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    Native American gun maker

    In Charles Lanman's book "Letters from the Allegheny Mountains" published 1849 tells of Cherokee blacksmith named Salola (the Squirrel), whose hand-made rifles and pistols were the wonder of his contempories. This is the earliest reference I have seen for a Native American gunsmith, even though...
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    New pot.

    Goodwill find today. Old 8 quart iron kettle. A wee bit dirty, but inside is nicely polished, not the rough sand cast surface of today's iron ware. Woody The inside The bottom
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    HBC bar mold

    I have seen a photograph of a gang mold used to cast HBC lead bars. I think the bars were about a pound, or less, and had the HBC in raised letters. The mold cast about ten bars. for the life of me, I can not find that photograph. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thank you, Woody
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    First horns

    I made the big horn a while back, and the two priming horns yesterday. One of the priming horns is water buffalo, with a Purpleheart butt blug, and rattlesnake wrapped arounf the spout end.. The other priming horn is Buffalo, with a Black Locust butt plug like the big horn. Woody All three horns...
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    New range box

    I hope this is traditional enough for this forum...I know they have been around awhile. Since, which you have probably noticed, I have just returned to black powder, and my daughter got off with my old range box, I had to make a new one. Fingered jointed pine, brass furniture, and most of the...
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    Powder measure.

    I just had to play with this one. Woody
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    Powderhorn bungs

    Being too cheap to actually buy a violin peg for a powderhorn bung, I gathered up some shop scrap, and turned a few. Since, I had to make a tapering tool, I went ahead, and turned bungs for two hours.All are tapered 1:30 to match my tapered reamer, and polished with a mix of turps, beeswax, and...
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    Gun maker ID

    I have a flint Hawken with no marks on the barrel, but the lock is marked P1888. Anybody able to identify this rifle? The rifle is 50 cal. and well made. Thank you,Woody
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