What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?
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Banjoman
Hillbilly
Out patrolling the farm with our bear dog Rose before church and found an almost perfect flint. It might be good for one shot or fifty shots, but it was free.
I drilled and extracted a mangled bolt screw on an 1849 Pocket I’m cleaning up.
Before:
Before:
Shot my Frontier percussion .50 cal. Lots of steel targets with fresh dents in them today. 
Setting up camp next week for a few days.
Setting up camp next week for a few days. 
Dry-filing (and mostly sanding) my .58 cal smoothbore barrel of my latest Kibler Colonial kit. I must say, considerably more work involved than with my .45 cal SMR barrel. These poor stiff old fingers doth protest.
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Yeah the weekend before was the interstate shoot where KY came to PA. The score I got would have won the whole match
Hope your work schedule allows you to participate, the team needs younger eyes and steady hands!
DRYBALLED, broke a long dry spell.
aussie pete
40 Cal
Ah, yep. Those who have, and those who will. It's been a while; hope I haven't cursed myself!
Cheers, Pete
been working on a new deerstand with the son in law but I think we should have been working on the ARK approaching 5" of rain in less then a week and we still don't have the crops in the ground 5 acres planted total so far this spring
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worked out a deal with my nephew for a supply of Myrtle, Maple, and Madrone for stock planks.
some of the Maple is birds eye, some is quilted, and some is flamed.
Sold him a mill some years back and looked at some of the wood he has been cutting while in Nor Cal for sending on some family members that died the last year. these ceremonies tire me out anymore. had a flower drop off my oldest brothers memorial bridge over the Klamath river. 1000 rose petals, 1000 Shasta Daisies and some others i didn't/don't know the names.
looked like thousands of butterflies drifting on the wind.
too many sad memories.
some of the Maple is birds eye, some is quilted, and some is flamed.
Sold him a mill some years back and looked at some of the wood he has been cutting while in Nor Cal for sending on some family members that died the last year. these ceremonies tire me out anymore. had a flower drop off my oldest brothers memorial bridge over the Klamath river. 1000 rose petals, 1000 Shasta Daisies and some others i didn't/don't know the names.
looked like thousands of butterflies drifting on the wind.
too many sad memories.
Norman Brooks
45 Cal.
Working on a double mule ear build. Have to do some work on the lock, mostly TIG welding up the hammer cups that are worn quit bad, making a new leaf spring for the sear and do some tuning. Barrels are tacked together with soft solder and fixtured to a board so I can shoot them using firecracker fuse to set off the charge to see where they impact. Used my laser sighter to check both barrels, looks like the bottom one is going to shoot low and to the left. Also reformed and shortened a Hawken's trigger guard to use. Should be an interesting project.
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Gtrubicon
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My wife just gave me a pair of her jeans that she’s done with. I’m gonna make char cloth out of them.
