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As a side note to all this, What did you put on the call to get the tiger stripe to show up that well? Chromium triozide....it was used on vintage maple rifle stocks. It's very hazardous
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The true, old time craftsmen used a piece of rusted wrought iron and a fairly strong nitric acid treatment. Then worked the wood surface with a torch or other heat source. Gave the very same end result...........without the brain damage associated with very hazardous chemicals.
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Nope. Never met him. But I suspect YOU are very closely related to him.
Watched my old buddy..........one of the most talented, respected (have someone explain "respect" to you) and sought after flintlock builders in the northeast use the method I described MANY times.
Maybe you should read up on it.
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I bet you did....I got my info from Turner Kirkland at Dixie Gun Works. I guess you don't know who he is.
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I bet you did....I got my info from Turner Kirkland at Dixie Gun Works. I guess you don't know who he is. Nope. I don't. I do know of DGW. Betcha he knows my late buddy's name.
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He's dead.....the Kirklands are single handedly responsible for the muzzleloading upsurge before they came out with all the modern crap they call muzzle loaders today.
Study up.
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Just looked him up.
Passed in 1997. Same year as my buddy.
GUARAN-FREAKIN-TEED they knew one another.
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You have one of this guys guns ?....post a picture
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My buddy's widow just passed this spring. But she gave me a stick of walnut and one of cherry from his shop. Two pieces of wood that gun builders around here would give their left nuts for. Gonna have a couple different fellows make me box calls from them.
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You have one of this guys guns ?....post a picture Normally, Luther, I'd tell you to fugg off. But I'm in a good mood and you did ask civilly............. I gotta go to a meeting. If you behave yourself, I'll take a pic and post it up later.
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I dont care about seeing one of his guns unless it belongs to you.
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Nope. He was a turkey hunter, too.
He was a turkey hunter when there were only 4 of us in this entire area.
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You must be 150 years old....
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You must be 150 years old.... Uuuuuuhhhhhhh.................... What ??
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I get the feeling you two are getting closer...It's almost like the Bickerson's. They fought, but the love and affection was there. When are you two going Turkey hunting together? Take pics...please.
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I get the feeling you two are getting closer....
When are you two going Turkey hunting together? I'm thinking maybe the spring of 20-never. Not that its anything not personal.
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I dont care about seeing one of his guns unless it belongs to you. Why does it need to belong to me ?? Is this your sentimental side coming out ???
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I get the feeling you two are getting closer...It's almost like the Bickerson's. They fought, but the love and affection was there. When are you two going Turkey hunting together? Take pics...please. I took a pic with my foot on a skunks neck one time....never shot me a Yoder. I got a lot of mileage out of that dead skunk photo I took it special for a hOt shot internet turkey hunter that got hiz azz skunked that year..... I dropped the turkey I was toting and chased that skunk 50 yards to get the shot my buddy thought I was crAzy....after I shot it my buddy came walking up I said hold my gun while I get a picture.
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I don't hunt with skunks.
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