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  1. brushyspoons

    Fly position on SMR lock

    Here’s my Kibler Late Ketland lock, the fly is the shiny steel nub that you can see at full cock.
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    I got the tang inlet today, I'm not sure I was setting myself up for success with a lollipop for my second ever tang inlet, but I learned a few things that should make the next one easier and hopefully a little better.
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    This project of mine has sat idle for too long, today I got the tang shaped. I'll get a draft filed and inlet it this week.
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    A muzzle loading renaissance they say

    That rifle headlining the article looks like it would fit right in with one of those Call of Duty games. My European history isn't great but I thought the Renaissance was the revival of Classical art, not the complete abandonment of it.
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Second time's the charm for the rear trigger, maybe.
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    I got a trigger plate mostly fleshed out and started working on the triggers today. I finished the rear trigger, but I'm not too happy with it so I'll probably redo it. Luckily 1/8" flat bar is cheap.
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    Why Patch -Boxes &

    Why patchboxes? Because they were common on originals. Isn't that the same reason we more often than not use octagon barrels as well?
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    I drilled the ramrod hole for my new build this morning. This is my second ramrod hole, and it wandered off center as best I can tell about 1/16" - 3/32" away from the lock panel. Next up is shaping the tang into a lollipop and making simple set triggers.
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    My Kibler SMR Build Log

    How is this a death sentence for a rifle build? Nothing some mild steel, solder, files, and patience can't fix. Those second tang 'bolts' were often wood screws on southern Appalachian rifles.
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    Cracked Stock Repair

    You can make a nose cap out of 22 ga. mild steel sheet and some silver solder, you should be able to find the stuff at any hardware or home improvement store. The only tools I used were some tin snips, a bench vise, needle nose pliers, a propane torch, and a file or two.
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    Want for Kibler Colonial in Curly Maple?

    There's a market out there, but if I was going to lay down some thousands of dollars on a rifle to be built I'd like to see a fairly well cataloged portfolio of rifles/guns by the maker, and I'd want them to be able to put together a muzzleloader better than I can, and I'd probably be asking for...
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    My Kibler SMR Build Log

    16 ga sheet metal from Lowe's or Ace is what I used to make the toe plate on my first rifle. And those are the tools I used to make it. I cut it out a little wider than the toe of my buttstock, inlet it and screwed it on, then filed it flush with the wood on the sides.
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    Inletting Black

    I was going to tell you to check MLBS since that’s where I bought my Jarrow’s, but it looks like they’re out of stock too. Did the maker of Jarrow’s close up shop? I can’t find it available anywhere
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    My Kibler SMR Build Log

    I used wood dowels to plug the bore and drum threads when I browned my barrel, I wrapped both with a few layers of teflon tape to make a better seal and both holes were free of any corrosion at the end of things. If Kibler uses a stainless liner you probably don't need any teflon tape since...
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    Need a little help

    I originally installed a 1/4-28 drum on my first rifle and after some reading, found out people generally didn't like a 1/4" thread supporting a drum that's getting smacked by a hammer. I redrilled and tapped the hole for 5/16-24 threads just fine, the minor diameter of those threads is...
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    Midwest Powders-BE WARNED!!!!

    Their phone number listed is a Massachusetts area code, but their physical address listed is in Florida. That should be a huge red flag on its own. Nothing on the internet is true until you do the legwork yourself to figure out if it's true. Or as I like to say, figure out if you're talking to a...
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    Kibler's next gun?

    If I got any more excited after reading this I would've fallen out of my chair.
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    Kibler's next gun?

    A Lehigh Valley rifle from Kibler would be pretty cool IMHO. The general consensus seems to be that it's near impossible to get the architecture right yourself unless you're looking at an original, and even then it's not easy. A Lehigh Kibler would probably be a bit more affordable than an...
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    Is this a Southern Mountain rifle

    Those triggers remind me a lot of Davis triggers, is there any marking on the trigger plate? It might be obscured by the triggerguard.
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    Using Bondo to position secure Butt Plate; acceptable or butcher job?

    I don’t think I understand the purpose of using Bondo or any other filler under a buttplate. Isn’t all you need to worry about is the interface between the wood of the buttstock and perimeter of the buttplate? Filling any voids where the sun doesn’t shine seems like an extra step that doesn’t...
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