What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Terrier]

Fitted a front sight on an Ultra Hi .45 flintlock pistol. Also inlet the lockplate a tad deeper to close a horrendous gap between the breech flat and pan. Believe the gun was somebody's hastily finished kit. Nosecap and trigger guard need polished badly. Sparks decent. Gonna clean it up some more this weekend.

Was finally able to get my .45 Jukar Colonial sighted in. It was hitting 24" hight @ 15 yards. Just slightly off. The rear sight had to be filed down to almost half its original height. This caused it to be below the previous notch so i had to deepen the knotch as well as taper the rear part of it with a dremmel. Surprisingly only took two times gling back to the file to get it close but this is only a 6" barreled pistol so only a certain amount of accuracy can be achieved. After this is blued it to cut down on the glare from the bare shiny metal

Also had to make a new pin for it because the old one became loose (which i didn't realize) and I lost it.

Pictures? Pictures? We like pictures!

 

[awreis]

Pictures? Pictures? We like pictures!

This is the height before and after

 

[awreis]

This is the height before and after

I think they used the same sight on the rifles as they did on this pistol but the front sight on the pistol is about 1/3 the size as the rifles.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Picked up 1000 caps at my LGS.

 

[WALT53]

Picked up 1000 caps at my LGS.

How much a tin ?

 

[RobertIN]

Working on restocking my Colonial that was damaged in transit.

Unfortunately, it appears the rear lug mortise has moved forward about 3/8"~... My Colonial has the old Rice barrel and lugs... What to do, what to do...

Edit: That'll do for now

Deary me the chambers lock is different dimensionally than the Kibler, should have been obvious but I overlooked it. Most everything is hidden behind the lock plate I'll just get creative with inletting. Learning what a pleasure a sharp chisel is, but man getting into the sear hole to stretch it out a bit is a bear.

 

[awreis]

Poured a little over 100 .530 and same in .440 round balls to restock.

 

[sethwyo]

Bought two ball molds, $24 ea, one turns out to be a double .490 an the other a single .451

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Today I worked on the patchbox finial and one of the side plates.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

How much a tin ?

$20

 

[Terrier]

$20

O. M. G.

You poor soul. I’ve been lucky enuf (due to dogged persistence) to find upwards of 25 tins at Walmarts in my area for $5.62 a tin over the past two years. I found 7 tins on clearance for $3 each about a year ago.

A lot of them have found their way into fellow club members possibles bags, gratis, or items in our club auctions/raffles.