What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[45man]

I shot my Ruger OA today at 25 yards to see how the .45 bullet does. Used Swiss 3F tad over 31 gr. First shot from clean bore went left but I put 5 in 1-1/8", just hits high from RB. Tryed Pyrodex P and did not like it at all. Might be too old. I had 2 that the cap fired but not the pyrodex and I had seated the caps well, new caps worked.
I pulled the hammer spring after cleaning to find it was very short so put a Wolff spring in. New spring is 1-1/2 times longer. I made a tool for changing springs.

 

[RiverRat]

I haven’t shot my 10 gauge New England Fowler for a good while due to some surgery. Now that I am all healed up it felt great feeling like I have been punched in the shoulder by Mike Tyson. Two loads of 00 buchshot and nine shots of a .740 patched rb with 80 grains of 3f goex. All shots were taken at 40 yards and my rbs results were pretty good. My barrel is 50”s and this Fowler is beautiful!

 

[WALT53]

I haven’t shot my 10 gauge New England Fowler for a good while due to some surgery. Now that I am all healed up it felt great feeling like I have been punched in the shoulder by Mike Tyson. Two loads of 00 buchshot and nine shots of a .740 patched rb with 80 grains of 3f goex. All shots were taken at 40 yards and my rbs results were pretty good. My barrel is 50”s and this Fowler is beautiful!

We like pictures ? Lots of pictures .

 

[Gtrubicon]

Worked on the investarm hawken yesterday and today. Got the toe, entry pipe and nose cap inlet into place. Had to do a little Acraglas gel around the entry pipe at the transition. I’ve never done one before and made some mistakes, the next one will be better. I re shaped the forearm and worked the but stock down to the toe with a rasp. I’ll start scraping hopefully tomorrow after I pin the entry pipe and get the nose cap drilled and tapped.

 

[harleysboss]

Finished up my TC stock. 6 coats of a home brew finish that was shared with me. I will give it a few more days to fully cure and reassemble.

 

[Polecat_Tom]

Finished making a gage d'amour tobacco bag. The beading is about 3-1/2" wide x 3-3/4" high. Number 10 beads on Crazy Crow German tanned hide.

 

[WALT53]

Finished making a gage d'amour tobacco bag. The beading is about 3-1/2" wide x 3-3/4" high. Number 10 beads on Crazy Crow German tanned hide.
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Beauty Tom .

 

[Polecat_Tom]

Beauty Tom .

Thank you Walt, much appreciated. The center is done in applique. One stitch for every 2 beads. The border is lazy stitch.

 

[Gordoncourtney]

Yesterday was the first day of the shoot started the day with a busted L&R rpl flint lock on my renagade this is the third time this lock has gone to hell it has been returned to L&R twice at my expense and now it’s broken again!!!!!!!!! So that started a really crapshoot day. Finally on the last target of the day I had a acceptable target and it wasn’t even a close to place. But I was on the green side of the dirt so that beats the alternative

No not impressed with L&R locks , such a pity I’ll stick with original 1810 east India Bess locks £250 if you can find them Been looking 18 months Ok they are a bit big but lovely , making / rebuilding , another baker/ jager ???? look alike, Old original stock full of worm holes , really unhappy with the L&R lock but no Bess locks around I made the Bess lock one in 1972. But making another now, going to upgrade to baker cast trigger guards £38 each I am always buying relics to do up , drives the wife max .

 

[WALT53]

Thank you Walt, much appreciated. The center is done in applique. One stitch for every 2 beads. The border is lazy stitch.

You do nice work Tom I have to say no question about it.

 

[Century to late]

Finally cool enough to work in the gun shop. I've had this old .54 Lyman great planes in the build pile for a few years. And decided to tackle the last big task on it. Soldered a new underrib and pipes on last night. I'm pretty happy how it turned out. This was another Johnny Cash project. As the song goes One piece at a time.

 

[Terrier]

Dang…. I feel sorry for Idaho now for getting all our Oregon imports.

You should!

 

[Terrier]

Finished making a gage d'amour tobacco bag. The beading is about 3-1/2" wide x 3-3/4" high. Number 10 beads on Crazy Crow German tanned hide.
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Love the greasy yellow...

 

[Ohio Rusty]

I made some char cloth on the grill after we were finished cooking out.
Ohio Rusty ><>

 

[longcruise]

I made a hickory ramrod. Used watch and min wax stain/finish. Starting to think it's not going to dry.

 

[Gtrubicon]

Finally cool enough to work in the gun shop. I've had this old .54 Lyman great planes in the build pile for a few years. And decided to tackle the last big task on it. Soldered a new underrib and pipes on last night. I'm pretty happy how it turned out. This was another Johnny Cash project. As the song goes One piece at a time.

I really need to learn how to solder better.

 

[Gtrubicon]

I got the entry pipe pinned and the nose cap mounted. I was able to do a little scraping, a little sanding here and there on the rifle.

 

[Century to late]

I made a hickory ramrod. Used watch and min wax stain/finish. Starting to think it's not going to dry.

What is watch?

 

[longcruise]

What is watch?

Foiled by autocorrect. Should be Watco.

 

[Century to late]

Foiled by autocorrect. Should be Watco.

ya not sure about using that. I know the older products were great and started alot of combustion rag fires.