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Trying my hand at doing a cold brown on a barrel. I am learning patience is a virtue. Especially after I screw something up and have to redo it.
 
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worked some on the pistol build. got the trigger guard inlet.
shot my TC Hawken flint with the .50 cal GM barrel installed in place of the .45 . Made no difference. after adjusting the rear sight for elevation, it was shooting to point of aim.
tomorrow i am going to shoot the members target.
 
I came off lightly just a Nick from angle grinder most of the work was done with 9 2mm cutting discs I tried to copy my cape rifle but failed miserably. Haven’t made a hammer in years about 7 plus hours work. Most of yesterday Over coffee this morning bit of final cleaning with dremmil. It goes with my brass plate with the parts from an 1885 back action lock I’ll finish it on final fitting. Barrel hydraulic quality 1” Dia 1/2” wall. Just a wall hanger mmmmmmmm😯😯😯😯. This is UK. Er. My sunny coffee morning workshop
Wife joan don’t aff drone on me sitting here filing and dremmil king away Love from uk
 

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i love my Dremel! and when i am inletting, i lock it in the bottom drawer of my garage safe, and forget the combination. turn me loose on a piece of wood with a Dremel or any powered tool and i will show you firewood in 10 seconds flat!
strictly delegated to working on metal in my hands.
today i shot my tc hawken 10 shots. that made 70 shots on that flint.
did some finish rasping on the pistol build.
made a small screw to hold the trigger guard on. the guard is mostly held on by the inletting, but i wanted some backup.
cogitated on making a return spring for the trigger but the geometry between the trigger blade and the sear arm is such that i only have a 16th creep so a spring isn't needed.
 
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I received a rifle via UPS. The caliber was advertised as .40. Slugged the false muzzle and it turned out to be .396 groove diameter. So then I checked the bore and it's real nice. Checked the twist which turned out to be a gain twist that is 24 or less. Being an old antique I was worried the nipple might be corroded in and stuck. Turned out easy and the threads are perfect and the nipple is platinum lined and looks new. My thoughts went toward a bullet to use in this rifle when I remembered about the ugly old Ed Brown slug gun that was gifted to me about twenty years ago. Seemed to me it was .39 caliber so I located the cigar box of bullets and accoutrements that came with it. The box has three different length bullets that measure .394 and I have all three molds. So I'm sitting here thinking this all turned out so nice. Only thing I need now is a bullet starter and I'm good to go. I got lucky. :)
 

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