ronaldrothb49
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Not without doing some measuring and inspecting first. Looks like it could be a patent breech for a flintlock. If it is that lock screw could be a big problem.
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64Springer
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It's not drilled through the breech plug.
Drilling through the breech plug would be drilling through the barrel portion of the breech.
Nothing at all dangerous about that rifle.
Yes, it is, I saw a previous picture that is no longer available. Showing hole for lock screw clear thru end of barrel, passing through breech plug. Judging from the head of the bolt in relation to the barrel, how do you think a bolt gets to the lockplate?
The lock bolt clearly is forward and into the breech plug, OR it runs beneath, but when looking at the profile view, it goes through the barrel.
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So does this one and I have shot it hundreds of times.
I did take the plug out to inspect and it is sealed well against a shoulder at the end of the threads, there is no fire channel, and the TH liner threads are forward of the shoulder.
I did take the plug out to inspect and it is sealed well against a shoulder at the end of the threads, there is no fire channel, and the TH liner threads are forward of the shoulder.
64Springer
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I thought he was talking about the tang screw.
Are you saying it's dangerous to run the lock screw through the breech plug?
A lot of times people are building with a gaggle of random parts.
I can't count the times I've had to rob Peter to pay Paul just to get things lined up and functioning correctly.
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It isn't dangerous if done correctly.
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this is correct, but, it is a recipe for a cracked stock.
recoil transferred to that bolt is a crack waiting to happen.
How is it any different from a lock bolt which passes through a hole drilled through the tang behind the barrel?
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absolutely the same. have a couple done so, complete with cracks!
what happened with the smiley face thingy? tough enough conveying our attitude here, impossible for me without the smiley faces!
what happened with the smiley face thingy? tough enough conveying our attitude here, impossible for me without the smiley faces!
Make the hole a little oversized, no problem. I don't like it when wood screws are used to secure the tang, sure recipe for cracks and loose screw. This also helps keep stuff from moving around too much under recoil....
That's, umm, 1805 era correct special secret gunsmith filler glue, lab analysis revealed it to he strikingly similar to a product used today, proving there is nothing new under the sun.
That's, umm, 1805 era correct special secret gunsmith filler glue, lab analysis revealed it to he strikingly similar to a product used today, proving there is nothing new under the sun.
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how come you get smiley faces and i don't??? i must have tee'd someone off again!Make the hole a little oversized, no problem. I don't like it when wood screws are used to secure the tang, sure recipe for cracks and loose screw. This also helps keep stuff from moving around too much under recoil....
That's, umm, 1805 era correct special secret gunsmith filler glue, lab analysis revealed it to he strikingly similar to a product used today, proving there is nothing new under the sun.
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You might have turned BB code off. I just go to the second set of three vertical dots from the left, click on it, and smileys are in the resulting drop down bar. Third set of vertical dots, pair of brackets facing each other, should turn it on again.
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Whilst waiting for sleep to return after a nocturnal toilet trip, I was thinking about this and it occurred to me that the breech plug might not be threaded and that could be disastrous; not likely but possible.
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Oh I know....it's one of those tricky percussion cappy hammer smash thingies without a piece of rock in the cock or a frizzen. Yeah I wouldn't fire that either. : )
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being old sucks IanH!!!
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I just realized that the preponderance of the barrels i have acquired with this type goof, are Green Mountain! suppose people buy them because they are good, then mess up and realize their upscrew and sell them.
a solid plug treated this way, though not right, will work. plugs with a patent breech are trouble if done so.
a solid plug treated this way, though not right, will work. plugs with a patent breech are trouble if done so.
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Make the hole a little oversized, no problem. I don't like it when wood screws are used to secure the tang, sure recipe for cracks and loose screw. This also helps keep stuff from moving around too much under recoil....
That's, umm, 1805 era correct special secret gunsmith filler glue, lab analysis revealed it to he strikingly similar to a product used today, proving there is nothing new under the sun.
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looks like muskrat squeezin’s from here.
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