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  1. troy2000

    Stretching a ramrod.

    I don't think so, but I'll look. Every now and then I uncover something, look at it and say to myself, "where the heck did I get this, and what on God's green Earth did I think I was gonna use if for?"
  2. troy2000

    What is it with curved buttstocks?

    Supposedly, the average man during the Civil War was 5'-7", as opposed to 5'-10" today. But I'm not sure what would have been considered within the normal range. I do know that at 6'-4", Lincoln was considered exceptionally tall..
  3. troy2000

    Stretching a ramrod.

    Let me check. I think I might have a dusty old ramrod stretcher laying around somewhere in the back of my shop... 😁
  4. troy2000

    What is it with curved buttstocks?

    No disrespect intended. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. After a lifetime of mostly shooting relatively modern bolt action rifles, my .40 cal Kibler SMR is the first gun I've ever owned with a crescent buttstock. And shooting offhand, it fits between my bicep and shoulder as...
  5. troy2000

    What is it with curved buttstocks?

    How would you know if it's 'for you' or not, if you haven't learned to hold one the way they were designed to be held? :)
  6. troy2000

    What is it with curved buttstocks?

    Very well done. He pounded on an important point that isn't always well-explained: with a crescent buttstock you shoot across your body, with less squaring off to the target.
  7. troy2000

    Kibler SMR Build

    Good advice, a little late to help me. I have a young border collie/pitbull(?) mix, and she's pretty rowdy. I was walking across my shop with my half-done SMR in one hand when she decided to charge between my legs, spin around, and grab one of my pant cuffs. The rifle went flying, and I...
  8. troy2000

    SOLD Lyman Great Plains Signature Series by Pedersoli ...........Caplock .50

    I'll butt out now, and stop helping to drag down the thread. Even though I wasn't looking for one, I sat down and did some figuring before deciding I couldn't handle it this month. The wife would probably ask me how to load it, and then use it on me. :)
  9. troy2000

    SOLD Lyman Great Plains Signature Series by Pedersoli ...........Caplock .50

    For what it's worth: I'm not in the market for one of these. But if I were, I'd take the man's word for the condition of the gun. This is muzzleloadingforum.com - not some anonymous auction site where a guy unloads a piece of crap, and disappears into the sunset never to be seen again. I...
  10. troy2000

    What can I use to increase moisture resistance of my stock?

    I've used a boiled linseed oil finish on outdoor furniture, plus a regular coat of Johnson's paste wax, for years on outdoor furniture. If outdoor furniture can survive under it 24/7, I'd think a rifle stock finished that way should survive the occasional jaunt into wet weather. All my gun...
  11. troy2000

    Kibler SMR Build

    Did you take pic's of those chips, to send to Jim and Katherine? If sub-par product is making it out the door for whatever reason, I think they'd want to know about it. Don't know what to say about the grade of maple you received; I was extremely pleased with the extra-fancy I ordered. You...
  12. troy2000

    Building a Cherry .40 SMR (Kibler)

    Looking good. If I ever put a patch box on mine, that's the direction I'll go.
  13. troy2000

    SOLD Antique, pearl-handled, genuine Spanish Navaja locking clasp knife

    PM sent...
  14. troy2000

    authentic 18th century finish

    A plain-Jane Kibler SMR with no carving and iron furniture. Not nearly as gorgeous as some that have been posted, and not as well-lit a pic.. But this is what Kibler's aqua fortis looks mine on my fancy maple...
  15. troy2000

    Challenge in fitting a steel butt plate.

    As I commented in another thread this morning, the butt plate on my Kibler SMR took more time than all the rest of the fitting I had to do. I agree with Prussian blue, an extremely sharp chisel, a half-round file and lots of patience... and I also had to file down casting marks. add: You...
  16. troy2000

    Pops Knife

    Car springs work nicely for bladed things. I have a set of four double-ended lathe chisels that I made almost forty years ago from a car spring. I cut them in two widths on a table saw, ground the ends into shape per full-size drawings in a book, and quenched them in used motor oil. Then I...
  17. troy2000

    Kibler SMR Build

    Congratulations, and it looks like you have some very nice wood. I'll be waiting to see the finished rifle... Sanding, draw filing and finishing took longer on my Kibler SMR than fitting and assembly did. The only part that wasn't close to a perfect fit was the butt plate; that probably took...
  18. troy2000

    How to carry a long rifle on a horse.

    Am I the only one here who thinks this is just a pile of irrelevant verbiage, that has nothing to do with the original poster's question? It makes no attempt at all to answer it...
  19. troy2000

    How to carry a long rifle on a horse.

    I knew a guy who bulldogged a mule deer off the passenger-side running board of a Jeep... once...
  20. troy2000

    I'm going to get a flintlock but what Caliber?

    I mostly stalk beer cans, and ambush sheets of paper. But I'm in the middle of retiring and might actually go after something livelier in the next year or two, like coyotes or deer. So I settled on a .40 cal SMR, because it seems the closest to an all-purpose round. Our mulies out here tend...
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