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    Monthly Trip Find

    I think CVA may have had just the one owner's manual that covered most or all of their old-style sidelock rifles. If that's correct, check out this link: http://www.cva.com/warranty/Side.pdf Just out of curiosity (as one who likes to check out pawnshop deals on muzzleloaders), what's a used...
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    Patch Knives.. show & tell!

    That looks like a karda (one of the little side-knives that the Gurkhas and other people from Nepal carry in their scabbards along with their larger kukris.) Is that what it is? Where'd you get it?
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    Bringing back a barrel from the dead

    I had spectacular success with electrolysis. (Yeah, the idea scared me, too, but I have to say, it really worked.) Check out the threads on the subject. I borrowed my dad's car battery charger, put the barrel into a plastic tub full of a mix of washing soda and water, hooked the negative end...
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    Neck knives

    Had an amusing comment, but might've been taken amiss.
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    Neck knives

    Wick's right. Neck rigs, however cool they may look, have always struck me as a bad idea. First, anytime you've got a strong cord around your neck, you're running a greater risk of its getting caught or snagged or hung up on something than you really need to run. Furthermore, when you're...
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    Help for New Guy Fitting Lock to Stock

    Thanks, guys!
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    Lead

    I agree. I (somewhat inadvertently) melted some soft (could scratch it with fingernails) lead together with a little slightly-harder lead probably containing wheel weights. The resulting balls were so hard that they could not be scratched with a fingernail regardless of the force applied.
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    LMF Browning

    I had mine take a very long time, too. Did it during a record autumn drought, so every bit of humidity, I had to provide. My setup was a big, Tupperware-like plastic box from Wal-Mart, with about a third of an inch of water in the bottom. First, I'd put four flat rocks in the box, making...
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    Help for New Guy Fitting Lock to Stock

    I've got a question about fitting the lock to the stock on a CVA Hawken kit. The kit had previously been somewhat-completed by a prior user--but I noticed a number of problems, and am now trying to fix them. I'd noticed that there was a bit of a gap between the (percussion) lockplate and the...
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    Project Gun - CO2 Discharger Use -CVA Hawken

    Okay--it's been a while. A LITTLE progress report. When last I wrote, I'd gotten the stock pretty much shaped the way I wanted it, and the brass fits pretty well. I'd stained the beechwood stock nicely with Birchwood Casey walnut stain, and had browned the barrel with Laurel Mountain browning...
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    Black Powder Prices at NMLRA Western National Shoot

    Just for what it's worth, I took 3 of my kids to the last day of the NMLRA Western National Shoot out in far north Phoenix yesterday. Black powder was (still just barely--they were packing up, as the shoot was winding down) being sold for $12 a pound for GOEX and Scheutzen FFG, and $10 a pound...
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    carrying yer belt axe/tomahawk

    You'll definitely want some kind of sheath that covers the edge. This should maybe go without saying, but, after poring over Dwight McLemore's book The Fighting Tomahawk (in which lots of carries that left the edge exposed are pictured), I tried such a carry myself. I tried various carry...
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    Horn placement

    At first, it seemed to me to make sense to carry one's powderhorns on the side opposite one's dominant / shooting hand. (I.e., horns on the left, if you're a right-handed shooter.) The reason being that the sparks, etc. from one's lock theoretically wouldn't be falling down in the vicinity of...
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    Goex prices

    Called the local place (only distributor in the whole Phoenix area). A couple of months ago they were selling it for $12 a pound--which was up from $11 a few months before. Today, called them up and they said $13. I may see what I can get it for at the NMLRA Western Regional Shoot just...
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    Project Gun - CO2 Discharger Use -CVA Hawken

    Post-Holidays Update Well, the "two-week vacation" in which I'd looked forward to cleaning up the house, fixing all manner of maintenance issues, sorting through piles of old paper, and finishing that gun has come and gone. Ended up being somewhat less than the hoped-for time, but, hey, I got...
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