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  1. J

    Boy Scouts Building Rifles - Need Kit Suggestions

    They're Varsity Scouts, so a little older, but still a bunch of goofballs with short attention spans. I can tell you though, when I mentioned the possibility of doing this, they all lit up like they rarely do and they were all focused on me 100%. I guess building it up from scratch is not an...
  2. J

    Boy Scouts Building Rifles - Need Kit Suggestions

    Probably 5-7 boys depending. And yeah, I've mulled over taking it from the barrel and building everything from scratch from there - I may yet try that for myself, but yeah, there's no way I could do it with all the kids. It would be too much trial and error and custom work on my end to be able...
  3. J

    Utah Muley Success

    Blurry, idiotic look on my face, poorly framed, tongue hanging out, bloody hands, no rifle in the shot, etc. etc. There's not a lot of ways the photo could be worse.
  4. J

    Boy Scouts Building Rifles - Need Kit Suggestions

    Interesting. If the donations idea doesn't pan out, it looks like the cost of the barrel itself could easily be in the price range I was thinking of. Then, maybe we could use local apple branches to make the stocks and then all that is left is the trigger mechanism. I have a welder and I'm...
  5. J

    My little man gets a buck!

    That looks like a real nice buck! Way to go. He can certainly be proud of that kill. It sounds like he did right on all accounts!
  6. J

    Utah Muley Success

    Hey all, I posted all about my hunt in the Journal section of this forum, but now see that the forum appears to be closed to comments. So, in case you care to see the story behind this horrible photo, you can check it out here: Link to the 'Journal' forum where I posted the story Feel...
  7. J

    Boy Scouts Building Rifles - Need Kit Suggestions

    Wow, great tips Satx! That is surely heartening. I'm new the the leadership role in scouting and didn't know that people supported scouting in such ways. Any tips on the best way to find out who these organizations are that are already donating to the council?
  8. J

    Utah Muley Successful Hunt

    After all sorts of trouble sighting in a .58 cal replica rifle, I borrowed a .45 cal "Kentucky rifle" for the deer hunt. I put in a LOT of miles hiking around and a lot of time out in nasty conditions, but couldn't seem to get the shot. Towards the end of the hunt, I met up with this bad boy and...
  9. J

    Boy Scouts Building Rifles - Need Kit Suggestions

    Wow. What a bummer. I guess we'll look into donations and bulk discounts. Of course, one of the boys actually got all excited about actually building these all the way up from scratch. I would have no clue how that could even be done. Is there even a way to do that? Hate to not be able to pull...
  10. J

    Boy Scouts Building Rifles - Need Kit Suggestions

    I have a group of older scouts (14-16 years of age) that are interested in building / shooting blackpowder rifles. I went online to a couple websites and was surprised that the rifle building kits seem to cost more than I could buy a cheapo muzzleloader down at the local Wal-mart. It got me to...
  11. J

    Trouble with sighting in Replica Arms 1841

    I'd like to do that, but without spending much money. Seems like $10 ought to be MORE then enough for a tiny little piece of metal, but from what I've seen, people seem to be pretty proud of their rear sights. I may end up venturing into self-fabrication-land here....
  12. J

    Trouble with sighting in Replica Arms 1841

    I removed the sight from the dovetail. It was bent along its axis. I fixed that. Then I bent it down so that it would put more pressure on the distance-sighting-ramp-thingy so that it would hold the rear sight more in place. Then I took it back out and rough sighted it in again. I say rough...
  13. J

    Trouble with sighting in Replica Arms 1841

    Holy cow! Awesome. I thought that little pin piece at the very back of the sight was riveted into the barrel, but it is not. With your info above, I attempted to move it and sure enough, it popped over! Excellent. So now the question is, how to get it to stay there. It is not loose, but a slight...
  14. J

    Trouble with sighting in Replica Arms 1841

    I guess I am unfamiliar with these terms. What is the blade and what is the dovetail?
  15. J

    Trouble with sighting in Replica Arms 1841

    From the way the light reflects off the barrel, there is no obvious bend. Take a look at these pics and let me know if you think this looks funny. Could this inconsistency inside the barrel end cause it to throw the bullet funny?
  16. J

    Trouble with sighting in Replica Arms 1841

    I guess the pictures are misleading? From the point of looking down the barrel, the rear sight is moved all the way to the right.
  17. J

    Trouble with sighting in Replica Arms 1841

    Here's the way I look at it (please let me know if I'm thinking wrong here) In the image, imagine you were looking down the rifle barrel (as in the image) and using the tip of my index finger as the rear sight. You are aiming at the green bullseye. The red line is your "aim" (from the rear...
  18. J

    Trouble with sighting in Replica Arms 1841

    Wow, thanks for all the help here guys! Lots of responses and a lot of great information. Actually, I say it seemed to shoot pretty good groups because I was eventually able to use Kentucky windage to get it on the paper to see the groups. However, I don't consider that sort of sighting to be...
  19. J

    Trouble with sighting in Replica Arms 1841

    Hi all, I took out my Grandpa's old Replica Arms 1841 .58 caliber rifle to the range today. Anecdotally, all my uncles/grandpa have said they never could hit anything with this rifle, and now I see why. It seems to shoot pretty good groups, but it was tough to get the thing shooting on the...
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