In the end , there is no scrap !

[enfield]

Well - I recently found a 3" cutoff of a .31 squirrel rifle , which a friend of mine sawed off the rifle for his wife , since it was much too muzzle heavy for her .

This was over 30 years ago ...
The barrel was in pristine condition , never shot ...,

What else but a Deringer - style pistol can be made from a piece of scrap like this ???

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If You should be interested in my progress , please let me know , I'd be pleased to show more .

BTW - this morning , I fired the first few shots ...

Rgds , enfield

 

[sheriff john]

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[SDSmlf]

Well - I recently found a 3" cutoff of a .31 squirrel rifle , which a friend of mine sawed off the rifle for his wife , since it was much too muzzle heavy for her .

This was over 30 years ago ...
The barrel was in pristine condition , never shot ...,

What else but a Deringer - style pistol can be made from a piece of scrap like this ???

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If You should be interested in my progress , please let me know , I'd be pleased to show more .

BTW - this morning , I fired the first few shots ...

Rgds , enfield

No idea what you loaded. Got message ‘Oops! We ran into some problems’, likely not what you wanted to post.

 

[DOUBLEDEUCE 1]

It would be interesting to see what you made.

 

[enfield]

I hope , You can see now ... Sorry

 

[enfield]

After LOTS of filing to shape , I made the breech / plug / tang screw , shaped the nipple drum , cut the thread for the nipple , drilled the touch hole and silver soldered the underlug

 

[enfield]

The hardest part was to file the hammer from some mild steel , since there are some tiny radiusses , which I could only shape with jewelers needle files .
I tried to engrave it a little , but had to learn , that this is an art , which I REALLY don't master ...
Perhaps I shouldn't have tried with my Dremel ...
But after case hardening , it looked OK for me .

Since there is not much room for a leaf spring , I decided to install a coil main spring .

I also decided ( not only for easening the project , but also to avoid a too deep mortise and loss of wood ) to make the lock without a bridle . But the sear and searspring screw have shoulders , which bear against the lockplate for positive fit .

The tumbler and the sear are made of C-45 , the lockplate of 90MnCrV8 , hardened in oil and tempered to spring hardnes .

 

[rafterob]

This is fun! Keep posting.

 

[enfield]

This is the way , which I think , the parts should work together

 

[appalichian hunter]

Looks good so far, waiting on the finished pistol.

 

[enfield]

Well - if I compare my attempts to build my very first classic pistol ( really different to my beloved Ruggles style underhammers ) with the gorgeous work of davec2 , I really should fall ashamed !
In the end , my result will be a " poor man's pocket gun " ...





But for saving a little bit of my honour : Each entire part , incl. screws , pins , springs etc. I've built myself , freehand and eyeballed !

 

[user 49399]

I like it.

 

[deerstalkert]

how cool is that?! you should be proud of what you have made.

 

[user 49399]

Yes indeed. The fact that it was made from scrap is impressive. That’s my kind of stuff!

 

[appalichian hunter]

Waste not want not, as to skill there are many different levels and results, I like what I see so far and as you stated the parts were and are made buy your hand, to me that is the mark of a well versed craftsman.

 

[Barry Strickland]

I always enjoy watching your builds.

 

[enfield]

Thank You for Your kind compliments !

Next step was shaping the stock :

 

[enfield]

After sanding , I colored the walnut stock with aqua fortis and it turned out nearly black !
Finished with linseed oil , it has that distinct " old time look " .



Finally : a poor man's last argument

Thank You for watching , all the best , enfield

 

[Whitworth]

Well done, nothing to be ashamed of there. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

 

[D.Summers]

I bet that will be mighty fun plinking!!