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    Old style gunsmithing

    I just watched that video and was quite impressed by it:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qTy3uQ...ature=youtu.be

    Impressive skills from a young lad as well.
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    I came across this many years ago and was amazed at what I was watching. I like it that the bore size is just whatever it comes out as, and the bullet mold would be made by the gunsmith to match that rifle.
    The way they forge the barrel is very interesting and the rifling machine is amazing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SixtyTen View Post
    I came across this many years ago and was amazed at what I was watching. I like it that the bore size is just whatever it comes out as, and the bullet mold would be made by the gunsmith to match that rifle.
    The way they forge the barrel is very interesting and the rifling machine is amazing.
    I liked the narrator's comment, "The muzzle end is filed even so that the hole is centered."

    Useful data on barrel proof loads: FOUR times the usual black powder charge with a normal patched ball. Seems a severe test, modern proof loads are to about 1.3x or 1.5x the usual pressure. Not sure the difference in actual pressure between 1X vs 4X BP charges.

    Here is a 2014 tribute to Wallace Gusler, the gunsmith featured. Makes you lust for your own long rifle. His first film certainly must have helped inspire the over 1500 long rifle makers in the USA today.



    He is on youtube now, some 33 detailed videos with him talking through his work in detail, his YouTube channel is called
    The Grumpy Gunsmith of Williamsburg


    Here is his Grumpy Gunsmith video #31, something to do with butts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mimms2 View Post
    Damn cool. That should be in my engineer porn thread. I really need to spend more time with my forge.
    Then for you my friend here is the Gun Porn nasty BDSM/50ShadesOfSwarf/Love80YrOldGranny section. No silver inlay shall be entered into.
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    Very educational and entertaining watch. Thanks for posting it.
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    Jee`s , that`s realy doing it the hard way .

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    300 hours plus materials and overheads. Must be worth around nz$15,000.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 7mmwsm View Post
    Even the number of hours before they proofed it.
    Makes you think of the American founders - right to bear arms etc. Even for a rudimentary smoothbore muzzle loader there is a lot of labour involved, meaning only the middle classes and the rich could meaningfully avail themselves of such a constitutional right.
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    AWESOME watch...thankyou for posting @homebrew.357 I was thinking of you when watched rifling being cut.....

 

 

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