When should to prime?

[roundball]

roundball where does one purchase a hammer stall? ::

Well, Buckhorn Trading Co makes them...sells them on EBay too...but mainly the large generic size for musket reenactors.
I sent him a frizzen for a TC Hawken and he measured the dimensions and made a few for me custom fit to the TC Hawken frizzen, and kept the dimensions for other TC users if they wanted any.
Excellent quality thick leather, the shape of a frizzen, good snug fit, with a hole punched at the top for a rawhide tie to the trigger guard...I bought several and they only cost $1.xx each (10 cost me $20 delivered)
I'll post his contact info tonight when I get home...

For ready made muzket size leather hammer stalls or custom sized hammer stalls for TC Flintlocks, contact 'Bob' at Buckhorn Trading:
website = http://www.buckhorntrading.com/
Email = [email protected]

 

[Slamfire]

Shootin' at runnin' game is only ethical when you can get off a whole magazine of follow up shots before the game can get out of range or sight. Western hunters have an advantage with so much open country, and jack rabbits to practice on. :nono:

 

[Ron LaClair]

Shootin' at runnin' game is only ethical when you can get off a whole magazine of follow up shots before the game can get out of range or sight. Western hunters have an advantage with so much open country, and jack rabbits to practice on.

It depends on how practiced you are on moving shots. If it takes a whole magazine to do the job, you shouldn't be shooting. On the other hand some people only need one shot. :imo: :winking:

 

[BLAHMAN]

Catclaw, to keep my powder dry I make a batch of what is best described as "goo". I take some lard, or Crisco and some beeswax (from a toilet bowl ring) and mix some of that together. I make it so that it is pliable and easy to use in both damp and cold weather. Then I smear it around the pan area, where the lock meets the barrel, up towards the barrel channel and just about any where I suspect water to creep in. Plus, I check my pan every now and then. Hope that helps...it's a trial and error thing...good luck! :results:

 

[Slamfire]

[quote}It depends on how practiced you are on moving shots. If it takes a whole magazine to do the job, you shouldn't be shooting. On the other hand some people only need one shot. :imo: :winking: [/quote]

The most practiced shooters I know, all agree that you have to allow for somethin' to go wrong. Murphy waits for those who think they can always get away with a single shot. :m2c:

 

Shootin' at runnin' game is only ethical when you can get off a whole magazine of follow up shots before the game can get out of range or sight. Western hunters have an advantage with so much open country, and jack rabbits to practice on. :nono:

I never thot of myself as an un -ethical hunter 'til I read thet!! :crackup: :crackup:

rollingb

 

[Stumpkiller]

Shootin' at runnin' game is only ethical when you can get off a whole magazine of follow up shots before the game can get out of range or sight.

NO! NO! NO! Video game & anti-aircraft gunner mindset. Where are all those bullets ending up when you spray and pray?

Boy, I gotta disagree with the "ethics" of blasting off a whole fusilade of "Hail Mary's" instead of one, sure shot. If the first shot isn't good, the rest likely won't be either. You should not try to exchange accuracy for firepower EVER when hunting. I do not recommend anyone ever try a shot at running game, but there have been seasons when that is all that is ever offerred . . . and that is what put meat in the freezer. It's what we used to call "grouse shots". Pull up, track through from behind, and fire as the sight picture just passes the game. Only ever taken on very close pass situations this way.

When still-hunting, sometimes I jump them like bunnies. You have to decide in a heartbeat if the shot feels right. Sometimes it does. I also did a LOT of small-game hunting with .22 LRs to develop a talent at potting moving game. Not to mention thousands of glass bottles set adrift in the Susquehanna and sunk with BB & .22 Shorts in my politically incorrect youth. :redface:

I have taken running squirrels (gray, and the tiny red) and rabbits many times with a recurve bow. One good shot. The human brain is still the best ballistic computer in the known universe.

 

[Ron LaClair]

The most practiced shooters I know, all agree that you have to allow for somethin' to go wrong. Murphy waits for those who think they can always get away with a single shot.

I can't seem to find the "magazine" port on my flinter, :hmm: ::...I guess I'll just have to rely on one shot :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

I don't think that anyone that doesn't think they can "get away" with a single shot would be on this forum. :shake: :winking:

 

[Stumpkiller]

The powder magazine. You know: your horn, the keg at home, barrels stockpiled in the village for the militia.

 

[Ron LaClair]

If a person isn't practiced and proficient at moving game then they probably shouldn't be taking running shots. On the other hand skill at this type of shooting can be achived with the right kind of practice.

These video clips will take time to load if you don't have cable modem.

http://tradgang.com//noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=33;t=000005

 

I can't seem to find the "magazine" port on my flinter, :hmm: ::...I guess I'll just have to rely on one shot :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

The "magazine port" is located unner the barrel of yore flinter,.... pull the ramrod out and cram 'bout 15 roundballs into thet "hole" (sort'a like a "tubular fed" pump .22)!! :applause: :: :crackup: :crackup:

YMHS
rollingb

 

[Ron LaClair]

The "magazine port" is located unner the barrel of yore flinter,.... pull the ramrod out and cram 'bout 15 roundballs into thet "hole" (sort'a like a "tubular fed" pump .22)!!

:what: :: :: :shocking: :shocking:.. whadaya know, ya learn somthin ever day. :master:... :winking:

 

[/qoute] :what: :: :: :shocking: :shocking:.. whadaya know, ya learn somthin ever day. :master:... :winking: [/quote]

Yup!!.... It took me awhile ta figger it out too!! :crackup:

Jest be carefull thet ya "don't" load any'a them 15 roundballs "back'ards" or they'll "jam" on'ya (I found thet out the hard way :curse: :curse, and turn yore flinter back into a singleshooter!! :cry: :cry: :curse: :shocking:

YMHS
rollingb

 

[Stumpkiller]

Nah. Tried it. Without the patch my roundballs tumbled and keyholed at 50 yards.

Benn there, done that, bought the T-shirt, had the tattoo . . .

 

Nah. Tried it. Without the patch my roundballs tumbled and keyholed at 50 yards.

Thet's exactly what roundballs were "designed" to do, and why they are so devastate'n on deer!! :applause: :hmm: :RO: :redthumb: ::

YMHS
rollingb

 

[Stumpkiller]

Treachery! Treachery! No wonder the Geneva Convention banned them!

 

[sse]

I think they should re-design the round ball to create a round ball that doesn't do that.

Regards, sse

 

I'am curious --- just how did you dertermine that it was a moisture problem and if so are you sure the moisture came from conditions in the field? I typically dump the prime every hour or so and then pick out the flash hole and sweep off the tray before I reprime. I am assuming that this does not happen at the range? Was it a damp day when this took place? Also -- what brand and F number of prime are you using?

 

[Eric Krewson]

The easiest way to make a frizen cover is to cut a small piece of paper, fold it in half like a dunce cap and put it over your frizen to make a pattern. Use this pattern on a piece of scrap leather to cut the right size. Fold the leather over like the paper and glue two sides together with Duco cement, pressing hard on the cemented area. It will never come apart. Walmart has Duco cement for 99 cents a tube.

 

[Java Man]

Hey Eric,

Good to see another TradGang guy over here. This is an excellent forum too.

Gregg