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Daughters gun...part of it anyway
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jeepwj992002
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Ohh WOW!!!! That wood looks amazing!!! :thumbsup:
bajabuc
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cal....well...the original barrel was drilled out 3/8"..lessee..that'd be .375. the barrel came from a model 95 7mm mauser 3 step. I hand filed it octagon from the breech to the first step and tapered it too. Filed in a wedding ring. then filed out the steps from the ring to the muzzle. Filed one long taper from the ring to the muzzle. Reamed it smooth, and rifled it 4 groves with a rifling bench I built. Tanged it and inlet into the stock. That rock maple stock is three 3/4 inch boards planed and glued together then roughed out on a bandsaw I built out of a bicycle. That was after I inlet it. the mauser barrel was 27.5 inches long. I hacksawed and filed the three lugs and pinned the barrel to the stock and started rasping. I had to hurry cause I never knew when my daughter was going to grow (she didn't) so I didn't try for authentic. I just wanted something a 10 year old could shoot. I used an old pistol flintlock I had laying around. I don't remember where I got it. It might have been in the box of junk I got from an old gunsmiths estate auction...nobody bid and they threw it out.
Good lock...bridle and fly and great sparker.
I consider this to be just a stock job cause I didn't make the barrel or lock. I made everything else though. Start to finish...7days....and I had to build the rifling bench and the bandsaw.
Then...after she shot it twice and said, "There...I hope you're satisfied. I'm never going to shoot it again. I hate blackpowder. It stinks."...I decided that I'd try a green mountain .50 13/16ths across the flats. Reinlet the barrel and my son decided he'd like to try building so I gave him the barrel and the stock's been sitting ever since.
I bought a CVA .50 cal barrel a couple of years ago on Ebay for 5$ plus shipping. Eventually I'm going to file it down to 13/16 and install it. I'll have to make the sights and lugs again and build another trigger guard...and another buttplate and maybe a self-hinged patchbox ...eventually!!
BTW...we had a 50 yard range in the backyard...her first shot took out the 10X on a paper .22 50' pistol target and the second shot made the hole a tiny bit bigger. aaarrrggghhh!!
Taught her how to shoot a pistol and she just transfered the sight picture to a rifle. The pull is 11 inches. She's 36 years old and still wears size 1 shoes. Tiny kid...her daughter is 10 and 2 inches taller than she is. I'll bet that's interesting!!
Good lock...bridle and fly and great sparker.
I consider this to be just a stock job cause I didn't make the barrel or lock. I made everything else though. Start to finish...7days....and I had to build the rifling bench and the bandsaw.
Then...after she shot it twice and said, "There...I hope you're satisfied. I'm never going to shoot it again. I hate blackpowder. It stinks."...I decided that I'd try a green mountain .50 13/16ths across the flats. Reinlet the barrel and my son decided he'd like to try building so I gave him the barrel and the stock's been sitting ever since.
I bought a CVA .50 cal barrel a couple of years ago on Ebay for 5$ plus shipping. Eventually I'm going to file it down to 13/16 and install it. I'll have to make the sights and lugs again and build another trigger guard...and another buttplate and maybe a self-hinged patchbox ...eventually!!
BTW...we had a 50 yard range in the backyard...her first shot took out the 10X on a paper .22 50' pistol target and the second shot made the hole a tiny bit bigger. aaarrrggghhh!!
Taught her how to shoot a pistol and she just transfered the sight picture to a rifle. The pull is 11 inches. She's 36 years old and still wears size 1 shoes. Tiny kid...her daughter is 10 and 2 inches taller than she is. I'll bet that's interesting!!
