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Originally posted by STUD figmo Al

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Originally posted by buckholler

Awesome projects. I'm in the works of refurbishing two Hawkins rifles. I was thinking of making one a flintlock but that's a chore. So two percussions it is.

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Pics please...!

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Here's a pic of some inlay I put on the stock of my sons muzzle.  At this point all the barrels are stripped of bluing and soaked in rust remover.  We need to refinish my son's stock, re blue everything. Slow but sure.

Pretty good...! :0)

Nice. What will you "blue" with? Brad

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Originally posted by rinemb

Nice. What will you "blue" with? Brad

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I got a large container of Brownells Oxpho-blue.   I made a dipping tank to soak the barrels, so my thought was to fill the tank with blueing and dip it at once this way I'll get a more consistent darker blueing.  I hate the Birchwood Casey kits where you only get a small container of blueing solution and have to do it in sections.  I never get it consistent.  I do gunsmithing for fun so I'm not set up for a hot blue tank.   Plus its easier to control, as I'm showing my son how to do this stuff.   Work smarter not harder.

I'm making him do all the stock work, minus the inlay.  We'll work together on the barrels.  I'm having him do all the fit and finish, this way its his gun.  We're also trying something new.  We added some Mag-sparks, vs using #11 caps.  Missed a few deer in the ol-days when it was raining and the cap went "puck" and no boom.  This should alleviate that.

Van's gun blue works very well..too..

Well no pics...

But..
I found an old lefever nitro special in 16 gauge..double side by side..

The right barrel did not work due to a broken hammer..

Was gonna fix the broken hammer but lucked out n found one for sale fer a few bucks..

Boy...it is very buisy..in one of thos actions...
N..ah boat load of springs in the pissed off position... :0/

Had to think up n make a spring compressor..fer the hammer spring..

To hard to explain..very precarious...to say the least..

But it is up n functionin now.. :0)

Coulp'ah stocks i am refinishing..n the Lefever on the right..

Put a nice pachmayer recoil pad on a double 20 gauge..
Shape it to the stock..n..
Had to cut the 8mm mauser stock n match the butt plate on it..
Just using tru-oil stock finish on it hand rubbed in..

A 25-35 winchester..on a 219 savage reciver..

Started out as a 16 gauge shotgun barrel..n a 25-06 rifle barrel..
Cut both n married up cut the chamber..made the ejector..n attatched the forearm hook..
Now mountin the scope rail..

Got the chance to zero the 25-35..

Will now load some ammo n see how well it groups..

It apears to have good promis at this point..
Light recoil too..

25-35 blued...
The barrel only needed touch up..but the barrel reciver area.needed the whole shebang done..

A past project..that happens to fit this 219 Savage reciver quite well...

A ...219 Zipper..

The barrel is fit into a 12 gauge shotgun barrel in a manner that allows the 219 barrel to be removed..n..then you have a 12 gauge scope mounted slug gun..

The scope is on a pivot mount ..so it can be pivoted out of the way..to use it as a bird shot barrel..(no choke tho..)

The 219 barrel is fit to the 12 gauge chamber..n bushed at the muzzle also being pinned in place by a screw..remove that screw.. n the rifle barrel comes right out with a good push..
Also i had to come up with n make an extractor/ejector..
For the 219 barrel that did not change the 12 gauge barrel ejector..as so 12 gauge shells will still work fine..

Works quite well..

Glass bedding the 8mm..

This stock..has been on many guns..before i even got it..
Chewd up 8 ways ta Sunday..

So glass epoxy..was the thing ta do..

Might not be show room perfect.. but i'm hopin it is a good shooter.

8mm mauser from 30-06 cases..

Oops...

Got this far...
Now next nice day..
See how they shoot..

Well got to shoot today..
The good news..
They all went bang..
Best i could get was 2" at 50 yards..

These were all weighed charges..
But velosity was irrattic..250fps differnce in speed.. 1750 to 2000 fps
That is alot.. (too much)

Old surplus militairy powder..
I'll try a differnt powder..n..a slightly fatter bullet..
These were .323..i'll try.. .325.

It is part of the game..

The copper jacketed did much better with this powder..
As the case was close to full..

Cutting square threads..

Antque 410 roll crimper..

That is so neat. Where in the world did you find that?

On ebay..
Been looikin fer a long time..

I got 12 n 16 gauge now lookin fer 20 n 28 gauge ones..

They work super well..

Make over shot cards outa old used playing cards..

28 gauge over under...
N..now 22 hornet..

Made a slip in barrel for it..