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Items for Sale/Wanted / Re: Blanket/Canoe Rifle by Jack Garner 54 caliber
« Last post by SBJ on Today at 07:22:11 AM »
Sold. Its now in my gun cabinet.
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Gun Building / Re: Hawken-esque Plains Rifle Build
« Last post by Curtis on Today at 07:10:33 AM »
Starting with some cleanup here, getting rid of the casting sprues:



Next some work on the thimbles:





Followed by a little soldering - doing the under-rib and thimbles in one shot - I put a hot steel rod in the barrel and used two torches at the same time (only one shown as the camera took up one hand!):







That's all for now!

Curtis
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Gun Building / Re: Hawken-esque Plains Rifle Build
« Last post by Curtis on Today at 06:57:16 AM »
Thanks for the input guys!  I don't stock enough rifles in a year to feel like I would get enough use out of a bandsaw to justify the expense - I can get a perfectly good rip saw for like 100 times less cost, as nobody wants them anymore.  I don't have anything against power tools however I enjoy the pace and sensation of working with hand tools.  Like Taterbug said, Armstrong Brand bandsaw, lol!


Hank - yup, I still inlet the barrels the way Jack taught us too.  It is a bit labor intensive but it is a great way to work out ones frustrations!  ;)

Scott - It is a really nice looking chunk of wood, and it is really hard... the best part is (I forgot where I picked it up) but I remember paying like $25 for it.  Now that was a steal!

Curtis
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It is hard to tell what the original finish was for cap boxes on original Hawken rifles - but probably not case-hardened for that part.  Were they rust pr charcoal blued? or left bright? was browning metal popular in those days?  Hard to tell but a rust brown finish always looks nice in my opinion.  Here is a similar one I did a while back:



Curtis
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Black Powder Shooting / Re: Flat Horns
« Last post by Jakob on Today at 06:15:43 AM »
Here are a few of the flat horns I have made;










Love those 2!!
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Gun Building / Re: Jaeger rifle stock options?
« Last post by Jakob on Today at 06:08:11 AM »
Since a couple of people have recently asked, yes this is still ongoing and slowly creeping towards the finish line.
Working on finalizing the area around wrist/lock/side panels and comb.
Forestock needs a final pass as well, but is pretty close.
Plenty of mistakes were made a long the way, but I think I managed to work my way around most of them.
Still plenty of opportunities to screw this up, but this weekend was a bit of a breakthrough, as I could start to see the final shape of the gun.

Next gun will be a lot simpler!







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Antique Accoutrements / Sitting Bull's powder horn??
« Last post by Hawken62_flint on Today at 06:02:16 AM »
I just got back from 3 days in California visiting friends. One of them recently bought a lot of different artifacts at an auction. This powder horn, measure and strap came with documentation that this horn belonged to Sitting Bull and was in a museum in Arizona for many years. The documentation is from that museum. I'm curious as to what anyone with more knowledge than me thinks about whether or not it could be Sitting Bull's horn.











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Contemporary Accoutrements / Re: Angstadt Style Tomahawk
« Last post by Hawken62_flint on Today at 05:45:30 AM »
Man, that is nice. I really like the engraving on the head.
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Black Powder Shooting / Re: Flat Horns
« Last post by Bob Gerard on Today at 05:07:19 AM »
Here are a few of the flat horns I have made;


















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redheart if you're still following this post, "I Get" your squirrel gun reference.
In todays mail cane the Dixie Gunworks plan.

This in no way is a Jacob Hawken Mountain Rifle.

But 2 thing have or can come of this.
1. DGW didn't end up charging me for it, the print must be pretty old and a bit tarnished.
2. I will make a Squirrel Rifle, lol
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