First build: Sitting Fox Squirel Rifle

[tenngun]

I've never really had an interest in smooth bores, but I gotta admit that something like this makes me rethink that position.

Smoothies are addictive. They are always sneaky. When you get your load down on a rifle you might miss a shot, but it’s because you missloaded or flinched. 90% of the time we know when we screwed up a shot.
Not so on a smoothie. Your constantly playing a game with it.... and the gun usually wins.

 

[Covurt]

I’ve bought inletting black, and used candle black. Last build I bought lip stick worked great.

I switched to prussian blue. It works great and is a lot easier to put on with a brush thank the dry erase marker.

 

[oreclan]

I’ve bought inletting black, and used candle black. Last build I bought lip stick worked great.

Vaseline with tube artist oil paint, your choice of color ;red or black works. Melt the vaseline in a baby food jar in a pot filled with water and add color, stir.

 

[Rudyard]

Felt wads work is' brilliant ' no other word suits .The Circle Fox where North Star barrels , good barrels I still have a 12 bore & a twenty four bore the latter breached, proofed & browned for a Chiefs grade my plan was to offer it in the US but it got no further.
But others did quite a few but non signed .Once made a LH Chiefs that took its smooth barrel & a rifled one . Never happened but the customer is always right .Re inlet black a sooty oil lamp works for me
Rudyard

 

[toot]

a local gun maker goes to flea markets, yard sales ang gets tubes of lipstick and uses them foe inletting, works rely great.

 

[1861colt]

Who made the barrel for this kit. If that was Green Mountain, I have not encountered one machined that badly.
Also, you moved the barrel further back in the stock because the breech plug was long. I would have shortened the breech and plug. Manufactures seem to think they have to be long, but take a look at some of the originals. Also, the NMLRA also agrees. Here is a quote from their site: "Mar 20, 2020 — Unless you're contemplating building some sort of cannon, file the breech of your barrel until only slightly more than 1/2 inch of threading is left -- say, about 17/ 32. This amount of threading is plenty strong and by keeping the breech plug fairly short you aid the design of the lock and wrist region of the rifle."

 

[Covurt]

Who made the barrel for this kit. If that was Green Mountain, I have not encountered one machined that badly.
Also, you moved the barrel further back in the stock because the breech plug was long. I would have shortened the breech and plug. Manufactures seem to think they have to be long, but take a look at some of the originals. Also, the NMLRA also agrees. Here is a quote from their site: "Mar 20, 2020 — Unless you're contemplating building some sort of cannon, file the breech of your barrel until only slightly more than 1/2 inch of threading is left -- say, about 17/ 32. This amount of threading is plenty strong and by keeping the breech plug fairly short you aid the design of the lock and wrist region of the rifle."

Too late now. Breech plug was .53 inches.

 

[Covurt]

Looking at laying out the under lugs and ram rod pipes today. No muzzle cap. How far back is a good rule of thumb to place the first ramrod pipes. Not exactly how much room i need for shaping the muzzle cap(less) area. Looks like it would be the same regardless of having a muzzle cap or not.

 

[Covurt]

Latex out the first under lug. Figured the one closest to the breech is safe to do regardless of the pipe layout.

 

[Covurt]

I really shouldn't make these post on my phone. They are going to be riddled with typos haha

 

[Covurt]

Not too shabby for my first dovetail ever. Just sort of shabby. Little crooked.

 

[tenngun]

Not too shabby for my first dovetail ever. Just sort of shabby. Little crooked.

The reason God created under lugs is to practice on before top ones

 

[1861colt]

To make sure they don't move, you could stake the underlings with a center punch right at the spot where the 2 metals meet on the bottom flat. What don't show don't matter no how, eh?

 

[Covurt]

It's tight. Just a bit crooked.

 

[tenngun]

As it is usually some years between builds for me I would say at least one bottom lug is always off kilter.
usually the second asI feel real confident and then whoops

 

[Covurt]

Didn't get much of anything done over Thanksgiving week. Lock plate bolt drilled and tapped. Will have to get a die to run the threads further up the bolt. Under lugs drilled. Almost had a snaffu. My fence set up shifted very slightly and I didn't notice. Holes went through the lugs but two weren't centered.

Next item is inlet the lock parts.

 

[pooch156]

Didn't have any inletting black. Read that dry erase marker would work. Sure does! Got the barrel fit into the inlet.

Yep, dry erase markers for me too.

 

[Covurt]

Been a while. Haven't given up. Just getting to it when I can. I've got the lock, trigger, and trigger guard completely inlitted. Currently working on inletting the ramrod pipes.

Hoped to be further along. But got a 3d printer and have been playing with that a bit. Got to get back on track. Kibler should be coming any week now.

 

[old ugly]

good going. some scary stuff doing your first build.

the first dovetail i did, took nerves of steel. gets easier the more you do.

in letting, i only have ever used a candle, i buy the dollar store candles, i find they soot up quickly and gets into all the nooks and crannys with no effort. and. also convenient for sparking a hoot.

ou
tom

 

[Covurt]

good going. some scary stuff doing your first build.

the first dovetail i did, took nerves of steel. gets easier the more you do.

I'm pretty worries about the sight dovetails. Cross that bridge when I get their I guess.

Got one of 2 ramrod pipes in.