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    Serial Number Dating a T/C

    Can anybody tell me what this mark is on my Renegade 183xxx?
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    freshen barrel?

    I hope he never took it to a Gander Mt. gunsmith.
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    FOR SALE XXL Blackfoot War Shirt - Heavy Elk

    wish I could,but it is beautiful, mostly just wanted to say Semper Fi,
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    How to carry a long rifle on a horse.

    sounds like your on the way to having a heck of a good time enjoy wish I still had a horse to enjoy.
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    How to carry a long rifle on a horse.

    No,you and I seem to be in agreement on several points including that one!
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    How to carry a long rifle on a horse.

    I do agree with you on that here in the northeast the native woods where I live are dense littered with rocks boulders and interspersed with swamps and mountains not ideal horse riding territory until roads were introduced,I hunted with mine only because of lots of modern roads and intersecting...
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    How to carry a long rifle on a horse.

    Doesn’t take too long at hunting on horses or possibly fighting on them,or just knowing of horse and rifles before you realize that shorter gets better however meantime’s ,carrying it across the pommel is the best way to have it comfortable and ready.the native Americans even cut down Fowler’s...
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    Stock Finishing with Minwax Wipe On Poly finish

    I am by the way trying wipe on poly first time,usually I use tru oil however,for weird reasons,I was forced to strip it once for a dent three layers stripped next 8 layers and I don’t know why parts looked great others rough nothing worked so I stripped again and did not want to do anymore Tru...
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    Stock Finishing with Minwax Wipe On Poly finish

    A great deal of gun finishes are for interior use,but a modern gun is basically an interior critter,we don’t spend months in the woods like old guns did so an interior finish works nowadays,years ago the same basic finish used on ships spars was used on guns,except gentlemen’s guns with fine...
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    inlay practice

    I am building a rifle and learning inlays some have been good -not great- but acceptable ,a couple,horrible ,wedge plates ,two nice on the left,two on the right one horrible,one just acceptable there is not much one can do to fix these things except maybe, one day,make 4 bigger wedge plates and...
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    Proper Steps In Applying Aqua Fortis

    I have used TOW Aqua Fortis on many woods, In general,very predictable,it will darken,and make the difference in grain,show better or POP, (chatoyance?),no matter what wood you use it on these two things will happen,no matter what in a greater or lesser degree,mostly depending on the hardness or...
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    Metal finish on Original Hawken Guns

    The one in the pic is a ,maybe,150 -170 year old Hawken,with that in mind ,how many men ( or women!-close one there!) In appro.say,1840,Carried and owned a 170 year old Hawken?point being ,one should probably aim for a finish that is under the stock not on that barrel,while actively carried it...
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    Metal finish on Original Hawken Guns

    Make a steam tube it costs a little initially but you dont need distilled water and you also have. Steam when you need to seam dents or make wood bend.or even do wallpaper.i bought a Weber wallpaper steamer .Steam power young man !(It's gonna move the world!)Or take ya right up the Missouri...
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    Proper flint installation?

    So you don’t use them for gloves at all,huh? I use nothing but the finest rawhide applied damp and let it dry and set hard,and if I find a pair of them gloves? I’ll put my hands in em’( they sound costly)
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    Where to get the best flint

    Have often thought about obsidian,I have been TOLD,that obsidian will not spark,however I have also been advised that any stone hard enough can/ will spark?ihave no experience in it,except an obsidian necklace I won’t sacrifice,if obsidian will then will glass? Glass makes beautiful arrowheads...
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    Where to get the best flint

    You can find flint all around if your in a spot that has flint all around and it’s easy to Knapp it to shape if you know how to Knapp flint and you find good knaapable flint among the flint that’s all around its best however to have extras while hunting critters,and look for extra when hunting...
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    Where to get the best flint

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    I want to move on and experience flintlocks. Any suggestions as to a starter flintlock?

    As said,get a Lyman,aPedersoli,maybe an older used Thompson center,but there’s nothing risky about the first two I have 1 of each right now and have had a few others too.A CVA kit from a yard sale ,unassembled for $35 was my first flint,and was good and really accurate.There is no need to spend...
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    Escutcheon plates

    Imade mine pf silverand drilled them as a group wired together then made the wedge hole after that i shaped them i am atill debating nails or screws buut thinking silver or iron nails oh and epoxy to bed and keep them still I know, not hC but they will stay long enough to become HC!
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    Bedding Your Rifle Barrel

    I also have never seen any rust due to glass bedding all t he stocks i have done.un 'll ess muzxleloader dteel is more rust prone but i doubt it.
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