What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

SOLANCO said:

The books suggest you are cultivating a child's interest in reading. May God bless you for that.

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Or maybe he is just learning to read! (just joking here dude )

longcruise said:

Or maybe he is just learning to read! (just joking here dude )

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We're hoping that grandchildren come along at some point! These were her kids books. On a side note, my GF is a children's book author.

My reading selections lean more towards outdoor or historical related type subjects.

Hatman/2nd line said:

My new kit from Kibler arrived on Saturday, a SMR in walnut! Christmas early!

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What, no pic? You tease. Semper Fi.

Hatman/2nd line said:

My new kit from Kibler arrived on Saturday, a SMR in walnut! Christmas early!

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I ordered the same thing in walnut. How long did it take to arrive after ordering? I'm still waiting.....anxiously.

Medicine Bow said:

I ordered the same thing in walnut. How long did it take to arrive after ordering? I'm still waiting.....anxiously.

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I think walnut is a good choice for that rifle.

longcruise said:

I think walnut is a good choice for that rifle.

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Agree, a more traditional wood for a SMR.

Not today, but yesterday shot at the Laguna Mountain Rendezvous. Great location with a lot of targets on a woods walk. Great time!

SOLANCO said:

I can not positively ID it. Yet.

This from a custom furniture maker's web site:
"But the wood is rich in resins, particularly prussic acid, which rapidly reacts to both light and oxygen, so cherry achieves in six months the patina that oak or maple acquires only after six decades. As cherry is exposed to sunlight and air, it changes color, shifting from a light salmon to a deep, rich reddish-brown."

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Seals the deal for me on getting cherry for that short trade gun replica.

SOLANCO said:

I can not positively ID it. Yet.

This from a custom furniture maker's web site:
"But the wood is rich in resins, particularly prussic acid, which rapidly reacts to both light and oxygen, so cherry achieves in six months the patina that oak or maple acquires only after six decades. As cherry is exposed to sunlight and air, it changes color, shifting from a light salmon to a deep, rich reddish-brown."

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Did not know that about Cherry.

UPS dropped off Rob Miller's latest build at the house before lunch today. My boy ask me, what this thing made out of, Styrofoam. My answer was leprechaun wood and pixie dust. It is unbelievably light and sweet. Burned powder a good part of the day. I'm not easily impressed, but, this one put a smile on my face. Now if I can pry it out of my girlfriend's hands. Many thanks Rob.

wganz said:

Ordered round ball moulds for the 2 muskets I just got from Loyalist Arms.
0.672" for the 1825/40 musket on the LEFT. 0.735" for the 1839 Tower Percussion (aka caplock Brown Bess) on the RIGHT.

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April 11 to May 11th, that's what it takes to get a pair of moulds from ballmoulds.com in Jolly Old England to get to Big D in Tejas.

Kevin said:

UPS dropped off Rob Miller's latest build at the house before lunch today. My boy ask me, what this thing made out of, Styrofoam. My answer was leprechaun wood and pixie dust. It is unbelievably light and sweet. Burned powder a good part of the day. I'm not easily impressed, but, this one put a smile on my face. Now if I can pry it out of my girlfriend's hands. Many thanks Rob.



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Ah man ! Your welcome and thank you ! Made my day !

SOLANCO said:

I can not positively ID it. Yet.

This from a custom furniture maker's web site:
"But the wood is rich in resins, particularly prussic acid, which rapidly reacts to both light and oxygen, so cherry achieves in six months the patina that oak or maple acquires only after six decades. As cherry is exposed to sunlight and air, it changes color, shifting from a light salmon to a deep, rich reddish-brown."

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Thanks for all the replies, guys. I took a piece of fresh cut to the local lumber yard and spoke with the lumber grader. He said Black Walnut. Not a very good piece of Walnut, 2nd's or 3rd's, but still Black Walnut. Well, looks like I'm making 2 guns out of firewood grade walnut. Semper Fi.

ColonialRifleSmith said:

Thanks for all the replies, guys. I took a piece of fresh cut to the local lumber yard and spoke with the lumber grader. He said Black Walnut. Not a very good piece of Walnut, 2nd's or 3rd's, but still Black Walnut. Well, looks like I'm making 2 guns out of firewood grade walnut. Semper Fi.

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Nothing wrong with walnut. Have at least a dozen walnut stocked unmentionables. But it is not what I want on the SMR we discussed!

SOLANCO said:

Nothing wrong with walnut. Have at least a dozen walnut stocked unmentionables. But it is not what I want on the SMR we discussed!

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Nope, Got you a nice piece of premium cherry. Rick

Ordered some .550 round balls from TOW to feed the rifle I recently purchased on GB, my first flintlock. It has arrived, and happy to say was better than described and well maintained... bore is great, I took the lock out and it was very clean and lubricated on the back side. Not sure who built it, was described as from an estate sale. Seller was in upstate NY just east of Rochester. Have nice wire inlay, some carving, etc., short barrel @ 31" which is in my wheelhouse as I like the Jaeger style rifles. Barrel is straight, not swamped though, 56 cal. Reading up on how to load/shoot/clean a flintlock as my other two MLs are percussion.
Maybe someone can tell me what "style" this rifle was based upon??

Took another drive out to the forest service road that leads to the gun club range. Still a no go. Well I guess my member fee is a donation to a good cause this year. My guess is could be at least till end of the month yet. So much snow this winter.

Played around with my Kibler SMR in .32 at 50 yards, off-hand.

That gun is so fun to shoot.

Got a chance to try out this early style .50 this afternoon. It's part of a group of flinters that I picked up from an estate.
I have managed to pass my proclivity for collecting muzzleloaders as an investment in early American art to my soon to be better half. So, far, so good.
She may be an enabler.

PathfinderNC said:

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!

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Well I’m glad you asked. Took my Thompson 54 percussion to the range today. I wanted to see the difference between the few Hornaday Great Plains bullets I have left compared to some maxi balls I lubed myself. The Hornadays hit where I expected at 50 yards. The maxi’s were not even on the paper! I used 90 grains of 2x black powder for everything. When I got back home I realized that the Hornadays were 425 grains while the Maxis were 450. Would that difference be enough to completely miss a target at 50 yards?