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bubba.50

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Can’t say ‘it didn’t cost me a dime’ but it did come together one piece at a time. Started with a Renegade stock, added a New Englander lock, Hawken tang, White Mountain Carbine barrel with New Englander rib & thimble, TC tang peep and Davis Deerslayer triggers. Re-blue the tang & shorten the Hawken ramrod & it’ll be done.
 

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That looks like a mighty fine ritoofle! I admire the knowledge that you and many others have to assemble a rifle like this out of your own whit. I am reading and studying this because I think it is a great skill to know what works with what, I’m at the beginning of my apprenticeshi, hats off Bubba, I enjoy your posts also. To the point every tim.
 
Great fun! I would be tempted to modify the stock to fit just behind the barrel transition from octagon to round.
 
I don’t like the term shade tree, give the man the respect for the knowledge he has, he has a skill, we should thank him for sharing a little bit of it.


Hoss, you admirin’ the wrong person. I try to tell people these things are like Legos that go bang. What fits one’ll likely fit the other. All l did was throw an assortment of parts together. And usually don’t take more than a few file strokes to throw parts from the ltalian clones in the mix.

If you want to admire & emulate somebody, follow some’a these fellers that take a board, a barrel, and a few bits of metal and turn out somethin’ that looks like it should be in a museum instead of on the firing line or in the woods.
 
Great fun! I would be tempted to modify the stock to fit just behind the barrel transition from octagon to round.

Nah, the short forearm, too skinny wrist, and clublike buttstock are things l never liked about White Mountains. Now if there was some way to unround that inch or so of barrel…………
 
The Thompson Contender model that never was. Hats off you Bubba ! That would be a nice handy hunting carbine. One that in my younger years would have been perfect for when I was a top watcher or driver on our mountain side deer drives.

Thanks,
O.R.
 
What I was trying to imply with the "shade tree engineering" was to give @bubba.50 credit for having the skill to recognize that he had the parts to assemble a functional and safe firearm using the minimum of resources and minimum of shop work. There are many historical precedents for assembling a firearm from a variety of parts. Bubba50 is simply doing that today.
 
Can’t say ‘it didn’t cost me a dime’ but it did come together one piece at a time. Started with a Renegade stock, added a New Englander lock, Hawken tang, White Mountain Carbine barrel with New Englander rib & thimble, TC tang peep and Davis Deerslayer triggers. Re-blue the tang & shorten the Hawken ramrod & it’ll be done.
LOOKS very nice....
Can we get a test target please?
Some of us poor chaps are stuck in the office too much, and at least we can have fun seeing the results of somebody burning powder!

LD
 
Maybe do a pewter fill under that front round section of barrel. It would look kinda neat and fill in the space around the barrel.
 
Hoss, you admirin’ the wrong person. I try to tell people these things are like Legos that go bang. What fits one’ll likely fit the other. All l did was throw an assortment of parts together. And usually don’t take more than a few file strokes to throw parts from the ltalian clones in the mix.

If you want to admire & emulate somebody, follow some’a these fellers that take a board, a barrel, and a few bits of metal and turn out somethin’ that looks like it should be in a museum instead of on the firing line or in the woods.

Tell me ML48, exactly what part of tellin' this feller he should emulate these guys that turn out absolute museum quality works of art got yer feathers wet?
 
Tell me ML48, exactly what part of tellin' this feller he should emulate these guys that turn out absolute museum quality works of art got yer feathers wet?
Did you ever try putting a complete working automobile together using Lego's? A kit rifle or pistol requires knowledge and skill also. I don't know about you, but I don't have feathers.
 
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