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    FOR SALE New Bucks County LR...reduced price.....SPF

    Newly built Bucks County LR. Stock from a plain, hard maple blank. BBL.....Rice .50 cal., "B" weight X 46" . Lock....Chambers, Golden Age. This LR has all the BC features and is fully carved and engraved. A very slender and petite LR as a BC should be. LOP....13-3/4". and trigger pull is 2-1/2...
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    Full length bedding

    Met 2 guys in West Bend at a gunshop and they were discussing how they always make the bbl channel quite a bit oversize and then put a lot of epoxy in the channel and press the waxed bbl in. The result is that the top of the forestock is epoxy and didn't color match very well. Turns out that...
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    If you were given a TC Hawken barrel, what would you do with it?

    I assembled my TC Hawken from a kit and and although the wood to metal fit isn't the best, it has been on many deer and elk hunts and has done the job well. If I was given a complete TC bbl ***'y, I'd buy a blank and make a rifle seeing I already have one to use as a model. The TC bbl is...
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    Jim Chambers kits

    I've built 2 Chambers' early Lancaster parts sets.....they're not simple "kits". Encountered a few mistakes as rec'd but all were repairable. The locks and hardware were excellent. Learned a lot from the 2 parts sets...both from the actual building and what a Lancaster stock should look like...
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    Building a Chambers Isaac Haines rifle kit

    Hi Dave....I like Chambers' kits....not w/o errors but all are repairable. My 2 Chambers kits were both early Lancasters and one is shown below. Learned a lot about building LRs and that's the reason early on that I chose those from Chambers. Looking forward to the Haines w/ your artistic...
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    Making a patchbox catch

    Here's a pic of a BC side opening Pbox that has nothing on its "floor" to interfere w/ storage space except the lid release push rod....although I never put anything in a Pbox....the opener spring is one of the ideas of Taylor Sapergia
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    Making a patchbox catch

    Enough spring force can be achieved so the articles you mentioned won't open the lid if the rifle is held upside down......Fred
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    Making a patchbox catch

    Once the lid tab toggles over and closes the lid, the amount of spring force exerted on the lid tab is what keeps the lid tightly closed. I don't store "stuff" in the Pbox but judging from the force req'd to open the lid, a few heavier articles wouldn't open the lid if held upside down. The...
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    Pecotonoca (?) kits

    Many years ago built a half stock Hawken from them and upon inspecting the precarve noticed that the lock inlet was mislocated. Drove to their shop and they agreed that the inlet location was wrong. Showed me an in stock precarve which had too short of a LOP but started cutting a precarve while...
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    Making a patchbox catch

    I've used many different lid "catches" on my builds but my first LR build didn't have a lid catch. It was closed and held closed w/ a thin, cantilevered spring. Worked fine. ...Fred
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    sanding curly maple ?

    I use 220 grit wet/dry paper for the final sanding and whiskering. The first colorant applied is orange toner from Jim Klein which produces yellow undertones when dry, Klein's dark brown or reddish brown stains are applied....one or the other or both. When completely dry the stock is rubbed w/...
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    A TC Under Heavy Recoil

    I think the reason that nothing went wrong w/ my .50 cal TC Hawken is that it started out as a kit assembled by me. Although there are small gaps between wood and metal, I bought this as a hunting rifle and didn't fill the gaps w/ epoxy or other "stuff". Cracks in the stock of this rifle...
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    Most accurate barrel profile

    My parents bought me a bench rest rifle when I was 16 ....it had a 1" dia bbl X28" lg and was in .22/250 cal. It weighed 18 lbs w/ the Unertl 18X scope. The action was a pre WW2 Mauser. It only took me 2 hrs to achieve a dime sized group at 100 yds. Later on when my reloads were more consistent...
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    Ramerod hole woes

    Mainly built from blanks so if anything got screwed up, it was my fault. So....before starting the RR hole. having the RR groove pointing in the correct direction is a good start {this can be somewhat difficult w/ a swamped bbl} and I also used a small gouge to remove a slight amount wood...
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    Questions on a Verner build

    Nearly all the Bucks County LRs have a TG w/ that feature. Never saw a hole in any of them , so it wasn't used for a sling attachment. .....Fred
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    Super Blue on brass...not working?

    Got good results w/ 44/40 cold bluing....apply and it instantly turns the brass black. Rub w/ 0000 steel wool to whatever amount of aging you want. Simple as can be.....Fred
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    Kit stocks

    I've built Hawkens rifles from both Stith and Pecatonica and had minor problems w/ both....perhaps not so minor. Looked the Pecatonica stock over and found the lock inlet was mislocated so drove to Pecatonica and they verified the wrong lock inlet location. At first they tried to replace the...
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    A TC Under Heavy Recoil

    A .50 TC Hawken kit build was my first MLer {1974} and it was used first on squirrels {head hits only} then deer and finally took a couple of elk. Never had one iota of problems w/ it and still have it . The stock as rec'd is a "cheek slapper" so I lowered the comb and took a lot of wood off...
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    Frizzen hardness question

    I've hardened and tempered a few frizzens and use a short length of pipe that easily accepts a frizzen and has an end cap on one end that has a few 3/16 dia holes drilled through. The frizzen is wired through the pivot hole, placed in the pipe and a Mapp Gas torch brings the frizzen to an...
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    Wood carver mallets

    When in the toolroom we used double ended plastic tipped mallets which worked quite well and that's what I use for chisel work. Not historically correct but seeing CNCed kits are very popular, who cares......Fred
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