muzzle work help

[Buck Conner]

This is my first copy of the Bridger Hawken shot from bench at 100 yards. Hand filed muzzle treatment.

Herb how have you been, Carl says he sees you from time to time. I really like your information that you supply these networks. Thank you. See you in Roosevelt in the spring, Buck

 

[Herb]

Hello, Buck. I look forward to the spring event! I'm presently finishing up another Kit Carson Hawken with a .54 15/16 Rice barrel for a lighter rifle. Those Bridgers are so big and heavy that my second one was the last one I want to build.

 

[Flintandsteel]

Muzzle decoration, like the hiney muzzle MUST be done on a coned barrel. That way, the muzzle decoration is done on a part of the barrel that is no longer affecting the ball.

 

[Buck Conner]

Herb, I look forward to seeing you, I know what you mean about weight. I sold all of the GRRW Collector Association guns (beautiful but heavy). Now have Doc and Carl gathering parts for one of Doc's early "slip-fit" bullet rifles. Doc will supply the parts and Carl will provide the labor for the build.

367/300 Super Slug Gun (BC= .33)
This is also an experimental caliber. It will be very useful as it betters the ballistics of the much loved 38-55 of yesteryear. The bore mikes .368 land-land, with a groove depth of .375. Twist is 1-14. Bullet is cast weighing 300 gr. at .368 diameter, then is sized to .367. It is accurate and hits hard with 80-90 grains Pyrodex P. It’s sure to be a good killer on deer sized game. Recoil is surprisingly mild.

Health issues has be rethinking what i want. This one to be finished early summer, decided to go for nice wood, checkering and charcoaled blue, should be a pretty rifle with being good to 300 yards.

 

[LME]

I would suggest you carry the rifle to a machine shop and have it done correctly before you ruin your barrel! I have crowned barrels and doing it by hand without a guide is not the way to go! I was reared in a family of machinist! I also worked in a machine shop! As my father use to say when someone brought a project in that they had already tried to fix, """It looks like a bears ass sewed up with grape! vine""!

 

[Britsmoothy]

I would suggest you carry the rifle to a machine shop and have it done correctly before you ruin your barrel! I have crowned barrels and doing it by hand without a guide is not the way to go! I was reared in a family of machinist! I also worked in a machine shop! As my father use to say when someone brought a project in that they had already tried to fix, """It looks like a bears ass sewed up with grape! vine""!

So how did they do it before machine shops?

 

[LME]

So how did they do it before machine shops?

I mentioned a guide in my post? It works similar to how you grind valve seats! I am a little anal and prefer using a lathe and lathes have been around longer than gun powder!

 

[M. De Land]

I would suggest you carry the rifle to a machine shop and have it done correctly before you ruin your barrel! I have crowned barrels and doing it by hand without a guide is not the way to go! I was reared in a family of machinist! I also worked in a machine shop! As my father use to say when someone brought a project in that they had already tried to fix, """It looks like a bears ass sewed up with grape! vine""!

Now that is a funny quip! I will just have to share that one! I too do all my crown work in my lathe and know from the get go it is concentric and square.