A while back i posted pics of a short Fusil i had just acquired. Then i posted some after working on it pics.
Well, yesterday i got the vent liner from TOTW and installed it. That finally finished it. This is one of the
made in India guns. I know a lot of folks bad mouth them but i have to say i am happy with this one.
I took a lot of excess wood off the stock. I pulled the breech plug and found that the threads went past
the vent hole and there was about a 1/2" hole drilled in the end of the plug for a powder chamber. Sorta
like a patent breech? I opened that hole up quite a bit to allow more powder into chamber. They had
drilled about a 3/16" hole through the barrel and then drilled a 1/16" hole through the side of the breech
plug into the powder. I opened that hole up to 5/16" and smoothed everything up and then reinstalled
the breech plug. Then i drilled and tapped the barrel and installed a 5/16" vent liner. I took it out today
to try it out. Before today it had only had about 10 rds through it. I only fired a few today as i didn't have
a lot of time. But i was very happy with it. Ignition was Very fast and the first 2 shots were not far from
my aiming point. Just a bit low at 32 yds. I had installed a front sight on it, since it had none when i bought
it so i had no idea where it would hit. I fired the 2 rd balls using 70gr Goex 3F and a spit patch pillow ticking
hoe cast .600 rd ball. I then fired 1 shot load at the same range. I will enclose pics of the gun and the target.
Well, yesterday i got the vent liner from TOTW and installed it. That finally finished it. This is one of the
made in India guns. I know a lot of folks bad mouth them but i have to say i am happy with this one.
I took a lot of excess wood off the stock. I pulled the breech plug and found that the threads went past
the vent hole and there was about a 1/2" hole drilled in the end of the plug for a powder chamber. Sorta
like a patent breech? I opened that hole up quite a bit to allow more powder into chamber. They had
drilled about a 3/16" hole through the barrel and then drilled a 1/16" hole through the side of the breech
plug into the powder. I opened that hole up to 5/16" and smoothed everything up and then reinstalled
the breech plug. Then i drilled and tapped the barrel and installed a 5/16" vent liner. I took it out today
to try it out. Before today it had only had about 10 rds through it. I only fired a few today as i didn't have
a lot of time. But i was very happy with it. Ignition was Very fast and the first 2 shots were not far from
my aiming point. Just a bit low at 32 yds. I had installed a front sight on it, since it had none when i bought
it so i had no idea where it would hit. I fired the 2 rd balls using 70gr Goex 3F and a spit patch pillow ticking
hoe cast .600 rd ball. I then fired 1 shot load at the same range. I will enclose pics of the gun and the target.
