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I have made a couple of dovetail slot blanks in the last couple of years. Never all that hard but kinda a pain none the less. Measuring the space and depth of existing dovetail is not an issue. Making the 60 degree angles on the front and back of the blank is the pain for getting it exact...

Well I’m the OP of this post. It went way beyond what I had hoped for. Lots of good info posted by many diff peeps. Can’t imagine any more info being posted on this subject. 😂

Took Larry's advice and used a counter sink and a brass washer that I brazed in. Obviously I have some cleanup work to do. Hard to find a huge selection of screws in Great Falls but used what would work. No PC on the screws, but you know what, this is a meat gun so will work just fine...

JB67 I appreciate the offer. It is a Traditions Kentucky Flint. Let me try some of the options offered first. Your offer is awesome and I might end up asking you. Thanks

I got a little over zealous, or dumb a&%s, whatever. I drilled out the brass holes in the end cap to match up the holes with the barrel holes. Now I can't put alot of tension on the screw without pulling them thru the holes on the brass endcap. My thinking is maybe I could just silver solder...

I'm have a small horn that I want to finish into a priming powder horn. My question will follow. I have cut the tip off the horn and i want to file it down smaller to fit into the pan area a little better. What exactly is the white area of the tip? Can I file down to it and not affect...

I might be getting in this post somewhat late but here is my bit of info to share about my experience with the Williams FP sight. I'm getting into the long tooth age as well and my eye sight isn't what it used to be. I have a TC Hawken .50 that has a low serial number on it. Bought in early...

This was my post to start with so I will post a pic of my "test peep". Pic quality is not that good. I did make the center of the peep the same height as the front sight. And it is shooting about 2" high at 50 yards. The front screw hole is large enough so there is a little windage in it as...

Salty i'm not the guy you should ask. You need to ask Tom A Hawk. He posted the images.

So just about finished with this horn. It is small. Hunting horn I suppose it will be. Holds 1700 grains of 3F. But, yes a good first project. Not totally finished yet.

Yup. Per my original post, "I have googled the heck out these questions but am not getting to the site with the answers I guess. So the best place really would be here with Craftsman. Pics now."

This question is probably good for any HORN actually. But my question is about this cow horn. A friend gave me a set of cow horns. My first attempt at making a powder horn. Really don't have a question about the process of making one. But really how does a cow horn grow. I know that the...

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So for the rest of the story of the DIY peep. Earlier this year I replaced the original setup on this Hawken. My eyes are not what they used to be. So I installed a Williams FP peep. I could not get the POI down with the Williams. I had it screwed all the way down. Bottomed out on the...

I'm replacing the William FP sight that just would not work on this gun. Thanks for info though.

Thanks. Agree with the M-16s.

Point well taken on hole size. Thanks

This peep will be mounted on the tang for clarity Hey thanks for the reply. I edited my post to say the new peep will be tang mounted. Sorry if I mislead you as I read your post to assume the peep would replace the rear sight on the barrel. Thanks mtsage

Building a DIY peep for my TC Hawken. The barrel rear sight will be removed and the new peep will be mounted on the tang. If you consider all things good, i.e., barrel seated good, proper alignment to breech, level barrel, or another way of saying this, perfect world. Will replace the TC...

That is something that completely slipped my pea size brain. Thanks for pointing that out. This is a project gun from Pecatonica River. I will make sure and get their advice.