Currently there is one TMA person to webmaster admin the TMA website and forum - me.

The TMA requires at least two persons to maintain website and forum software.

The only requirement is having at least a very minimum basic understanding of HTML. 

Our forum software is SMF (Simple Machines Forums) which is relatively easy to understand, make changes, maintain. 

For the extreme most part, the forum software pretty much runs itself.  Making changes to the forum is on an as-need-be basis, which isn't very often, if at all for months at a time.

But IF software changes/issues arise with the website software (HTML) or forum (SMF) someone has to pick up the ball and tend to issues resolutions.

The TMA is a non-profit organization.  Any and all help is strictly on a volunteer basis.

Please PM or email me directly if you are interested or just want to know more about the TMA Webmaster Admin position.

Rob@TradMLA.org

Thank you!

 

I appreciate it guys. I'm hoping I can get a few projects completed I have on the workbench too..
.. Yeah John it would've been faster than a dozer for sure! I really had this urgency to get a new job, and my buddy worked at the county said it had great benefits. So I figured it was the "right thing to do".. I ended up having to train with a guy that nobody really likes or trusts but the boss lady. Hes good at his job, but was an arrogant snake. He didn't like that I picked up on the machine so quickly either.. After the training they cut me loose in a territory out west bordering another newer guy who was actually really great to be around. We started teaming up and we were really getting some roads put back together in short order. So they didn't like that and broke us up. I tried being excited about watching wildlife from the cab and such after that. But it was just too much butt time watching pebbles under the blade so I escaped before I felt obligated to stay forever. Everyone has always told me time goes faster as we age, and I'm finally realizing that right at 40. I'm hoping to catch up on more of what I've missed out on after 14 years of sacrificing time with the family and my health for the RR!

Kit box arrived yesterday and so the fun begins.

The box.
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Pulled the lock and it needs a good cleaning.
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The ramrod was wedged in SUPER TIGHT (this is Very common) and required using some 80 grit  abrasive paper on a short piece of dowel to deepen the stock channel, plus reaming out all 4 brass pipe holes.  Normal for offshore trad ML guns, iron finishing nails (.096" diameter) are used for stock pins.  Once pulled I threw them all away and use new nails, heads cut off, set in a hand drill and filed to about .094" diameter for ease of getting the pipes in and out during the setup work to get the ramrod to better function.
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The pipes - they'll get filed and wire wheel cleaned up later on.
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LOTS of rasping and sanding and scraping required!
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The edge of the stock wood needs to be tapered in toward the bbl.
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Strangely enough, I have tried that tuck the elbow and balance the rifle on your fingertip routine and I felt it was terribly insecure.
Extended arm for me and just let the rifle sit on the hand works well enough.
Well, I must amend that last statement.  When I was shooting the 8 bore and the 4 bore rifles, I hung onto either of them really tight, else the recoil would have sent them flying backwards, up and over.  400 grains of Fg does things like that when it's pushing a 1,450 grain round ball.  I wonder why I ever thought that was fun?  Maybe because it felt so good when it stopped hurting.

Just the other day I was thinking of your absence. Glad you're back and for the success you are having. You can't beat a little divine intervention.