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    building new .30

    I already have a line of properly spaced holes pre-drilled to adjust the distance between the clamps. And yes the barrel is round because I generally work with tube.
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    building new .30

    barrel is 40" inches and the lock is a large siler I picked up off the trade blanket lightly used for $50
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    building new .30

    Got the barrel inlet and the ramrod channel cut and drilled
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    building new .30

    Home again finally, and I decided to build another of my .30's Had to work on my Harbor Freight work bench, I have rebuilt it several times, we will see how this works. So here we are me and Claude the wonder dog watching it rain and whittling away.
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    First Build!

    I built my own ramrod drills by a similar method, worked great.
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    kid gun need advise

    Yea that's about what I expected 20 gauge or better and 40+ inches. I really need to meet them in person and watch him shoulder a few different things and like you fellows suggested look at what he is shooting now. I really like working with kids but that first experience is important...
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    kid gun need advise

    I recently received an offer to build a gun for a eight year old boy, he is big for his age and already handling a pump gun on ducks. His dad wants to build him a smoke pole and I like to help kids who are interested. Only problem is I don't know nutting about hunting ducks. The dad wants it to...
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    ribbed trade gun thimbles, how to.

    Kit Ravenshear put out the plans for a forming plate to make Ramrod pipes. Worked great, you could prolly make a couple dozen in an hour and a half. Made mine from a piece of angle iron so it could be held in a vise, worked great. I believe Track of the Wolf carries all of his pamphlets.
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    something to snicker at

    Looks good to me, gun building is a performance art. You can talk about it all day, read lots of how to books but, sooner or later it all has to come out the ends of your fingers. Will you make mistakes, yes sir and so will I. But you will learn and apply it to the next build, it's part of the...
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    Burst Barrel

    Any barrel can fail given the right conditions. Instead of slinging mud in advance of the facts, a few tests and some research can give facts that could educate us all. The real truth is sometimes we never really know what causes some of these failures. These men are seasoned shooters, not...
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    Burst Barrel

    Crankyman Most of the muzzle obstruction failures I have seen peel the halves back in a curl when they split like this, or bulge at the failure point. This seem to make this scenario less likely but not impossible. Smokeless powder failures tend to produce these long splits, but tend towards...
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    Help Barrel Problem!

    He didn't just boil it in bleach he left it there a while
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    Burst Barrel

    Crankyman. I too am very interested in modeling this failure, But more importantly I am thankfull that your friend was unhurt. You don't get many free passes in gun failures, thank GOD for this one.
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    First try at a powder horn

    Doesn't matter if the squirrels laugh when you go in the woods, as long as your laughing when you leave the woods.
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    Help Barrel Problem!

    Journeyman, Posts like this educate us all, I for one am very interested.
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    Help Barrel Problem!

    Journeyman, if I understand your question correctly you want to know two things. #1 will the barrel fail because it is made from DOM Tubing, and #2 In the event of a failure would it be better if the energy was vented upwards or downwards. #1 if Mr Brown used a quality tubing, and properly...
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    Could a steel pipe bung be milled into a hooked Breech plug?

    Are you talking about a standard hardware store pipe plug? Because those fittings are mostly cast metal, in my line of work when we demo pipe we seldom unscrew it. Generally we take a 4lb hammer and just bust the fittings. Those plugs/bungs are cast from the same metal, and would have similar...
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    Proud of My son...shooting

    thanks, the gun looks great. If he keeps shootin like that he'll be kickin us old codgers's butts. A deer would've been nice true but I like pig alot, in fact I plan on dying of pork poisining.
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    Proud of My son...shooting

    Sweet dude, great story with the best possible outcome. I seem to recall though you said something about posting pictures of this gun (in an earlier post) would love to see how it came out.
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    Alex Efremenko Tvlle Fusil De Chasse heads north.

    I don't know when the last moose was killed with one of those but, I bet the next one won't be far off.
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