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Improving the safety notch on the 1858 Remingtons. IMG_20200308_152204432_HDR~3 by Huckleberry posted Mar 8, 2020 at 9:30 PM You can see on the steel model the unmodified hammer barely resting in the safety in the foreground with most of the light showing through the top part of the cylinder...

IMG_20200228_223649881 by Huckleberry posted Mar 2, 2020 at 11:51 PM Before going shooting IMG_20200228_223217259 by Huckleberry posted Mar 2, 2020 at 11:51 PM IMG_20200307_115257398_HDR by Huckleberry posted Mar 7, 2020 at 12:00 PM A lazy Saturday morning

I'd need an entire thread to go through every different kind of job I've had. Some of the more relevant highlights include; Night Security Staff at the dorms in college while serving as an Infantry Marine Reservist. I was studying to be a pilot but dropped out (no pun intended), bounced around a...

Very nice grouping!

The brass 1851 is my baby. Did some finishing work on the internals of all of them which made an incalculable difference. The 1851 now has a "hair trigger" while the 1858's have a decidedly firmer pull. Part of that comes down to the wider trigger and part from the few hundred rounds I've put...

I haven't tried any fancy recipes yet, still fairly new to this. I took 16 oz. of scented wax cubes, (vanilla cupcake I believe) melted them slow over the stove and then mixed in 2 cups of bearing grease. Filled an old empty boot polish tin, and poured the rest into a Tupperware container. It's...

Yes! Well done!

Work hardening steel disrupts the molecular structure of it. The iron molecules bond with the carbon ones at a specific temperature and form basically a cubic structure, when it's work hardened you deform that structure. Quenching steel freezes the structures before they form a perfect cube. I...

New to bp shooting. Used to be an expert marksman with the M16a2 service rifle. Also carried an M60 then an M249 SAW. Quit shooting altogether for about 20 years. Picked up an 1851 and a couple 1858 revolvers. Enjoying the challenge and brushing up on old skills. Life NRA member as well. Looking...

I'm just here to represent the troll delegation.:thumb: