What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Beaverman2]

Finished these 3 today, having fun getting back to turning, been about 8 years or so, practicing a bit to get back to making horns again, 2 80gr and 1 70gr

 

[Terrier]

Finished these 3 today, having fun getting back to turning, been about 8 years or so, practicing a bit to get back to making horns again, 2 80gr and 1 70gr

A one, and a two, and a.... wait a sec... wait for it....

Okay. Where' 3?

 

[Gtrubicon]

Glad your up and around @Gtrubicon

Thanks TDM, I’m just not use to this much sitting, it’s very frustrating to me. I can’t do anything one handed.

 

[Beaverman2]

A one, and a two, and a.... wait a sec... wait for it....

Okay. Where' 3?

OOPS, missed that one!

 

[Terrier]

OOPS, missed that one!

Two outta three ain't bad...

 

[Moleman]

Sprung for a NW Trade gun kit in 20g today from Sitting Fox.
I thought about a rifle but I'm hooked on smoothies ,

 

[CuNosecap]

Put the first coat of finish on my PA Fowler.
With nothing else to do but wait, I took the opportunity for a final disassembly, polish and stoning of the Colonial round face lock. It is reassembled now and smooth as can be.
More finish tomorrow, after some fine sanding.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Cut and lubed a million patches. Felt like it. Maybe only a few hundred.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Also cleaned some moccs and washed up some of my camp stuff. Coffee pot etc.

 

[Loja man]

I just spent a couple of nice days in the scrub, camped under a shady gum tree directly by the water. This morning, this unsuspecting young lad came toward the billabong to quench his thirst. The .54 Pedersoli Rocky Mountain Hawken did what it was supposed to do - roundball, spit patch, 80 grains of Wano FFG real black. He yielded 35 kilograms of lean venison; the young spikers of this size are superior table fare compared to the large racked mature stags. I was fortunate enough to get an image of him as he was coming in, click with the camera, then up with the Hawken.

Cheers, Pete

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Great hunt!! Love the deer!!

 

[aussie pete]

Put the first coat of finish on my PA Fowler.
With nothing else to do but wait, I took the opportunity for a final disassembly, polish and stoning of the Colonial round face lock. It is reassembled now and smooth as can be.
More finish tomorrow, after some fine sanding.

And then some images of that beauty!

Cheers, Pete

 

[Compressorguy]

Worked on freeing up the sliding action on my ships telescope so I can go on “Watch”. Slides nicely now while still holding focus and puts up a good image considering its age! I recovered it with some finished leather years ago for added protection and grip. With pistol and scope in hand I’m now ready to defend the ship and spot those enemy flags from afar.

Extended length to reach focus

 

[Mina]

Yesterday I finished making 5-40 threads on the one original 8-32 inch shaft (modified) I had been fiddling with for weeks now. It started out being 3 1/2 inch long so I could put it into an internally threaded aluminum tube and into my drill press chuck. I'm not going to tap the hole for it in the forward part of my flintlock plate until I completely finish doing the rear screw...the normal and unmodified 8-32 machine screw. As to whether the forward one with the reduced diameter blocked the ramrod, it doesn't. But, after enlarging the holes--these for the forward screw--side to side (one being for 8-32 and the other being for 5-40 loose fit for both diameters), there was more of a drag on the rod. Darn. What goes? I pulled out the rod and found a groove worn (well I had had to keep inserting the clearance bit and re-drilling while rotating the rod) all around the rod. So obviously enlarging the holes to allow easier extraction of the modified screw allowed such movement as to interfere with a non-tapered rod.

 

[Forester]

Cast around 50 .315 dia, rb with my new to me Lyman mold this morning. Balls fell out without tapping. They measure .314 with my dial calipers. The mold cost $50 with handles so I am very happy with it.

 

[Gordoncourtney]

Thanks for the sentiments @Gordoncourtney. You are right. There are places in Australia that I certainly wouldn't camp near water! Bad things can happen where those big lizards reside. The places I haunt when hunting are well away from saltwater crocodile territory. Only a couple of weeks ago, just to the north of us, a fellow had his dog taken off his houseboat. Next, the crocodile made a lunge at the resident owner of the same vessel, launching up on deck to get him. Only quick reaction saved him. The croc has since been captured by a floating bait method and has been relocated to a sanctuary.

Yes. Western Australia can be quite barren, but it does have some wonderful places of natural beauty. Mind, I'm on the complete other side of the continent.

Cheers Gordon, and thanks for your response and input to this forum. Oh, here's a pic of a bad lad I spotted while birdwatching, just a couple of kilometres from home.

Pete

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They say the biggest rock in Australia is Mt Augusta. Cousins dragon was driving to it from Canarvon lost control of new company Mondao executive, ha ha all over the mud road at 70 mph a big bush caught us and the car bent in teo, we shipped it back to Perth ha ha cousin Phil Lost his job with “ sheep wool” over it. No much around but cows and sheep, but I chased an emu at Canarvon A few gun shops around , waste of time I thought. Hunted tiger snakes along Swan river , deadly but gentle, could not find any. Great country love to chat for hours


Today

Yesterday I finished making 5-40 threads on the one original 8-32 inch shaft (modified) I had been fiddling with for weeks now. It started out being 3 1/2 inch long so I could put it into an internally threaded aluminum tube and into my drill press chuck. I'm not going to tap the hole for it in the forward part of my flintlock plate until I completely finish doing the rear screw...the normal and unmodified 8-32 machine screw. As to whether the forward one with the reduced diameter blocked the ramrod, it doesn't. But, after enlarging the holes--these for the forward screw--side to side (one being for 8-32 and the other being for 5-40 loose fit for both diameters), there was more of a drag on the rod. Darn. What goes? I pulled out the rod and found a groove worn (well I had had to keep inserting the clearance bit and re-drilling while rotating the rod) all around the rod. So obviously enlarging the holes to allow easier extraction of the modified screw allowed such movement as to interfere with a non-tapered rod.

Another engineer. Today I fitted some old £12ebay sights to my cape rifle I am re building

I had to make the lop rib rear sight dovetail
wider luckily the rib came off easily and then into my engraver mill Bit if filing and it’s done. I’ll re epoxy the rib

 

[PathfinderNC]

I test fired my new .62 British carbine.
The Chambers lock is FAST.
The paper target was at 25 yards off a bench, using undersize roundball (.595). I will be using .610’s next.
But not too bad for a start.

 

[Century to late]

I inherited a nice curly maple plank last weekend. I've been sitting on this nice .45 Douglas barrel for a future build. It's never been mounted or cut on. tang and powder drum also. He had Berks county scratched on it with lop and drop. I'm in the middle of three plank builds two in straight maple and one in walnut. What to build?

 

[longcruise]

I inherited a nice curly maple plank last weekend. I've been sitting on this nice .45 Douglas barrel for a future build. It's never been mounted or cut on. tang and powder drum also. He had Berks county scratched on it with lop and drop. I'm in the middle of three plank builds two in straight maple and one in walnut. What to build?

7" of drop!! That's a lot. I don't feel like I'm seeing that much looking at the pictures.

Appears to be pretty well committed to a Lehigh style.

 

[Century to late]

7" of drop!! That's a lot. I don't feel like I'm seeing that much looking at the pictures.

Appears to be pretty well committed to a Lehigh style.

It's another option I've been looking at. I need to get some other builds done first. Research is already going.

 

[longcruise]

It's another option I've been looking at. I need to get some other builds done first. Research is already going.

I have both RCA volumes and can probably get some idea pictures for you.