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Offline Stoker

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Re: Muzzle loader swap
« Reply #30 on: December 06, 2013, 07:18:27 pm »
Looking forward to the pics Pearl drums.. Take some along your rebuild journey... Have a good hunt...
Eric that's a beauty of a flinter
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Muzzle loader swap
« Reply #31 on: December 06, 2013, 07:44:41 pm »
I used aqufortis and a heat gun to bring out the curl.

I used Chambers antique oil stock finish on the gun.

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« Reply #32 on: December 06, 2013, 09:26:26 pm »
I've got pictures too.  Here's a little buck I got a couple of weeks ago.  .50 cal. flinter which I built from a box of old rusty parts that I got from a bowyer that "never got around to putting it together".  It shoots center if I hold my mouth right.


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Re: Muzzle loader swap
« Reply #33 on: December 06, 2013, 09:30:42 pm »
That's a beautiful rifle, Eric.  Great job!

Offline Buckeye Guy

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« Reply #34 on: December 06, 2013, 10:17:40 pm »
I am enjoying this !
This will be the closest I get to hunting this year !
Pearly I wish I still had my long rifle so  I could sell it to you would have been fun to see you enjoying it !!
Take care and hope to see ya in a couple of months !
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Muzzle loader swap (Pic added)
« Reply #35 on: December 07, 2013, 09:20:58 am »
Cool gun Darryl. Guy I wish you still had that flint lock to!

Im heading to town shortly to get some round balls. Its frigid today and there are a bunch of great games on, but I need to shoot this thing!
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

Offline DGF

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Re: Muzzle loader swap (Pic added)
« Reply #36 on: December 07, 2013, 01:31:37 pm »
Hey PD, you interested in a muzzleloader camp next season somewhere up north?

-Dan
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Offline okie64

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Re: Muzzle loader swap (Pic added)
« Reply #37 on: December 07, 2013, 09:39:54 pm »
Thats a great lookin hawken pd, doesnt look like it even needs refinishing. I have one just like it that my dad bought for me when I was 15, mine definitely needs refinishing after 20 years of dragging it around in the oklahoma scrub brush. They are sraight shooters for sure. Good luck and have fun with it!

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Re: Muzzle loader swap (Pic added)
« Reply #38 on: December 07, 2013, 10:15:38 pm »
I carried a similar gun today. If you been carrying a bow so long that baby is gonna feel like carrying a cannon. Can't wait to see how you want it to look. dp
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« Reply #39 on: December 08, 2013, 01:32:52 am »
That's a real beauty. Should be a lot of fun to hunt with..

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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Muzzle loader swap (Pic added)
« Reply #40 on: December 08, 2013, 08:43:47 am »
Thats a great lookin hawken pd, doesnt look like it even needs refinishing. I have one just like it that my dad bought for me when I was 15, mine definitely needs refinishing after 20 years of dragging it around in the oklahoma scrub brush. They are sraight shooters for sure. Good luck and have fun with it!

After talking with my Hawken guru friend yesterday morning, I think this one is leaning towards 40 years old. The serial numbers are no good. TC burned and they lost everything. According to the type of barrel and type of rifling this gun has, its a keeper I guess. My buddy wanted to give me his new barrell and money for mine? Nah!

Hey PD, you interested in a muzzleloader camp next season somewhere up north?

-Dan


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Offline Stoker

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Re: Muzzle loader swap (Pic added)
« Reply #41 on: December 09, 2013, 05:51:45 pm »
That smokepole looks pretty good.. I have the flintlock like that
Thanks Leroy
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Muzzle loader swap (Pic added)
« Reply #42 on: December 09, 2013, 10:48:49 pm »
What is there to refinish? Give it a wipe down with gun oil and go shooting!  Besides, you DO NOT WANT SHINY BRASS!

Once it is shiny you gotta keep working to keep it shiny.  Leave it dull like this and you will scare fewer deer anyway!
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Muzzle loader swap (Pic added)
« Reply #43 on: December 09, 2013, 10:50:22 pm »
Nice gun Leroy. I was after a flint lock, but this will do for now. Im sure Ill have one by next season.
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Muzzle loader swap (Pic added)
« Reply #44 on: December 09, 2013, 10:53:48 pm »
PD some guns you can change the locks need to take the drum out & put in a touch hole.