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    Best arguement yet

    That gun belongs to someone with more money than brains. Ephraim :cursing:
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    LMF Browning

    Everyone want's instant this and that, good things come to those who wate. Just wate it will work. Go do some thing else for a day or two go fishing and look at it tomarrow. Ephraim
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    squirrel gun lube

    Don't moose snot bugger up your gun :rotf:
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    squirrel gun lube

    don't moose snot bugger up your gun :rotf:
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    Need some Hunter Green stain

    I would use camo. paint like they use on store bought turkey guns. I think they sell a paint kit with different shades of green and brown. But when I was young I asked my uncle how to turkey hunt he always got lots of turkeys, he dressed in bibs plad shirt and an old hat used a single shot...
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    Favorite movies set before 1840

    Winter Hawk Ephriam
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    Made a few turkey box calls.

    hi Linn Thanks again and i will indeed get a turkey whith it and when i do i will post it on here. if i was you i would think about selling these calls. try to talk to some one at wal-mart if you can make that many to keep them suplyed. I use a lot of different calls and this one ranks with my...
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    Made a few turkey box calls.

    hi Lenn wow what can i say got my call monday. I played with it for a while found it's works better if you chalk it up sounds great to me. wed morning went my best spot on the mountain loaded my .75cal flint musket not quite day light yet, i set in and wated for first lite. the sun started to...
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    Hand made wood screws

    In 1770 English instrument maker Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800) Invented the first screw-cutting lathe. Historians do not know when or how the first screws were invented this is what I found on the enter net under history of the wood screw. It just said the first ones were forged. That is all I can...
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    Made a few turkey box calls.

    Nice looking we have lots of turkey here in these mountains of east tenn. send me one and i will let you know if it works :rotf: Ephraim
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    Hand made wood screws

    I have an old tenn. rifle that has twisted screws holding the trigger gard on there are no file marks on the screws, what came first the chicken or the egg the screw or the file? Ephraim
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    Hand made wood screws

    Burt Berry was the man i larned gun making from. and i asked him how it was done and that is the way he showed me. A then told me i could buy them from dixy gun works it would save time and they would be better made :rotf: he didn't git it that i wanten to try to do it all the old way,and i...
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    Hand made wood screws

    first make a swagblock with square hole. take your stock taper it square put in the block form the head with a hammer small one just tap lightly to form the head in the counter sink. cut the grove in the head clamp the taper tip in your vice heat red and twist. if i could post pics. i would show...
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    Patchbox or not?

    It makes a good snack box. And I like M&M's when I am A hunting. Ephraim
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    Patchbox or not?

    I keep m&ms in mine. Ephraim
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    OT: Why we call 'em FLINCH-Locks!

    Less powder in the pan, and put your hat back on. to be able to shoot a flint lock you got to out smart that little stone. But if your are dumber than a rock better go back to cap guns :rotf: :blah:
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    Lamp black

    after reading what everyone has written on this makes me wonder what did the old time gun bilders use. I think anything that works for you is the best for you to use it gets you to the same end after all. As far as messy the more you do the less mess you make after about 200 guns i don't get it...
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    Lamp black

    I have always smoked my parts over an old oil lamp I have done it that way sence 1960 it works for me. Just somke the part and blow out the lamp relight and do it again when needed. Ephraim
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    Rusty parts.

    New barrels are only halve finished you need to lap it. or build the rifle and shoot it two or three hundred times. a scoth bright pad will get you started but the best way is a to make a lap and use a fine abrasive. Ephraim
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    scalplocks

    I found what thay called falls at goodwill i took pig skin and used contact cement to fix them to the base of the fall then sew beads around the edge they looked good. Ephriam
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