What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

59sharps said:

We had 5” of snow. The green monster hasn’t awakened by us yet.
So I cast bullets instead.

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I've been through the Catskills in the winter. 5" of snow is nothing!

david w said:

I've been through the Catskills in the winter. 5" of snow is nothing!

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I know didn’t have to shovel didn’t have to mow lawn. Just saying I didn’t have to do work.

Nice shooting. I re-drilled the flash whole in my Springfield musket. I will be shooting it in a day or two.

I got an order of 1000 musket caps in and a new .570 mold so I fired up the Richmond Carbine today.

Twiddled my thumbs waiting on my new flintlock.

Cast some 54 cal REAL boolits.

Yesterday, wiped the bores on all my MLs and BPCRs with fresh barricade oil......

Preparing a place for the custom Lancaster flintlock due in Friday And ... drooling all over my computer. Polecat

Rained all afternoon here in KY.
Yep, I made the afternoon productive.
Added even more .600's to the pile from a few days ago:

I seldom get involved with matches or shooting contests. It just isn't my thing.
However, I did attend one in Jackson KY last Saturday.
It was a fun event with laid back shooters.
I took the cameras with me to post fun video of this event soon.

I tell you what a bit of pipe arrived from specialist pipe supplies hull uk

39” long. 1/4” Wall £36. It’s good stuff as they supply the oil industry. Missed out it’s
1/2” bore. Just thought I would mention it as making a pressure chamber Dream on.

They are on google website

cold might get sun later overcast. WsLondon uk. Still heavy snow 600 miles south in France.

Bonus yesterday. Clearing out big shed dumping steel out front van stops an a 23 year old “ can I have the scrap, “. Very polite Romanian lad. Spending uk at college but doing scarp metal to get buy. Git him two big loads in his van and he got. £185 a load Nice country family from his photos. I only mention it they live near Csrpathian mountains full of big animals elk bear go up on quad bikes ha friend always takes a rifle. I’ll keep in touch never know where these lead. Fantastic mountains for hunters and now I have a contact. Magic haha

I replaced all the factory screws in a used Pietta 1861 Navy .36 I bought a couple of weeks ago. Those factory screws must be kinda soft and/or the previous owner had ill fitting screw drivers. Almost all of the screw heads were buggered up. Also gave it a good cleaning and replaced the nipples with some I got from TOTW. I'm also thinking of removing the billboards on both sides of the barrel and the ugly factory varnish off of the grips. It will make for a much better looking revolver when I'm done.

Heavy rain UK. I never Learn , never angle grind stuff , holding work in your hand unless it’s well away. Ha ha. It’s only blood did not even hurt done it loads of times. Well I am making a large percussion hammer just grind the skin off as well as hammer. Taken 4 hours so far. , it was a big chunk of steel once copying one off cape rifle

Dremmil time now. My thumb not fallen off yet

Maybe a file too. 5 hours work dead pleased. There’s a guy. Makes loss wax hammers in uk. Have ordered some paid him. Never received any. And down £20/ hammer just says “ I have your hammer in this box ok “. Gave him away.

My new Flintlock should deliver tomorrow....

dreaming of a big bore underhammer. can,t decide to go for it with a 8 bore or be more economical with a 10. I mostly shoot small caliber so it just seems so cartoonish and fun.

RanchRoper said:

My new Flintlock should deliver tomorrow....

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We expect a range report!

Snow in the forecast this weekend but that won't stop me....

RanchRoper said:

My new Flintlock should deliver tomorrow....

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What are you getting?