Traditional Muzzleloading Association
Traditional Firearms => Flintlock Long Guns => Topic started by: RobD on December 05, 2020, 12:07:44 PM
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"All"? HAH! Just the one and only one left, for pretty much all my 2021 *shooting* 'til I build a kit fowler, hopefully the new and forthcoming Kibler.
The current .62 fowler and accoutrements - still a bit more work to complete on the gun, however ...
(https://i.imgur.com/F3EvOlE.jpg)
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It looks a lot better then when it came your way. What a difference!!! :hairy
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Good looking rig there, Rob.
I think shining timies are awaiting you with that setup.
Hope the trade gun shoots as good as it looks. And I agree with Joe on the progress you have made with it.
John (Bigsmoke)
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Most of what I did you can't see ...
- Nikal lubed the breech plug and liner
- Replaced the touch hole liner
- Steel 0000 wooled inside the tube (lotsa bp residue)
- Took the lock completely apart, de-rusted, honed the moving parts, oiled/greased, re-installed
- Replaced the trigger guard screws (need to grind their heads a bit flatter)
- Opened the bbl lug holes and lug mortises to allow for stock wood expansion (one bbl pin hole needs redrilling as it's right at the edge one one lug - will do so when the David Rase pin jig arrives, the last jig of his seems to have gotten lost in the shop :o )
- Silver soldered a nickel-silver front sight
- Rather than fix a poorly made ramrod, I made 2 new ones
What's left is to add a lock side plate with a new and longer lock bolts, parts on the way from TOTW. Then hope for a decent weather day and get in some shooting. I hope this gun will get me through most of next year 'til I can do up a fowler kit.
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Great job, looked at some kibler kits online.
Maybe in the future...
Kevin