Thread: Hawkins plains rifle project

The round barrel was tool cut on the lathe , yep no such thing as carn`t do it, pics, cutting the octagonal, the home made lock for set triggers.

And made the stock on the lathe as well.

Attachment 12596Attachment 12597Attachment 12598The round barrel was tool cut on the lathe , yep no such thing as carn`t do it, pics, cutting the octagonal, the home made lock for set triggers.

Good skills, very inspiring stuff.

kj

Mate that is mint, being a toolmaker by trade i can really appreciate the skill there....im a member of NZDA Auckland too....will have to see (hear) it at the range......

Eh? To me it looks like you cut your flats with the tool post and HS steel bit? If thats right how deep of cut and how fast did you run the bed?
The dividing head is genius!

Hi Scouser and you other guys, Tool maker, yikes, I`M not in the running there, my trade was Electroplating, did 25 years with Air N.Z, hard chrome and stuff. Was at the range on the 30/6/ for the first time, a bit off a stuff up, having breki at 8.00 finly saw the range times so got there at 1..2.00. Tryed my P/H.308 first on the 25m range, old cac amo and got a miss fire, so stoped that and got the Hawkins going with p/r ball , fired 2 shots good and but the no 3 shot, NO powder in the barrel,##@$%**#! had to git the r/b out a home. So will be up a the range on sun 28 again to give it another go, was all so at the A G M to join and will go to club nights. and pic no 213 is the set up for cutting the rifling in the barrel , left hand twist, cheers ,homebrew.357.

Hi R 93, The way I did it is I had already made up the barrel breach plug with the octagonal machined on it, so after fitting in the breach plug I set up the breach end in the 4 jaw chuck other end in the turning center. the pic shows the barrel and cutter, but I cut only half of the flat at a time, it was to hard to do it all at once. So the plug was my divider for cutting the octagonal and just used the hand wheel on the saddle for up and down, nice and slowly, fine cut. Homebrew.357
PS, The bike parts and gearbox in pic #206 are for cutting the rifling in the barrel.

Thanks Gibo, go it.

Excellent project and well done, you thought it thru be keen to see how it shoots

Brilliant, looking forward to seeing the range results

A few more pics. #1, barrel in lathe cutting octagonal, #2 Job done,@3 Yes I browned it my self.

You need a mill for your next one!

Originally Posted by homebrew.357

Hi R 93, The way I did it is I had already made up the barrel breach plug with the octagonal machined on it, so after fitting in the breach plug I set up the breach end in the 4 jaw chuck other end in the turning center. the pic shows the barrel and cutter, but I cut only half of the flat at a time, it was to hard to do it all at once. So the plug was my divider for cutting the octagonal and just used the hand wheel on the saddle for up and down, nice and slowly, fine cut. Homebrew.357
PS, The bike parts and gearbox in pic #206 are for cutting the rifling in the barrel.

Awesome. You must be patient.
When I seen the sprocket I immediately thought dividing head but did wonder how you measured it for a cut.
Hard case either way.


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Hi, No ,not patient, just retired with plenty of time to waste, I mean the barrel was meant to be .450"cal and the rifling suppose to be 1 in 36, But 1 in 33" should be good for bullets, but not so good for round ball, will just use light loads for them and see.
Pics, The rifling cutter head, The barrel breach plug in .