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  1. plmeek

    Rust Bluing

    Thank you Dave. I do recall David Rase posting a thread on another forum where he was charcoal bluing barrels in a charcoal pack. He was using steel pipe to hold the charcoal and barrel and surrounded this with heat tape, insulation and an aluminum tube around the outside. Here is a photo of...
  2. plmeek

    Rust Bluing

    Ok, Dave, I'll bite. What's the secret to controlling the process?
  3. plmeek

    Rust Bluing

    There are some semantics that need to be clarified to address your question. Rust bluing usually refers to the process of placing a piece of metal that has been rust browned into boiling water which causes a change in the iron that in turn causes it to turn from brown to a blue/black color. So...
  4. plmeek

    Larry Zorn guns question

    I don't know that I have ever seen a gun that Larry Zorn has made himself, though I don't doubt that he has built some. Zorn has been around the muzzleloader industry for a long time. He used to work at the Sharon Rifle Barrel Co. back in the early 1970's. He had been associated with the R...
  5. plmeek

    Rust In The Bore

    FishDFly and Marinekayak, The difference you are seeing between the two rifles is more likely associated with the surface finish of the bore in the rifles than the differences in the steel alloy. Rusting is a chemical reaction and can be accelerated by activation sites such as sharp points and...
  6. plmeek

    Hawken shop ?

    Critterkiller, I was going to link you to a build-a-long showing a professional gun maker assembling one of The Hawken Shop's kits. Unfortunately, the pictures aren't visible because of the BS that Photobucket pulled a few years ago, so there's not much to see anymore. So instead, I will post...
  7. plmeek

    Lock Indetification

    That is the Curley Gostomski mark that is cast-in the plate just in front of and a little below the screw head on the main spring. Curley developed the master pattern for these locks. Yours is one of the clearer and more distinct marks I've seen pictured. Below is a scan from The Book of...
  8. plmeek

    Lock Indetification

    That's a North Star Enterprises/North Star West trade gun lock.
  9. plmeek

    Rifles of the 1830s

    Cannonball1, I helped take some detail measurements of a couple late S. Hawken rifles during my last trip to Santa Fe almost a year ago. One was the Kit Carson Hawken in the Masonic Lodge in Santa Fe and the other was a late S. Hawken in Jim Gordon's collection. These two rifles are similar...
  10. plmeek

    Rifles of the 1830s

    By whom? If Indians, I would agree. But I read the OP's original question as to what rifles the MM were carrying in the mid-1830's? There are several threads on this forum that ponders the question of MM use of trade guns versus rifles. If you go to this post by Chuck Burrows and this post...
  11. plmeek

    Rifles of the 1830s

    That's a very nice Hawken, cannonball1. Ggood job.
  12. plmeek

    Percussion caps in period

    CaptainKirk, You start out asking about "nomadic hunter and trapper back in the day" and end up talking about "wagon trains heading west to places like Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, California, and the American Southwest where there would not likely have been any rendezvous activity and...
  13. plmeek

    Display in Texas Winter home

    Well being that close to the southern border, you need all the protection you can get. LOL
  14. plmeek

    Pawn Shop H. Leman Rifle ID

    I was interested in seeing some clear close-ups of this portion of the barrel. I was curious if I could make any sense of the holes and marks that appear on the bottom of the barrel and near the bottom edge of the barrel in this picture. The barrel is the biggest mystery to me. You don't...
  15. plmeek

    Pawn Shop H. Leman Rifle ID

    I can tell only so much from pictures, so I offer a few opinions. I see no evidence that the lock was ever a flintlock. The square or clipped tail on the lock plate is a characteristic of a late Henry Leman lock of the percussion period. There is an extra hole in the lock plate near the nose...
  16. plmeek

    parts set with hooked breech

    I was going to suggest something like Don Stith's Squirrel Rifle. He usually offers them with a tapered barrel 1" to 7/8". That way one can use a 1" breech plug with the barrel, and still have a lighter rifle. L&R offers a Hawken breech plug for a 15/16" barrel, so that could be paired with a...
  17. plmeek

    parts set with hooked breech

    Mark, Simple answer to your question is that there are and have been primarily two different hooked percussion breeches available to contemporary gun makers. One is the "Hawken" style you mention and the other is the English style. Beyond that, it is difficult to give you more specifics...
  18. plmeek

    Help with Identification of Shotgun

    Your shotgun does have Belgian proof mark from the Proof House at Liege for Muzzle Loading Black Powder. Even though gun makers in Belgian could produce high quality firearms, their export market specialized in low quality, inexpensive guns. These shotguns were imported into America in large...
  19. plmeek

    Books and Hardware Supplier suggestions for building Flintlocks?

    How deep into this do you want to go? And how deep are your pockets. Places like Track of the Wolf, Muzzleloader Builders Supply, Log Cabin Shop, Pecatonica, Dunlap Woodcrafts, and several others have everything you need. Stock blanks, parts, books, plans, tools, etc. The Kentucky Rifle...
  20. plmeek

    selling a flintlock,,,,,,,,,,,

    You can sell you guns to Track or you can sell them on consignment. Either way, your share will likely be about the same. Track charges a consignment fee that may be negotiable but usually is about 25% of the sale price. This is probably about the same as the margin they make on the rest of...
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