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I built a TC Hawken kit in the middle’70s and it has a 4 digit serial number. I suspect your gun was built manufactured around the late...

The down side to two years and maybe 25 posts is it would discourage legitimate people who are new to the sport from being more...

More small business people have gone out of business from underpricing and not paying their bills than from charging too much. As others...

I've always been envious of the people with the brain to hand skills, so to say. If I tried to forge a knife or tomahawk blade I would...

Most of what could be said as advice has been said, but I'll throw out this bit of wisdom my shop landlady gave me a long time ago. I...

I agree. My favorite patch knife spent three years lost in a bucket of dirty water. I love it and cherish it. I have only one further...

My recommendation is to not "restore" it, just maintain it and use it.

My daughter has gotten into collecting older Wagner and Griswold cast iron cookware. She has had good luck at garage and estate sales...

Anyone who can answer that question doesn't have enough guns

If you decide to wash them and don’t have a nylon or wash bag just put them in the sink and soak them good then put in a sock, tie it...

Solanco, I still envy the shop but you are right. We used to tell our kids when they were young and one got something and the others...

I am sorry Jake. But "fair" is an invented construct. You will find it nowhere in nature. I think mothers invented it to try to control...

I just try not to over-oil my guns. I don’t worry about it.

See if any of your friends will let you try their electronic muffs. Some of them will interfere with mounting the rifle (not so much in...

Get some walker ear muffs. They are electronic. You can take your hearing aids out and then crank up the volume on the muffs to hear. I...