Inletting the Barrel & Tang:
I took a pattern for a Southern Mountain rifle and laid it out
onto a blank piece of walnut. Traced the pattern and then cut it out.
Next I drew a center line down the stock and measured out for
the 1-1/8" barrel channel. I removed wood down to the depth of 1/4",
which is 1/2 the barrel flat of the barrel. Once this was done, then I created a
channel 1/2" wide and 9/16" deep down the center. Using a
3/8" chisel 
I
removed the wood from sides down to the center flat. This created my octagon
channel.
Once this was completed, I laid the barrel in the channel with
candle soot to ensure the barrel bottom flat was consistent and made good
contact with the bottom flat of the barrel. 
Next I had to mark the stock in the breech area to move the barrel farther back into the breech area of the stock. I used a ruler aligned against the barrel flats and extended the pencil lines.
In order to make sure I had a flat wall at the breech, I
sooted the end of the barrel and mark the wood. I removed exposed wood till I
had an even marking on the stock to indicate I had tight fit of the barrel
against the end of the stock in the breech. 
Now I can mark out the location of the barrel tang so I can now inlet this into
the stock.
I removed the wood for the base of the tang. 
Then
I lowered the barrel into the cut-out, traced the tang after I bent it to
conform to the shape of the wrist and removed the wood to the proper
depth.
Now I can file the metal tang down to the wood. 
Now the next step was to draw file the whole barrel and shape the stock so I can pin the barrel to the stock.
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