What's wrong with this picture?

[64Springer]

The only thing that has me scratching my head is how the wrist wood sweeps up and over the breech plug.

Hard to picture getting the barrel out without ripping the wood out.

Maybe it's an optical illusion.

 

[2 shots]

is the breech plug in crooked? lock bolt way into barrel?

 

[mushka]

,Maybe colonial riflesmith can tell me what his problem with this is. I'm old and blind but I don't see any thing wrong.

 

[64Springer]

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[IanH]

Looks fine to me. Breech plug is a little bit canted to the top flat, might pull the barrel and drum and check torque on the breech plug and make sure the lock bolt hole still lines up afterward.

I have a .47 flinter built from a mix of old, older, and modern parts and the lock bolt is drilled straight through the breech plug threads on account of having a lock too small/short for the barrel and stock design. However, the plug is a perfect crush fit into the face at the bottom of the threads and seals well, not to mention has six threads in front of the bolt hole. The rifle shoots extremely well and withstands full loads with no problems whatsoever.

 

[longcruise]

Looks like a pin hole in the drum.

 

[leadhoarder]

Old Stoner would spin in his grave!

Does that have a "shoulder thing that goes up?"

 

[PathfinderNC]

Easy-Peazy!
The barrel is packed half way up with smokeless gunpowder

 

[Ed C.]

Looks like a pin hole in the drum.

That is what I noticed also. Actually two of them. One more down at about 2 o'clock.

 

[kyron4]

,Maybe colonial riflesmith can tell me what his problem with this is.

 

[Colonial Boy]

It looks all wrong but if the wrongs were done ”right” then it should be OK to fire, but after a pull down and check, who knows what might be hidden?

 

[Buckskinquin]

This is scary. Is there anyone brave enough to fire this rifle without a long string and a stout tree? Semper Fi.

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Get an endoscope to take a look at the breech, unless you have a patent breech, shooting it should not be an issue. Appears the lock bolt goes thru the breech plug. From the location of the drum, I guessing. You’ll see the flat front of the breech plug directly behind where the drum screws thru the barrel.

 

[tallPercshooter]

First rifle I built, I put drum too far forward. Then lock bolt could not hit bolster properly. I made the bolt go UNDER the barrel (slight groove in barrel), and tapped a hole in the plate itself. Has worked fine for 30 years.

 

[cebusey]

This is scary. Is there anyone brave enough to fire this rifle without a long string and a stout tree? Semper Fi.

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Lock screw appears to have been drilled into barrel

 

[OLUT]

This is scary. Is there anyone brave enough to fire this rifle without a long string and a stout tree? Semper Fi.

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OK, enough speculation .... please pull the barrel from the stock and show us the various bolt channels around the breech

 

[Grenadier1758]

That pin hole is a purpose drilled vent hole. Dixie has recommended using one to reduce back pressure on the flame front for more reliable ignition. Not much different really than the hole in the nipple of a Hot Shot Nipple.

 

[longcruise]

That pin hole is a purpose drilled vent hole. Dixie has recommended using one to reduce back pressure on the flame front for more reliable ignition. Not much different really than the hole in the nipple of a Hot Shot Nipple.

Yeah, I'm aware of that but wondered if that was what was bothering the OP??

 

[64Springer]

So in the end there's nothing wrong with the rifle.

Just wild speculation based on appearances.

Never judge a book...........

 

[Rawhide67]

I'm curious, would an experienced and knowledgeable builder build a gun that way? With the bolt through the breach plug.

 

[64Springer]

Does that have a "shoulder thing that goes up?"

It has a shoulder thingy that slides back and forth.

Stopping in six different comfortable positions.

The level of reduced felt recoil is fantastic.