Uncles Borelight

[wszumera]

My uncle, eph289 on this board, is working over a .58 cal muzzleloader he built 20+ years ago. It sat in my gunsafe for almost that many years and had a chain of owners. I'm afraid that in my youth I might not have cleaned it well enough for extended storage. Uncle did his best to lap out the pitting.

Here is a light he made for seeing down the bore.

It is made out of a 3v button cell, some brass rings cut out of a 45-70 shell and a maglight bulb.

Works rather slick.

Wes S

 

[silverfox]

Looks good. Another light thats cheap and easy to carry is go to the fishing department and get bobber lites. They glow for several hours and come about 4 to the package for about $3. Just start one and check all the bores at you local gun show just dropin look turn muzzle down and it falls out. Works down to .22. Has saved my day several times.
Fox :thumbsup:

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Works rather slick.

Wes S

Looks good. Another light thats cheap and easy to carry is go to the fishing department and get bobber lites. They glow for several hours and come about 4 to the package for about $3. Just start one and check all the bores at you local gun show just dropin look turn muzzle down and it falls out. Works down to .22. Has saved my day several times.
Fox :thumbsup:

Economical and great ideas both, thanks for sharing.

 

[mike alexandre]

Borrowed a bore light the other day which shone like daylight up the bore. It came from the States and would fit down a .45 cal bore. Guy said the company had gone out of business/wasnt making them anymore - any ideas anyone

 

[renovato]

Mike, Big Iron Barrels makes them. They're about $8 US.

 

[brubincam]

how about the glowing nocks for arrows?

 

[Mad Professor]

I was on another trad. ML site and there was a real neat way to make a bore light:

Take .444 marlin case and turn down/file off rim, drill and tap primer hole to accept 1.5 V bulb. AAA bat will fit inside marlin case. Slip .45 colt case over the marlin case (silght inreference/slip fit) and light comes on! Will work with 54/58/62/large cal, for 50 cal need to turn down/file rim of .45 colt case too.

I plan on making one soon just need to track down the correct brass.

 

[gcebulka]

Sheeze, you guys either have was too much time on your hands or own a machine shop (must be nice to have either)... :rotf: