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  1. Eric Krewson

    $200 TC

    I ran up on a $200 TC Hawken in .45 at a flea market the other day, it looked really good on the outside but I didn't have my bore scope to check the inside of the barrel so I passed on it. I have a .50 and a .54 and thought a .45 would be nice to round out my collection. The guy said he would...
  2. Eric Krewson

    What in the underlug?

    I couldn't find any Solder It around town, I had in the past, I ordered it on line. Lowe's carried a copper-based tube of the same stuff which worked well but didn't have it the last time I looked. Amazon...
  3. Eric Krewson

    Rear sight for Kibler Fowler

    It is a 12 ga English Fowler I made from full the sized plans TOW sells. Fred Miller inletted the barrel and drilled the ramrod hole, I did the rest. Back from Fred; Making a cardboard pattern; Done;
  4. Eric Krewson

    Stock material

    I have cut a ton of bow wood and a good bit of stock wood, the moisture content depends on what the ambient M/C for your area is, where I live (NW Alabama) it is 12%, any wood I cut is completely dry at 12% M/C. In some areas of the country the ambient M/C might be 6%. I have a drying box and...
  5. Eric Krewson

    Do you think that modern ML firearms have any investment value?

    They may be worth more in the future but that is only because the dollar is worth less. If you use the inflation calculator on modern prices, you will see this. in 1975 I could buy a new TC Renegade on sale at Ron Shirks Shooter Supply for $90, I ran this price through the inflation...
  6. Eric Krewson

    Rear sight for Kibler Fowler

    I put one on my fowler, I don't shoot my fowler enough to get proficient with just a front sight, I don't shoot competition. I made the sight out of a piece of angle iron. I want to be on when the adrenalin is pumping in a pressure cooker hunting situation, my rear sight takes care of that...
  7. Eric Krewson

    Show N Tell your first MLer rifle

    My first was an H&R Huntsman in .45 and not allowed to be talked about here. I thought my first was underpowered so I sold it and bought a TC Hawken in .50, the problem back in the early 70s was we were all new to B/P and didn't know squat about working up a load. The Hawken wasn't accurate with...
  8. Eric Krewson

    Need Id Advice and more, TC Penn Hunter

    I had a problem with the lock bolt position between the TC lock and the L&R lock, you may have to notch the breech plug to accommodate the lock bolt as you drop the barrel. Whoever inletted for your L&R did a sloppy job, you might black the inside of the lock and see if anything is hitting wood...
  9. Eric Krewson

    Need help identifying Grandpas old black powder rifles

    I am not an old gun expert, it appears you have two very nice original rifles, circa 1850 or newer give or take a few years. The bottom is a southern half stock rifle, just a guess but the top rifle appears to be a 3/4 stock rifle from Ohio or the surrounding area, others will know more than...
  10. Eric Krewson

    Need Id Advice and more, TC Penn Hunter

    If your vent is too high, drop the barrel and tang until the barrel bottoms out in the channel or inlet your barrel even lower, you may have to file the underlugs slightly to get your barrel wedges in easily. The L&R lock is a step up from a TC lock, it isn't a drop in to replace a TC lock with...
  11. Eric Krewson

    What in the underlug?

    I solder underlugs and front sights on my smoothbores with solder paste, never had one turn loose even when I tried to knock an underlug off with a hammer to see how well the paste would hold. Super easy to use, I do file the mating surfaces to be a close match, I use a propane torch for...
  12. Eric Krewson

    About your hunting rifles

    The first thing I do with any new deer caliber gun I build or acquire is to hunt with it until I kill a deer with it. One of my guns may be the favorite that I hunt with the most, but favorites change, it looks like my latest Issac Haines build will be my favorite for a long time. Here are just...
  13. Eric Krewson

    NW Alabama Meet n Greet Fall 2024

    I really enjoyed it. I even gave a selfbow building lesson to anyone who was interested.
  14. Eric Krewson

    southern mountain mod

    I lowered the comb, thinned and rounded the wrist and extended the wrist back into the buttstock a little, I tend to mess with things but that is just me. I think it looked OK;
  15. Eric Krewson

    Need help identifying an old neglected percussion cap rifle. Any advice on care and restoration would be greatly appreciated as well.

    That is one gun that anything other than a very light cleaning of the rusty parts would do it a great disservice. If it were me, I would use some 000 steel wool with a little oil on it to lightly clean only the red rust off the metal parts and go no further, treat it like you are carding a...
  16. Eric Krewson

    Just about fed up…

    I ran into a problem on a GM drop in barrel that I didn't like, the flash channel was only drilled part way under the nipple. When I brought this up, everyone with a similar barrel said this was standard for a GM barrel and it worked just fine. I wasn't fine with me, I used a Dremel and a...
  17. Eric Krewson

    How often to disassemble lock?

    I have never disassembled a lock unless I was building a gun and needed to inlet the lock. I always take the lock off when I am cleaning the gun and place a folded-up paper towel over the vent to catch all the water and crud that blows out of it when I am ramming cleaning patches down the...
  18. Eric Krewson

    Minie ball in a Smoothbore

    Seems like I tried some in my 20ga flintlock trade gun, they keyholed and shot about an 18" group at 25 yards. I had some modern 20ga slug rounds and cut the slugs out to try them in my gun.
  19. Eric Krewson

    TRU-OIL problem

    I have bought a few bad bottles of Tru-oil over the years, the finish stayed tacky. I use a lot of the stuff on bows and guns, the finish from my last bottle would dry in an hour, the weather was warm.
  20. Eric Krewson

    Who sells a .590 round ball mold?

    I bought two Tanner molds, one .526 for a tight bore rifle and a .700 for my fowler, very well-made molds, no sprue cutter but that is no big deal. I coned the tight bore gun and sold the .526. The price shown on the invoice is from about a year ago. This picture shows the screw spacing for...
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