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Ok your not happy with scores, on the other hand both targets show pretty consistant grouping, although more open than you want. Only 2 spaz shots on target #1, and 1 on target #2. With a quick look, true zero would pick up 3 points on target #1, true zero would pick up about 10 more points on target #2. Are you using npa, a spotting scope and calling your shots in prone ? Maybe rules won't allow spotting scope ?
my problem is to less practice, allways one or two times before competition ;-)
 
There’s been many Kubota bought over the last few years….
Down the road there should be plenty of used parts if ever needed…👍
 
Making some haversack flaps for my brother in crime🤣😂, 2 more to go
 

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1st coat of leather dye went onto the hickory ramrod tonight. I was hoping that it would be complimentary to the stock color....but it actually looks like it will be a pretty decent match.

Now to decide if I want to spiral it. ;)

I know that, at the very least, I will need to work some dye into some of the grain "pockets"....it's pretty straight grained wood, but there is a tangent to what I'm assuming is a ring on one side. It means that, in spite of being smooth to the touch after sanding and whiskering, there are elongated, thin "grain pockets" that the Feibing's brush didn't get the dye down into. I'm thinking I might need to find a toothbrush to work it into those pockets (the rest of it seems to have taken very nicely with no blotching).

After that, it'll get a coat of oil (maybe two) and a good waxing....'cause who can avoid waxing their rod, right? :D
 
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Well it was last night, but I took ownership of that Maynard Carbine I have been trying to sell.
A family member who knows how much I wanted it paid for it, then gave it to me. :D

I will be restoring it as much as I can and making it pretty. I know that old patina means something to a lot of y'all but I absolutely hate patina.
 
Ok...tried a bit more dye for the ramrod, but pores were not receptive. So, rather than candy-caning it, I decided to see if treating it like walnut would work.

I got out some fine sandpaper, tung oil and dye and got to work on making a slurry to fill the pores. What success! Not only did I get the pores filled a little darker, but the sanding introduced some lighter areas making it match my test block even more.

Sometimes you get lucky...
 

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Flints from the usual US shops online and powder wherever I can get it haha. Not much powder around here. There’s a guy near Waterton dam who wants $80 a lb. Brutal.
Yeh Bilozar,you could try loyalist arms for flints 2.99 a flint Canadian if you buy 2 dozen or more and Blair and Linda are good to deal with .Just a thought .
 
My Parker 7 “ tall sight arrived . EBay uk £125. around 1911. It’s off an unmentisble and back position , ie fits by butt plate. I’ll change all that when I can get a ml target rifle. I hesitated but thought it a good buy. We shall see


Hi Gordon. Many thanks for purchasing the Match Rifle back position sight. I hope you like it. It came from the estate of Alistair and Malcolm Brown. Both shot Match Rifle for Scotland in the Elcho. Alistair the father also shot in the Commonwealth Games in Target Rifle. Alistair shot through the 1950-70s and Malcolm into the 1980's.
I friend who knows these things is of the opinion the sight was probably made by Fraser's in Scotland around 1911 as he has seen advertisements from the period. As indicated it has a few old rust marks where it was not oiled before storage, but hopefully these do not detract from the item.
Regards Nick. PS I will post today or Friday on 24 hour signed for because of the value.
 

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