Back to making soot and smoke again

[Ohio Joe]

Nice! 

[Hanshi]

   Any day with sooty fingers and dirty clothes is a good day.

If I ever can come up with the $$, I want a SMR kit from Kibler in .45. 

[Iktomi]

Here is a Kibler with a little added bling, I just finished it.

 Great looking gun, Eric. What process did you use for the metal finish?

[Iktomi]

 I'd like to have a bigger bore than .54 for elk. A .58 or .62 would really be great. Kibler's SMR tops out at .45, which is enough gun for the local coastal blacktails. I see that Kibler is soon to come out with a Colonial in .58, but I am really drawn to the simplicity and Spartan elegance of the SMR type guns. Perhaps after I build a Kibler SMR I'll have a little better insight to give me the confidence to scratch build a longrifle in a big bore.

[Uncle Russ]

I'd like to have a bigger bore than .54 for elk. A .58 or .62 would really be great. Kibler's SMR tops out at .45, which is enough gun for the local coastal blacktails. I see that Kibler is soon to come out with a Colonial in .58, but I am really drawn to the simplicity and Spartan elegance of the SMR type guns. Perhaps after I build a Kibler SMR I'll have a little better insight to give me the confidence to scratch build a longrifle in a big bore.

That's good thinking, at least in my mind.   

FWIW: I totally agree with you that there is certain elegance found in the simplicity of the Southern Mountain Rifles that is somehow missing in other designs.

Uncle Russ...