Got a .45cal TC Hawken

[frontier gander]

An online friend of mine sent me his tc hawken to refinish. Actually 2 of them, he bought another tc hawken with a .40cal GM barrel on it but the stock was toast with cracks everywhere on the thing lol. I am going to refinish this stock with a boiled linseed oil, then truoil and finish it off with low gloss tung oil since he wants it dull. A great deal of grain, the finish on it though was just pretty horrible to begin with. Should make for a fun little 40cal


I did of course have to shoot the .45 just for fun though. I need to buy a 45cal barrel for my cva hawken, those little pea shooters are fun.

The .45cal barrel though shot pretty darn good for just trying a simple load of 60gr 2f goex, .015" patch and I just casted up some .440" round balls for it. The barrel loaded pretty darn easily with .015" and so I feel it will need the .018" pillow tick patch for best accuracy. Not to shabby for 50 yards though.

[smokinbuck]

Stay with the 445 ball, .015th patch and go to 3F.
Mark

[Hungry Horse]

 I think you have WWWWAAAAYYYY to many different finishes in this project. Any one of those finishes will get the job done. I think you are making this project overly complicated.

                   Hungry Horse

[frontier gander]

no not really, its what ive done in the past.

[frontier gander]

boy what a difference, it got even darker once i hand rubbed the linseed oil in.

[Daryl]

boy what a difference, it got even darker once i hand rubbed the linseed oil in.

As opposed to machine rubbing?
 

[smallpatch]

I hope youre going to apply something that dries over the top of that  BLO, it never dries, and water will penetrate right through it.

[frontier gander]

I normally use  buffing wheel on a drill to do it. 2000 grit sand paper soaked in BLO and run it at around 3500 rpm does it quick.

Low gloss tung oil is being applied now.