Thread: Self isolation gun projects

Originally Posted by marky123

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That looks like time well spent and hours and hours of gun fun

details Marky...details

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

details Marky...details

5000 x .401 pc coated 175gn truncated cone bundles of fun Micky boy!

Pulled this apart and reoiled the stock, cleaned up the lock and I'm 6 coats into the barrel browning. It'll be ready for spring hunting.
Photo is before starting.

Originally Posted by Ross Nolan

Pulled this apart and reoiled the stock, cleaned up the lock and I'm 6 coats into the barrel browning. It'll be ready for spring hunting.
Photo is before starting.

Yo, those boots could do with some browning too!

But really nice musket there, looking 👍

I keep those boots so I can pretend that I am still capable of work. I think the guys can see through me, but so far they are polite about it.

The rifle is a .54, with a 1:66' twist for roundballs - 230 grains of soft lead goodness starting off @1700 fps.

Originally Posted by Ross Nolan

The rifle is a .54, with a 1:66' twist for roundballs - 230 grains of soft lead goodness starting off @1700 fps.

@Ross Nolan nice rifle and even better it's left handed

I have three proper left hand MLs and some wrong handed ones

More info
Own build, finishing someone else's project or a kit ?

It's a Jim Chambers English sporting rifle kit, with a L&R left handed round faced lock and Rice barrel. Chambers used their RH stock for the kit, but didn't inlet the lock.

I'm happy with it - light, accurate and plenty of poke. I built an aperture sight that dovetails into the tang and doesn't look too out of place because it was put together as a hunting rifle and I'm not 16 any more....

Originally Posted by Ross Nolan

It's a Jim Chambers English sporting rifle kit, with a L&R left handed round faced lock and Rice barrel. Chambers used their RH stock for the kit, but didn't inlet the lock.

I'm happy with it - light, accurate and plenty of poke. I built an aperture sight that dovetails into the tang and doesn't look too out of place because it was put together as a hunting rifle and I'm not 16 any more....Attachment 177105

Very nice
That's what I like to see

Yes not 16 anymore but when you were 16 you had other things on your mind and flintlock rifles wasn't one of them

Unusual that the lock is on the left, I can only remember muzzle loaders having their lock on the right. (And being a lefty that makes for a certain amount of trepidation when firing)

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

Unusual that the lock is on the left, I can only remember muzzle loaders having their lock on the right. (And being a lefty that makes for a certain amount of trepidation when firing)

Left hand locks were uncommon on single shot rifles
But they were made for double barrel rifles and shotguns
So not unheard of

The left hand back action lock on my .72 musket is likely to have come off a scrapped out double barrel shotgun

Original left hand single barrel guns are practically unknown, but I'm blind in my right eye and pretty protective of the left one - so a left hand lock gets the nod.

That said, I'd rather shoot a right hand flinter than a right handed cap gun - caps spray stuff everywhere. Of course, when you build one, you can build whatever you want, so left hand lock it is..

Yes percussion caps do regularly spit bits in the face that are hot and stick on

Flinters don't have this issue

My next muzzleloader build is going to be a percussion big bore and I'm considering using musket caps because they are less likely to spit out hot pieces
They are also easier to place on the nipple when hunting due to size and the small wings on them

What about a Mortimer..... maybe .62

Or this
https://americanlongrifles.org/forum...?topic=66472.0

Originally Posted by Ross Nolan

What about a Mortimer..... maybe .62

Or this
https://americanlongrifles.org/forum...?topic=66472.0

A high pressure 577 with big conicals will be the next build

.62 patched round balls are starting to work if it is rifled
My .72 musket is easy to shoot and accurate enough but not for much more than 75m