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    Offhand Accuracy

    The best advise I can give has already been mentioned: practice holding your rifle at the shoulder often. It strengthens the muscles. When I shot BPCR, I kept it in my room. Any time I walked into the room I picked it up, set the trigger, and clicked it (hammer stays down). Make sure your...
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    Wood x2 - Stunning

    I bought a double barrel Bonehill shotgun the other day, just to enjoy the wood. Probably won't shoot it, may redo it. It's in shipping now.
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    Seeking Opinions on a Recent Kibler SMR Purchase Experience

    When a seller realizes they've been caught trying to hide a major quality error by a savvy buyer, who will likely return the gun after expensive shipping to him, and risking further damage going back and forth, the obvious thing to do is to cut your losses. That's what it sounds like the seller...
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    Seeking Opinions on a Recent Kibler SMR Purchase Experience

    That break beside the tang acts as a bolster for the barrel. It is a bad place for a crack or break, whichever one it is, and would immediatly make me reject a modern made rifle. It's way too obvious. And if it was so minor, why didn't the builder carefully fill it, then do everything...
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    Bill Large Barrels

    Old thread, but things live forever on the internet so I wanted to correct this. Bob Roller who was friends with Bill Large, made gun locks in the early days, almost partnered with him to make both, etc., told me Bill used 1144 steel for his barrels until he got a bad shipment, then changed...
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    Thoughts on Browning a Kibler SMR Lock?

    I'm about to make my first Kibler. Personally, I like the browned a lot more than the rubbed back black or patina'd bare metal look, because that's how all my original Appalachian School rifles look in my collection. The argument that they wouldn't look like that when they were new in 1845 is...
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    Is the Kibler SMR light and whippy?

    There were two classes of Appalachian rifles in the 1830s-1850s, general purpose guns for carrying in the field, and heavy chunk guns made to shoot over a log in matches. Just like in the 20th century to today, most people would rather carry a light .22 sporter than a heavy .22 Winchester 52...
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    USPS Fiasco

    I've shipped a lot of antiques over the years, usually smaller than rifles, some larger. Never had one lost of broken with USPS but seldom shipped long rifles. The one that did break was poorly packed by the FFL, and they used UPS. When my gun shop FFL called me to get it, they showed me...
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    GOEX POWDER, ANY NEWS YET?

    And like many businesses, they don't give the public any news updates if it's bad or delayed. Only if it's good.
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    GOEX POWDER, ANY NEWS YET?

    I'd like to buy some. Building and sustaining a business is hard today. I remember that old WWII ammo plant was bought a couple years ago and was going to be a new primers company. But nothing has been heard from them since.
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    Old longrifle identification

    I've set this member to ignore. He can now pick other people to call morons and liberals. By the way, I'm a systems engineer with 3 college degrees and a Navy vet who did combat, and a very Conservative American. Let me explain what I saw. He is a bully, an angry person, and asked leading...
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    Old longrifle identification

    That's a nice rescue from the trash bin. I think you know this and were planning to do so, but you can do things that are reversible. Like removing the string. I'm sorry you were trolled by someone who gave their opinion, and when you politely explained yours, they ratcheted up their...
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    FOR SALE ORIGINAL - Probable Ohio or Kentucky rifle - signed - inlays

    SOLD
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    FOR SALE ORIGINAL - Probable Ohio or Kentucky rifle - signed - inlays

    Replied on other site
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    FOR SALE ORIGINAL - Probable Ohio or Kentucky rifle - signed - inlays

    Hi, I just got it, and will do that plan. See the email on the other site. Thanks.
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    FOR SALE ORIGINAL - Probable Ohio or Kentucky rifle - signed - inlays

    Price lowered dramatically for Christmas!
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    Mowrey Rifle

    Flintsteel, thanks for posting this history. I remember seeing ads for Mowry rifles in the gun magazines when I was young in the 1970s. Their wood always looked so good. When I got out of the Navy and started a family in the 1990s, they still were there. So I contacted the company and was...
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    Muzzle decorations

    Why not use a small drill bit and a hand push drill? You're not stressing the metal as much as beating on it.
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    FOR SALE ORIGINAL - Probable Ohio or Kentucky rifle - signed - inlays

    For sale is this original, signed, curly maple long rifle. I originally thought this was a North Carolina piedmont rifle. After research and talking to several experts in NC and KY and OH rifles, I was convinced this rifle was likely made near the Ohio River, and probably on the KY side. The...
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    Started my Kibler .32 SMR Today

    I went back and looked at all of mine, and you're right, most are not super thin. I must have been seeing things. Here are two, probably from the same era.
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