Okay, this is a cobbled together, mish-mash of parts I had either lying around, scrounged from pawn shops or picked up on Ebay...
It started out with a T/C White mountain carbine stock & lock. I picked up a trigger & guard that could be off the same model, might be off something else entirely. I don't know, but I love the fact that it fit with almost no messing around!
The tang is a leftover from converting my GPR from .50 to .54
The barrel I picked up at a local pawn shop & is a .50 Investarms Hawken that was a complete train wreck. My intention was always to cut it short, but I had to keep cutting & cutting until I got to a section where the rifling wasn't destroyed! It ended up at 18-1/8" long & hopefully I reshaped the crown well enough to shoot!
The under rib & front thimble came with the barrel, but the rear thimble/sling stud came from Walmart's end-of-season-sale aisle.
The front sight I had to re-dovetail & try as I might I could not find my triangle file, so that was fun! I managed to do it VERY carefully with a cutoff wheel for the dremel. It ain't perfect, but I'm not gonna whine about it, it's the first I've ever done!
The rear sight is either T/C, Lyman or Traditions. I have no clue, it was in the bottom of my junk-bucket & I got it to fit.
So far I've only test fired it into a sandbank with 50gn of FFFG, a .490 ball & .018 patch.
I'm going to have to play with this for a while, I think. The patches looked like they'd been through a shredder! I'll figure it out though.
I'm going to be using it solely as a close-range, thick-brush gun & I don't expect I'll ever stretch it beyond 50yds
I'll get some better pictures up tomorrow, but to be fair, it's pretty ugly from every angle! :barf:
It started out with a T/C White mountain carbine stock & lock. I picked up a trigger & guard that could be off the same model, might be off something else entirely. I don't know, but I love the fact that it fit with almost no messing around!
The tang is a leftover from converting my GPR from .50 to .54
The barrel I picked up at a local pawn shop & is a .50 Investarms Hawken that was a complete train wreck. My intention was always to cut it short, but I had to keep cutting & cutting until I got to a section where the rifling wasn't destroyed! It ended up at 18-1/8" long & hopefully I reshaped the crown well enough to shoot!
The under rib & front thimble came with the barrel, but the rear thimble/sling stud came from Walmart's end-of-season-sale aisle.
The front sight I had to re-dovetail & try as I might I could not find my triangle file, so that was fun! I managed to do it VERY carefully with a cutoff wheel for the dremel. It ain't perfect, but I'm not gonna whine about it, it's the first I've ever done!
The rear sight is either T/C, Lyman or Traditions. I have no clue, it was in the bottom of my junk-bucket & I got it to fit.
So far I've only test fired it into a sandbank with 50gn of FFFG, a .490 ball & .018 patch.
I'm going to have to play with this for a while, I think. The patches looked like they'd been through a shredder! I'll figure it out though.
I'm going to be using it solely as a close-range, thick-brush gun & I don't expect I'll ever stretch it beyond 50yds
I'll get some better pictures up tomorrow, but to be fair, it's pretty ugly from every angle! :barf:
