Resurrecting a great vintage rifle ( poor photo heavy )

**akaroa1** · 03-03-2024, 08:54 AM

So some research and this image arrives of what the proper hammer might have been like

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Ask around lots of guys and 5 very nice hammers come up from Southland and one from CNI
Fit up the best option and do all the painful work to make it work with the stalking safety as well

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Buy a rough old Boswell leather case

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Make some changes to take the very different parts of the Coster

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Lots of work to remove the lock and remove and repair some broken parts and make a new key.
Reline the new parts with felt and cover the worst of the moth eaten parts with new felt

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