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    any new handgonne stuff

    Im back again, decided to apply at the police dept. and got the job so i have spent the last few months focusing entirely on training. But im back. I took my very first gonne out the other day and played with it a bit. it was kinda cool getting that rough and ugly thing out and poking some...
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    New Tomahawk

    Heres a new tomahawk I knocked out. A while back I was down taking classes at camp atterbury and saw a drawing of a militiaman from our area with a really short tomahawk that looked like this one so i thought it would be cool to make it. I will probably be giving this to one of the junior...
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    forge welding adventure

    So in between work and drill i have been experimenting in the shop. I finally got a san mai knife to work out so i decided to try a tomahawk next and that worked out and it kept growing. the tomahawks were cool but an axe would be awesome so i knocked one out. Im sending several tomahawks to the...
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    I'm back any new handgonne stuff

    So I've been away from the forum for a while between 2 jobs and volunteer work I haven't had much free time and when I dohave free time on base I ccan't use my personal computer on government servers. But I'm back so has anyone done anything cool with handgonnes? My cousin popped a tree rat with...
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    cva 1862 pocket police

    Im on a roll folks found out working my butt off really pays off. Yesterday i picked up my 4th bp gun this year, a cva 1862. Itsa brass frame though i would have preffered steel. The guy i got it from said it only has 10 rounds through it. My question is what is a good charge for the brass frame...
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    cva kentuck rifle twist

    As some of you may recall i got a jukar/cva kentucky that had a damaged barrel, i ended up cutting the barrel down into a super short carbine just for the heck of it. this leaves me with a little over a foot of barrel left over. what twist do these barrels have and could you make a 12" pistol...
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    new 12ga

    Well yesterday i was given 12ga smoothbore caplock as a birthday present from my grandmas friend. Her father made it out of what appears to be a 12ga single shot barrel. The stock is from wood from a bridge and the brass came from a local highschool. Unfortunately i wont be able to shoot it as...
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    barrel safety question

    A buddy brought me his jukar Kentucky rifle today and asked me to get it back into shooting condition. it was given to him by a supervisor where we work and neither of them have shot it. upon disassembly I realized that when the hole for the barrel lug was drilled it missed and hit the barrel. A...
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    .45 t/c cherokee

    hey yall been away for a while got 3 jobs so I haven't had much time to play on the computers. But anyway while lurking around a local flea market something caught my eye...a t/c Cherokee in .45. it was in roughish shape a few dings and a chip in the stock and a bit of rust on the barrel but the...
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    first hunt

    Well im going on my first deer hunt in a few weeks and i'll be using my caplock! so excited! I was going to go during our firearms season with my deerhunter but since i dont have a bonus anterless tag we decided it would be best to wait til muzzleloader season so i can take one of either sex and...
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    Scalper

    Been working on this one off and on for a while. Thought i would share it. [/URL][/img] [/URL][/img]
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    Gun hooks

    Thought i would show some of the gun hanger hook thingies my dad hammered out. They are made from rail road spikes but he has made another pair out of wrought iron. Gonna have him make me a couple sets for my guns. [/URL][/img]
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    am i too awesome or did i break something?

    Okay so I recently discovered i really like fast draw and since i didn't want to break my dads gun i started playing around with my 1858. The problem is once probably every 10 shots the gun will go to full cock but the cylinder will keep spinning, my buddy says its because im too awesome for my...
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    Scandinavian grind trade knife

    Well i decided to try my hand at making a scandi grind on a couple trade knives and here are the results. Turned out pretty good if i do say so myself. [/URL][/img]
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    1858 top strap thickness

    I had a guy that does the quick draw shooting ask if i could mill the top strap of an 1858 down to the very bottom of the rear sight channel to make a flat top so it can be fanned from the holster faster.Would that be safe? My understanding is fast draw usually uses blanks but the guy does shoot...
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    conical mold list

    I have looked through some of the threads about.44 conical molds and noticed a lot of them were "i'll try this" or "maybe this will work". So I thought i would start a thread where folks can list the mold that they used to cast their bullets. So anybody have molds that they know will cast a...
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    started another knife

    Heres a knife a I started today its a bit bigger than the others I have made OAL is about 9.25". I got the bevels hammered in and started filing to refine them. Im trying to decide if I want a choil on this one since they are absent from most of the originals. [/URL][/img]
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    handle finish

    I am giving my grandma a knife I made for her birthday what would be a good finish for the handle of a kitchen knife? The handle is curly maple if that matters.
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    handgonne hunting

    Has any of my fellow handgonne shooters ever hunted with their handgonnes? I had a guy buy one of mine to hunt small game with and he has had quite a bit of success with it. I just got my hunting license stuff worked out and me and my cousin are wanting to use some .75s loaded with shot to use...
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    new .62 gonne

    well I turned a new handgonne and decided to make a .62cal this time. I haven't got to shoot it yet because I don't have any .62 RBs. OAL is 12" and major dia. is 1.5". But anyway here it is. [/URL][/img]
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