Modular in-line muzzleloader..

[bigbore442001]

Maybe I have too much time on my hands and I can dream about different things, but this is something that I thought of for a while.

I do think that it is feasible. I have contemplated making a muzzleloader like an Encore but without a break open breech. It would have a frame with an external hammer that is in-line with the bore. The gun could use a pistol grip to use as a handgun or a butt stock to be used as a rifle.

It would also have interchangeable barrels in various calibers and lengths. So you could have a handgun length and then go all the way up to a 10 guage smoothbore for turkey and goose.

I wonder if anyone has any advice on this idea?

 

[Stumpkiller]

T/C made a muzzleloader that looked for all the world like a l/a Marlin without the lever. Can't remember the name.

How will you prime the gun if it doesn't pivot at the breech? Rolling block? Dropping block? Mighty complicated systems to machine out of a solid receiver billet.

Much easier to do a T/C New Englander type setup with a hooked breech and a side-lock, and swap out the barrels. I have a 12 ga. and a .50 cal that I can interchange in 30 seconds.

The three ugliest words to use in the present-tense around a muzzleloader are: Improved, Revolutionary and Innovative.

 

Might I suggest thet it should be designed to withstand a 500 gr. charge of any "kind" of powder thet can be poured down the bore, and be able to shoot 12 ga. sabots hold'n .17 calibur jacketed bullets.

I'd also offer this rifle, with the "standard" 80X scope.

"Sales" should sky-rocket,.... (hey!!.. you could even name thet "new" inline the "SKY-ROCKET")!! :crackup: :thumbsup:

Seriously,.... If you was to mention yore idea over on the Modern Muzzleloader forum, they'd probly have better ideas to offer then mine!! eace:

rollingb

 

[Zonie]

I think any frame that could withstand a 10 gauge recoil and accept a 10 guage size barrel would make one hel of an awkard pistol.
It might even put the Colt Walker to shame. (Remember, the Colt Walker pistol weighs over 4 1/2 pounds UNLOADED!! Even The Duke never carried one on his hip).

This isn't to say it can't be done, but at least to me, a gun should be comfortable to carry and use.

At the risk of causing some ire to be raised, I will say that as far as I am concerned, this little area of the Forum is about building guns and other useful things.
If someone wants to make anything from a Taser activated In-Line to a Matchlock, this is the place to talk about it.

RollingB might be right about the number of helpful answers that are given here because most of the people who visit here are more interested in making Traditional guns, but if you want to dream here, it's ok with me.

 

[musketman]

How will you prime the gun if it doesn't pivot at the breech? Rolling block? Dropping block? Mighty complicated systems to machine out of a solid receiver billet.

Set up the nipple like any cap and ball revolver, have the nipple threaded into the back of the breech area and the hammer will hit it from behind, simple enough...

I brought up the idea before about building an inline, (not for me, just as a thought experiment)

Here's the thread...

Building A Muzzleloader Question???

 

[ryoung14]

"T/C made a muzzleloader that looked like...."

Uhhh, T/C Scout? Think they made a pistol version too. It was supposed to have been quite accurate. Never understood how they kept the blowback at the breech out of the shooters face.

Yeah, I play the barrel swap game with both my Greyhawk and my Black Mountain magnum. Besides the 1:48 .50 and the shotgun barrel; a .54 and a 1:28 .50 get thrown into the mix as well. Sort of a sidelock version of the System 1. Gotta watch the hammer/nipple alignment tho.
Bob

 

[bigbore442001]

I was kind of envisioning something like the old TC Scout rifle and pistol. It would be in-line but more traditional looking in the fact that it would have a hammer.

The reason TC doesn't make the Scout is that it wasn't a big seller and that after their big fire a few years ago,the tooling for the Scout was destroyed. So they figured that it wasn't worth bringing back.

 

[bezoar]

Do we really need a modular system like this? An attractive, accurate, easy to use pistol would be wonderful. A standard full-stock pistol using round or octoganal barrels would be perfect. Pop out a wedgepin,pull the barrel, and insert a new barrel, and reinsert the wedgepin.

Same dimmensions on all barrels, something like a .25 or .32 would have pretty good accuracy.

 

[Keith]

We're talking firearms. Need has nothing to do with acquistion. :haha:

As proof I offer my gun safe, and then figure when the last time some of those guns were fired.