Thread: 1885 rustoration

Set up barrel again in the lathe
Machine barrel shank and timing the octagonal flats and head space
Then team chamber 45-70



Turn it around and tidy up and lapp the muzzle



For the extractor and cut the slot for that
Then cut the extractor hook from .25 rimfire to the .45-70 rim
Fit a complete set of self made flat springs

And it fired a dummy round and even better the firing pin doesn't drag down the case when I open the action

So tomorrow a few proof rounds while the stock is still off being sanded and finished
And that's another rustoration maybe finished and it only took a few years