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Not bad at all, looking good. I did a little carving on a CVA mountain rifle which needed a refinish and went through a lot of my wife's cheap nail files for sanding around detail work. Just a tip for your next one because there is always another one in your future.

I have a Buffalo Hunter with the original ram rod. It's barely 5/16 in diameter and the tip looks like a round mushroom with a dimple in the end. I don't use it just because it looks a little flimsy and is original instead I use a heavier wood range rod. Sometime in the rifle's life a peep site...

I used a Harbor Freight hammer impact screw drive on a couple of frozen clean out screws with no problem. Heat with propane and then cool with oil, do that three or four times then hit with the impact screw driver. It's nice to be able to get them out if you dry ball. Anti seize grease or...

I remember watch "Little Big Man" years ago and still remember it as a good flick. Think I'll try to track down a copy of it to watch on a quiet evening.

After my first dry ball I made a range rod out of 3/16 inch steel and welded a loop in it's end. Haven't needed to use it yet but plan to tie the loop off on a tree or whatever is handy with a little slack and just give it a goodly yank after setting the ball puller in properly. I have had to...

OK, here's mine. Some of the pictures have been posted before. The pictures are of the rifle as I got it off a rendezvous blanket last year with no butt plate and how it ended up after I reworked some of the wood and refinished it. I decorated the wedge plates with a nail punch and a center...

I'm not a heavy shooter and the pandemic has kept me off the local county range for about six months but I'm pretty well stockpiled for BP, Pyrodex and caps. During the down time I've learned how to safely mix common household ingredients in the proper proportions to supplement my BP supply...

I picked up a four screwed patch box .50 caliber CVA Mountain rifle about a year ago for $100.00 at a rendezvous. It was missing the butt plate, the strange greenish finish on it was beat up and had a load stuck in the breach. Found a NOS butt plate on flea bay for $20.00, got the old charge...

I used to use plaster of Paris to mold little lead solders when I was a kid with no problems and never had one blow up on me. If you are going to give it a try dry the mold out in an oven at a low heat for about 3-4 hours which is what I did. The biggest problem with plaster is that it's soft...

Deermanct said "Congrats on a good deal. I was looking at that same rifle. How much does that rifle weigh? Just curious" I had my CVA Mountain rifle out yesterday and tossed it on the scale. It weighs in at 8lbs 4oz which is interesting because my CVA Hawken with a 28 inch barrel weighed more...

Deermanct said "Congrats on a good deal. I was looking at that same rifle. How much does that rifle weigh? Just curious" I had my CVA Mountain rifle out yesterday and tossed it on the scale. It weighs in at 8lbs 4oz which is interesting because my CVA Hawken with a 28 inch barrel weighed more...

"There was a huge amount of gunk in the bottom of the barrel" That sounds familiar. Had the same problem with the basket case I bought last year. Ended up using some carb cleaner and a patch jag to break loose part of a round ball, a piece of a patch and some real funky black powder residue...

I was lucky enough to pick up a CVA Frontier in .50 caliber which is pretty much the same as a Bobcat but with a wood stock. It's a great little rifle which I use for wood walks instead of a full sized Hawken or Mountain rifle. It filled out my set of three rifles all with browned barrels, The...

Sounds like you have a good plan to correct the misalignment, little changes at the right spots is the way to go. Someone earlier mentioned that the nipple is mushroomed which will cause misfires so while you are letting the stain dry clean it up with a file. I've had a lot of misfires from...

Not shooting right now because of Covid and the restrictions the local county range has in place. I have plenty of caps and during all the down time have learned to make my own black powder.

Thanks for the pictures and you are right there isn't a stop on the hammer, first time I've seen a hammer like that. I expected that the rub mark was caused by the stop on the hammer but the pictures proved me wrong. Not sure what your next step is. Guess gently bending the hammer in and down...

Start with the easy stuff before going to a machinist. There are some heavy rub marks on the stock from the hammer, sand the stock down till the hammer doesn't rub. That probably is the reason the hammer is off to the right or left on the nipple. The hammer is getting pushed out of alignment...

Shimming the bottom edge of the lock will correct the right to left problem of the hammer hitting the nipple. You don't need to bend the hammer to get rid of the space between the nipple and hammer. If you take the hammer off the lock and look at it's backside there should be a little blob of...

Since the parts are worth more than $50.00 I would offer that and if he says no then nothing lost. If you do get it then the time spent scrubbing the rust out of the barrel and cleaning it up is basically free. Last year I picked up a similar .50 caliber mountain rifle as a basket case that...

I had a little time today to duck down into the shop and play around scratching an itch. Ended up making a patch holder for my shooting kit. The caps are some black walnut scrap 3/8 inches thick cut with a hole saw and the body of the holder is made out of some reclaimed 100 year old copper...