Thread: American long rifle build

I got this American long rifle kit from a guy who brought it off another guy who started it and made a huge mess of the most important inletting areas





Let's just say he made some howling mistakes

Anyway it's a 50 cal slow twist 42" long full curly maple stocked rifle

I'm just carrying on with the build and solving the problems as I go

Made a flash hole liner from a HT bolt
I bodged it together to out a few shots through it



Then I dropped working on it for a couple of weeks

Now I have fitted the brass butt plate
And salvaged some wood to fill the gaps around the lock



Fitted the stock tie plate



Bedded and released the tang in clear epoxy to tidy up that mess



Fitted the back loading rod pipe . Tricky !



Stripped the lock so I can build in some support where it was overly inletted !
Then I will re assemble the lock and fit it and remove just enough to work and leave enough to correctly support the lock



Once that is sorted I need to relocate the trigger plate to get proper engagement with the double bar single and double set system