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Eric Krewson:
I may trash it; it is a Bobby Hoyt re-bore from .50 to.54 that he did poorly with several loose spots. I just bought a 38".50 Rice barrel for a Haines rifle. I had some major sticker shock when I looked up what parts cost now; $52 just for a butt plate, they cost about $20 when I bought the parts for the Haines rifle with questionable barrel. I may strip the stock of parts from my current Haines rifle and make a restock with a cherry stock blank I have. I never used the blank because of the big knot; I found out yesterday that my Haines pattern completely misses the knot.

sleek:
Well, I will certainly be following along. You say you may trash it, you mean just the barrel right?

Eric Krewson:
Just the barrel and stock if I do. The lock and all of the furniture is worth about $500. I have a new Kibler lock as well. It will be hard to trash such a beautiful rifle, I could turn it into a safe queen if I decide to keep it intact. I have about a thousand in it and could probably get the barrel rebored to a .58 but that would be sinking another $150 into a flawed project. My work is impecible, the stock had too many flaws to start with.

Here is one flaw that I didn't notice until I was adding finish to the stock; the precarver didn't cut the ramrod channel straight, it has an arc in it.

pierce_schmeichel:
Tell ya what Eric ill take that barrel off your hands if you end up not wanting it!

Eric Krewson:
I bought a NOS B weight .50 Hines Rice Barrel for a bargain; I have a cherry stock blank that has a big knot in it but I found that the Haines pattern layout will miss the knot.

I have never made a rifle completely; I always had someone inlet the barrel and drill the ramrod hole, I did the rest. I decided that a new rifle was in order with me doing everything. So off we go; this will be a LONG project.

The blank was over 3" thick, I sliced off 1/4" to make a pattern out of to cut stock my blank to size. This didn't work, the shop worn Haines plan was all over the place and I couldn't get everything straight.



I decided to use my current Haines rifle to lay out the pattern. To be more exact I am going to pull the barrel to mark the top of the barrel channel more precisely. You can see that I missed the knot in the layout.

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