FrontierGander
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I got tired of the ugly cheap feeling tru-oil finish i used on my traditions kentucky. I stipped it down and used 7 coats of birchwood casey rusty walnut and currently am up to 8 coats of Antique formula original oil finish. I am still deciding on how many coats to use before i like the finish.
Her pet load is 110gr 3f goex, .015 patch and a home cast .490 round ball.
The other rifle is a CVA Hawken .54cal It originally had a dark orange color finish, didnt look to bad but it had some battle wounds and i wanted to play around with it. This rifle first had 2 coats of BC rusty walnut applied then 3 coats of a mixture of rustywalnut / minwax American walnut and then 3 coats of regual BC walnut. I only have 3 coats of Antique formula original oil finish on it now, i am applying one coat per day to let it slowly suck up the oil.
Beautiful beech wood this rifle has.
Her pet load is 110gr 3f goex, .015 patch and a home cast .490 round ball.
The other rifle is a CVA Hawken .54cal It originally had a dark orange color finish, didnt look to bad but it had some battle wounds and i wanted to play around with it. This rifle first had 2 coats of BC rusty walnut applied then 3 coats of a mixture of rustywalnut / minwax American walnut and then 3 coats of regual BC walnut. I only have 3 coats of Antique formula original oil finish on it now, i am applying one coat per day to let it slowly suck up the oil.
Beautiful beech wood this rifle has.