour drying, then knocked back with 0000 steel wool.
oh yeah, also put third treatment of browning the barrel. it is coming along nicely.

second coat below

 

[Psycho Mike]

Nice! I thought for sure it was a new snow shovel.

For up here, that's would be a legit guess

 

[wganz]

I needed to cut some patches today. Here is how I do it. Bought 1 yd .014 cotton ticking at JC Penney. It is 60” wide. I use a 1 1/4” iron pipe nipple (6” long from Lowe’s) and a 2” steel ball Amazon). After folding a 2” wide strip of the cloth so that the strip is 8 layers thick, it is layed over the pipe and the ball is set on top.
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A blow or two from a 3# hammer cuts the material, nice and slick.
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Moving the cloth and continuing to cut patches out of that 2” strip and 1 yd of 60” wide fabric, I figure I can get about 1000 patches. Possibly that yard of fabric could last a while.
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Super idea!!!
Links below for the interested:


2" ball from Amazon - they have other diameters available if you so want.

1 1/4" iron nipple at Lowes - other sized also available

 

[simonbeans]

Thanks for the compliment on the patch cutting idea. I can NOT take credit for it however. One of my “Girty” brothers who worked at a gravel pit here in WNY came up with this method. He apparently had access to many large ball bearings that were used in crushing machines. Sadly, Al “He Who Kicks Deer” Lange passed away years ago. Every time I use this patch cutting technique, I fondly remember Al.

 

[WALT53]

For up here, that's would be a legit guess

Yea one with long handle for cleaning snow off your roof lol.

 

[Psycho Mike]

Yea one with long handle for cleaning snow off your roof lol.

Heck, some parts here in "The Great White North" have received close to 6' of snow (gotta love Nor'easters) in the last two weeks....need a really long handled shovel to deal with that stuff

 

[Icemanxxxv]

FedEx delivery 3lbs of 3f and 1lb of 4f for the SMR!

 

[wganz]

waited until the wife was asleep and sneaked my new Brown Bess into the gun safe.