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  1. Christophero

    First Batch of Deer Fat into Tallow

    On the stove in the pot as this is typed. Hoping for some good lube off the fat covered doe I shot last week. Any and all recipes are welcome as I hope to make this for Patch and Conical lube.
  2. Christophero

    Educating the Public

    I received a phone call later Saturday evening. A friend was needing assistance at his table the next day at a local weekend historic farm festival. The fellow that manned the display table on Saturday wouldn't be able to show up yesterday until later in the afternoon on Sunday. When a...
  3. Christophero

    SOLD Pietta 1851 Colt Steel Frame .36

    Doesn't appear to be used much if any. The fellow it came from is not longer cognitive but he was a collector more than a shooter. $150.00 plus the shipping costs in the Continental United States where it can be shipped from me to you without an FFL.
  4. Christophero

    Making Smoke at Squirrels

    My son and I planned a trip to the Ozarks for a camping / squirrel hunting excursion, but with petrol prices as they are we settled on southern Kentucky last week. My, the trees grow tall on them hills in the Daniel Boone Nat'l Forest. The canopy was full and kept the woods dark, even on the...
  5. Christophero

    Ramrod Out Of Pieces

    I've save the ends of this broken ramrod for my .32 Cherokee for many years. Figured someday I would complete the replacement rod out utilizing the ball end, as I had already affixed the threaded end sometime back with success. Yesterday was that day to finish end #2. Using a length of a...
  6. Christophero

    Time With the Cherokee

    Over the weekend time was spent sighting in the TC Cherokee I put together from a kit back in the Spring of 87. I took quite a number of squirrels with that rifle way back, but it has been a safe queen for way too long. The oldest and I are considering an early squirrel excursion and finding a...
  7. Christophero

    Round Balls that aren't so Round

    The other evening I was finally motivated to dig out the tub of mixed Hornaday swaged round balls of .315 and .350 inches in diameter. Got these off a friend over 20 years ago where a mouse or two had eaten the cardboard boxes and they settled together at the bottom of the bucket. With the...
  8. Christophero

    Cracked Hawkin Style Stock

    Reading over the 2006 TC Cougar thread. That fellow Roundball really knows his stuff when he wrote " you might want to add that strengthening kit to prevent the stock crack which is not all that uncommon...occurs on the left side of the stock, running 2-3" with the grain above the lock bolt...
  9. Christophero

    Whole Patches & Shredded Patches

    I'm still messing with this fairly new to me 1985 circa 54 Caliber GPR and PRB's. The backstory is that it shreds patches using 80 grains of FFFg off and on. I've Scotchbrited the bore and even have applied a generous amount of valve lapping compound on the tight Scotchbrite to smooth the...
  10. Christophero

    Bluing or Browning a Wax Cast Buckhorn Sight

    Hello Gentlemen, I've cold blued a few CF barrels in years past. Not much of a gunsmith with real expertise, a pretty decent tinkerer but have a question on this sight I just picked up: Rear sight, primitive buckhorn, for 15/16" or 1" octagon barrel, wax cast steel - Track of the Wolf As it...
  11. Christophero

    Sear Spring on the Blue Ridge Long Rifle

    I inherited this rifle sometime back, Pedersoli Frontier, AKA the Cabelas Blue Ridge long rifle. My friend loved ultra-light triggers and modified the sear spring with a part of a hair clip. It works for what his intention was, but I cannot say it is exactly safe. On occasion the hammer has...
  12. Christophero

    Optimum Font Sight Blade Width

    The current sights that came on the Lyman GPR I recently purchases are these: 16AML and 37ML Hunting Sights | Muzzle Loader Sights Eventually I'll change them out as I am not pleased with how tall they stand and how large the front bead is. My measurement shows .087" wide. At any distant...
  13. Christophero

    TOW Barrel Mounted Peep Sights

    Anyone ever try one of these? https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/881/1/RS-CA-PEEP-14 I like the low height but not sure if they will be good for hunting or too far from the eye for a open sight picture.
  14. Christophero

    Why I Enjoy January So Much

    Ohio Muzzleloader Season is here and almost gone. The older Lyman GPR I purchased this past Fall from a gentleman at the Ohio Gun Collector's Association show has given me many hours of tinkering with smoothing the bore and learning what it will shoot adequately. I've settled on 80 grains of...
  15. Christophero

    The Shooting Has Begun with the GPR

    I posted a few weeks back of picking up an older but barely used Lyman GP Rifle in 54 caliber, percussion lock. As all the advice read on this forum I took the Scotchbrite to it, bore and crown one evening not long after procuring it. Purchased a length of 100% cotton cloth at Walmart that...
  16. Christophero

    Lyman Great Plain 54

    Mossyed across an older Lyman GP percussion today in 54 caliber. After all the T/C 50's I've owned over the years thought this might be a fun diversion. Other than the fact that a former owner pinged in a new flip up rear sight, an aftermarket front sight with a white bead, it is in really...
  17. Christophero

    Finally Shot the New Barrel

    About 4 or 5 years ago I screwed up by cross threading the nipple into the drum on an inherited T/C 50 caliber Hawkin. This was a kit gun from the early 80s that I loving completed in my buddy's honor a few years prior. Local gunsmith didn't have the proper tap for the drum and suggested I send...
  18. Christophero

    Cherokee Ramrod

    Enjoying my TC Cherokee .32 this afternoon. Unfortunately I broke the ramrod. Only the second time in the 32 years so since building it from a kit. Where could a fella to find a suitable replacement? While on the subject of the little rifle, used to shoot.315 balls, I believe, with thin...
  19. Christophero

    Window of Opportunity

    Such a busy year left nearly no time to hunt. With Ohio's Muzzleloadeing Season upon me I took the only afternoon available yesterday to enjoy the warmth of 26°. Much better than the low single digits we've been experiencing. Over looking a large field with the woods to my left and the south...
  20. Christophero

    A Recap of ML Season

    Ohio Muzzleloader season started out cold with temperatures of 0 degrees first thing in the morning and not to exceed 8 F for the day's high. Not to be deterred because snow was on the ground. I love hunting in snow. It inspired me to don the appropriate apparel and head out to a small patch...
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