• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades
  • Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.

    We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.

    Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103

What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Browned the barrel and tang for the Traditions Flint Woodsman I'm building, then found out they shorted me a lock screw.

Sent them an email to see if they can send me one. manure, I was just about ready to put it together.......
 
If you have two lock screws take the other one to the hardware store. If you only had one take the lock to the hardware store and match the threads and even if the screw head isn't correct you will be able to use the rifle until the correct screw comes in.
 
Picked up some cleaning supplies. Muzzle Magic and I’m going to try some Hoppes BP cleaner too. Just cuz. Wife was in an antique/junk store and I saw a red can of DuPont black powder, empty of course but I liked it so it will decorate my cleaning shed. :)

they also had a nice beaver pelt for $65 don’t know what I’d do with it but kind of wishing I’d got it.
 
Picked up some cleaning supplies. Muzzle Magic and I’m going to try some Hoppes BP cleaner too. Just cuz. Wife was in an antique/junk store and I saw a red can of DuPont black powder, empty of course but I liked it so it will decorate my cleaning shed. :)

they also had a nice beaver pelt for $65 don’t know what I’d do with it but kind of wishing I’d got it.
possible's bag knife sheath and shooting bag!
 
I have been going through old pictures for a few days digitizing them. Tedious but worth it. I ran across these from July 1988. This fort was built in Pennsylvania to protect the lead mines in the area in 1778. I wonder if they have any lead laying around? I hope this qualifies as "muzzleloading stuff....."

880723c July 1988 Fort Roberdeau - The Lead Mine Fort 1778 2 x 1_33.jpg


880723d July 1988 Fort Roberdeau - The Lead Mine Fort 1778 - 2 x 1_33.jpg


880723e July 1988 Fort Roberdeau - The Lead Mine Fort 1778  2 x 1_33.jpg


880723f July 1988 Fort Roberdeau - The Lead Mine Fort 1778  2 x 1_33.jpg
 
continued carving/filing/sanding on the Ketland stock from MBS so I can seat the barrel properly. Slow process - you need to take your time on this
 
well, 27-28 May we sponsored the last 2 parts of a 3 part series of courses to become certified muzzleloading instructors.

PathfinderNC has completed all 3 courses and is a great guy to work with and he's the type of guy I'm proud to count as being among my friends.
 
finished a very basic powder horn and added another coat of true oil to a stock i got to replace the synthetic one on a traditions deer hunter flinter
 
Yesterday, actually. Put on an old-fashioned Clanger shoot along with a tube target (shoot through the tube and flip up the back!)

The tube was at 15 yards. The others were 25 to 55.

The nice thing about acting as Rangemaster, is no guns to clean when you get home!

Walt
 

Attachments

  • 20220528_102628.jpg
    20220528_102628.jpg
    267.2 KB · Views: 13
  • 20220528_102630.jpg
    20220528_102630.jpg
    273.1 KB · Views: 11
  • 20220528_102651.jpg
    20220528_102651.jpg
    215.2 KB · Views: 13
  • 20220528_102713.jpg
    20220528_102713.jpg
    226.5 KB · Views: 14
  • 20220528_102724.jpg
    20220528_102724.jpg
    251 KB · Views: 14
  • 20220528_102802.jpg
    20220528_102802.jpg
    154 KB · Views: 14
  • 20220528_102810.jpg
    20220528_102810.jpg
    148.2 KB · Views: 15
Last edited:
Back
Top