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I can't see why you would want either one of them, the lock is obviously on the wrong side.....sorry, I just couldn't let that pass, as for your choice delema, I can't really tell that much difference between the two, I've always built in the plainest cheapest wood I could get, simply because I...

Fore a long time now I have wanted a short rather heavy stocked large bore, .58 probably, flintlock rifle. The one you have been working on is exactly what I had in mind. I want it to be plain, no carving and all metel to be iron, no brass. I doubt that I will ever get around to building one...

Sorry but I just have to ask, why the copper. I have honestly never seen copper used on any black powder rifle, so please educate me. Thanks, Stew.

I ordered a replacement stock for my Lyman Great Plains rifle and it showed a 90 day wait, after a month or so I needed to talk to them about another matter and while I had the nice lady on the phone asked about my stock and if she had any idea of delivery time to them. She told me that the 90...

I have completed three rifle builds in the past and browned the barrels on all three, but to finish the metal before acid browning I used a bead blaster on two of them, did a wonderful job, and a sand blaster on the third, not so good, media was too heavy and cut too deep, but came out ok, now I...

I have done two barrel channels in my life, one a round channel for a Russian bolt action military rifle, and the other an octagon for a muzzle loader. I sweat bullets doing both, wood is expensive, even plain grain stuff, but both worked out ok, well actually very well, but I don't think I...

Hey, can I get in on this? I am not a good shot, was pretty good once years ago but now my hands shake far to bad, sights are all over the target and I have to catch it as it goes by, so....for me the faster the ignition time the better chance I hae at hitting the target. If I have a cheap cap...

What I build is for me, not for resale, some day they will pass on to my children and what they do with them, well that's us to them. If I goof up and remove too much wood in any area then out comes the bedding, and not being an expert I'm prone to make those kids of mistakes, I just don't have...

When I started out in this game I didn't have anyone to teach me the ins and outs so I struggled along until a group in my area set up a shooting club and I joined, those ladies and gentlement shot all day long at our shoots and never lubed a patch with any thing but spit. They would stick the...

I found what I was looking for at The Gun Works and placed an order. Thanks for all the suggestions.

I must be behind the times or don't know what I'm looking for but I can't find any of the parts supliers that sell pistol barrels. I have a couple of stocks and locks and would like to eventually build a couple of pistols, but I can't find any barrels. I thought GreenMountain was making them...

Ok, my skills are adiqute to build a rifle from parts, as long as the barrel and ramrod are inlet and drilled, I can do those but it's just more work and hassle than I want to do, on the other hand it's not a Jaeger, or Yaeger, or how ever the Germans spell it, that I want, it's a rifle that...

I am really interested in purchasing one of Pedersoli's Jaeger rifle kits, Dixie has them for just over a grand, a lot of money for sure but I really like the looks of this rifle, more so than the custom kits I see from places like TOW. I know the componants I would get from the semi custom kit...

It is interesting to listen to you folks talk about the "long" rifles and "small" calibers that you use and enjoy. Living where I do the smallest caliber I have ever seen or heard of someone using is .45, and most are .50 - .58, and of the plains rifle configuration, half stock with barrels...

The advice above is exactly what I would do in your shoes, only not having a welder I would have to solder the extra metal to the bottom. Back in the early days of Green River Rifles some of their fixed sights were made from simple angle iron. They would use a thick enough material so that a...

Hello from North Eastern Utah, sorry to take so long introducing myself, got cought up in reading all the wonderful information here and over looked this. I've used muzzleloaders since Green River Rifle Works first opened it's doors here in my area and the idea of black powder and front...

For what it is worth I go along with those that suggest making a full stock rifle. I personally like the looks of a full stock better than half stock, but that is just me, and there is something very appealing to the design and looks of the Hawken full stock.

Not ashamed of what I've purchased, I like the rifle so I bought one, "but" I don't care for all the warnings and brand name, etc. as it is stamped all over the top flats, just looks out of place on this type of rifle, so I took the time to remove it, now if they had put the name and serial...

I have never tried to bed an entire barrel before, and wont, but I have used bedding to fill in a number of places where I have made mistakes in building stocks, usually right behind the barrel, and around the barrel lug mortise on a Russian Nagant rifle I built a new stock for. If you are...

Before I built my first custom rifle I put several kits together, and that was one of the best things I ever did. Building those kits allowed me to see just how things went together and how they should relate to each other in the building process. My first build was a Leman designed rifle in...