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Dave, I'm a big admirer of your work here. I've got a question about inletting some of these more decorative parts. In this picture I noticed some larger gaps between the wood and buttplate. Is this just an accepted part of inletting detailed parts in wood? I'm putting together my first kit...

Different standards....

Demand for loaded ammo.

I'll remember that for next time. This is my first, and really my first time having to clean up brass casting.

Cleaning up the brass castings is becoming the longest part of the process for me. I started at 150 grit, and have to wonder if I should have started with 80.

You guys actually think they make percussion caps everyday? I'm betting they tool up to make them once or twice a year, make as many as they think they'll sell (or have orders for), and mothball the equipment til next season. Kind of like Winchester making .218 Bee or .348 ammo; seasonal runs...

Here I was expecting a Chuck Norris thread...

Only reason not to buy it is if you want to put one together yourself. The price is good if it has upgraded wood.

43 inch barrel is a Colonial...

Is that a slow twist gun?

Possibly interested in other guns as well. Could go for something 45 or under, or possibly .58 and above.

Found the original...

Hmm. Mine was missing

In for details on the wood finishing

Unless one solely desires to learn the gun building craft, or want a much different style; why would they? When you can buy a kit from Jim that's almost all the way there, of good styling and correct architecture, for a minimal premium compared to a kit from Track or similar... He really did...

Did you have to drill the tang bolt hole, or was it there already?

Big brown box day!

That's neat. Sure is some fancy woodwork for the trigger guard. Are you going to shoot it?

As long as that topic is up; is there a good reason not to finish or seal these areas? Other than that's not the way it was originally done?

Is that a pipe plug in the top of the barrel?