Thread: Black Powder Witchcraft. Regulating a BP Double Rifle

can you powder coat the funky balls to bring up to closer to size????

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

can you powder coat the funky balls to bring up to closer to size????

A decent thick coat of powder coat only adds a surface cost of 1 thou
So not really

The belted ball moulds James Tanner makes are awesome and the rifle deserves a good mould

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

can you powder coat the funky balls to bring up to closer to size????

@Micky Duck I cringed at the description funky ball as that mould was made one Saturday morning on a machine made to turn commutators using measurements taken with a steel rule and no gun present so to me it was a marvel of engineering.
It is not a target rifle and got the gun shooting.
Also after more than 40 years of shooting it David pointed out several features I had never noticed before such as the fact that left and right barrels had left and right twist damascus and the twist in the barrel mirrored each other at the muzzle.

Originally Posted by Tedz50

@Micky Duck I cringed at the description funky ball as that mould was made one Saturday morning on a machine made to turn commutators using measurements taken with a steel rule and no gun present so to me it was a marvel of engineering.
It is not a target rifle and got the gun shooting.
Also after more than 40 years of shooting it David pointed out several features I had never noticed before such as the fact that left and right barrels had left and right twist damascus and the twist in the barrel mirrored each other at the muzzle.

my apolagies if I have caused offence..... when looking at these large projectiles I cant help but think of the black cloud shotgun loads that made a revolutionary change to bird shot by putting a ring like saturn has around round shot to make it cut better and fly crooked,opening patterns LOL,,,( insert something about reinventing the wheel here) your tone would suggest you had a hand in making that mould???? maybe you could restore faith by doing so again and making next one a flyturn larger??? now the "shrinking qualities of purelead" was mentioned in calculations..my warped brain doth wonder if something with slightly less or more shrinkage inclined ,may indeed make one or tother indeed much closer to ideal...climate change does induce much shrinkage to certain appendages on these frosty morings

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

my apolagies if I have caused offence..... when looking at these large projectiles I cant help but think of the black cloud shotgun loads that made a revolutionary change to bird shot by putting a ring like saturn has around round shot to make it cut better and fly crooked,opening patterns LOL,,,( insert something about reinventing the wheel here) your tone would suggest you had a hand in making that mould???? maybe you could restore faith by doing so again and making next one a flyturn larger??? now the "shrinking qualities of purelead" was mentioned in calculations..my warped brain doth wonder if something with slightly less or more shrinkage inclined ,may indeed make one or tother indeed much closer to ideal...climate change does induce much shrinkage to certain appendages on these frosty morings

No offense was taken merely pointing out tongue in cheek it was basic engineering to fill a need.
I acquired this gun in I believe 1979 and it did not come with a mould so I made one and although it looked crude it worked I later bought a Brunswick mould but found it was made for the military Brunswick musket.
I am in awe of David's skill and am watching this gun get a whole new life.