Hell mate, that is indeed some serious DIY genuine kiwi ingenuity right there!:thumbsup:
Well done.
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Hell mate, that is indeed some serious DIY genuine kiwi ingenuity right there!:thumbsup:
Well done.
Thanks for the pic, you have thought outside the square on this one!
Now hang on a minute mate, I did not design the cutting head, it was Bill Webb`s idea , I copied it for a bore size of .433", for a black powder barrel. Now Bill was making B/Barrels for bench rest shooting and his cutting head was for a 6mm bore!, yik`s, a man would go cross eyed at that size, or a .17!!. It was hard enough a at .433", and I`m now making a new body for my one. Cheers, Homebrew.357.
Beautiful mate
Hi, Guys, a lot of the time doing this was making up the bits to fit on the lathe, and once I had it all sorted making the barrel took only about 3/4 weeks. Now this is the the first barrel, it came out a .440 bore, not what I wanted and it is a bit rough in side. Have made up a new cutter head with a t/c tip this time from an old saw blade, getting the gun drill sharped and getting some 1018 steel for another barrel, this time .450" bore I hope, Cheers ,homebrew .357 :thumbsup:
Hi all, I think I`v got it right, I have re reamed the barrel out to .430" I D made up a new rifling head cutter and re cut the rifling 0.010" deep so it is .450" cal. Then honed and lapped the bore and re fitted the breach plug . On Sunday 13th went to the Deer stalkers range with my son and gave it a work out, shooting at 50ms cast lead 260 gr bullet, 70 grs FFFg black powder and also patched round .440" lead ball with 45 grs of FFFg b/powder. It`s looking good, all on the money at 50 ms, minute of deer.
Had the camera, so some pics of the action, what a blast!, I don`t know the fps , my be around 1,300/400 with the 26" barrel but if it hits something it will know all about it, I call it ,LEAD POISON, Pics of the shoot ,Cheers, Homebrew.357, aka Davy Crocket.Attachment 15138Attachment 15139Attachment 15140Attachment 15141Attachment 15142Attachment 15143
Great project well done, you have some patience. It may need new rings with all that smoke she's blowing:cool:
Like the 'home made' rest too......
Hi, well she`s shooting good, I found, so far, it likes 50grs 3f with patch .440 ball at 50m ,and the 70grs of 3f with a 270gr bullet. Have gone through one tin of 3f powder and now trying 2f to see how it goes. there`s the 50m ,p/ball target 4 shots. Attachment 26492 Cheers, Homebrew.357.
nice, that must be real satisfying :cool:
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Hello all,
Homebrew.357 I be leave in the middle of this thread some one asked if you were a toolmaker and you said no.
Well I am a toolmaker and I am telling you, you are indeed a toolmaker and if you do not be leave me just look
at the MOD's you made for the lathe and the rifle you made LOCK, STOCK, and BARREL.
Those are your Journeyman’s papers.
Thank You,
John H.
As Ian Dury said "there aint half been some clever bastards", I have enough trouble hammering a nail in straight.
This whole thread is inspirational well done @homebrew.357 looks like your enjoying retirement.. 🔨👌
An absolute bloody marvell,hope you get many happy hours out of it ,for you deserve it!
Hi Guys, Having a rest up at the moment, have just had my 3rd and final , "a last" hip op, will be on crutches for about six weeks to break it in, then she`s all on. Now seeing I`v finished the Hawke plains rifle I had to have another project , so looking on E bay I found one!, just wondering if any one would keen to see it, NO, well ok, Cheers, Home brew.357.
Say its a 2 bore :cool:
No wont, :XD:, because it`s not, so will close this thread with thanks for your words and support and will be posting a new one soon. And speaking of threads this is what I`m making for my new rifle, a gun cover for it , while I`m recuperating from my hip op. Cheers to all and see you soon, Homebrew.357. Remember, If it`s got Wheels ,Tits , or it floats, you are going to have trouble with it.
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Nice photos. I used to have two Hawkins rifles, a 50 and 45 cal, great fun for hunting, I shot probably 50-60 odd goats with my 50 cal, brilliant fun.
Hey, Oneshot, Is here any reason the 45 was no good? , or you just liked the 50. When I can would like to have a go at the goats to test what my 45 will do with a 270gr bullet, with 70grs 3f b/powder, say out to 50m, don`t think they would like it at all. One thing for sure, the 50 380gr p r ball?, would be on their hate list. :o Homebrew.357.
Nah the 45 was just as good as the 50, I just happened to have both, I used the 45 more for target shooting on the move in competitions, and used the 50 for longer range and hunting, the 45 smashed goats sideways just as well though.
Well that's good to know, as you can see I lean more to the heavy bullet for hunting, want to put them down quick , you have only one shot, but haven`t used it yet for hunting , just on paper. So have you fed them a 45 pr/ball, I`m using 50grs 3f, 130gr pr /ball , I thought it mite be a bit light for hunting?, Thanks, its good to get the facts form someone who has done it. Cheers, Homebrew.357.:cool:
Its been a few years since I used Blackpowder so I couldn't tell you what load powder I was using, even light loads will be fine, its a seriously heavy projectile and using round ball it hits extremely hard, I had the odd wounded goat but they were not able to move very fast because of the fist sized hole in their side, I carried a fighting Tomahawk to thump them on the head, a blade through the brain did the business to finish them.
Very impressive Homebrew.. Grouping is good too.
Does anyone have an idea of ballistics for 0-50, 0-100m shooting for these old blackpowder rifles.
Hi, Could be 1.300/1.400 fps, mine is not standed with a 1x33" twist, most are 1-48" and or 1.60' for pr/ball. and my barrel is not that good, but ok for black powder. I made it for hunting with a bullet with a fast twis and was surprised then it shot prb ok, they don`t like a fast twist. Look at www The Muzzleloading forum in US, a heap of imfo, and they are not "old black powder rifles, can buy then brand new repos that are tack drivers. Cheers, Homebrew.357 :thumbsup:
With muzzle loaders you can only burn a certain amount of powder from ignition until the projectile leaves the barrel. Old timers would shoot over snow and tune back until they had no un burnt grains of power on the White stuff this gave them maximum loads.Powder burns at different rates FFFFG is very fine and used for frizzens or ignition powder FFFG for smaller cals, FFG for larger, FG for cannons. I use FFG for my 45 and bigger cals FFFG for my 38 cal. Pressures increase with finer powders cause they burn faster, producing pressure faster. Grade of powder I think is more dangerous than amount of the correct grade for the calibre, I wouldn't use FFFG in my 500 BPE I stick to FFG, I would need to research it well before changing to the finer powder, obviously FPS increase is the result
Hi, All , the homebrew is fizzing my brain or my left hand does not know what my right is doing ,or hip op is making me cross eyed !:roll:. I apologise to all, I said new project coming up, I`v all ready starting to post it. Making a sharps barrel on my lathe, or should be , Making the Quigley Sharps 1874 45-70 rifle on my lathe. yes, this is my new project, Sorry for any confusion, Homebrew.357.
holy smoke batman........ just read both threads with interest..... you are a master craftsman Mate.
Flaming heck, 6 years on and you've just read it, just shows what you can do with some number 8 wire AND a bit of steel tube with a few groves in it, :cool:
yes well.....for some reason my interest has been pipped about .45/70s;);) and I thought to go digging back through to see what is about....plurry glad I did.
Now where's the plurry home project???, you can't let barrels lay around doing nothing!!!.
Just wandered into this thread - homebrew.357 thank you for posting the pictures and explanations. Very impressive and lots of fun.
