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  1. Eric Krewson

    Do you gut your deer?

    Back when the processing fee wasn't too bad, I would kill one, remove the tarsal glands, gut it, wash it out really well and let the processor skin it and cut it up. I knew very few people that paid to have their deer gutted, we all did it in the field. When the fees got over $100, I would skin...
  2. Eric Krewson

    I found this place......

    I found a place behind my neighbor's house with a small beech sapling in it that the deer are drawn to, there is a small opening near the sapling that the deer come to from all directions to socialize in. The does lick the leaves on the small beech. And the bucks sniff the leaves and the...
  3. Eric Krewson

    Alabama Kentucky Long Rifle Show

    Starts today;
  4. Eric Krewson

    Alabama Kentucky Long rifle Show

    Starts today;
  5. Eric Krewson

    Meat for the freezer

    I have hunted a bunch this year, got busted by the wind, seen a few times, passed on a number of very small deer. This one stepped out at 6:10 this morning, I could barely see my sights, she went about10 yards after the shot. Haines rifle, .54, 85 gr of 2F, dry wool wad, .530 ball wrapped in...
  6. Eric Krewson

    Questions, is it just me but I get a ton of them by PM

    Just wondering, I get a ton of PMs from people wanting to know how to do things, very involved questions that take me up to an hour to answer, I can't type so answers take me a long time, I do have pictures that I share of everything I ever did during a TC overhaul or just about everything else...
  7. Eric Krewson

    Breech plug issue

    I bought a barrel for a TN bear pistol second hand, it is a 15/16 barrel in .54, when I was measuring for the plug depth to buy a breech plug, I noticed that the breech was bored a little off center, the breech is threaded for a 5/8 18 plug. There is hint of a shoulder on one side of the breech...
  8. Eric Krewson

    Tn Bear pistol, this is going to be a long project.

    I have never built a pistol; I decided my last build should be one but I didn't want to build something ordinary. I am from TN, I looked at a variety of southern pistols and settled on a TN bear pistol, something I could hunt deer with. I wanted the pistol to be a completely scratch build, I...
  9. Eric Krewson

    Dixie Gun Works Flintlock pistols

    I was at a flea market today and a guy had a pair of Dixie Gun works pistols in really good shape at a more than fair price, he said they were Spanish made but they looked like Mikro to me, one had been defarbed to have nothing but the serial number on the barrel, the other had most of the Dixie...
  10. Eric Krewson

    How many of your rifles have killed deer?

    I was thinking; as soon as I build a new deer caliber rifle or smoothbore I always hunt with it until I kill a deer with it. I have one .40 that is legal to hunt deer with in Alabama but I haven't used it on deer yet. I have killed deer (lots of them) with my first build in .54, 12ga...
  11. Eric Krewson

    eBay TC parts cost

    I have all the TC guns I want (2 Hawkens), I put one together with an old stock I upgraded and added a drop in GM barrel, I bought parts for a Renegade rebuild off eBay a few years ago, the parts were high but not ridiculous. I just dropped by to look at barrel prices, a friend has a .45...
  12. Eric Krewson

    PA flintlock late season flintlock hunters

    I have been watching a lot more YouTube videos this winter and seem to be watching every PA flintlock hunt that is posted. Most of the guys are carrying a TC or CVA type gun, what surprises me is the huge number of klatches these guys have, it seems like they have two or three klatches to every...
  13. Eric Krewson

    What size tap handle for a Joe woods .54 coning tool?

    I thought my biggest tap handle would be right for my coning tool but it is a tad smaller than the shaft on the tool. I have a Home Depot close by and can run down and get a larger tap handle. What side do you guys use? I sent the question to Joe but haven't heard back yet.
  14. Eric Krewson

    Hunting in the wilderness, he says tongue in cheek

    Old age and some mobility issues have made my desire to travel an hour or so to public hunting areas non-existent. I have 4 acres of woods below my house, all the other lots in the subdivision around me are 4 or 5 acres as well with deep hardwood hollows between the branch roads., I have at...
  15. Eric Krewson

    Ball starter options

    I have used a standard ball starter to load my rifles, on my latest TC build with a tight bore, I am shooting an undersized .526 ball with a .022 denim patch, with 70 gr of 2F this gives me the best accuracy out of the new GM barrel I put on the gun. I have tried bigger balls and thinner patches...
  16. Eric Krewson

    Green mountain TC drop-in flash hole

    I bought a Green Mountain drop in for my TC overhaul a year or so ago, I just got new eyes (cataract surgery) and can finally sight it in, today was the day. I was getting inconsistent ignition; in 50 years of shooting percussion I have never had this problem. When I cleaned the gun, I think I...
  17. Eric Krewson

    Changing a double set trigger to a single trigger

    I built the pre-carve from hell rifle with double set triggers just because they came with the kit. The pre-carve had a 3/8" web which I was able to reduce some but still had way too much room between the trigger bar and the sear and had to add metal to the trigger bar to make the double set...
  18. Eric Krewson

    I can see, I can see!

    This may seem trivial but I am so excited I am on cloud nine! I have built 5 flintlock and 2 percussion rifles; I don't know how well they will shoot because I have never been able to see the sights well enough to align them properly. I have killed plenty of deer with these rifles and shotguns...
  19. Eric Krewson

    real or not?

    This just came up on the Facebook gun trading site, I am thinking tourist trade but I thought I better check with you guys who know a bit about these things. It is going for peanuts.
  20. Eric Krewson

    GPR clean out plug

    I put a patch box in my nephew's Lyman GPR and tried to clean the barrel which was a rusty sewer pipe. After multiple scrubbings with red scotch bright the barrel was still rough but shot fairly well. When I cleaned the gun and used compressed air to blow out the drum I noticed the so called...
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