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    How many years Muzzleloading experience?

    Newbie: since 1979...
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    Gunsmiths Daughter

    Welcome from cold snowy Prescott AZ
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    TC trivia

    My first kit rifle was a Renegade in .54 cal. I think I got it in the late 70's. It's been remodeled a bit....
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    Making a Powder Horn (Part 1)

    Forgive my obscure question: I was under the impression that some of the pins in horns were made of horn. I knew that some plugs were put in with thorns, but not plain dowel pins. Thanks all, for your patience. Told you I was a neophyte! So, wood dowels are OK, just stain them black if I want...
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    Making a Powder Horn (Part 1)

    New to horn making. Scraped and polished some buffalo horns. Where do you get horn pegs? I've seen them on old fancy horns, black and white. I'm a machinist at heart. Do I need to make a small milling tool to make pegs? A neophyte question.
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    Fullstock Flintlock Hawken

    Bill Large BBL! WOW! Very nicely built rifle. You are one skilled gent!
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    Dixi Gun Works Disappoints.

    I still get a few components from them, recently got a bunch of mainsprings for flints and cap locks. All were good, ands I still get screws and such, but nothing big. They do make shipping errors at times...
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    Hope this is the right place for this

    Sight radius (in inches) Divided by distance to target (in inches). Times the impact error distance (In inches) Equals the correction dimension (usually in decimal fractions of an inch)
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    Removing breech plug...barrel keeps spinning.

    Get a Rice breech plug wrench to start with.....And a Big or barrel vise. Just Sayin
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    Painting a stock.

    Gents, fortunately, no one has ever asked my shop to Cerakote a wooden stock. We are factory trained coaters. Glad that air dry Cerakote is little known! Yeah, we do plastic and metal stocks in Cerakote. But it bakes on.... We have a certain reverence for wood, as my other stockmaker, and myself...
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    Kibler SMR Trouble

    While I have been a gunsmith and rifle mechanic for more than 30 years. Despite experience, I find that sometimes I have to put the tools down, and look at the gun and think about what to do next, and imagine how all the parts work together. Have patience with your work and with yourself. The...
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    Red’s Incredible Traditions Kentucky Build: Probably not what you would have done…

    The one I did for the customer was a third hand kit from a couple of deceased relatives. I scrounged the butt plate from a parts box along with sights and screws. I think I needed a couple thimbles too. Then he wanted me to get him black powder, balls, caps, and teach him how to shoot it. For...
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    Red’s Incredible Traditions Kentucky Build: Probably not what you would have done…

    I did one for a customer. The kit had short pins through the brass spacer, as on the CVA. Glue didn't hold. I drilled the pinholes 2 inches deep butt and forend and epoxied in 4 in lengths of 10-32 all thread, using the barrel to hold the parts aligned. Then I could finish the stock. Put the...
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    i have gotten myself into a pickle. advice on staining birch needed.

    Gents, I use Vanderhave Military stock stain for birch. I think Brownells still carries it.
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    Flintlock smith needed

    Sir, My shop LRK Mechanical Services work on black powder and antique firearms, and perform restorations. If this is really problem, contact us at [email protected] or 928-776-6483. We are in Prescott Arizona. I have been a gunsmith for 33 years and we perform firearms...
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