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    Finally Connected with a Flintlock!!!

    I don’t eat beef. Venison is my only source of red meat so I try to take a couple does each year between archery and the gun seasons. Don’t get me wrong. I do like a nice thick ribeye but I sous vide backstrap and sear, add in a blueberry reduction and it’s unreal good.
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    Finally Connected with a Flintlock!!!

    Thanks again everyone! She was big. Couple years old I figure. I’ve been hunting the PA flintlock season for quite a while and have missed four or five until this one. Inexperience and nerves got the best of me. I started with w a TC Firestorm I have since given to my nephew. And have been...
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    Finally Connected with a Flintlock!!!

    Used my Kibler Colonial .50 I finished last fall. Gorgeous rifle and an heirloom piece for certain. A .490 ball and patch over 75gn of powder did a number on her! Truthfully I was surprised at how much damage a round ball could do. Her lungs and heart were obliterated. If I didn’t know better...
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    Building 4 Bore Rifle #2

    Unreal work Bill. Really. This is what makes the sport so much fun.
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    Kibler Colonial is Finished

    Was able to to finish the rifle up for the weekend. It came out far better than I had expected. Was much easier than I expected and best of all it is beautiful. Very elegant yet simple. I draw filed and finished the barrel with oxpho blue and rubbed it back until a gray color. I polished up...
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    How’s This Look?

    All the metalwork and file work is finished. All that remains is to finish the stock and clean up the barrel with some draw filing and I should have a finished rifle this time next week. The stock is down to 220gr now. I’m gonna do some grain raising and slick it off with 0000 steel wool then...
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    How’s This Look?

    Like I was saying earlier, there are folks who spend ten grand to buy a brand new Gibson Les Paul that looks like it’s 65 years old.
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    How’s This Look?

    Thanks very much. I’m just trying to mimic what I see in my imagination.
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    How’s This Look?

    I like how it accentuated the decor on the metal and I dislike bright shiny brass. If you really want to talk about the perceived beauty in artificial aging, look up guitar relicing. People literally take a $7-8k electric guitar brand new and have it banged up, worn, nicked, chipped, rusted...
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    How’s This Look?

    Thanks. I like it and it’s what I see in my mind’s eye. The high polish just doesn’t look right to me and I don’t want to things to get rounded over with a polishing process or a buffer. I’ll hopefully finish up the gun in the next week or so. I just take an hour or two every evening.
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    How’s This Look?

    I don’t want to take any type of machinery to it. I’ll try burlap. Have some laying around somewhere.
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    How’s This Look?

    It’s a rabbit hole for certain. I have thought a lot about how far I wanna take it.
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    How’s This Look?

    Thanks!
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    How’s This Look?

    I’m working ion a Kibler Colonial. The assembly and fit up is finished and went very smooth. Perfect in fact. Now it’s finish work. So I have the entire lock cleaned up, polished and assembled. I finished up to 00 steel wool and then used Oxpho blue and used 0000 steel wool to take that back to...
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    our 54 cal. Woodsrunner arrived today

    if he wants to be an aviator there’s only one option. Blue and Gold. And regarding g demo teams, see below.
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