kBob
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Decade or so ago arrived at a yard sale just as every gun "worth having" was changing hands. This was all that was left. Spanish I think CVA and was told .45 caliber.n I was told it was terribly innacurate but had taken deer and those are teeth from them on the medicine band. The gun was in awful shape and had a badly cold blued barrel and slathered on clear paint type finish over some sort of wood stain. The front sight and back were also on backwards each facing the wrong way.
I sanded the stock down to bare cheap plain wood did some light shaping and then attempted to stain it with tobacco stain I made. Well the Euro birch or what ever would have nothing of the tobacco after several coats and aging so I gave up and on a whim made a stain from the hulls of that years pecans from my tree. I think the stain came out well and have used it on some other things (BTW the tobacco did work on a 10-22 birch stock). At the time we had a couple of bee hives and in keeping with the home brew idea I hand rubbed some bees wax from our hive into the wood, set it out in the sun rubbed it some more and called it macaronii. I cleaned up the brass in that I sanded out some lines and I thought the top of the but plate was mote spear like than cresent shaped so I took it down as far as I could without breaking through to the void on the inside. The lock I just scrubbed down and was happy with. I pulled the beech screw and nipple bolster and sanded the barrel smooth and clean but not what would be called polished, heated it with a butane torch a bit and slathered on Berch Wood Casey Plum Brown, Used some old .44-40 to blue the rear sight and put the barrel all back to gether and assembeled the rifle.
The rifle is one of the cheap kits with the two piece stock and that suede band covers the to me ugly joint. As I said the deer teeth are supposedly from deer taken with the rifle and the "scalp lock" is from the tail of our now passed on appaloosa.
When it came time to shoot it I found out why it was innacurate for it's original owner or atleast the guy I got it from.....it was not a .45 but appeaerently a .50!
I posted a shot of this gun leaned against one of our oaks years ago and since it has hung quietly from the wall of the living room where it occassionally is noticed by visitors. It was a lot of fun for $40 and $20 worth of supplies and I would jump on such a yard sale find again in a New York minute.
-kBob
OK Sorry posted in the wrong area must have clicked in to the wrong place after having timed out Sorry
Well thankfully it was quickly moved as in minutes.
I sanded the stock down to bare cheap plain wood did some light shaping and then attempted to stain it with tobacco stain I made. Well the Euro birch or what ever would have nothing of the tobacco after several coats and aging so I gave up and on a whim made a stain from the hulls of that years pecans from my tree. I think the stain came out well and have used it on some other things (BTW the tobacco did work on a 10-22 birch stock). At the time we had a couple of bee hives and in keeping with the home brew idea I hand rubbed some bees wax from our hive into the wood, set it out in the sun rubbed it some more and called it macaronii. I cleaned up the brass in that I sanded out some lines and I thought the top of the but plate was mote spear like than cresent shaped so I took it down as far as I could without breaking through to the void on the inside. The lock I just scrubbed down and was happy with. I pulled the beech screw and nipple bolster and sanded the barrel smooth and clean but not what would be called polished, heated it with a butane torch a bit and slathered on Berch Wood Casey Plum Brown, Used some old .44-40 to blue the rear sight and put the barrel all back to gether and assembeled the rifle.
The rifle is one of the cheap kits with the two piece stock and that suede band covers the to me ugly joint. As I said the deer teeth are supposedly from deer taken with the rifle and the "scalp lock" is from the tail of our now passed on appaloosa.
When it came time to shoot it I found out why it was innacurate for it's original owner or atleast the guy I got it from.....it was not a .45 but appeaerently a .50!
I posted a shot of this gun leaned against one of our oaks years ago and since it has hung quietly from the wall of the living room where it occassionally is noticed by visitors. It was a lot of fun for $40 and $20 worth of supplies and I would jump on such a yard sale find again in a New York minute.
-kBob
OK Sorry posted in the wrong area must have clicked in to the wrong place after having timed out Sorry
Well thankfully it was quickly moved as in minutes.
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