Walnut Blueing an H&R 12GA

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oK we've got this thing out of the wall that died now and I've got a small package of furniture tax here got my multi-tool in my pocket got a pistol here a small cock hammer and I've got an old grizzly Ken here and what I'm going to do is I want to kind of tack this gun up a little bit to make it look a little more rustic but I want to do that while still wet from being the die because that will help keep the split in the wood once it dries out then I'm going to oil it up real good with towel anyway hopefully keep that from happening but the tacks going in what is a good idea so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take and just draw myself a circle on the buttstock

okay we pretty much got the stock done and I just heat up pull an arrow right here to line tacks on this side nothing fancy this is circle attacks here with a little design in there and free tax up the side there's nothing fancy you know just trying to make it look a little bit more like a rustic trade gun we're going to go ahead and put some tacks up the forearm guard as well or the handguard and then I've got oil this stuff up and we'll look at the barrel okay I got to learn the tacks on both sides of the foregrip now nothing fancy there just you know just to add a little bit of decorative value to it as all that's what it's going to look like you know what it's done on the gun and now I've got to start working on the barrel get this stuff you can see it's get a nice brown color to it now patina and that's from drying out after beating that walnut dot let me be exposed to the oxygen for a little while to brown it up I'm going to call that Ross that's okay but I'm going to sand all that down smooth it out with some steel wool and then I'm going to oil this thing up real good hope it'll retain that brown color finish and I'm sure the duck stock will get a little bit darker as well once I go to putting up oil on here it's going to darken that stock up a little bit too okay well I'm waiting on this barrel I'm going to go ahead and start using some of this toilet I've got rendered down here on the rest of this gun you can see this stuff's pretty hard at room temperature all right outside temperature which is a good thing so now it's going to be just a matter of getting it on this rag and rubbing it in and I want to make sure that I rub it into every little nook and cranny of this gun including the wood parts including the metal parts all of it because I want a good seal on this thing and this towel will help protect it real well okay we've got our barrel out of the walnut die now that we had it in overnight and expose it to oxygen for a couple hours it's got a real hazy gray look to it now it's got some brown staining on it I like that got a lot of brown staining up here around the breech I like that that's exactly what I was looking for now I'll seal this thing up with some of this towel oh you know just like I did the rest of the gun and it will Brown over time probably a little bit more but this is what I'm looking for I'm looking for a rustic looking gun you know to use in the 21st century long hunter methodology here I'm looking for something that's as close to a flintlock as I could find us a modern gun and a smoothbore 12 gauge or a smoothbore 20 gauge would be about the closest you can get to a modern firearm that would emulate a flintlock or a musket okay because you can see a black powder out of this or you can shoot modern powder a single shot and it's a smoothbore that pretty much fits the bill the only difference is it doesn't have flint and steel technology it has a priming cap which by the 19th century you know they had that as well they were using cap lock type guns so this fits right in with what I'm trying to do the very versatile weapon and that's what's important is the versatility factor figuring out what's versatile you know a lot of people ask me what gun is a good survival gun and I always tell them 12-gauge because if anything ever happens you know every farmhouse outhouse and head house is going to have 12-gauge it they're not all going to have 760 by 39 so this fits right in with what I'm doing it fits riding with my experimental archaeology I think you're gonna put this gun back together now

looks like know one thing about these old single shots web pages is I've got a big hole bored into the buttstock right here that's used to put the bolt in there it holds it to the breech or the bottom trigger assembly and all of that stuff so you can utilize that to your advantage you know many times in the 17 1800 s they had a patch box on the side of their rifle and musket that would open up and it would carry things like their turn screw cleaning patches ball pullers and things of that nature and you could put those same types of things if you needed them into this hole you know it doesn't take a lot to clean a smoothbore 12-gauge that's the beauty of it and even when black-powder fouls it up unlock the flintlock where you basically had to flush it to clean it because you can open this up and straight through so you can clean the black-powder out of this very easy so it would be nothing to take a piece of heavy backline you know in a piece of cloth of some kind or a piece of steel wool and drop the bank line through with a toggle on the end of it and pull it straight through the barrel to clean it out you can store those kind of items in this bus stock if you wanted to or you could store emergency fire devices of some kind of nur if you chose to do so but any type of gear that you can put in there it's just wasted space to this point because it's drilled out so you can store something in there okay here we go guys we got it back together now looks like she's ready to rock you can see if you tax on there and stuff just make it look a little more rustic it's browned up a little bit now to brown up more in the future I've got to make a sling forward of some sort I've got to think about that before I do it most of the slings back in the day or either finger woven of some kind of rope or twine or they were made from on a loom or they were leather so I got to think about that see what I'm going to do with that but I'm happy with the gun and happy with it turned out and you know a single shot 12-gauge is definitely the modern equivalent of the long hunter's musket refusal the guys I'm Dave Canterbury with the Pathfinder school hope you enjoyed this video I'll be back with another one real soon I'm really enjoying this 21st century long Hunter series this is really kind of the way I started in my investigation of survival and self-reliance so I hope you're enjoying it too and in the meantime stay safe in the woods I'll be back as soon as I can you