any new handgonne stuff

[freekforge]

Im back again, decided to apply at the police dept. and got the job so i have spent the last few months focusing entirely on training. But im back.

I took my very first gonne out the other day and played with it a bit. it was kinda cool getting that rough and ugly thing out and poking some holes in things. I need to put a new tiller on it since the original was a broom handle from school and has developed a crack that pinches your hand (ouch). Also shot a .62 i made right before things got hectic for the first time and i really like it. i put a hickory tiller on it then blackened it. finished it with olive oil on 600 grit and it feels so good in the hand and looks good with matte silver barrel and black wood.

Im wanting to do a nicer gonne with a tapered octagonal tiller. dad bought a tapered octagonal curly maple walking stick blank at friendship and made it all fancy and it is just screaming for a gonne to be mounted on it. but he needs it to walk so i think i already know the answer to that question.

 

[Jumpshot]

Welcome back. Wow, a cop. Pretty cool. But I guess you won't be carrying a handgonne, huh? :wink:

Nothing new for me lately, just occasionally taking the boomsticks out to shoot. Making noise and smoke while not hitting anything in particular. :grin: But still fun.

My collection as it stands now:

This one was accidentally left out of those pictures.

 

[BillinOregon]

That's a wonderful collection you have there Jumpshot. Are you turning those yourself?
Welcome back, Freekforge. Congratulations on the new job.

 

[Jumpshot]

Are you turning those yourself?

No, I'm not a machinist. I buy them and make a tiller for them. I usually leave the barrels as they are but I've painted three of them, and I might paint another one soon just because I'm bored. :haha:

Over half the barrels in my collection were made by Freekforge.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Lovely collection....Ever hunt anything with them?

 

[freekforge]

do you think they would notice if i put a gonne in the holster and a tomahawk in my baton loop :hmm: . It was a really last minute decision i was sitting one night and said "I'm bored" filled out the app and dropped it off the next day.today will be my first saturday off in months.

Would you mind if i saved a couple of those pictures? kind of cool looking back at what i've made.

squirrel season opened here on the 15th so i want to take a .62 or .75 gonne out and see what i can do. My cousin managed to connect with one a while back, i may have posted about that here.

 

[cynthialee]

Now I could see hunting with the matchlock long gun above, but trying to hunt with a gonne....what are groups at 25 yards with one of those things? Now I suppose one could get good with enough practice, especially the one with the matchlock type lever trigger. But still seems it would be hard to shoot one accurately.

 

[Jumpshot]

Ever hunt anything with them?

Just paper targets. But even they usually get away. :surrender:

Would you mind if i saved a couple of those pictures? kind of cool looking back at what i've made.

Go for it.

 

[Jumpshot]

what are groups at 25 yards with one of those things?

A couple of mine, fired from the hip, holding it with one hand while providing ignition with the other; not the most accurate method. Also, patching the ball for a snug fit rather than dropping a bare ball down the bore might help a bit.

 

[BillinOregon]

I'd hate to be standing around at 25 yards in front of your gonnes, Jumpshot.

 

[cynthialee]

bet you could tighten that shot pattern into a group if it was fired from under the arm with the pole set firm in the armpit.

Now that one with the match tiller...you have to be getting better results with that one?

 

[Jumpshot]

bet you could tighten that shot pattern into a group if it was fired from under the arm with the pole set firm in the armpit.

That's a bit easier, but I've found the hold for best accuracy is over the shoulder, holding the tiller with both hands. This way you can get a cheek weld on it as you would with a rifle, so you can sight down the length of it. Much better shot placement. Although doing this requires the ignition be provided by a second person. That's why I used a fuse in this video with one of my small .50s, I was demonstrating the hold but recording it by myself.

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Now that one with the match tiller...you have to be getting better results with that one?

Not really. That one isn't easy to shoot. It's a .75 and I made a large tiller from hemlock to go with it. It's fun to shoot but a bit unwieldy.

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[Spiridonov12]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ctYya7Bec&t=144s

 

[browntrout]

Wow! You guys are masters of this stuff!