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    Reinforcing the wrist

    It's a solution searching for a problem. Leave it alone.
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    Hawken Rifles, What's All The Hoopla?!

    Since the 70s, seeing an actual Hawken rifle made me giddy. I don't give a rat's patookas if they are clumsy, heavy, and unwieldy. An original and below, the copy made by Bob Browner for the state of Missouri.
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    Naming your guns?

    Mine are just called by their calibers, the .50, the .36, the .32, or the "Trade Gun" or" Ithaca" for the percussion Hawken. Not very original. Out of 80 rifles and guns I've owned over the years only one unmentionable .22 was named by my BIL, "The Nevermiss". My son owns it now.
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    A question about your local competitions

    The best shoots I attended had smoked hams and bottles of Yukon Jack hanging from strings at 50 yards.
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    Just One Gun

    I have observed that if you are a good shot with a rifle, shotgun, or pistol you will be able to be a good shot with almost any rifle, shotgun, or pistol you put in your hands. Some guys are good shots and some guys are horrible shots. I know this is very true for archery.
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    .32 VS .36

    I built one of each but sadly haven't shot them enough to comment. They are beautiful, trim, little rifles capable of great accuracy and use little powder and ball. I would say I enjoy shooting the .36 more at targets.
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    Kibler side effect?

    Yeah, but it's that left handed trigger and ramrod that's the fly in the ointment for Jim.
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    Kibler SMR mysteries

    Have cataract surgery. After mine, at age 80 I can see iron sights and targets at 100 yards like an eagle. I'm also the only one in the old man's golf group that can see all of the balls in flight.
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    New .58 caliber Hawken type Rifle

    Thanks, that made a world of difference. Great rifle.
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    Tools for building

    The market that antique stores are putting high prices on doesn't have a clue what those tools are used for.
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    Butt Plate fitment on SMR

    You can use some red lipstick on the buttplate to see what wood and where it needs to be removed. When redrilling the holes in the top of the buttplate drill them a hair more towards the front of the comb so the screws will pull them tight to the comb.
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    Rifle vs. Smoothbore

    No, but I hit a flying chuckar partridge and a running rabbit with an arrow. My only claim to fame.
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    SxS Rifle collection

    My old neighbor had been on several safaris with muzzleloaders but unfortunately, he's gone now so I can't ask him about the black powder.
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    Nails popping out of stock on LGPR

    Simple as taking the pins out and roughing the middle of them with a file or a few light strokes with a hacksaw and reinserting them . For the ones in the wood, you can smear some beeswax over the hole.
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    How to refinish Chromium Trioxide

    If it were mine I'd use cabinet scrapers to take it down to white and restain and refinish.
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    Underlug hole elongation...

    But if you listen to a couple of know it all experts on here they say the METAL moves, not the wood. Ha ha.
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    I saved a plank

    Looks terrible with all of those horrible stripes. I'll take it off of your hands for a modest sum.
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    New .58 caliber Hawken type Rifle

    Very nice but I'd like to see the whole rifle, not just portions of it.
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    TVM Early Virginia on its way

    I'd definitely ask them to work on that front sight.
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    My balls are wrinkly ;)

    At least your balls weren't Schweaty.
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