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Ron Dahlitz was the owner of Buffalo Bullets and for many years his son Brent worked there. So many years ago I had a lot of interactions with Buffalo Bullets. Ron passed away in 2015 and to this day...

Congratulations "725". You turned it into an excellent meat maker. Bob Hoyt is the "man" when it comes to boring out an old barrel and turning it into a new caliber. A while back I bought a T/C...

Finally...........all of my parts were Cerakoted. The dealer did a good job on the matte black coating, but he had three of my screws fall through the screen in his bead blast cabinet. I had to wait...

Hello there, well I am finished with the Sears Ted Williams model 100 (post 64 Winchester 94). This rifle had seen some use and the original owner did some filing on the front sight making it...

Texas by God,

Thank you, I have already started on the Sears Ted Williams model 100 (post 64 Winchester 94). I have scrapped all the paint off the receiver, barrel, lever, magazine tube, and...

I had the chance today to go to my friends range for some 25 and 50 yards shooting. Later when I have some more time I will take this rifle out to 100 yards. For hunting deer in the eastern hardwoods...

Hey Guys - The Marlin Rescue is 99% done. I still need to bead blast the butt plate and grip cap, which hopefully I can do today. If not it will be over the weekend. Thank you everyone for your...

Getting there.

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Greg, the bluing is really good and I will not have to refinish the Marlin. It has a few beauty marks, but I'm good with it. I appreciate the comments from everyone.

The 50/50 mixture worked out...

uscra112.............Thank you very much.

Well back to posting some pics. I decided to start working the wood since I was able to get most of the paint off the metal with the plastic ruler...

FYI, getting the paint off the stock was a chore. I first tried some Citristrip to help soften the paint and it really didn't work out too well. So "725" made me a nice metal scrapper the other day...

Fordwanabe,

You right about the .38-55 conversion. I've always taken the attitude of shooting a rifle first, unless it's a real beater. Now this was my beater rifle that I brought back as a .375...

Hello Greg,

Thank you. I will keep everyone updated on the Marlin progress. The Marlin is looking really good and the ruler is not marring the finish. So right now the plan looks like I will leave...

A quick update, the plastic ruler scraping technique is working out really good.

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The project is moving along and instead of trying heavy chemicals or bead blasting on the action/barrel I decided to try this first. I took this old plastic ruler (I have two of them) and I held it...

The project begins. Click on the pics to straighten them out.

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Under "Muzzleloading" on this forum I posted the following thread titled "Trail Guns Armory Kodiak - Lead Stock". You will see a very unique painted .58 Kodiak double rifle. While waiting for certain...

I am still waiting for the cerakoted parts for the Kodiak, "but" I thought I would share a funny follow up to this Kodiak project. The family of the Kodiak owner who passed away brought to my dealer...

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I have been shooting flintlocks for a "long time" to include many hunts with them. I understand you concern on having a budget flintlock that's not junk. A bit of an issue is that I've...

FYI, I am still waiting for the parts to be cerakoted since the guy who does the work at my dealer came down sick with Covid. The rear sights on this Kodiak were rusted up good on the screws to the...

FYI, I went up to the shop of "725" this afternoon and we casted up the lead from the Kodiak stock. I was able to cast up (35) .570 RB's from my Tanner brass mold. There was a fair bit of slag that...

Baltimoreed,

There is a bit of a shine from my shop lights from the last coat of linseed oil. Here are a couple pics outside in the sunlight. C.Latch, thank you for your comments.

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Stock is done, just waiting for the parts to be finished.

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Lags,

That is exactly what is going to happen. I'm planning on casting this old lead into .570 RB's with my Tanner mold. I want use those RB's to take a deer or two this season with the Kodiak.
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