what are you proud of the most?

[Chowmif16]

I think I'm most proud of the next gun I'm going to build because in my mind it is perfect until it has suffered my butchering attempts!

Of the guns I've built, I'm most proud of my T/C Hawken .54 percussion. Strange answer, but that's because I built it 23 years ago having never held a black powder rifle in my hands or even shot one. It's ugly, poorly built and shoots great. I guess I'm proud of it because it got me into this hobby and I've never looked back.

When I finish my current build, it's going straight to the shop wall to serve as a reminder of how not to do things!

Cheers,
Chowmi

 

[steve free]

Beautiful rifle Dewd, and great memories to go along with it.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Thank you very much.

 

[BigBoreBLR]

I'm proud of the fact I'm making progress in gun making and not stopping because I'm afraid to screw it up.

I can shoot something I make and I'm proud of the flaws.

People slave away at work for countless extras hours into the night to afford perfection or the illusion of it.

I'm happy to make rough spots, less than perfect inlets, and slight crooked lines at home in my free time.

I got nobody to blame but me. My perfect gun is only in my head....

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

the book was either this:
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Centur...qid=1456593154&sr=8-4&keywords=wallace+gusler

which is not worth the $200 they are asking

or it was part of Robert Weil's work, but I did not see it on his website:
http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/2014/09/muzzle-blast-cover-by-robert-weil.html

sorry, it is the best I could do to remember a book I quickly thumbed through when I first started off in muzzleloading a bunch of years ago.

 

[Vaino]

Nothing is "perfect" on this earth, but attempting to achieve it is always a worthwhile endeavor.

Being proud of the flaws in a build isn't what I would call an attitude conducive to improving one's work. But...whatever satisfies, go w/ it.....Fred