Thread: My oldest cartridge rifle 1859 ( picture heavy )

Day Two

Face off the breech
Cut and crown the muzzle
Cut the extractor slot in the breech face
On and off the action a couple of times to get the head space, extractor and final chamber right

Together again 1859 and 1873 are now one



Where the magic happens



Fit a suitably old front sight ( the line thrower didn't have a front sight )



Some of the details.
Nice carbine butt trap and made a sling mount to fit exactly the original inletting in the butt ( which means it was originally a navy carbine because infantry used a sling bar on the side )



The finished rifle
I still needs a barrel band which was missing. This will hide the joint between the two barrels
Also needs a tang rear sight and much higher front sight



And that was a nice two day job with none of the anticipated drama