What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Hatchet-Jack]

where did you get it & how much? thanks. toot.

One of the members @davec2 makes and sells them. Here's his website:
http://luckybag.us/MagneticFlushTube.html

 

[Jim K]

Realized squirrel season starts in two weeks. Took the .32 out and shot it awhile.

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

I finished all of this by 1am so I guess it counts for "today".

All hand stitched with waxed linen thread. Pigskin Market Wallet, couple of cotton bags and two buckskin scissor covers.

 

[painter]

One of the members @davec2 makes and sells them. Here's his website:
http://luckybag.us/MagneticFlushTube.html

Thanks for the link. Ordered.

 

[stephenprops1]

I competed in a muzzle loading shooting match today. We had 11 targets and each target was handled as an independent match. I took 4th place on target #9 and I came in first place on target #3. I was using a Thompson/Center, 45 caliber, Hawken, percussion rifle with .445, patched round balls.

 

[Fly Navy]

Almost done with a new workbench.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Some 75 yd shooting at the range this morning. No wind sure helps....50 grains T7, .490 ball, .015 patch. Summer's almost over....

 

[Feltwad]

Re-rib a pair of original Damascus barrels
Feltwad

 

[Philip Lebow]

Started filing the bark off of a large buffalo horn. Very dusty. Used a horse hoof rasp!

 

[ResearchPress]

Currently editing ‘Black Powder’ magazine for the Muzzle Loaders Association of Great Britain. Content sorted - working up page layouts through this week.

David

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

My roofing friend came thru again....I LOVE it:

 

[mushka]

Casted 25 ea. .575-500grn minie balls. But they all weigh more than 500 grns. Supposed to weigh that much pure lead.
Don't know why they are overweight. Guess I'll shoot them anyway.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I got a race horse deal(so I thought) on a second hand TOW Isaac Haines kit 2 years ago, $650 or half the catalog kit price for what was in the box, rice barrel, deluxe Siler lock, and a precarve with spectacular wood.

TOW had even installed the buttplate and cut all the dove tails for the underlugs and sights.

I started on the kit and realized the precarve was a nightmare of flaw after flaw. The lock inlet put the pan below the barrel. I had to drop the barrel and glue wood in the inlet to get the pan up where it was supposed to be. The web between the ramrod hole and the barrel at the lock was 3/8".

I am going to move the barrel back just a hair.

Every time I worked on the kit I found another serious flaw, I started to get ticked off while working on the gun and would find yet another precarve flaw, the quality of my work suffered as a result. I started making mistakes like drilling pin holes for ramrod pipes and missing the lugs, something I had seldom done before. My inletting was sloppy where it had been tight and almost perfect before, I was beginning to HATE this project.

I would walk away for the project for months at a time out of frustration.

I walked around the gun laying across a chair in my shop for the last few months, I was sick of looking at it, it was essentially in the white with a little stock wood left to be removed.

I had several surgeries in the past year that went poorly, a hip replacement and TURP on my prostate, my days consisted mostly couch potato stuff.

A few days ago I thought "get off your butt and finish that gun and stop watching endless youtube videos", out to the shop I went.

I decided to cut some moldings along the ramrod groove, dang if I didn't enjoy the process for a change. I did get them a little uneven side to side but not that bad. I didn't take into account the very distinct bow that the ramrod channel had been cut in instead of straight so one side is slightly pinched down at the apex of the bow. (flaw #, well there were so many I forgot the number).

Next I brought the forestock wood down to the finished level at the entry pipe, this exposed my sloppy inletting, it was time to fill a few gaps. Super glue and shims to the rescue.

On to shaping the forestock being mindful of not ending up with the dreaded slab sided look that shouts of rookie stock shaping. I did my final rounding with sandpaper and a contour gage to check the shaped consistency end to end.

I have one side of the buttstock thinned and shaped, I am going to shape and thin the cheek piece side today.

I had about given up on gun building, my work is good again and I am actually enjoying it for a change, I am even thinking about my next build.

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

I got a race horse deal(so I thought) on a second hand TOW Isaac Haines kit 2 years ago, $650 or half the catalog kit price for what was in the box, rice barrel, deluxe Siler lock, and a precarve with spectacular wood.

TOW had even installed the buttplate and cut all the dove tails for the underlugs and sights.

I started on the kit and realized the precarve was a nightmare of flaw after flaw. The lock inlet put the pan below the barrel. I had to drop the barrel and glue wood in the inlet to get the pan up where it was supposed to be. The web between the ramrod hole and the barrel at the lock was 3/8".

I am going to move the barrel back just a hair.

Every time I worked on the kit I found another serious flaw, I started to get ticked off while working on the gun and would find yet another precarve flaw, the quality of my work suffered as a result. I started making mistakes like drilling pin holes for ramrod pipes and missing the lugs, something I had seldom done before. My inletting was sloppy where it had been tight and almost perfect before, I was beginning to HATE this project.

I would walk away for the project for months at a time out of frustration.

I walked around the gun laying across a chair in my shop for the last few months, I was sick of looking at it, it was essentially in the white with a little stock wood left to be removed.

I had several surgeries in the past year that went poorly, a hip replacement and TURP on my prostate, my days consisted mostly couch potato stuff.

A few days ago I thought "get off your butt and finish that gun and stop watching endless youtube videos", out to the shop I went.

I decided to cut some moldings along the ramrod groove, dang if I didn't enjoy the process for a change. I did get them a little uneven side to side but not that bad. I didn't take into account the very distinct bow the ramrod channel had been cut in instead of straight so one side is slightly pinched down at the apex of the bow. (flaw #, well there were so many I forgot the number).

Next I brought the forestock wood down to the finished level at the entry pipe, this exposed my sloppy inletting and it was time to fill a few gaps. Super glue and shims to the rescue.

On to shaping the forestock being mindful of not ending up with the dreaded slab sided look that shouts of rookie stock shaping. I did my final rounding with sandpaper and a contour gage to check the shaped consistency end to end.

I have one side of the buttstock thinned and shaped, I am going to shape and thin the cheek piece side today.

I had about given up on gun building, my work is good again and I am actually enjoying it for a change, I am even thinking about my next build.

I'm glad you stuck with it! Please keep posting your progress.

 

[Steve Martin]

Cast 50 .45 caliber round balls and about 100 .50 caliber balls. Not that pleasant though, it was 92 degrees and about 80 percent humidity. Summer can be a bit tough in Florida!

 

[TFoley]

I got a race horse deal(so I thought) on a second hand TOW Isaac Haines kit 2 years ago, $650 or half the catalog kit price for what was in the box, rice barrel, deluxe Siler lock, and a precarve with spectacular wood.

TOW had even installed the buttplate and cut all the dove tails for the underlugs and sights.

I started on the kit and realized the precarve was a nightmare of flaw after flaw. The lock inlet put the pan below the barrel. I had to drop the barrel and glue wood in the inlet to get the pan up where it was supposed to be. The web between the ramrod hole and the barrel at the lock was 3/8".

I am going to move the barrel back just a hair.

Every time I worked on the kit I found another serious flaw, I started to get ticked off while working on the gun and would find yet another precarve flaw, the quality of my work suffered as a result. I started making mistakes like drilling pin holes for ramrod pipes and missing the lugs, something I had seldom done before. My inletting was sloppy where it had been tight and almost perfect before, I was beginning to HATE this project.

I would walk away for the project for months at a time out of frustration.

I walked around the gun laying across a chair in my shop for the last few months, I was sick of looking at it, it was essentially in the white with a little stock wood left to be removed.

I had several surgeries in the past year that went poorly, a hip replacement and TURP on my prostate, my days consisted mostly couch potato stuff.

A few days ago I thought "get off your butt and finish that gun and stop watching endless youtube videos", out to the shop I went.

I decided to cut some moldings along the ramrod groove, dang if I didn't enjoy the process for a change. I did get them a little uneven side to side but not that bad. I didn't take into account the very distinct bow that the ramrod channel had been cut in instead of straight so one side is slightly pinched down at the apex of the bow. (flaw #, well there were so many I forgot the number).

Next I brought the forestock wood down to the finished level at the entry pipe, this exposed my sloppy inletting, it was time to fill a few gaps. Super glue and shims to the rescue.

On to shaping the forestock being mindful of not ending up with the dreaded slab sided look that shouts of rookie stock shaping. I did my final rounding with sandpaper and a contour gage to check the shaped consistency end to end.

I have one side of the buttstock thinned and shaped, I am going to shape and thin the cheek piece side today.

I had about given up on gun building, my work is good again and I am actually enjoying it for a change, I am even thinking about my next build.

Dunno about a race horse deal - it looks to me like you bought the Brooklyn Bridge....

 

[COTNTOP]

Has anyone on this forum not had a TURP this year. Played with aquafortis today trying to help an old gent get a plain maple stock looking better.

 

[CapnRon]

Since the previous thread was shut down (locked) by our new moderator, I thought I would start one up again, as per the suggestion.
So, let's get this thread going again, and share your muzzleloading related adventures of the day!

Today I dug my old CVA 12 ga. double out of the gun locker and gave the barrels a good scrubbing. These are great guns and mine has never given me a single problem. Not that it was all that dirty because I have always kept it clean and I haven't fired it in 20 years; I just felt like holding it again. In the day I hunted ducks, geese and pheasant with this gun but put it away except for match shooting after the gubment outlawed lead shot for waterfowl hunting. It is a great little gun that I had jug choked by a guy that said he had learned how from V.M. Starr. I also polished the lock/trigger mechanisms and installed a recoil pad - not so traditional but more comfortable. As much as I like this gun, the years have crept up on me and I will soon be looking for a younger person to own this gun and hopefully use it more than I have.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

New A/T tires on the Bronco so I can get to the range all winter to shoot BP....

 

[Keb]

Cast party here. I poured approx. 200 each .300, .530 & .562 roundballs getting ready for EPR in Swain, New York. Sept. 24 thru Oct. 1st.