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Author Topic: Started My Retirement Flintlock Rifle Build This Morning  (Read 4455 times)

Offline Ohio Joe

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Re: Started My Retirement Flintlock Rifle Build This Morning
« Reply #60 on: June 27, 2019, 12:10:40 AM »
I appreciate that Rondo.  :toast :shake
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Offline Ohio Joe

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Re: Started My Retirement Flintlock Rifle Build This Morning
« Reply #61 on: June 28, 2019, 02:09:23 PM »
The rifle is finally finished. What started back on April 28, 2019 has come to a completion. Actually this has been in the works for a long time, letting wood dry, collecting parts, finding the time. Here it is, along with a nice home I received from Rondo  :bl th up :shake some months back (many thanks my friend);





Looks like a trapper's rifle to me.

I opted for brass washers instead of a side plate for the lock screws... The side plate seemed a bit of over kill for a trappers rifle IMHO.

It was a fun build!  :bl th up
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Re: Started My Retirement Flintlock Rifle Build This Morning
« Reply #62 on: June 28, 2019, 02:35:35 PM »
Very nice looking rifle! I like the washers better than a plate myself.

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Re: Started My Retirement Flintlock Rifle Build This Morning
« Reply #63 on: June 28, 2019, 02:51:52 PM »
Thank you Spotted Bull. I'm looking forward to getting out to the Range with it, hopefully this coming Monday.  :bl th up
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