I want to thank each and every one of you for the reply and to the member replied privately.
My hobby is the Old West mid-late 19th century, mostly from the Indian/outlaw perspective. I'm 1/4 Shawnee-Cherokee. For a hobby I do general Indian artifacts:Knives, tomahawks, war clubs, lances, spears, arrows. Within a 5 week period I went from 0 muzzloaders to 3 muzzle loaders. One is a Plains carbine, I believe it's complete. The second is a modern-style CVA SHARPSHOOTER carbine that had front barrel damage to the tune of being run over by some vehicle.I've cut and whittled the already short stock and wish to cut the barrel down to make what was known as a Blanket Gun or Horseback Rifle. Many council meetings/treaty get-togethers meant arrest for the Injuns, they carried a cut down rifle under a blanket poncho for close-up buffalo hunting from horseback. It has an all in one aluminum trigger guard/assembly. My sweeteheart is the CVA long rifle in .45. It has sat in someone's garage for several decades, I can locate no model name on it though it resembles the Kentucky rifle kit. It's missing barrel pins, muzzle cap, ramrod tubes, ramrod, and possibly a trigger assembly as it's almost frozen with rust on the spring. I don't need the butt plate as this was universally removed on the Plains and used as a hidescraper. I plan on getting a Northwest Trade Gun Trigger guard and swap the brass one to the Blanket Gun, this rifle has a very trade look to it. This is the one I want to wrap the stock behind the trigger with a strip of buffalo rawhide and brass-tack the daylights out of. God in His wisdom saw fit to allow the previous owner to mount the front and rear sights backwards reinforcing my belief He meant it for me, a heavy modifier/repairer as this person did not know which end the bullet went into. I located a barrel wedge for the short rifle at THE POSSIBLES SHOP at a very good price though I do not wish to fire it until I can make a brass barrel band that will go through the rear sight groove and cover where I shortened the front stock and joined the front piece I cut off.
From my examination of their site Dixie is a shadow of their former selves from the 80s. I'm in the Dayton Ohio area and can locate none of the buckskinners as the gun business had dried up and almost died as far as the independent dealers go. I live within 100 miles of Deer Creek, I might venture a trip over after calling them. My supplier for cap and ball revolvers at Tippecanoe Trading Post in Tipp City Ohio, Ernie Back, died in 2003 and his wife closed the shot a few years ago and parts for muzzloaders has dried up locally as far as I can determine.
Again thanks to everyone for the prompt replies, I feel obligated to say I am not a mountain man or a buckskinner, I'm the Indian in the tree waiting to take your scalp, your horse, and your woman.
Hoka Hay
Tony Bones :grin:
