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1. I did not stretch the frame. 2. With the Jeep tilted there is room foe a generator plus there. I carry oxygen/acetylene torch bottles ,argon bottle, two gas cans, 25 gallon gas tank for the generator, 2’x2x2’’ aluminum storage box, several buckets with stuff ,one with 100’ number 10 wire gauge extension cord, some times a extra cheap generator there also. And a 26” wide tool box from a roll around box. Plus more stufffff. So there is more room than u think with the Jeep tilted. There is 16” full width storage with three doors under the rear of the bed. Anyone that has seen my truck knows there lots of room for stuff. But ya know I have been wrong before. Vern

We were there this am just after they opened for old timers. They are good on mask and people are really good at the distance thing. Two weeks ago i noticed the upper shelves were not fully stocked as before. Not much in canned vegetables. This day the wife was along and she saw that they were not full either. Also controlling paper products again. Next time I will wave if I see you, Vern

I am busy today but tomorrow am I should be able to give a good explanation. Vern

Look to the left Vern

Second coat of Tounge oil. Hanging out to dry. I have almost all parts made and finished ready to assemble. I have been watching eBay for a period lock for this build. There was one on eBay but it was too small. As I have already cut the inlay for a modern one. Vern

40 and 1/2 years and the stock has been stained. The stock is curly maple and has been stained with boiled down coffee as the stain. I am trying to do this build the way it could have been done back then. I have read about using vegetable oil for the finish. No I am not going to finish it with veggie oil. But I did stain a piece of pine wood and will test veggie oil finish on it. Apparently they did finish furniture that way back then. Now on the subject about distance shooting? So far this subject has sorta eluded me. One rancher I know does not own property that I would feel safe about shooting there. So the other week we were driving along the Clark Fork River. There are some tall cliffs along the road. Although the cliffs are across the river. I have thought about asking the reservation near us if there any place I could use. But the reservation is even closed to al recreation for the time being unless you are a member. Also thought about shooting from one mountain to another. There are some steep mountains north of us that could work. As I still have some finishing things to do I have mor thinking to do on that subject.

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https://www.trainingmask.com/how-training-mask-works/ Just a thought, Vern

Just thinking, About mask and what do they hurt.?? Search the net for exercise mask. What do they help. I did search the net for mask helping the lungs. Search for your self. It is interesting. Sorta like putting on a fifty pound back pack. Just thinking, Vern

Sorry to hear about your health problem. And subsequent need to react to your situation. Just curious if you ever heard of the eply maneuver. Our son had vertigo years ago and had to do some different things to correct it with at least one doctor. It has been years ago and he is in South Carolina. We are in Montana so we did not see firsthand what was going on. But he did tell us about the eply maneuver. Search on YouTube. My wife gets vertigo and this is how we correct her situation. Hope this can help, Vern

Yep there are lots of naked RVers in Campground’s near Glacier NP. I mean like not one person in two different campgrounds I was in yesterday had a mask on. People were in and out of the office with no mask. Playing games In groups With no mask. The restaurants in town were full. Did not go in one. Lots of out of state license plates. So is it that a few people do not read? Do they not think of about other people that much that much. Leave no trash where you tread. I have through many’s years of hiking and backpacking carried trash of others from places where it was not to be let lay. I will not touch it now. But now the visitors may leave what cannot be seen. You can search the webcams for national parks and see for yourself if people are wearing mask. We all may be in for memorable time of our life to tell our grand kids. Or great grand kids. ?? ?? survive, Vern conaked sounds like reasonable term for these people.

If you do not wear a mask in public. Or social distance. Please give up you chance at a hospital bed if needed for someone that earned it by doing the mask wearing in public and social distancing if you do not wear a mask and social distance.. Over a eight day period we had 4 family members or friends that needed a hospital bed for a serious health problem. One was a stroke. One was a broken hip. One was a emergency kidney operation. And one was a elective surgery for hip replacement in Florida. And they all social distance and wear a mask if they go out. In Montana I believe there were 6 weddings that had been Covid spreading events in the last few weeks. There are only about 1 million people that live in Montana permanently. I had a friend get married two Saturday’s ago. 4 children flew in from around the country. They do not wear masks or social distance. I absolutely would have gone to there wedding if there was no Covid 19. Neither me or my wife went. My niece was there and went to the wedding. She does not worry about getting Covid as she said so to us. Her flight home took her to Dallas for a 17 hour lay over? Then flew to Cleveland Ohio and then drove home. No empty seats on the planes. I have not seen my neighbor since the wedding. He may be upset with us. We social distance, wear mask, curbside pickup food, wash hands and use hand sanitizer. Hermitizing in Montana, Vern

So I keep looking at when in human history things were invented. Today’s thoughts are towards wing nuts. I want to use two wing nuts for tightening the scope in a elevated position. Wing nuts were not invented till 1933. At least that is when they were patented. So now back to thinking. I looked up what glue to use for the gun. Hide glue. No I am not going to make my own. But you can use dog chews to make it. Vern

Progress on the scope tube has finished. I cannot remember how I got it to this point. There was some irritating moments till I got this result. The one one on the left is how it started. Working on staining and putting a finish on the stock is in the progress safe Travels, Vern

This virus lockdown is very troubling. Even the fish are in lockdown. Went fishing yesterday and apparently they were not going out to eat yet. As I did not have one strike. Have a wonderful day, Vern

Yesterday I measured out 300 yards. ? Then I measured out 1000 yards. I never played golf. But I may think of 1000yards like golf. If I can hit a target at 300 plus yards. I may have to do it in 3 targets.

I might need to get some tree root treatment for septic systems. It has the crystals I should use. Frustrating when you try something that just does not work. It is right in front you and it just plays with your mind. This is sorta what I went through with coloring gelcoat with artists oil paint. That is for matching the color for repairing gelcoat. Once I figured it out it works good. I may try and leave it rust just a touch then oil it. It has some copper on it. I thought about using copper tubing but it would bend easy. Maybe work on the bullet mold next. Thanks for the shooting range list. They probably would not want me there with a muzzleloader. There is a muzzleloader club in the valley. I will contact them after the gun is together. I do know a ranch that may have an open area. I have thought about shooting along a river on that ranch. Just need to go visit them first. The fish wildlife and parks closed a shooting range under some power lines that would have had the distance.. I sure hope I can make this thing shoot good. After all this stuff. Vern

Facebook? I know several people want me to join the Facebook group. Sometime back I did register with Facebook. I just never got involved with anything on Facebook. I have though the years have needed to answer my phone for my rv repair business at night and on weekends. That has been enough as I do want some free time. Also when I stay in rv parks and people find I work on rv’s they like to visit while I am doing my own stuff. Lately I have enjoyed not being busy with work from the virus. And nobody knows where we are hiding. Not even the fish. I will be on this forum, Vern

I may have failed plating class. I tried, I tried and tried. I failed utubing it also. Now my first subject to plate was a round spark plug gauge that has those loops on it for gauging the plug gap. It did not take long and it looked nice. My scope on the other hand has been fuzzy with copper. But you could wipe it off. That was from having it in the liquid for a hour and have the charger on it. So finally tried brush plating. It started looking good. Then I had to do something else. Came back and now doing the same thing and copper seams to come off. If I calm down about it I may let the tube weather some as is. I do have another tube if needed. I sent Darryl a copy of my brush plating as it was on my phone and I could not post of the forum. Happy Father’s Day, Vern

Old time age thing happening lately. Like in double posting. Now some time ago I found a few #2 x 1/2” slotted wood screws. They did not have Phillip screws until after 1900. I used acid to remove the galvanizing. Treated them to rust. Put them in a special place. Well it has been a month and still could not find them. I am getting to collect all the parts to assemble this rifle. So was in a fishing tackle box that has some shooting stuff in it. Was looking for a 12 gauge brush to run down the inside of the scope. I pulled out a crinkled up paper towel and something small fell out. Apparently I found the little plastic dish with the screws in about two months ago and put them in the paper towel. Will get pictures of scope in a later. Vern I am trying to find where I could try out distance shooting in western Montana.

I have found that researching when things were available in human history is quite interesting. Copper wire was first made about 1820 or so. For use in telegraph communications. Electric plating in the 1700’s. It was done chemically. So this modern day on the back our HDT truck. With a cell phone charger. Uuuutuubbbbinng gives lots of tricks. h So this is a thin wall steel tube from a closet rod that is being used as the scope. I lined an old awning arm with ceranwrap. And now plating the scope. more to follow , Vern

I have found that researching when things were available in human history is quite interesting. Copper wire was first made about 1820 or so. For use in telegraph communications. Electric plating in the 1700’s. It was dong chemically. So this modern day on the back our HDT truck. With a cell phone charger. Uuuutuubbbbinng gives lots of tricks. Sorrry ring photo. h So this is a thin wall steel tube from a closet rod that is being used as the scope. I lined an old awning arm with ceranwrap. And now plating the scope. hg This photo shows just the end. The first attempt the end was not cleannnnn. So I had to sand it again and use a automotive paint cleaner on it. This shows how the end is taking the copper. more to follow , Vern

The more I read about this subject the more I understand that you need a heavy bullet to carry the bullet that far. In the article. They say they are using 45/70 bullets. Sooo I have been thing how to build a bullet mold that already had the rifling in the bullet. The cartridge on the left is a colt 45. Now this was my first attempt at a different way to cast a bullet. I used a short piece. Of barrel that was left over and set it on top of a Colt 45 bullet mold. These are a test run. They average just under 700 grains in weight. They might be a little long. Will get back to them tomorrow. Having fun with this subject, Vern

This is some interesting reading for the people that enjoy history. I just found this site a few days ago. I cannot paste the article although I will try later. But there is a club in the U.K. that shoots 1000 yards competition with Muzzleloaders. There is one in DENNIS ANDERSON@STRIBDENNIS History intrigued Raymond Hanson when he was a kid, especially the mid- to late 1800s when the West was being settled. Buffalo hunting was part of this, and the rifles used during that time were of particular interest to the young boy from northwest Minnesota. They still are. The reigning world champion long-range muzzleloader marksman, Hanson began some years ago shooting these retro firearms at targets 300 yards down range. Then he aligned his sights at 500 yards, and finally 600 yards. Today, he never shoots at targets that close. Instead he configures the iron sights of his replica Billinghurst Under Hammer at focal points 1,000 yards away. Hanson, 67, who lives near Mahnomen, won his world championship title last year shooting in Australia in a match in which he and his colleagues also won the World Long-Range Muzzleloading team title, prevailing over South Africa, the perennial favorite. “It was a great match for the U.S.,” Hanson said. “Additionally, we won the mid-range title [300, 500 and 600 yards] and the grand aggregate championship.” DAVID NEWELL • SPECIAL TO THE STAR TRIBUNE Iowan Brent Danielson aligned his vintage muzzleloader at the Gopher Rifle and Revolver Club near Harris, Minn. This weekend, U.S. long-range muzzleloading team members will shoot in a match about 1½ hours north of the Twin Cities, near Harris, hosted by the Gopher Rifle and Revolver Club. As interested as hunters might be in guns, few can match the passion with which Hanson and his long-range muzzleloading colleagues study the minutia of firearms, ballistics and marksmanship. Consider: • Though Hanson’s Billinghurst is a “replica” in the long-range muzzleloading game, it was built from scratch, utilizing the skills and handiwork of experts intimately familiar with U.S. gun lore. An East Coast gunsmith did the metal work, for example, while the tempering and stock making were accomplished at still different locations. • All long-range muzzleloader competition shooters cast their own bullets. “Most rifles we shoot date to the end of the buffalo hunting era,” Hanson said. “They’re a minimum of .40 caliber, but most are .45s. They shoot what could be described as great big lead bullets. You can’t buy these, at least not in quality that is consistent, bullet to bullet. So we cast them ourselves, one at a time.” • Most long-range muzzleloading bullets are 540 grain and leave the muzzle at speeds of 1,300 to 1,350 feet per second. • About 5.5 seconds pass from the time a shooter squeezes a trigger to when a bullet hits a target 1,000 yards down range. “It’s not something you want to do regularly, because it indicates that your shooting might be far off, it is possible to shoot, then quickly roll over into your spotting scope to see where the bullet hits,” Hanson said. Though little known today, long-range muzzleloading competitions date to the late 1800s, when the first international match pitted the U.S. against Ireland in front of some 20,000 Long Island spectators. The winner? The Americans, thanks to an Irishman’s low-scoring shot in the last round. An active club People who know me know that I do some of the rocker stuff. If it was legal I would try shooting out over Flathead lake at sunrise when the water is smooth as glass. The lake is about 5 mikes wide where I would like to test it’s distance. I also would need a spotter to see where the bullet hit the water at. Just thinking, Vern