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My first thought too. Is it a simple hinged trigger on a pin through the stock, or, an "assembly" that mounts on the bottom? DST's can take up more vertical room than simple hinged triggers. So yeah, you can probably do it if you have the room, but as Rich suggests, you might need to get and...

The purpose of buckhorn and semi buckhorn sights is to give you several different range sights all in one rear sight, rather than giving the shooter different folding rears to fiddle with. (A recipe for having the wrong one up when you need to shoot.) Put the blade top level with the top of...

That's old, but some of them, like; "What Muzzleloading stuff did you do today?" were started right after Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. General Mills was still Private Mills back then. 🤣

I always have felt that, in economic terms, most of the time, using higher quality materials has a multiplier effect when it comes to the market value of a finished product beyond their increased marterials' cost. If we use the hypothetical of a $200 stock in a $1000 parts set + 200 hours of...

Yeah, the price of a good anvil is absolutely shocking. I have a hunch that there are going to be a lot them for sale in the next 5-7 years though, when the current craze created by the "Forged in Fire" TV series dies down. I saw that with high pressure air compressors and bank bottles when...

There are other measurements to be taken too beside those determining LOP. Womens' features are usually slighter and finer than mens, so drop at the comb and heel might need to be less. less cast-off, but more toe-in twist in the butt. Building a custom gun is a very individual thing. And...

I would not choose to do a build with it. If I'm going to spend 200+ hours of my time in the pursuit of a new and pretty gun, I want to use the materials that give me the best chance of success. Or, when others look at it I want to "wow" them in to saying; Son of a Gun! not Son of a Beech!

Slight correction to your formula example. It's not 0.311", but 0.0311"

I shoot bare / unpatched balls in my cannon and mortar, but that's for a different reason. I WANT the blow-by (windage) to happen. Those projectiles are made of steel or, in the case of my mortar, tennis balls or beer cans filled with concrete and wouldn't deform if they were obstructed by...

Easy answer. What kind of guns did they use in the movie? You know Hollywood never gets it wrong! 🤣

The thing with tangs is that a lot of folks (me included) often don't get them bent as far as they need to be bent. Shortening the plug tab can help, but it doesn't fix everything. They're pretty springy when you're bending them cold. And they don't get fully seated until the tang bolt cranks...

Correct. I usually file the sight to be pretty close to the formula, and then shoot, just in case something was amiss in my calculations. Because it's easier to remove material than add it. This is of course AFTER I've done my initial test firings. Before I shoot the gun I start out with my...

If the tang / wrist is supposed to start bending right at the barrel terminus, the only way to make that happen is in filing the tang. (If you don't, that's the wrist hump" you hear so much about here.) The tang extension being about 1/4" thick metal is WAY thicker than it needs to be for...

The stock looks like it has a good deal of grain runout (at the wrist). Are you planning on doing anything to reinforce the wrist?

This should be a sticky. I've used the same technique when making wooden handles for 5 gallon buckets, but with those I don't bother to round them. Just run them through the router with a rounding bit. And I don't glue the metal in the groove because I want it to spin. WAY more comfortable...

You won't get an argument from me that peep sights are more intuitive and natural to use, and, by and large more accurate / precise. And generally faster. Just the front sight and the target to line up. And yes, (appropriately powered) optics are superior to both. It is the FRONT aperture...

There are times when peep sights are more difficult to use than open sights. Of course that's a function of how much black is around the rear peep hole, but by design they DO limit your field of vision. Anecdotally, I have a FWB 300S air rifle I use for shooting bullseye targets in my...

Ok then get your calipers out and measure the dimensions of the sights. Then measure how far they are from your eye when you mount the gun. The calculation you're after is how many minutes of angle (MOA) is the width of both the notch and the front blade at those relative distances. Do that...

Skills are created out of desire and necessity, with generous amounts of "lessons learned" along the way.

There are over 30 different species of oak in the US. Some are better than others for certain things. (White oak is preferred for gun carriages.) From what I've seen at the hardwood dealers they only differentiate them in to white oak and red oak, and I'm not experienced enough to know the...