Black powder - youse bastards coulda warned me!

Too long ago I re-caught the BP bug of @akaroa1 - only was 2-3 years ago I scored a Gracia New Zealand made percussion rifle in 45.

Finally go round to shooting it today, it's a crappy sort of drizzle with lots of wind so since SWMBO was out I shot off the deck. That went well.

Then I thought I'd better clean it. Missus still away. Kitchen sink is within arms length of the deck so the barrel went straight into hot water. It had been close to 35 years since I cleaned a fouled BP rifle. Oops. I had a very thorough clean up after putting the rifle away . . . . But our bench top is a sort of white imitation marble with a blackish streak through it.

She is just home and OMG for a very calm and normally placid person . . . I TELL YA, it is the last time I clean a BP rifle in her kitchen!

Oh dear, Tentman. At least you weren’t reconditioning the motor of an old Zephyr on the couch.

Hey thanks for that Rushy, that and reminding her about Saltbush who cut a sheep down in the lounge (his own, not ours) with a chainsaw at a 3.00 am post party function is sure to get me off the hook . . .,.

@Tentman so you both blaming me ?

So SWMBO won't be with you when you next visit

My God! I would have thought you old enough not to make that mistake. Ill consider my odds of survival even boiling out a head on the stove.

And anyway we don't care about any of that we just want to see / know how it shot ?

It shot fine, 70gn with the 280s at 1350 fps 40mm at 50M

Better to take the barrel with you when you have a shower - hot , running water and easy to clean up after.

Pleased it works well anyway... ;-)

Correct me if I'm wrong @Tentman you have a wash tub in the same building as your man cave ?

Just testing my memory on that one

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Correct me if I'm wrong @Tentman you have a wash tub in the same building as your man cave ?

Just testing my memory on that one

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But, but, but the kitchen sink was right there at arms length. Ha ha ha ha

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Correct me if I'm wrong @Tentman you have a wash tub in the same building as your man cave ?

Just testing my memory on that one

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Ahh yes. That is true.

@Tentman have you checked the deck for soot and unburned powder stains ?

My late uncle scalded a pig in the inside house bath!!!! And lived to tell the tale.

My black powder experience. Had a .45 hawken got a bit of rust during a trip down to the south island to a motorbike rally. Once I got home. I stripped it down and had the barrel in the vice at a slight angle to hold the oil in. While I was away chasing the new significant other woman, disaster happened. The ex in her deranged state, obviously missing me used the woodwork for firewood including the brass work. Well that was grounds for divorce. Do you know how much that can cost? Tell you what, it put me off black powder

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My late uncle scalded a pig in the inside house bath!!!! And lived to tell the tale.

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yes had a mate in Gisborne Chinese family his mother used to ,pluck the chooks in the kitchen sink and gut them there as well - much to the horror of the children

My struggle became real when as a .308 owner I purchased a .270. We are not talking black powder here. Life is difficult with the choices we make

Its hard to find the perfect woman . Maybe nxt time

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My struggle became real when as a .308 owner I purchased a .270. We are not talking black powder here. Life is difficult with the choices we make

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Brother we are all here to support you in your journey of coming out

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My struggle became real when as a .308 owner I purchased a .270. We are not talking black powder here. Life is difficult with the choices we make

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Have you got a rainbow stock for it

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My struggle became real when as a .308 owner I purchased a .270. We are not talking black powder here. Life is difficult with the choices we make

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Its hard to find the perfect woman . Maybe nxt time

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Brother we are all here to support you in your journey of coming out

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Have you got a rainbow stock for it

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And this the support I get in this modern society.
I feel issues are getting on top of me. I'm going to have a lie down. (Got my tissues and pictures of Chloe Swarbrick)

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And this the support I get in this modern society.
I feel issues are getting on top of me. I'm going to have a lie down. (Got my tissues and pictures of Chloe Swarbrick)

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Sick. Did ya find any LE front sight elements either 00 or 15. Ta

are the tissues for you to cry into or to clean up with?

Either way its a crime against Humanity

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My late uncle scalded a pig in the inside house bath!!!! And lived to tell the tale.

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I am always amazed at the support Tentman+ just reading through the warmth that the forum has in support.
The MD said it and he lived and Akaroa1, And anyway we don't care about any of that we just want to see / know how it shot ?
This all must be just heart warming. Knowing how close it was to living your name again.
I will wait a week or so before visiting and won't point to the bench;)and hopefully I don't need my camp chair.
KH

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And this the support I get in this modern society.
I feel issues are getting on top of me. I'm going to have a lie down. (Got my tissues and pictures of Chloe Swarbrick)

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Say the weird thing...

Don't try this at home

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Oh wait that is my house sink

And that is a 176 year old muzzleloader barrel being cleaned there

I'm in no way advocating this behaviour
Well at least not if you have a partner

Bachelor's. You just go for it

I clean mine in kitchen sink..but I'm a messy cook so I've got good at cleaning up.

I am making notes... You know... Not about swarbrick.... You need your head read.... but about the sink

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Don't try this at home

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Oh wait that is my house sink

And that is a 176 year old muzzleloader barrel being cleaned there

I'm in no way advocating this behaviour
Well at least not if you have a partner

Bachelor's. You just go for it

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And I should add that my wife was cooking a lovely meal off mushroom risotto and wild lamb chops while i was cleaning that barrel.

She is total desensitized to what will come the short distance from my workshop to the house.
It helps that she doesn't have the slightest interest either what they all are

If I recall correctly last time @rambo-6mmrem was here we were cleaning his rifles on the dining room table as it was too cold out in the shed...
May have even been giving a bore a bit of polish with some JB paste.

I do have an area to clean in the reloading room, but you know, the heat pump is over the dining room table so what are we to do?

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If I recall correctly last time @rambo-6mmrem was here we were cleaning his rifles on the dining room table as it was too cold out in the shed...
May have even been giving a bore a bit of polish with some JB paste.

I do have an area to clean in the reloading room, but you know, the heat pump is over the dining room table so what are we to do?

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You could toughen up !

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You could toughen up !

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Well,
A: You'll have to talk to Rambo, he's the one that had the heater pointed at him while we were making a firing pin for his 380 Rook in the shed the previous time.
B: No...

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Well,
A: You'll have to talk to Rambo, he's the one that had the heater pointed at him while we were making a firing pin for his 380 Rook in the shed the previous time.
B: No...

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It was fucken freezing you have to admit

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It was fucken freezing you have to admit

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Says a very well insulated man !

Norht Island freezing oooh dear

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Norht Island freezing oooh dear

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It's a damp cold...

keep the rifle
switch the ms

A mate and his missus going through a very nasty time and communication was non existent. His LandCruiser radiator sprung a leak and he pulled it out to solder it up. The job was bigger than the gear he had so he had to take it into town, couldn't fit it on his motorbike so fcuk it, l'll take the missus car. An hour later heading back home he spies a land cruiser belching steam and smoke a couple of KMs on the town side of his house. Turned out the dragon decided to go to town, he'd flogged her car, she saw the cruiser and the rest is history. Nothing about black powder but he was in a black mood when he turned up on his motorbike with a sleeping bag.