What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

wiscoaster said:

But, thumb complained about too much use so have to give it a couple more days rest, recuperation and healing before next shooting.

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When my thumb gets a little sore from pulling the cock to full. I use my little finger to cock it. Actually I use it most of the time that way.

Banjoman said:

Just piddling in the shop and made a wooden 50 grain powder measure.

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This is actually pretty cool. Very rustic. Semper Fi.

ColonialRifleSmith said:

This is actually pretty cool. Very rustic. Semper Fi.

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Thanks. It was made from a maple tree limb (not a store bought dowel) that I saved when we cut some trees down. It got me to thinking about what would a backwoods hunter in the 18th or 19th century use for a measure. Just pouring some in his hand could be one option. Antler is another if he had it. But tree limbs would probably be the most common and easiest to obtain and could be whittled out with a pocket knife.

friday we went to the gun show ( I know strange on good friday ) much less a gun show on easter weekend bought a left handed cheap hawken for my sons step son. came home and listed a handfull of stuff on ebay and they let me know that I was breaking the rules by selling sabots no bullets!

Unfortunately just some rearranging...picked up my NIB TC Hawken Custom and shifted it to a new location..lol

Joan did not moan when I bid on a ml rifle at holts auction but went mad when I bought a small industrial mixer . But when it arrive “that will look nice in the kitchen”, Dead pleased just made three loaves using it . Kids came over for leg of lamb lunch , tasty

Shot the flintlock at the range this morning.

I put the first coat of dye onto my stock

Terrier said:

Nice video. I think if I stayed kneeling for that long, you’d just have to cover me up right there, ‘cuz I’d never be able to get back up again!

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I started doing that 3 point contact position as a young man, and I guess it kind of stuck with me. But yeah, at 58 it is not quite as comfortable as it once was, but I also edited out all of the me walking down and looking at the target.

Hoping to get out again this weekend! Got a stream I want to fish, and some Plinking with the mountain rifle!

I received a 3/8 inch arch punch today. I disassembled an old fedora style Cabelas wool hat I never wear, soaked a few pieces in some LOOB in the oven, then punched out a gross of wads on the tabletop drill press. It just happened to come out to 144 pieces by sheer luck.



Then, after walking for hours thru the woods looking for sheds and schrooms (morels) and not finding any, I did some shooting at steel swingers with my 1858 Remington 38. Did better than expected and worse than I wanted to.

Took the .32 cal SMR to the range and fired off about ten shots and they didn't look too bad. So, I hung the April kite target thinking, "I can hit that." After the five shots I only had two that hit the kite.

But on the plus side, I did make a lot of smoke and I did see three eagles flying over a herd of sheep on my way home from the range.

BS said:

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I made a solid drum for my Short Virginia rifle. I need to finish the hooked breech.
I just am not fond of screw-in drums.
It is cross drilled and coned, ready for the nipple thread.

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I fit the plug to the tang today, nice lock up.
Now to work on the tang.

Terrier said:

Powder Valley or Grafs have been having stock of RWS caps. They’re not a scam site. Just expensive!

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After a career in the seafood industry: If you have something people want and nobody has, your price becomes the market price.

Worked on my shorty trade gun. She's all together in the white. Everything functions as it should ( ? )
Now to finish the metal . Not sure if I want to brown or blue it. Plugging along with it.

Picking up my new Frontier caplock at the post office later today!

mikesto44 said:

Worked on my shorty trade gun. She's all together in the white. Everything functions as it should ( ? )
Now to finish the metal . Not sure if I want to brown or blue it. Plugging along with it.

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Where are the pictures we need pictures.

Omahkapi'si said:

Picking up my new Frontier caplock at the post office later today!

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We exspect pictures you know .

Shooting on Sunday!

Makin’ a batch of char cloth.

Didn’t want to waste what was left of the fire, so made a backstrap biscuit.