Recently left college for a job in the north woods of New England. I worked for a museum at the college and the director gave me a going away present of a bunch of random gun parts for muzzleloaders to see what I came up with. I have a patch box lid, stock, smooth and rifled barrel, trigger guard, patch cutter, and an underhammer lock he built. I'm going to build at least one gun, maybe a crude second one, out of the parts
Muzzleloader build
Joshua Cox
Bentley Gonzalez
First step is working on the stock. It's a plains style fitted for percussion lock (hawken rifle for you knuckle dragging incompetents). Needs sanding, thorough cleaning, and then some tung oil
Gabriel Bennett
Partially tunged. Wholly satisfying
Jonathan Lopez
All tunged up and nowhere to go
Wyatt Bailey
Sounds like a fun project. Post pics of the parts?
David Lopez
Here's all the parts. Everything is pre 1900 except the lock, which was built sometime in the last few decades by the museum director
Oliver Jackson
Both barrels. Longer one is half octagonal half round smoothbore, the other is a full octagonal rifled barrel. Couldn't break either breech plug free through mechanical force, but I'll probably have to cut off the back of the barrels first anyway as part of the underhammer conversion
Cameron Fisher
whats the thing in the middle for? dont get how thats a gunpart
Liam Martinez
That's a patch cutter, it's a punch for cutting wads or patches out of some materiel.
Jaxon Turner
Correct. I'm not assuming it fits either bore size but w/ever
Detail on the underhammer. Inconsistent on releasing, gotta pull it apart and clean it up before doing work on it
Logan Perry
More accurtely, it's an "arch punch" which happens to be used for cutting patches in this case.
It also looks like it's been abused and the cutting edge is rolled over rather than being sharp, but it's not so easy to tell from the pic.
Charles Jenkins
If a bit of polishing and lubing doesn't fix it I'll have to reshape the spring most likely
Tyler Phillips
>First step is working on the stock
Lolwhut?
don't you normally do the stock last, that way you can use the rest of your parts to inlet it correctly? How are you going to get the inletting right if you are doing your stock finishing first before you've done the rest of it? Or is this gonna be some bubba-tier project?
James Campbell
Yeah I ain't sure how to restore it or if it'll be worth it.
>Empty Dremel box
Fucking kids. Looks like I'm cleaning stuff manually
Christopher Ramirez
Stock is built for a standard lock and all inletted. I'll probably just use it from the wrist backwards and make a barrel interface that lines up with the current inlets
Wyatt Flores
>Yeah I ain't sure how to restore it or if it'll be worth it.
You could chuck the handle in a lathe then either turn, grind, or file the correct taper back. Or depending on how skillful you are you might be able to do it by turning the punch by hand against a belt sander.
Then again, it may not be worth it. They still make punches of exactly that style, they are cheap and easy to find. Google "arch punch" or "gasket punch"; you can even get them in custom sizes.
Aiden Ortiz
Had to bend the trigger spring a bit but functional now
Bentley Scott
Well, fuck. This is as far as a rod can go down. She's loaded boys
Brody Green
fun fun fun.
time to bust out the puller. or maybe you have one of those fancy CO2 jobbies?
Kevin Jenkins
Busted out that breech plug with hammer, turns out there's an undersized section at the back I was knocking against with the rod. No bullit
Christian Green
Your feet look healthy yet chode-like.
Robert White
They're size fourteen
Owen Scott
I believe you. Just making an observation. Healthy, yet very wide for their length.
Ayden Brown
Yep, was the best swimmer at the local Y for awhile because of them
Luke Baker