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  1. Eric Krewson

    NW Alabama Meet n Greet Fall 2024

    I sold a toaster over to a friend from Elkmont, I met him I Killen. He was a bow maker, so we talked bows and talked about my flintlocks, he said he had a friend in Pulaski who had built a couple of guns, I told my friend about the get-together and suggested his friend should come. Jim said his...
  2. Eric Krewson

    Spectators

    I like spectators, then again, I live in the south, we talk to strangers down here. I have never been so absorbed in my shooting as to not have time to explain to the onlookers what my historic looking gun is, how to load it and how the flint makes it go off. If they are really interested, I let...
  3. Eric Krewson

    50 Caliber PRB with FFFg

    I have a Green Mountain barrel on my TC, in .54, it likes 80gr of 2F and an .018 patch, I have a TC .50 with a factory barrel, it likes 70gr of 2F, a 490 ball and an .018.The green mountain barrel has deeper rifling than the TC and can stand a stouter load. A 100gr of 3F is over kill but if you...
  4. Eric Krewson

    Flint Knapping Books

    I bought a bunch of books on flintknapping 40 years ago, not much on finding flint and I never practiced the instructions enough to really get the whole process down. I would avoid the books now and go to youtube videos. Finding workable flint or chirt in your area could be difficult or very...
  5. Eric Krewson

    Controversial question. Short rodding a patched ball.

    I short started my .54 twice with the ball about 4" into the barrel, Rice barrel, 90 gr of 2f, .535 ball, no bulging or damage, I got lucky.
  6. Eric Krewson

    Shooting with a Shooting Stick

    A mono pod is very hard to shoot off of compared to a bipod or tripod. I have tried both; after making the bipod in the picture my mono pod is in a drawer gathering dust. I added some ramrod pieces to the feet for a better grip. My cinder block blind behind my neighbor's barn, no deer...
  7. Eric Krewson

    T/C Renegade flintlock 50 cal.

    The flintlocks sell for a little more than the cap locks, if your guns are pristine $400-$450 is a good price. TCs with shallow rifling like around 75 gr of 2F for round ball shooting, some like more, some like less, lots of people shoot 3F in their TCs. People often go way up on this load for...
  8. Eric Krewson

    Alpha gal strikes again!

    I have read about an acupuncture procedure that will reset the body's allergic response and cure the no meat effect from Alpha Gal. This was on a bow hunting board when someone asked the question on what to do, several people posted that they had a friend that had Alpha Gal, had the procedure...
  9. Eric Krewson

    TC Pennsylvania Hunter Issue

    All of the older TCs had wood screws holding the tang down. The tang screw holes on a TC Hawken stock I bought were stripped out so I went with bushings like in the above-mentioned link. These are a pain to put in. Done;
  10. Eric Krewson

    Copper anti seize for my nipple and set screw plug.

    I use this stuff breech plugs and nipples, it never washes off and does a great job, the copper is the same suff.
  11. Eric Krewson

    Leak around vent liner

    I tap all the way through with a white lightning liner, I have put most of them in C weight barrels, one on a 13/16 .40 barrel, in both cases there was plenty of metal to tap. I pull the breech plug, screw the liner in, mark what protrudes into the barrel, remove the liner and grind and file the...
  12. Eric Krewson

    Leak around vent liner

    Removing a liner for cleaning is not a good idea. I wondered about whether cleaning was necessary or not myself but after getting a Teslong bore scope I found that my white lightning liners were spotless on the inside after going through my normal gun cleaning procedure. I do use a pipe cleaner...
  13. Eric Krewson

    Ramrod Striping??

    If you like it go for it. My take is that striping makes the ramrod the focal point of a gun because your eye is drawn to it, I make the ramrod color match the color of the stock so it disappears under the gun and isn't the focal point. I didn't notice this pre-carve had such a crocked ramrod...
  14. Eric Krewson

    Wheel weight lead question

    Another question; I shoot range lead that is at least 90% pure lead, I cast a lot of .530 balls all of which weigh right at 226gr. out of my almost new CNC Lee mold. What would a wheel weight ball the same size weigh for comparison? If I picked up some of the newer mostly zinc wheel weights by...
  15. Eric Krewson

    Do You Actually Use Your Expensive Custom Guns or Keep Them as Safe Queens?

    Alas, my son and my two stepdaughters are past their mid 50s and done reproducing, I treasure my granddaughters but a grandson is not in the realm of possibility.
  16. Eric Krewson

    Remove Medallion ? -Browning Mtn Rifle

    If it is held on by a screw it is pretty easy to plug the hole where it doesn't show. I have plugged and errant hole in a lock bolster by countersinking the hole on the outside, putting in a screw that is protrudes from the hole slightly, peeing the end of the screw into the countersink and...
  17. Eric Krewson

    My Gift Arrived

    If I didn't already have a flintlock or percussion rifle or fowler in almost every caliber (I have 3 in .54, two flints and one percussion), I would be sending Mr. Kibler an order, these kits are spectacular.
  18. Eric Krewson

    Leak around vent liner

    Could be the previous owner thought he had to pull the liner every time he cleaned the gun, some folks are like that. I had a friend that thought he had to pull the percussion drum every time he cleaned his gun, every time the threads got wallowed out he took the gun back to the builder to have...
  19. Eric Krewson

    Do You Actually Use Your Expensive Custom Guns or Keep Them as Safe Queens?

    There is another aspect of me not buying high dollar guns; my son is 56, I raised him hunting but he moved up to an upper-level manager in the tech world after college, big house, lots of money and an anti-gun wife. He came to visit without his wife in the spring, I have a rifle range next to...
  20. Eric Krewson

    Wheel weight lead question

    If the pile of lead I looked at the other day was any indication of wheel weight hardness, a fingernail will not scratch the lead.
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