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I'd like it a little steeper than that to keep from digging a ridge into the frizzen face and shredding the flint edge, but it isn't terrible. 30 degrees at contact between the average of the two flint face angles and the frizzen face at the point of first contact is about right. It might be...

No filing on the wood, there's not any that needs taken off. Sand with 220 and done.

The milling marks on my recent WR were almost invisible, all it took was a light draw filing. Tried & True varnish oil is good stuff. It takes so long to cure that I wouldn't bother thinning the first coat or two, it will stay wet on the surface for days and soak soak soak into the wood very...

Nope, 1 turn in 70" these days. Mine doesn't shoot its best until pumping it up into 1800 fps or more territory with a PRB. 65 grains of 3F GOEX. I wish to smiles it was a 56 twist. Unless you're set on a "SMR" style, a 38" Haines in .54 or a Kibler Woodsrunner in .54 is pretty much THE...

The only thing that screw adjusts is the amount of engagement the front trigger has on the rear trigger. If it is screwed in too far, the set trigger won't set. That screw has nothing to do with how much pressure or how much follow through the trigger mainspring puts on the hammer trigger.

A little more refining and correction, more small corrections and a lot of detail left to go but it's coming along.

Thanks for the fotos, that was a cool addition that's been deleted. Looks like it was never fastened in and needed a countersunk brass screw in the bottom to hold it. As for the triggers, the trigger mainspring and hammer trigger need to be set up so the mainspring hits a stop before the...

All for now.

Bill's 100% right. I built one from a board and one from a standing dead tree, two Kibler kits, and now working on a lesser kit with much of the same issues you are having. If you do it in the right sequence and get each step correct, you will have a MUCH easier time getting it together from a...

^^^ YES!

It helps to go ahead and bend the tang to the approximate contour of the stock and also file some draft on the sides of tang and breech plug so it's easier to inlet snugly. Once you get it nearly sunk down all the way you can determine if the excess metal needs to come off the top or bottom of...

That sucks about them losing the grease hole insert, I would like to have seen what that looked like. Maybe sell it cheap or ask someone if they could fix on your triggers up at the same time the other work is done.

I color-case hardened all my hardware but left the barrel in the draw-filed state. I never finished the lock but it needs a nice polish and be left in the white.

It's hard to tell from the picture but your tang does appear a bit thick. Please don't do this backwards, even though you are at a disadvantage with the pre-inlet. Inlet the barrel and tang FIRST, keeping in mind the height of the pan and vertical center of your barrel. Your lock inlet is...

Clamp them between wood blocks in a bench vise and grind off the humps with a 4" diamond-tipped tile saw blade installed in an electric angle grinder. Or learn to knap your own flints and never be at the mercy of the flint vendors again.

I think he was asking about the jags with the flat face and barb on the tip. Muzzleloader jags have a cup on the end radiused to fit the size ball that fits the bore the diameter is made to clean. Most of my underbarrel rammers have a cup carved into the muzzle end to fit the ball and a...

Are you going to flip this or keep it?

Back about half an inch I'd say. Do go ahead and properly thin, bend, and shape that tang before you trouble with inletting it. Isaac Haines typically used narrow tangs with the back corners scalloped and the tip rounded. If you plan to install a flash hole liner now or later, make sure the...

I know ya'll are trying to help, but if only those who really understood how double-set triggers operated would post, this would be a lot less confusing. The answer is the mainspring for the hammer trigger is following through too much. For God's sakes quit filing on the sear bar and the...