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  1. Eric Krewson

    coning barrels the traditional way

    I would think a Cherry would be too aggressive to cone a muzzle with, they were mostly used to cut a cavity for a round ball mold.
  2. Eric Krewson

    How old is this powder?

    I tested the Italian and older CCI caps in my picture above, not duds but they barely go bang, the ones in the blue plastic tins were especially weak.
  3. Eric Krewson

    Help a newbie understand what went wrong...

    I short started a couple of times and got the same "thump" as you did, sometimes we think we have loading right but didn't. I was shooting 90 gr of 2F and a .530 patched round ball both times, fortunately there was no barrel damage, it was a Rice barrel.
  4. Eric Krewson

    Appropriate carving for a Woodsrunner era Kibler kit?

    I intended to carve a few of my rifles until I got out some maple boards to practice my carving on, it quickly became obvious that I had no business messing up a perfectly good rifle with feeble attempts at carving. I decided my plain rifles were a step up from anything I would try to put...
  5. Eric Krewson

    coning barrels the traditional way

    I think the problem with finding an example of "coning" when it comes to original barrels is because they called it "funneling" back in the day. Once I got the nomenclature right, I found pictures of several original guns that had been "funneled".
  6. Eric Krewson

    BP Kit

    Another good video;
  7. Eric Krewson

    BP Kit

    There are different levels of kits from slap together and shoot or spend months and needing a lot of gunsmithing experience to finish one. The Traditions kits are one of the easy ones. Their barrels tend to be very accurate; the flintlocks are OK although there are better locks out there...
  8. Eric Krewson

    Tc hawken

    Here is how much I had to alter the lock inlet on my percussion stock to make a fit for the L&R. I assumed the lock bolt would be in the correct position and inletted the lock. The position was way off and I had to drill a new lock bolt hole in the stock to hit the L&R blind socket on the L&R...
  9. Eric Krewson

    Tc hawken

    The first thing you need to do is to use the TC lock bolt through the stock into the blind socket on the L&R lock and see where the lock sits, L&R RPL locks are not a drop in. You may have to drop the barrel or move it back to get the L&R lock pan in the right position at a mid-point on the side...
  10. Eric Krewson

    FOR SALE Thompson Center Renegade flintlock## SOLD##

    Just a helpful hint or two; You need a piece of paper with your name and date on it with your rifle as well as a better bore picture. You can use better lighting, perhaps outside and take your picture slightly from the side to get the rifling to show. I used a strong led flashlight to take this...
  11. Eric Krewson

    Woodsrunner build help....

    I don't know how Kibler nose caps are installed, my SMR didn't have one. On my builds I drill the hole through the stock and cap, countersink the hole in the barrel channel, I think I use a 4-40 steel screw that fits the countersink that I have burned the zinc off of. I countersink the hole in...
  12. Eric Krewson

    Kibler Breach Plug

    WOW! I can't believe so many people are afraid of pulling a breech plug. My first build was a scratch build and I didn't know anything about breechplugs or timing one to a barrel, I screwed up the fit so bad I had to have material tig welded to the tang twice to start over. By the time I got the...
  13. Eric Krewson

    Hooked Breech Plug Flintlock Question

    I have notched a breech plug like you suggested to have a direct path for the powder to flow to the touch hole. This notching is pretty common. I got my measurements just a little off when I drilled my touch hole for a liner and ended up with a slight "ledge" with the breech plug installed like...
  14. Eric Krewson

    Kibler Breach Plug

    If you have a witness mark for alignment on the bottom flat your breech plug it is made to come out, I have never heard of one other than a CVA or el-cheapo that had a breechplug you couldn't be easily taken out if you have the right tools. I made an early SMR and pulled the breech plug a bunch...
  15. Eric Krewson

    Strange Day for Me in the Woods.

    When my wife was dying of cancer, (we hadn't heard the word TERMINAL yet) she loved to look out the window at the birds on the bird feeder. Every time I filled the feeder the squirrels and an occasional **** would come over for dinner. One day she said to me "you have to kill those dang *****...
  16. Eric Krewson

    Dbl patch .490 ball in 50 cal?

    If you could measure your patch thickness, we might be able to steer you in the right direction for a thicker patch. Ticking from Joann's has measured at .012 for the red and .015 for the blue for me but I understand the same from Walmart measures differently. I have ditched ticking in favor of...
  17. Eric Krewson

    DIY touch hole plug for cleaning

    I have changed from standard toothpicks to cheap bamboo skewers, they are just about unbreakable because of the way the fibers run. They are also larger in diameter than a toothpick and provide a better seal.
  18. Eric Krewson

    Patchbox gap

    I have used a steam iron and a damp washcloth a bunch of times to close of a loose inlet, when you use a chisel on anything the wood is compressed a little and will swell back out and stay that way some with moisture and heat. Because your parts are CNC, I don't know if a little steam and a damp...
  19. Eric Krewson

    Repair or replace

    I haven't done a wrist repair yet but have fixed a bunch of other gunstock issues to be invisible unless I point them out. I like the challenge and would fix that break just to see if I could. I think it was Dave C that showed a fix he did on a top tier gun he made that had the potential to...
  20. Eric Krewson

    $200 TC

    I don't actually collect them, after I bought my last TC flintlock Hawken, new in the box, I found out that the lock was held in place with hot melt glue because of bad inletting, I swore I would never own another one. Then my brother found an unused TC Hawken kit in my dad's closet after he...
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