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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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    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?

    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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    How’d I Do?

    Total time was about five hours. Half of that just staring at it thinking of what to do next. There’s a small gap at the very bottom but final adjustments and inletting the toe plate should take care of that. It’s just the factory part of the stock as I left the LoP as long as possible. I...
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    Butt Plate Inletting.

    So I have been procrastinating on this buttplate. I’ve been away for a month or so and had thought long and hard how I would go about it. I’ve read, watched and watched again videos online and finally went at it. I’m on day two, lol! I’m taking it in small steps. I have it about 1/16” all...
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    Loose Pin Holes?

    Ok. I know it’s normal to have to take apart and put together parts and the barrel many times during the build process. I am finding that my pins are becoming loose. So much so that a few I am able to push in and out with my fingers. Lightly peen the pin for final assembly? Slightly larger...
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    Success!!

    A big thanks to everyone here in helping me through a beginner problem. As you may have read in a thread where I misaligned my entry thimble during inletting. Well I’m here to say that a combination of solutions ended up working out really well! I took Bill Raby’s advice and fit a sliver of...
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    Need Some Help.

    Inlet the entry thimble this evening. It went a little askew. Try and fix it? Leave it as is? Will it be fixable as in the stock shaping make it less noticeable? The pic is with a string line. I had a pencil line but the mess from the I letting black obliterated it and I went askew as I...
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    Inletting a Butt Plate and Other Questions

    So I’m ready to inlet the butt plate on the rifle I’m working on. Been watching and reading and still hesitant on starting. Add that sand castings of nickel silver are really not great. I went with that material because, again, I’m just going with a look and style of my own and no particular...
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    TC Firestorm

    My nephew has a Firestorm as do I. I put a Lyman frizzen on mine and the upgraded geometry hammer some years back. It’s been a reliable shooter ever since. The lock sparks great and is very very fast. My nephew had the stock parts but I was able to get the newer style hammer and a Lyman...
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    I Have A Functional Rifle!

    Over a year ago I purchased parts to build my first rifle. Not a kit, everything A La Cart. I wanted something that I just couldn’t buy and that would be uniquely mine. Anyway, I ran into a couple issues with the preinlet stock. The lock mortise was cut a little too deep. The barrel channel...
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    Gunmetal Type Barrel Finnish?

    I am far from being ready to finish the barrel on this build but I’m thinking about it already. I know I don’t want to brown it. I want a grayish worn look. I have been using a piece of mild steel to practice with. I am warming the bare metal with a heat gun and using Brownells Oxpho-Blue...
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    Lumber Question.

    I have a parcel of land about 50 acres. Last winter a storm blew over a massive sugar maple. Right now it’s laying on its side in the woods with half the root ball exposed and it’s still alive. It leafed out etc but I know it’s dead. And I do believe that there is a lot of curly flames figure...
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    Staking Barrel Tenons?

    My father was a master machinist. A real deal tool and die man. He taught me how to use files properly and detailed machine work by hand when I was a kid when he was an apprentice machinist. Anyways I remember him teaching me that friction fit parts that aren’t meant to be regularly disassembled...
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    First Steps and Lessons Learned.

    So I finally started to work on my first build. Today I I let the barre and tang to the stock. Took about four hours. I have a preinlet stock from ToW. First thing I learned was that the breach area was inlet much deeper than the rest of the barrel Chanel and trying to get all of it inlet level...
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    Question on Shaping Trigger Guards

    I’m dipping my feet into building a rifle. Instead of a kit I have picked the parts I want “a la cart”. The rifle is flint ignition and going to be a dedicated deer hunting gun. I am going with a .50 caliber 7/8 Colrain barrel straight with a large Siler deluxe lock. I’m waiting for ToW to get...
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    Taking the Plunge.

    I bought a TVM Late Lancaster rifle a few years ago and it is a spectacular rifle. But I have always wanted to build one. I did help an uncle complete a TC Hawken kit when I was a teenager and a cousin built a Lyman kit that I worked on with him. But I want to make one from parts and do it all...
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    How Many RBs are enough!

    I don’t shoot a whole lot. Maybe 60-100 rounds a year. I have very little time. But I have several hundred pounds of pure lead on hand most of the time. Right now i have 20lbs of .490 balls. And about 200lbs of lead. I was thinking of casting several thousand rounds and that should last me a...
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    Patch Cutter!

    I usually use square cut pillow ticking but I like round patches better so I pushed a ball wrapped in patch material into one of my loading blocks and cut the patch flush. 1 1/4” looks perfect so i bought a 1 3/8 hole saw and ground off the teeth and sharpened the outside edge. Cuts a perfect 1...
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    Deer Season is Over. Blah.

    I wasn’t able to connect with my flintlock in PA’s late season. Now it’s nine months away from archery and I figured I would pass some time today casting some ammo. I got going pretty good and ended up with just over 300 .490 balls. I have about 500 on hand but you can never have too many...
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