Thread: Replacing no longer available rifle parts..

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

that is the fly in ointment...cost effectively.
some time back there was a link posted to making a flintlock rifle from scratch....right from heating and beating bar into a barrel tube,welding it together..long before electric welding,rifling it by hand...everything by hand...and it worked......but the time required was eye watering,out of context.... in context not so much,it was fellas job and two weeks work so price tag was two weeks wages sort of thing.... if your magazine took you say 6 hours of folding and filing by hand to make....you would have a magazine...but you would be reluctant to pay 6x$30 = $180 plus for one if could find it on shelf...all things in context.
there are fellas out there who have made extractor springs for JW105s out of car spring...lots of filing involved...but it worked and gun still functioned afterwards....

Easier still, jump-start with some 1/2" schedule-80 seamless steel pipe and create an ugly smoothbore .58" musket.