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Items for Sale/Wanted / Braintanned Open top bag with beaded strap for sale

« Last post by Cory Joe Stewart on June 25, 2025, 06:42:21 PM »

Hello everyone, I am offering up a bag I recently finished

This open top bag can be used to carry any number of item for your frontier persona.  The bag is handstitched from braintanned deer hide.  The bag is 8 inches deep by 6 1/2 inches wide.  The bag is decorated with five pieces of trade silver.  The strap is 52 inches long and is decorated with white glass beads.
The appearance of the bag has already been aged to show a little use and weathering on the early American Frontier.
I am asking $150.00, that price includes shipping and handling, paypal, checks or money orders all work fine with me. 












Thanks,

Cory Joe Stewart

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Items for Sale/Wanted / Barktanned "Heart Shaped" bag for sale

« Last post by Cory Joe Stewart on June 25, 2025, 06:35:34 PM »

Hello everyone, I am offering up a bag I recently finished. 
Some people call these heart shaped bags, some people call them triagular shape.  The style and shape is authentic to the 18th century. 
This bag is made from barktanned deer hide.  The bag is unlined but does have an interior pocket. 
The bag is 9 inches deep and 7 inches at its widest point. 
The handwoven strap is 52 inches long.  There is no buckle for adjustment.

I am asking $135.00 that price includes shipping. Paypal, checks and money orders all work fine for me.












Thanks,

Cory Joe Stewart

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Items for Sale/Wanted / Re: 18th Century early 19th Century "Utility Bags" For Sale

« Last post by rich pierce on June 25, 2025, 06:33:08 PM »

Cory, I’ll take it.

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Gun Building / Re: How to tune a Kibler (or any) lock for lighter trigger pull

« Last post by rich pierce on June 25, 2025, 06:31:12 PM »

Greg, glad you joined and are showing your work. Great to see what folks have been up to.

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Gun Building / Re: How to tune a Kibler lock for lighter trigger pull

« Last post by Greg Hartman on June 25, 2025, 06:28:40 PM »

I will also note that we use a belt grinder with a contact wheel that fits the radius of the spring to thin it down, but you can file a spring down as well.  They are plenty soft to do this.  Follow up with some abrasive paper.

Based on all of this info, Jim, I think I will give it a try myself (even though your offer to do it for me is more than kind and typical of my experience with your company).  As I understand it, all of your lock parts are interchangable, so if I mess this up, I can just buy new parts and start again - correct?  If I can do so safety, I'd rather DYI.

Here's the new Berks County Woodsrunner with a well-worn Dickert copy that was one of my first builds long ago:




Greg

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Items for Sale/Wanted / 18th Century early 19th Century "Utility Bags" For Sale

« Last post by Cory Joe Stewart on June 25, 2025, 06:27:31 PM »

I call these utility bags because I do not know what else to call it.  It is inspired by a picture I saw in an old book with pictures of Colonial Williamsburg.  In the picture a historical interpreter is working on a roof and was wearing a bag like the to carry nails.
This bag is handstitched from barktanned deer hide.  It is  5 and 3/4 inches deep by 5 and 3/4  inches wide.  The loop will accommodate up to a 2 1/2  inch wide belt. 
This will add great authenticity to your 18th early 19th century persona.
I have two of these and am asking $35.00, that price includes shipping and handling.  Paypal, checks or Money orders all work for me. 







Cory Joe Stewart

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Items for Sale/Wanted / Looong rifle for sale

« Last post by smokinbuck on June 25, 2025, 06:19:07 PM »

Pennsylvania Rifle Works 1837 / 1858 .32 looong rifle. 46.5" barrel with good, not like new, rifleing. Overall in very good condition, no breaks or repairs. Asking $850 plus shipping. Pick up in central Ohio.

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Gun Building / Re: How to tune a Kibler lock for lighter trigger pull

« Last post by Greg Hartman on June 25, 2025, 06:18:47 PM »

For a first ever build, from a kit or whatever, I think you did a great job with a reasonable likeness to the Schreit rifle with your carving, etc!

And don't be put off by a couple of comments; Lot's of guys here build something, call it a such and such, when it has no likeness to the original such and such what so ever at all!

There's only so much you can do with a kit gun, and I think you did a fine job!
John

Thank you!

I agree you did a fine job adding decorative elements from the Schreit rifle, which also is the time period you’re going for. You’ve got skills. Hope to see more of your work.

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Gun Building / Re: How to tune a Kibler lock for lighter trigger pull

« Last post by Greg Hartman on June 25, 2025, 06:14:00 PM »

If you want, send the lock to us and I’ll lighten the pull as light as it can be and still be safe.  No charge.

I do three things, carefully polish the tumbler notch and sear tip as well as decrease sear spring thickness slightly.

  Wow, talk about costumer satisfaction. Mr. Kibler is the best!]

That is true for sure.

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Gun Building / Re: Trigger guard

« Last post by Dphariss on June 25, 2025, 06:01:40 PM »

The guards with the pineapple type finials are much like double shotgun guards and the English rifle hardware was much like shotgun hardware as well The Petersen has a somewhat longer tang with two screws & short trigger bar. The ETC  short tang, short trigger bar, only one tang screw going to the trigger plate. Gotta dig through some photos now. The ETC and Petersen both have a wood screw at the rear of the trigger plate. The Petersen has a 2 screw intermediate length tang that I think has a wood screw at the rear. There is something showing in photos that might be the end of a rear tang screw through the trigger bar but tis right behind the rear trigger and would require a hole or slot or dog leg in the mainspring or some other mainspring mod to clear the screw.  Other than removing the rear tang screw or getting it out of the case to look at again it would be impossible to determine with absolute certainty.
If I wanted to have a pineapple finial TG for a Hawken I would take a one of the English guard castings and a Hawken guard and do some cutting and welding.
This a photo from. J. N. George’s “English Gun and Rifles”
#1 is a 6 bore large game rifle by H W Mortimer circa 1800
#2 is a late flint 1810-1820 58 cal deer rifle by John Manton
#3 is a full stocked 45 caliber circa 1780. With a German barrel.

The scroll guard is almlost identical in the 3 though in this case for single or SS triggers. The two half stocked rifles show that the half stocked Hawken apparently was influenced by the early 1/2 stocked 2 key English rifle. The English rifle evolved into a shorter forend 1 key style. The Hawken staid with 2 keys. Though I seen to remember seeing a photo of a single key Hawken. And there is a S Hawkn with a single trigger & shorter bow guard pictured in ‘Firearms of the American West 1800-1865” pg 54 .