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TMA Raffles and Drawings / Re: TMA 2025 May/June Bi-Monthly cash Drawing
« Last post by Bearhntr on Today at 01:32:28 PM »I'd like a chance as well.
Thanks,
Rodd
Thanks,
Rodd
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The Campfire / Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Last post by BEAVERMAN on Today at 12:26:10 PM »Back from the trip to Oregon last Thursday, had a great time, no vehicle or trailer problems, toured the Tillamook creamery and the Blue Heron creamery both were interesting, some good food at both and brought home entirely way too many cheeses! If you ever get a chance to drive down US 101 it's worth the time to get off the interstate and drive to old 2 lane, some fantastic views and small towns, it was good to see a lot logging trucks rolling down the roads with some real timber instead of pecker poles, drove down and over the Columbia via the Astoria bridge, came home via Rainier Oregon over the river to Longview WA, it was good to see 4 mills on the river stacked with wood and running full bore! so now it's time to clean up the trailer, re stock and get ready to head north to the top of the Olympic peninsula in 3 weeks for a 2 week stay at the Peninsula Longrifles property and rondy, always a grand time and visit with old friends who hopefully are still on this side of the grass!
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Gun Building and Repair / Woodsrunner #4 in .54 bore w/standard maple stock
« Last post by RobD on June 22, 2025, 12:05:14 PM »I guess I like these guns, sorta, kinda 
Anyhoo, assembled and ready to take apart for the stock stain (aqua fortis) and finish (Tru-Oil).
First thing I like doing with these guns is to pull the breech plug, clean it off and send it back into the bbl with a liberal coating of Nikal anti-seize.
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Next up it to fit on the nose cap as that takes a bit of doing to line up the stock screw holes with the threaded screw holes in the nose cap. The brass machine screw heads are inside the stock and protrude out past the cap itself, and will get filed down flush. What helps with this whole process is to slightly enlarge the stock screw holes and round off the forward corner edges so that they'll fit into the slightly rounded inside corners of the nose cap. Even with a good fit of the cap and clear stock holes for the cap screws, the cap screw hole threads will be tight. What I do is oil the screws and screw them in from the outside of the cap, for the initial screw fittings. Then slip on the cap, check that the cap threaded screw holes can be fully seen from within the stock bbl channel, rub some beeswax on the slot of each brass screw so that it will stay put on the screwdriver tip, thus making it easy to find the nose cap thread.
Then I'll lay in the bbl, install the side plate, lock, and bbl tang screw. Since Woodsrunners come with the trigger guard and trigger installed, those pins will first require removing, cutting to size, and reinstalling. For all pins I round off the front inserted end, rub on a bit of beeswax for lubricant, home the pin about 1/32" shy of coming out of the stock, use a fine Sharpie to mark the other side for cutting, remove the pin and cut 1/32" LESS than that mark (shorting the pin) so that it will tap and stay hidden inside the stock with a 1/16" punch. The cut end of the pin gets a bit of filing to remove any burr. The pin gets another rub of beeswax and is 95% tapped into the stock, then punch tapped fully inside the stock. With the lock, bbl, and trigger guard placed into the stock before pinning, it pays to take the time to use a light source to check that all stock holes are totally open.
An extra step before the bbl and pipes are installed is to create a test pin, with rounded front end, that's also been rubbed with beeswax to better run into and pull out of all stock pin holes. This will insure they are drilled correctly and it will prep those stock holes to better accept their specific pin.
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Anyhoo, assembled and ready to take apart for the stock stain (aqua fortis) and finish (Tru-Oil).
First thing I like doing with these guns is to pull the breech plug, clean it off and send it back into the bbl with a liberal coating of Nikal anti-seize.
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Next up it to fit on the nose cap as that takes a bit of doing to line up the stock screw holes with the threaded screw holes in the nose cap. The brass machine screw heads are inside the stock and protrude out past the cap itself, and will get filed down flush. What helps with this whole process is to slightly enlarge the stock screw holes and round off the forward corner edges so that they'll fit into the slightly rounded inside corners of the nose cap. Even with a good fit of the cap and clear stock holes for the cap screws, the cap screw hole threads will be tight. What I do is oil the screws and screw them in from the outside of the cap, for the initial screw fittings. Then slip on the cap, check that the cap threaded screw holes can be fully seen from within the stock bbl channel, rub some beeswax on the slot of each brass screw so that it will stay put on the screwdriver tip, thus making it easy to find the nose cap thread.
Then I'll lay in the bbl, install the side plate, lock, and bbl tang screw. Since Woodsrunners come with the trigger guard and trigger installed, those pins will first require removing, cutting to size, and reinstalling. For all pins I round off the front inserted end, rub on a bit of beeswax for lubricant, home the pin about 1/32" shy of coming out of the stock, use a fine Sharpie to mark the other side for cutting, remove the pin and cut 1/32" LESS than that mark (shorting the pin) so that it will tap and stay hidden inside the stock with a 1/16" punch. The cut end of the pin gets a bit of filing to remove any burr. The pin gets another rub of beeswax and is 95% tapped into the stock, then punch tapped fully inside the stock. With the lock, bbl, and trigger guard placed into the stock before pinning, it pays to take the time to use a light source to check that all stock holes are totally open.
An extra step before the bbl and pipes are installed is to create a test pin, with rounded front end, that's also been rubbed with beeswax to better run into and pull out of all stock pin holes. This will insure they are drilled correctly and it will prep those stock holes to better accept their specific pin.
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The Campfire / Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY doggoner!!!
« Last post by doggoner on June 21, 2025, 06:11:30 PM »Thank you for the Birthday greetings. Number 83 and counting. Thanks again.
doggoner
doggoner
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The Campfire / Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY doggoner!!!
« Last post by Nessmuk on June 21, 2025, 10:39:23 AM »happy Birthday, Doggoner!!
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The Campfire / Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY doggoner!!!
« Last post by rollingb on June 21, 2025, 01:14:18 AM »Happy Birthday Dennis!
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The Campfire / Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY doggoner!!!
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The Campfire / Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY doggoner!!!
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The Campfire / HAPPY BIRTHDAY doggoner!!!
« Last post by Webmaster on June 20, 2025, 04:09:29 AM »YAY for doggoner! - another year notched on yer gunstock! Hope you have a "bang up" birthday!
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The Campfire / Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Last post by BEAVERMAN on June 18, 2025, 06:08:13 PM »I guess I'll be finding a new career. Walked into work yesterday and they said 75% of your craft is no longer needed..no options no craft transfer..so 13+ years and I'm kicking rocks. Was a weird feeling waking up today and not heading to work. Send up a little prayer if ya will. New territory for me esp with 3 littles at home.
Well now that sux!, keep a positive vibe about ya, the good lord will provide!