Thread: Flintlocks anyone

Hey Wade,

Sounds good. I'd like to see some pics when you get around to it.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

That's sweet Wullie...hope you get that deer someday. Just truly an amazing piece...Next you'll tell me ya got a nice Jeager rifle stashed somewhere ha ha..........do ya ???

One of these days, I'll get a deer with it. I hunted hard with it three years running and every deer I saw was too far out to take a chance on. Then on the days I'd give up and grab a center fire, I'd usually end up taking a 25 yard shot........

Nah no Jaegers in my junk, never cared much for 'em. I like the LONG rifles.

This really is an awesome thread you guys.....takin me back to my younger days ahh !

Maple, ash, walnut, cherry.

I also have some of these in-the-log that i intend to chainsaw mill into stock blanks. We're "part-time" logging my woods. Lots of waste too good to be burned*. and I specifically cut a couple of walnuts high so I can dig out the stumps for full-figured, full-stock length wood.

*Most of my "waste" goes into firewood. Any logger knows that the really curious grained wood gets left out there to rot or get burned. The top dollar is for veneer logs and they're the bone-straight (boring) stuff. Crooked wood is no good for mills. so it gets bucked out.

Probably restock some of my moderns with smaller pieces, but am really on the hunt for some curly ash.

Cutting a Butternut soon and my reserve a section from it...

I gotta go sort my saws out.

Originally Posted by HNSB

When you talk about lead for a ball mold - make sure it's soft lead and not an alloy like wheelweights or linotype.

Know little about front stuffers but have cast thousands of wadcutters for for center fire stuff out of wgts and linotype.
Why not good for Black powder stuff?

They're easier to push down the bore and when fired expand better to fill the bore.
Even patched balls should be made of soft lead.

With centerfire you don't have to push the bullet through the bore and you can size the bullet overbore so you don't need as much expansion.

I can shoot mine about 50 times before it gets draggy and needs the bore wiped.


Come on Wullie you not talking to a bunch of first timers here.... I swab the bore in my 45 with a wet patch then a dry one after every shot or it ain't going down !!! I'm just saying LOL

Any of you fellows have a chance to play with a TC Firestorm Flintlock? About as non traditional a piece as I've seen but I've been oggling them a good bit lately.

It kinda depends on the barrel, the load, if you shoot a patched roundball and what kind of patch, etc. I had one that I shot with pillowticking that needed cleaned every ten shots or so. I was only shooting 60g of FFg in my flinter. My buddy's needs cleaned even less often shooting 100g of FFg with miniballs.

Damn it! Now I want a new rifle. One of them old timey Flintlocks. Actually I want a Flintlock Pistol, but that ain't had so easy here without the correct licence. And I ain't got the correct licence anymore. Bit hard to maintian the required shoots after they shut down the local pistol range years ago. And too far to go to the next nearest on any sort of regular basis. And the laws don't allow the use of pistols on property's here (beats me as to why, be a damn sight easier to carry one when out doing the fencing than a long gun, in the snake season). I think I need to Him-ee-grate!


Mick

Originally Posted by nessmuck

I can shoot mine about 50 times before it gets draggy and needs the bore wiped.


Come on Wullie you not talking to a bunch of first timers here.... I swab the bore in my 45 with a wet patch then a dry one after every shot or it ain't going down !!! I'm just saying LOL

Yer working too hard.

Have you tried lapping the bore or maybe stepping down a bit in ball diameter or using a thinner patch?

Mine'll clabber up quicker with full loads but with plinkers I can run it all day long. That Douglas barrel is slicker than a gut.