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Before you junk the lock , send it to the Cabin Creek Lock Doctor. From what I've used , about 1 out of five locks need slight tuning involving the sear notches in the tumbler , and the sear nose. Inevitably , most of the locks I use need some touch up involving polishing and lubrication...

About 40 yrs. ago , I quit using single triggers mounted on trigger plates. There seemed to be too many positioning variables to get consistent trigger pull weights using them. I get what I want with pinning the trigger through the wood. One of the many quality locks on the market helps ...

Since this project is a m/l barrel , low tech methods can be used. Harbor Freight epoxie , quick setting 5 min. type is adequate and cheap. Brown epoxie dye from Brownells is good to tint the glue making it almost invisible. The most frustrating part of the bedding process is barrel...

A thin sheet of refrigerator magnet between the barrel and new unmounted perpendicular blade rear sight allows back and forth movement of the sight to make positioning easy. A Johnson rear peep sight modified by cutting in half , on an angle , and mounting it from the bottom of the...

Not a fan of removing flintlock vent liners , except if the touch hole has enlarged to a too large size causing accuracy to drop off. I have no familiarity with modern plains rifle breech plugs. I'm old school , and use a correct sized bronze brush on a range rod to pull fouling tight...

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That turtle would make a fine inlay on a flint rifle , or the plug end of a powder horn , or a weight to hold shot pouch flap down.

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You done well , Sir. I'm a .40 fan from way back , once I discovered how well it performs. Doesn't vaporize tissue using normal squirrel loads , but kills or disables squirrels most anywhere hit. Also , no recoil. I have a bum shoulder , so recoil's important , to me. LOL:thumb:

My Navajo neighbor replaced a set of wood belt knife handle slabs with hard birdseye maple ones. He wasn't sure how to stain and finish fancy maple , so this is what we did. Wood surface was beautifully polished w/0000 steel wool. Fiebings black alcohol base stain applied next ...

Quig........You can easily epoxie bed the barrel where the break is under the barrel. Have done this many times. Here's how. Instead of messy release agents , Wrap the length of the gunbarrel in a single thickness of plastic shopping bag , cut away the excess , and tape the plastic on the...

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Welcome from Pa.

It's a great moment when a kid bags their first deer. Congrats on experiencing an unforgetable event.

Back in the early 1980's , I provided a friend with a copy of a Joseph Long .32 cal. longrifle. He took the rifle home , sighted it in , and went for a walk on the mtn. behind his home. He said he was walking down a logging road , a turkey walked out on the path about 30 yds. distant ...

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Neighbor found an old Western Pa. percussion long rifle. It has a number of old nailed on sheet brass repairs between the wrist , and the front end of the lock plate. He took the barrel out of the stock , and the rifle fell into two pieces , and the wood seems too powdery to fix. I made...

Over the 60 + yrs. deer hunting here in Pa. , for me , the ratio is about 8 does to one buck. I've always been a meat hunter. A Greene Co. coal miner's son in the 1950's , was taught to be frugal in hard times , and kill to eat. We ate good. Live in Cerntral Pa. now , and seems to...