English Bar

[AndyJ]

What is it and what is it used for?
Thanks
Tom

 

[TFoley]

What's the context?

It could be anything from a place to get a drink with an 'English flair' to a fitting on a gun of some kind.

You can never give us too much information, but right now you've given us zilch.

How are we going to help you?

 

[AndyJ]

What's the context?

It could be anything from a place to get a drink with an 'English flair' to a fitting on a gun of some kind.

You can never give us too much information, but right now you've given us zilch.

How are we going to help you?

I’m building a percussion Rigby target rifle and the catalog says along with the lock an English bar aught to be used.

 

[Phil Coffins]

This lock has that bar, the metal piece on top of the lock in front of the nipple.

 

[TFoley]

Ahah.

 

[52Bore]

Deflects debris…

 

[52Bore]

Rigby
Note the front of his lock plate and how it transition to the bar.

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

for a minute I thought you were talking about Watneys red Barrel and a place to consume it.

 

[AndyJ]

Thanks guys…greatly appreciated

 

[TFoley]

Apparently it is nothing more than a narrow shelf-like addition to the side of the breech to prevent cap fragments getting caught up in the slight gap between the barrel and the wood.

 

[Loja man]

Shot him a bar when he was only three! ….

 

[Cowboy]

Many English muzzleloader sporting rifles have that style of lock. The bar is also referred to as a drip bar.

Davis and L&R have this type of lock. The L&R is a model #5000 if I recall?

I have a an English sporting rifle in .54 cal.

Respectfully, Cowboy

 

[Cowboy]

Many English muzzleloader sporting rifles have that style of lock. The bar is also referred to as a drip bar.

Davis and L&R have this type of lock. The L&R is a model #5000 if I recall?

I have a an English sporting rifle in .54 cal.

Respectfully, Cowboy

It’s a model #500 on the L&R lock, not a model #5000.

My mistake.

Respectfully, Cowboy

 

[tallPercshooter]

That is a fragile area of the stock that is often damaged or gone in original guns. Bar prevents that.