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Started off a nice day. All 5 patients were in one facility. Clocked out. The Big Brown Truck of Happiness dropped off the last package needed to fill up the N-SSA range boxes. And ran around the local toy stores. The hushers for unmentionables, looks like that they are going to be in bureaucratic paperwork purgatory for another 3 months. :dunno:

Got home, and as soon as I round the corner, got totally sick at my stomach. The daughter's cat was caught under the garage door. He was trying to dart under the door and was lower than the eye. Felt like feces. Goodbye Mr. Blackie, until we meet again over the Rainbow Bridge.

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The nerve racking make it or break it part is done.

Tang drilled and tapped 10-32. Lock plate drilled and tapped 10-32.

Next up is trigger inletting and trigger guard manufacturing.
 

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Just ordered a Miroku 1861 Springfield here on MF. It will need restoration work (pitting and damaged area on the stock), but I enjoy working on muskets, and look forward to this project. Will post pics, before and after.
I really wanted your musket but couldn't get past the pitting.

Good that she found a home where she'll get some love.

Definitely put up some pics as you progress.
 
I placed yet another order with TOTW to outfit my .32cal with tips that will fit the ramrod threads. It seems everything I have is geared to my range rod threads. Plus I threw in some other items to make it work my while.
I also located some of the small blue range boxes I like for individual guns, the Flambeau Lil Brute tackle box I found it for cheap at my local Walmart. $6.96 there vs 14 bucks at Amazon. Worth the short drive for a couple more.
 
Put mine back in the safe...

I have a .50 T/C Renegade that I use for deer hunting. I took a nice doe on the last evening of the season a week ago. It got a good cleaning and oiling and now it's time to rest. I'll have it back out in October.
 
Spent the evening and most of this morning hand lubing 58 cal bullets, 580 grain maxis and 510 grain oversized minies. Messed around with my lube mix to get it just right. Mulligan's Lube (like the stew). A little bit of everything in it. Got the 58's placed in 9 round tins, 10 tins (99) of each. Sold two guns that I cannibalized fast twist barrels off of and put slower twist barrels on in their place. Very Nice Frontier Hunter barrels, just too slow (1:48) for my needs so they went onto very nice brass furniture frontier stocks and found new homes. Fast local sale as I had them priced right and they were cleaned up nicely.

Placed an order with Grafs for musket caps and got a couple of lbs of powder too since I was already paying haz fees.

Reorganized my ammo boxes by bullet weight and type and are so marked and got out into the garage and cleaned up the gun area and organized some. Still needs some work, but I am pooped and calling it quits for the day. Too much fun for one day!

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Went muzzle loading rifle shopping today at several pawn shops hoping to find a deal. Only one shop had any at all (3) and only one I was interested in - a Lyman Great Plains Rifle in .50 caliber. Supposed to be unfired (aren't they all) for $700.00. They wouldn't negotiate so I walked.
 
Went muzzle loading rifle shopping today at several pawn shops hoping to find a deal. Only one shop had any at all (3) and only one I was interested in - a Lyman Great Plains Rifle in .50 caliber. Supposed to be unfired (aren't they all) for $700.00. They wouldn't negotiate so I walked.
Wow! That pawn shop owner must reading the post here about what these rifles are selling for now and upping the ante!
 
Wow! That pawn shop owner must reading the post here about what these rifles are selling for now and upping the ante!
Tax season. The owner of the LGS I worked at off and on would bump the prices the end of January and would lower them in May. Lots that "found money" would find its way into the gun stores.
 
LGS/pawn shop has several cap and ball revolvers for sale but no real bargains. One is a Walker repro for $450 on sale with 10% off. Add back sales tax and it is right at $440.
 
my local robbery gun shop has two new uberti walkers. the plain one listed @ $650.00 and the one with the fancy engraved white cylinder is $719.00
 
Inlet the middle thimble on my Kibler 58. There was a small amount of wood to scrape off the stock to get it to bottom out. Drilled for the stock pin. I didn't break any drills going through the brass, as I did on the barrel tennon's. That's all I had time for today. Hopefully I'll have time tomorrow morning for more fun.
 
I am trying to design a perfect hammer it’s not easy
 

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