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I’ve come to this party from the opposite direction I’ve built a good number of guns from part sets and from the slab. The big advantage to assembling one of Jim Kiblers kits for a beginner is the fact that it’s easy. I recently assembled one of his colonial rifle kits for a friend. Hands down...

Jim Chambers liners are excellent, but you need to order the tap and drill as well. I was trying to have you useing a hardware store available tap. Although metric stuff may be more available up there. I’ve never been north of the border.

Some folks are scary with dovetails I allways give conservative advise. Track has a 1/4 28 version of the white lightning. The ampco should be available from MBS. On tapered and flared barrels I allways solder the lugs nearest the waist. And I’ve hand cut a butt ton of dovetails. Either takes me...

I haven’t boiled a barrel in a long time. I use a piece of. PVC pipe a bit longer than the barrel, wring a cap on the bottom end and a bell reducer on the top to act as a funnel. You might drill a small hole in the cap as it is meant to leak. Lash the pipe securely to something vertical. Then I...

Your barrel is on the light side. I’d suggest one of the 1/4 28 ampco liners. The permanent install veriety. These are fully threaded to the flat head. If it were mine I’d solder the lugs on the bottom of the barrel. Be certain to oil the bore after soldering.

One tool I have found to help clean up after soldering a rib onto a barrel is a sharp chisel and cold blue. After soldering clean up as best you can, I’ll wipe the joints with cold blue. Any solder you missed will be apparent as the solder won’t color with the cold blue solution. The sharp...

If it were up to me .54 or .58 minimum. I like .58 for deer myself.

I’ve hunted with .45 cal flintlocks. I’ve had lost game due to no blood trails. I built a .58 cal English park rifle, it eventually harvested. More deer than my entire armory, including modern unmentionable arms. Never since having had a challenging tracking job. All but one has succumbed within...

I shoot .58 cal so what weight of the ball board I similar. I use a three holer. And paper cartridges of powder. I load the first ball, powder first of course. And leave the short starter in the block. I put it in the shot bag in one unit with the paper cartridges. When needed the short starter...

In hunter education we preach that half cock is NOT a safety. I allways use a hammer stall. Often in the stand I am at full cock with the frizzen cover on. Especially if in one of my stands that I probably won’t see a deer until it’s close enough to peg with a acorn. BJH

To the original poster, take a iron and a wet rag to the outside of your lock mortise. Steam it with the hot iron and wet rag. Due to the blunt chisels I bet there’s a lot of wood compression. This will give you a second chance to close up the gappitosis.

Dave’s answer covers about all you need to start with. If you have a good local hardware store just buy as needed. Avoid 6/32 if at all possible it’s a weak screw and fragile tap too coarse thread for its dia. The touch hole taps can be ordered from Chambers with their liners. BJH

FARB = Far Be it From period abroad here. For what it may be worth. GBG. BJH

I’m primarily a white tailed deer hunter, until last year, all my harvested deer were shot at doable archery ranges. 25 to 30 yards or less. No matter what tool I used, primarily flintlock muzzloading rifles. However last season I had a foolish deer come out on a food plot at a overestimated...

Absolutely worth the trip!!!!! I was there Monday a week ago, a really good exhibit. Several of these guns are in Shumways books. Here’s the chance to see these guns in the round. BJH

We just got back home from this exhibition. A really excellent exhibit. Here’s your chance to see some of the guns that were pictured in Shumway’s books plus others. If you want to see some of the best surviving longrifles, now is your chance.

In my own experiments I found the odds were closer to one in five. This was with a well tuned custom built gun. I was at a hunter ed course helping teach when we had a break, I was showing our Game Warden my favorite flintlock hunting rifle. This was a fall course during the early muzzloading...

Ripe grape tomatoes this coming week. Along with first cucumbers. Sweet peppers to be picked this weekend. Getting excited. Gotta get weeding.

I have a 28 guage type G trade gun I built with a properly contoured barrel 46 inch’s long. 6.5 lbs.Shoots round ball well enough for me to compete against the rifle shooters on our clubs woods walk. Usually giving them a run for their money or placing in the top three. With shot it busts clay...