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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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Running out of quality lockdown time

So new posts and backing board on the 200m range and a bit of scrub cut that was starting to encroach
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There's a solid permanent bench in a small gap...

I'm looking forward to finding a mid 20th century rifle worthy of putting my own Leupold Alaskan scope on

I guess it might also be a martini
But finding interesting ones like that 218 bee isn't...

Tentman will like this

Done properly this time
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One last burst in the workshop before I go back to work at level 3

A very custom scope mounting rail
Quite a lot of machining doing the top side
Tomorrow the barrel profile and taper to do on...

Looks like I'm going to need to find a decent left handed .22 target rifle fast !

Finished them all just before the 3pm C19 level briefing
So then I can decide which project to rip into next based on the level settings for the next few days / weeks
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Polished one to P220 this morning

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Nearly finished the third one I need
Will finish that tomorrow and then tidy up the surfaces and install one on my 6.8SPC barrel

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Here we go again

Just finished this barrel band for G2 contender
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homebrew.357 how's the roller going ?

I'm dreaming up ideas with the next lot of offcut barrels

And then I milled the heavy flat rib to a nice curve and think i have found what will work when I do the double rifle barrels

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And a curved top rib test
Went better than the flat one
Lots to learn

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Got some silver solder and non corrosive flux in hand
So did my first laying top rib test piece

Can only improve with practice.
Certainly nice and strong and can't get it off

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I have been chipping away at my double rifle project.
That will still be going for the next pandemic

But I have been matching a pile of castings and doing drive wheels and shafts for a high...

The whole idea of a double rifle is a big hole in the barrel

No not parralel.
Lots of taper at the mono block easing out to a fairly straight taper from the fore end to the muzzle.

It's more obvious looking back from the muzzles

Another double rifle day
Turned some barrels in the wood lathe to try and sort profiles and start on the ribs while the barrels are being made.
Also a good template for the barrel makers copy lathe...

Back on to the double rifle mono block

Chucked up using a locating spud
The chamber's aren't parallel to each other so they have to be done one at a time.
Faced off
Reamed
Threaded for about...