Thread: Rifling thinge upgrade.

@homebrew.357Hows you’re new 50cal muzzle loader barrel coming along
?

All looks good, although the drill was 30" long I could only drill in 22", the oil and chip catcher stops going in farther. The drilled hole was .501" at the start and .4999" at the finished end, a clean up with 600 grit emery paper and setup to cut rifle with 8 groves and a 1-48" twist. Now it`s rifled and the best one I've done so far, will lead lap with diamond past, fit the breach plug, cut it octagonal, cut slots for the sights and under wedge pins then rust brown to look the part. It`s all go, have a deco at the cut rifled bore.
, Looking good.
, Has that "WOOOPUM" look about it.

A bit more progress, have threaded breach end of barrel and fitted the breech plug. Reset up barrel in the lathe to cut it octagonal using the plug as a guide, using saddle to shave the eight flats,
, Breech plug in fore jaw chuck and lined up to shave the octagonal.