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Author Topic: Back to making soot and smoke again  (Read 3972 times)

Offline Ohio Joe

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Re: Back to making soot and smoke again
« Reply #15 on: April 03, 2018, 08:57:33 AM »
Nice!  :hairy
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Re: Back to making soot and smoke again
« Reply #16 on: April 03, 2018, 02:07:05 PM »
 :applaud  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.  :toast
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Re: Back to making soot and smoke again
« Reply #17 on: April 05, 2018, 01:02:06 PM »
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?
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Re: Back to making soot and smoke again
« Reply #18 on: April 05, 2018, 01:07:58 PM »
 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.
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Re: Back to making soot and smoke again
« Reply #19 on: April 05, 2018, 01:50:55 PM »
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.   :bl th up

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.

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