Thread: Hawkins plains rifle project

Hi, All, a few stuff ups on my part is holding up getting a good group out of this rifle. #one, fired two shots with P/Rball, 3rd shot no powder in the barrel, Aaaah!, I now have a tool for removing a stuck lead ball. Stuff up#two, loading 60gs fffg with 220gr bullet, shot was good at 50m, hit at 2oclock on target, cleaned bore with damp patch, and then dry one ,whole jag end and patch stay in the barrel, AAAaah!, I`m learning. Anyway some more pics of how I drilled the barrel, I used a car power steering pump for the oil pressure feed to the gun drill, pic 175 shows the oil at 200 psi, pic 174 is the set up with the drill going in through the plastic chip and oil box,pic #092 is how I made the lathe for barrel drilling and gearing it down for slow in feed.home brew.357.