Made a Knife

Last time I was at my Wife's grandparent house they broke one of there kitchen knife's so I took the blade and said I would make a knife out of it for fun here are the pictures..... should have took some before pictures but I think you will get the main idea... also wanted to mention that I built it all with stuff I had laying around.

Here is the broken  knife handle

Here is the new and old blades next to each other

This is the knife i made out of the broken blade the handle is Elk Antler

This is the knife and the sheath I made for it

New Shooting Target

Here is a target I made.... I redid the old target and put it on this one. This is a metal target and the top is for shooting paper targets.

Here is a picture of the whole thing.

This is the bottom with my swinging switchable targets.

This is the top where you can just stable paper targets and shoot.

Civil War Part 2

Here is some of the pictures of the stuff I carry with me in my haversack and on my person (In my pockets ect.)

Have Poke sacks up at the top for carrying coffee,  hardtack,  Jerky. Then coffee cut some little glass vile's that contain salt and pepper and a wallet fork and spoon, match tine and my Journal.

Then on the left is a plate and a large rag that use for clean up and touching hot stuff.

Here is come period correct Crotch Powder, gag gift from my Aunt for Christmas.

Here is a Picture of the Tarred Haversack

The match tin is open and their are also come candles.

Here is a Housewife. It contains needles and thread buttons and wool patches that I use to make repairs to my uniform.

Civil War Gear

 Wanted to put up some pictures of my Civil War Reenacting gear on here figured I would start with the stuff that would be carried on and wore by the person.

Left to Right  Bayonet, Belt, Cap Pouch, Cartridge Box, Canteen. 

Here is the Inside of the Cartridge box, Inside is some paper lady's and a sergeant tool. 

Here is a Close up of the tool, you can take out 1861 Springfield apart with this single tool.

Shooting Table

This is a shooting table I made... Its for two people to load muzzleloaders on and prepare for firing. Hold my range box and revolver stand. 

Their are half holes I cut with a whole saw one to old the barrel and one to hold the ram rod

You can see where i made a 1/2 hole with a drill bit to hold the short starter

Here it is with all the stuff ready to shoot

This is a revolver stand I made.

Here it is with a revolver in it.

Also made a place to put these blocks I had to hold a rifle while you adjust the sights and whatever else you want to do.

Here it is with a rifle in it.

New Cheap Targets

Here is my new better cheap targets.

Just put them in any pattern and as many as you want.

Just use a Heavy paper like card stalk or writing paper

and buy the target spots from walmart.

and make them any way you want to.

Shooting Metal Creations

Here is a shooting target I made..... Am going to have to make some changes to it because after shooting it this weekend I found out it didn't work to well but here are some before and will post some after pictures later. I need to put a larger base on it because when you shoot it... it falls over.

So it sort of a swinging target but the idea behind it is you can change targets

Here are some other targets I can out on it. The one to the left is a blank arm. Am still trying to decide what to put on it.

 

Here is a Close up.

Underhammer Stock Finished

I Finally got my stock finished. Used Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil Gun Stock Finish

Made it out to Shoot

Here is the latest Picture of targets I shot with my blue ridge underhammer. I am using.
Just got the sights  I wanted put on it, they are in a earlier blog post. 
At 25 yards on the bench was officially sighting it in. Next time I go out will shoot at 50 yards and see how my groups hold up.

80 FFF Goex powder
.490 round ball
Pillow Ticking cut and the muzzle patches lubes with Bore Butter
Out shooing this time I didn't Swab between shots because I never had any problems loading
Here are the pictures.

New Sights on Underhammer

Finally Got my sights figured out on my Underhammer. Here are pictures will post pictures of targets I shoot with them.

 Here is the front sight

 Its a white Ivory Bead

 I used an old brass sight to fill in where the rear sight would have been since I am just using a peep sight on it. I still need to polish around the area and clean it up a bit.

 And Here is my Lyman 57 peep Sight

Metal Creations

Thought it would be fun to put some of my metal stuff I built on here.

 Candy Cane

 Boot Rack

 Coat Hanger

 Cool Little Bug Guy