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    over-filed breech plug

    Birddog and all the rest of you: thanks for your input. I talked with the nice folks at Rice Barrels (it's not a Getz, as I stated earlier). They were kind and said that my screw up is not unusual :redface: . They will replace my breechplug for a very nominal fee, so I'm going to send it...
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    over-filed breech plug

    To clarify my situation, when the marks line up and the plug stops against the bbl, the plug end is seated on the bbl shoulder (using Prussian blue). However, from this point, I can rotate the plug another half flat using a moderate amount of force on a 12" wrench. My problem's very similar to...
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    over-filed breech plug

    Thank you all for your responses. Yes, the dovetails are cut on the bottom flat, so rotating a single flat is not an option. But maybe there's enough pressure between the plug face and the barrel shoulder as is, even though I'm able to go another 1/16 turn past the marks? Is it a rule of...
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    over-filed breech plug

    I may have messed up big time. I got a .40 Getz barrel with my Chambers York kit. The breech plug came match marked. I took it out to do the inletting, but wasn't able to generate enough torque to get it back in to the marks. The closest I could get was about half a flat short of the marks...
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    24g fusil vs rabbits

    Does anyone have an estimate of the weight difference between a 20g and 24g 44" barrel? I won't be hunting birds, so mounting speed isn't an issue. But carry weight might be. Don
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    24g fusil vs rabbits

    I am beginning to look forward to my next build, a fusil de chase. If it were to be only a “show” gun, I would mount it with a 24g barrel. However, it will also be my trekking/squirrel/rabbit gun. I have no experience with 24g cylinder bore guns, modern or otherwise, and so I am wondering...
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    Bushy Run Battlefield slated for closure!

    Support of programs like this come from taxes. Many folks, including most who participate in this forum (I presume) don't want to pay taxes. So how then can we complain when budget cuts hit close to home? Should we cut back on bridge maintenance, or close a public school, or etc so Bushy Run...
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    barrel inletting

    This is a kit with a pre-carved stock, so the barrel channel is already roughly inlet for the barrel. Since the barrel is swamped, I can't use it as a gauge. I've already fine-tuned the inlet well enough to allow the barrel to drop partially into the channel. Now I'm trying to find the last...
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    barrel inletting

    I’m making progress on my Chamber’s York kit. I have the barrel partially inlet (down to the side flats) along its entire length, but can’t figure out where I need to remove more wood from the sidewalls to allow it to drop in to the bottom of the channel. When I soot the barrel and tap it into...
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    touch hole liner PLACEMENT

    Fred, I presume you're talking about the geometry of the wrist being forced to change to accommodate the tang and breech being moved back? Since my stock is a pre-carve, does what you said still apply? If so, is there anything I could do to reduce the impact of moving the barrel rearward? Thanks
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    touch hole liner PLACEMENT

    But Fred, if I only move the barrel back, then the relationship of the lock, trigger, and trigger guard won't change. Right? On my next build, I'm going to shorten the breech plug 3/8" and have the best of all worlds.
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    touch hole liner PLACEMENT

    My stock is pre-inlet, including the channel for the swamped barrel. But I see no reason why I couldn't move the barrel rearward 1/4" to maintain the TH-pan relationship and still move the TH forward of the plug face. The barrel inlet is tight enough to allow this without gapping, I think...
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    touch hole liner PLACEMENT

    There has been a lot of discussion about touch hole liners (and I’ve read it all) and I’m not here to re-hash the merits of with vs. without. But I think there’s one question I'm still confused about: assuming you’ve decided to use a liner, do you position the liner clear of the front of the...
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    Touch Hole Liners?

    In recent conversation, Jim Chambers recommended the leaded steel liner only for exhibition guns, since the liner's thin land would erode very quickly (only a few hundred shots). He also said he thought Birchwood Casey makes a solution that will brown stainless steel, and so would help hide...
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    Why you might want to weigh-sort cast RBs ...

    As a point of comparison, I weighed 40 .530 Hornady (swaged) balls from a single box. They averaged 224.4 grains, with a std dev of 0.98 grains. The distribution tested to be very normal. That means that only 18 out of 40 were within +/-0.5 grains. Don
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    Developing a Load-What would your next step be?

    Do you find that your point of impact drifts until the fouling stabilizes? If so, how do you deal with it in the field? Don
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    Developing a Load-What would your next step be?

    If you clean after every shot, how do you explain your first-shot fliers, which you attributed to a lack of fouling. After the the barrel fouled for follow-on shots, you reported that your goups tightened up. I ask because I've struggled with the same problem. I clean carefully after every...
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    long-term storage of pre-carved stock

    I've had another pleasant conversation with Barbie Chambers. She said that their goal is to inlet the barrel channel so that the barrel drops in without any further wood removal, other than at the breech. Their York only comes with a B-weight barrel, so it's unlikely that a mistake was made...
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    long-term storage of pre-carved stock

    No, I haven't called Chambers since I presumed what I got was right. And maybe it is... This is my first build, so maybe I was just too wimpy about trying to push the barrel into its inlet, being afraid of breaking out the fore end sidewalls. I'll give Chambers a call. Thanks, Don
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    Engraving and carving

    Why? Don
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