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  1. troy2000

    You REALLY want to ship to California??

    What does that have to do with refusing to sell me a rifle sling? It's a piece of leather... You can't tell me the guy did it because he was afraid the State might come after him. He did it to be an _______. And all the dealers who claim they're scared to ship guns to California, because the...
  2. troy2000

    You REALLY want to ship to California??

    People worry about all sorts of silly things, but I seriously doubt that's one of them.
  3. troy2000

    You REALLY want to ship to California??

    Some people say all sorts of things. I still remember my dad saying, "some people like to talk about the Good Old Days. But I was there, and I wasn't impressed." I'm the age he was when he said it, and I agree. I grew up in a small town, where the cops got away with all sorts of crap.
  4. troy2000

    You REALLY want to ship to California??

    It still pisses me off when sellers think being rude to pro-gun people in California, and refusing to do business with us, somehow advances a pro-gun agenda. They should be doing everything they can to support and encourage us, instead of dumping on us because we're outnumbered at the polls...
  5. troy2000

    You REALLY want to ship to California??

    If what an officer does won't stand up to people seeing what he did, he shouldn't be doing it.
  6. troy2000

    You REALLY want to ship to California??

    One of the more irritating things about gunbroker.com is the number of sellers who snidely proclaim they refuse to ship anything to California until we change our gun laws. Hello? Maybe you should be supporting and encouraging pro-gun people in California, instead of dumping on us?
  7. troy2000

    Kibler Woodsrunner kit

    What the wood is looking like after rubbing in one thinned coat of BLO. As wet as the weather is, I'll probably let it set for a couple of days before adding another coat.
  8. troy2000

    Kibler Woodsrunner kit

    I seriously thought about trying it myself. But a man's got to know his limitations... Maybe later I'll order a spare patchbox lid to play with.
  9. troy2000

    Kibler Woodsrunner kit

    On my way to bed, but I was just thinking: Jim includes a piece of flat brass stock with this kit, for folks who are ambitious enough to try adding brass to the end of the patchbox lid - even though he recommends against it, saying it rarely turns out well. But while staring into my bourbon and...
  10. troy2000

    Woodsrunner inbound

    I pre-ordered mine last July, and it showed up a few days ago. Apparently part of the problem was with their source of .54 barrel blanks...
  11. troy2000

    Kibler Woodsrunner kit

    Applied iron nitrate to the wood today, and it showed me an ugly fact... After I temporarily reinstalled the hardware and flushed the wood with it, I skimped on sanding and thought I had gotten away with it; it felt smooth to my fingers. But the iron nitrate showed I hadn't disappeared all the...
  12. troy2000

    Kibler Woodsrunner kit

    Temporarily reinstalled the buttplate, trigger plate, ramrod tailpipe ( I think Jim calls it the entry pipe) and trigger guard, to make sure everything was a good fit. Good thing I did; all of them were sunk below the wood just a tad. No big deal, but it needed addressing. And when I was...
  13. troy2000

    Kibler Woodsrunner kit

    Tks for the suggestion, and I agree; I'm a wax fanatic. I finish wood to protect it. Then I add a coat or two of wax to protect the finish, so it can keep doing its job. I also keep my sawblades, chisels, power tool tabletops, etc., waxed. Makes life a lot easier... Plain old Johnson Paste...
  14. troy2000

    Kibler Woodsrunner kit

    Went looking for my finishing materials; everything's a mess since I moved back. I found my iron nitrate and linseed oil for the stock, along with my heat gun, but couldn't find the brass aging solution for blackening the barrel. Went online and ordered more from Amazon. It's a lot cheaper...
  15. troy2000

    Kibler Woodsrunner kit

    Making progress, slowly. Finished the first round of sanding on the stock, and wet it down to raise the grain. While it was drying, I got started on the trigger guard. Here are a couple of pic's of my DIY soft jaws in action.
  16. troy2000

    Kibler Woodsrunner kit

    When I popped into Home Depot for the Scotch Brite pads, I headed for the sandpaper area in the paint department. Got intercepted by an old boy in an orange vest, who asked if he could help me find something. I told him what I was looking for and he said, "all that will be in the cleaning...
  17. troy2000

    Kibler Woodsrunner kit

    Ok. I leaned the stock up near a heating vent yesterday evening, and this morning the patchbox lid slid right off. I'll be putting a little slop in it before I do the final installation... I finished working on the buttplate, except for the wedding band-type rings on it. Waiting for some soft...
  18. troy2000

    Kibler Woodsrunner kit

    I stumbled onto it right after Jim posted it. Good stuff in there. I asked about part 1 in the reader comments, and Jim said it was being edited. But he provided a link to it anyway; look for his reply to my comment under Troy Stallard. It should be right at the top...
  19. troy2000

    Kibler Woodsrunner kit

    Went out to the shop today and finished removing the butt plate. It didn't help at all on the patchbox lid; it's hanging in like it was superglued. So I did what I should've done yesterday: brought the stock into the house. I have natural gas heating, and the air's a lot drier in here than...
  20. troy2000

    After the Kibler Kits

    While I have all the respect in the world for anyone who builds a rifle, regardless of whether it's from a kit or (especially) from scratch, I've bought a Kibler southern mountain rifle kit and a Woodsrunner kit because I wanted the finished guns - not because I wanted a challenge. And there's...
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