What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

I took a young fella out with his father and showed them how to load and fire the .54 cal renegade. the rifle has a 1-66" GM barrel. They loved it and bought the rifle from me. The young fella had been wanting a BP rifle like this for years but couldnt find one. His Dad texted me and said that young Josh might want to sleep with his newly aquired rifle.

Wife got a new shotgun from a friend, Navy Arms Pietta 12 gauge bauble barrel. We took it to the range today and it hits pretty close to the point of aim with both barrels. Will make a fine skeet gun. Cylinder both barrels.

I've had trouble getting percussion caps on the nipple to my underhammer rifle. The fit was too tight, but too loose on two spare nipples . So yesterday I chucked it in my drill press, then filed & sanded material. I goofed and reduced the diameter too much on it, so robbed the nipple from my underhammer pistol. After careful filing and frequent checking I got the right fit. Time to shop for more nipples.

draw filed a barrel.
friend showed up with a Austin Halleck mountain rifle .50 cal 1.28 twist. unfired.
with some unholy dealing i ended up with it.
anyone have an idea of its worth?

Nice day at the range, temps in high 30's, very windy though. I put 3 shots on this little target at 50 yds off hand, the first 2 went about 2" to the right and missed. 3rd one put meat on the table I think. After that I was just ringing steel at various distances for the rest of the shoot. Good time, quite enjoyed myself.
Pedersoli Frontier .50 cal flintlock
50 grains Schutzen 3F
.480 ball with an .010 patch
Think I've got about 40 shots on this particular french amber flint, we'll see how long it goes.


Always good to turn the clock back 200 or so years.

It’s Sunday afternoon in Northern Oklahoma and it’s 74 degrees in February. Finally was able to take my .50 Renegade to the range to fine tune Williams FP-Hawken peep sight and Lyman globe on bench. 1st two shots were the left and right outliers, other 8 were on the money. .490 round balls with .015 Eastern Maine Shooting Supply linen patches, TOTW mink oiled, Graf IIF, 35 yards, light wind. A perfect day to shoot.

I thought about going shooting but decided to do something more dangerous. I went to the grocery store at 1:00 on a Sunday. It was "Bat $*it Crazy" in the parking lot and store.

Loja man said:

Upon inspecting a little bit closer, I just found this on the lever arm.
James Dixon & SON
Sheffield

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Glad you went back and got it, that's a nice flask.

Well, got the brass back on my patchbox lid of my Colonial today and got the lock disassembled (other than punching the tumbler out....I need a proper punch for that). I also started color test #2.

Not perfect, but a start...still needs a polishing, though.

Went to a new range called Spring Valley Northeast of Cincinnati, very nice place and only $5 for a day pass or $24 for annual!



Changed sights on my Colonial yesterday and planned on shooting, filing, shooting, filing for a while but to my surprise my first three shots looked like this at the 50 yard line:


While cleaning I got a dreaded black line down the back of my stock that I scrubbed off, didn't want that to happen again so I put a coat of minwax paste on it:


It was a good day.

I got started on a boot knife. I'm going with an unusual handle system. If it doesn't work I'll tear it down and do something else. That seems to happen to me occasionally

I ordered this with a guard but it showed up without. They ran out! So I found a piece of scrap brass and commenced to making one. Not proud of it but first time for every thing. The pictures are pretty self explanatory. It's sitting clamped up on a floor register for the night. Glue I used curs in 24 hours at room temperature. In the morning I'll stick it in the oven for two or three hours at 150 before the wife is up.

deerstalkert said:

draw filed a barrel.
friend showed up with a Austin Halleck mountain rifle .50 cal 1.28 twist. unfired.
with some unholy dealing i ended up with it.
anyone have an idea of its worth?

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They were 750 when new about 15 years ago, what condition is it in?

Polecat_Tom said:

I thought about going shooting but decided to do something more dangerous. I went to the grocery store at 1:00 on a Sunday. It was "Bat $*it Crazy" in the parking lot and store.

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My wife wanted to go to Costco today about the same time here in Gig Harbor WA, all I did was give her the are you friggn crazy look and pointed to the digital on the wall with the day and time on it, she looked back and said never mind, dodged a bullet on that one!

Beaverman2 said:

They were 750 when new about 15 years ago, what condition is it in?

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fired twice , cleaned and put away in the original box.

deerstalkert said:

fired twice , cleaned and put away in the original box.

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I'd say it's worth the original price to the right buyer, they were pretty nice and I lusted over one and was getting ready to shell out the bux until I found my Browning Mtn Rifle.

i am not really a percussion collector but i think this one may stick. if the rain lets up tomorrow i am going to burn some powder in it and see how it shoots. be interesting to see what it will do with prb's.
i have some conical that i will try also.

Had been on the range with the flintlock it´s not the gun, it´s not the lock, it´s the shooter.
Practise more !

deerstalkert said:

fired twice , cleaned and put away in the original box.View attachment 298407

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That looks like some nice wood…

More prep for the April club shoot I’ll be hosting at my place. I worked on the trail walk shooting course in my woods some more, staking down the stick/log that’s painted yellow at each location that points to the target. That should keep them from inadvertently getting moved out of position.



Also started setting up a pistol range for an “after the rifle match blanket shoot” for BP revolvers. I had some heavy swingers I didn’t use for the trail walk cuz a .32 or .36 might not make them move, but my Remington Navy in .38 cal does. Only have four right now, so still need to make two more to fill it out to six targets.

Plan is to have each shooter fire a cylinder at 12 yards, then everyone moves back to 18 yards, then again back to 25. There are handy trees at those yardages to tie a rope between to move the firing line. If there’s a tie, those folks will shoot from 30 yards, and any shooters tied after that point will break it with a paper bullseye target at 30 yards, closest to center wins.

deerstalkert said:

draw filed a barrel.
friend showed up with a Austin Halleck mountain rifle .50 cal 1.28 twist. unfired.
with some unholy dealing i ended up with it.
anyone have an idea of its worth?

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exactly what you paid for it no more no less ! and if you decide to sell it then its worth only what you finally sell it for.