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  1. The Appalachian

    Like I Need More Projects......

    Been pondering venturing into casting metals, mainly for build rifle furniture. Won't be doing any iron, but brass is a no brainer. Been working with pewter lately, mainly smelting modern non-lead pewter for the tin content to use in bullet casting. Poured nose caps are a given but my question...
  2. The Appalachian

    Beeswax

    I use it a lot for a lot of things, especially in our fields of interest. One use I love it for is fluxing a lead pot for casting roundballs and boolits. Many ways to flux a lead pot, but being a ladle pourer only, I like to keep the top of the melt clean and dross free. So throughout a 20...
  3. The Appalachian

    My Mail Lady.....

    Probably won't speak to me anymore after lugging 50 pounds of soft lead AND a big box of unmentionable 10mm hollow points to the door today. I'm sorry Mail Lady, truly I am. Didn't realize how low my stash had gotten, until I realized how low it had gotten. Fixed that......
  4. The Appalachian

    Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park

    Anyone here do the shooting matches there, or other events? Only a couple hours from me here in Virginia and fairly close to my son in Elizabethton TN. How big of an affair is it? https://tnstateparks.com/parks/david-crockett-birthplace
  5. The Appalachian

    Lost and Found

    Sorting through some totes of stuff from back when I moved years ago. Tossing stuff I haven't missed, putting up stuff that I did. Found a whole pound of 4F and a half pound of 2F that I'd forgotten I even had. The 4F is priced $6 older than the 2F at $17 so it's been a minute since these were...
  6. The Appalachian

    Late LATE season.

    My two sons and I had a lot going on this year so we didn't get out much during early and regular muzzleloader deer seasons like we'd normally do. We did put a fair bit in the freezers with our lever guns during regular gun season, which we normally do anyway. My oldest son did get a VERY nice...
  7. The Appalachian

    Pain in the Butt Plates

    Butt plates are only hard if you let them be. Tedious, yes, definitely can be tedious. Not saying they're easy either, if it was easy most people wouldn't gravitate to "kits" milled out on CNC machines would they. For me it's easier to just do stock work than explain how to do it, but I'll try...
  8. The Appalachian

    Just Curious

    Who can ream a full turkey choke out of a 20ga Colerain half round barrel, and cut in a jug choke?
  9. The Appalachian

    Some Percussion Cap News

    Light at the end of the tunnel, maybe........
  10. The Appalachian

    Hand Meat Saws......

    Decided to go even further off grid with the grocery shopping and will be going back to raising a hog and a calf to kill each year. Instead of sinking even more money into processing like in the past, my adult kids and I will do all the processing as we do with the whitetails we kill each year...
  11. The Appalachian

    Time for some Wood Shop Shenanigans.........

    Disclaimer: I did NOT make my own trees, saws, saw blades, pencils, squares, pickup truck, power cords, warm sunny spring like day in December, etc., from scratch......this time. But I did drive over to the local log home kit mill and request some timbers and T&G planking be invoiced and loaded...
  12. The Appalachian

    Trail Food.....

    If it lasts long enough to make it to the trail..... Been playing with the dehydrator my son bought me last year for Christmas. And with the pellet smoker both boys bought early for me this year. Dried bananas, mandarins, pineapple, and apples in the dehydrator. Made some Pecan smoked sugar...
  13. The Appalachian

    Another Antique......

    Added another antique to my shop today.
  14. The Appalachian

    Tools, and Gear

    There's something primal about it. Something that digs back into the deepest part of one's soul where your ancestors are still alive and well, and guiding you down the path they walked. Momma always said I was born 200 years too late. She wasn't far off with that. A time when if you needed...
  15. The Appalachian

    Let's Discuss.......Mushrooms.

    I love 'em. I'll eat anything with mushrooms in it, or on it, or with it. I just ate a whole side order of deep fried on the way home because I couldn't stand it any longer. I just love mushrooms. But I don't know jack about 'em. My knowledge base is, go to the store, buy fresh mushrooms, go...
  16. The Appalachian

    Colerain Barrels......

    Had a question about this 20 gauge turkey choke barrel I needed answered before I start inletting and did the obligatory research, which included several threads from this forum, CLA, etc., so I had a decent idea of what I wanted to know.....but I figured what the heck I'll ask Colerain directly...
  17. The Appalachian

    Finally Found That Antique Anvil I Been Huntin'

    Pretty fair shape for its age. Think I'll have a buddy stick it on the surface grinder and get it flat and true, but the search ended today with half a paycheck and a road trip up into West Virginia.
  18. The Appalachian

    My smoothbore build the next few months.

    Finally quit arguing with myself and settled on a walnut half stock. It came in today. ~ 38" Colerain 62 cal with full turkey choke. ~ Left handed L&R Classic lock. ~ Single trigger. ~ English trigger guard ~French buttplate ~ L&R matching side plate.
  19. The Appalachian

    Flax Tow vs Hemp Tow

    Can anyone say if there's any significant difference between the two for fire starting, bore cleaning, shot wadding?
  20. The Appalachian

    Finally......

    Finally got around to test firing my Tennessee build with the flint lock.
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