Mouse pistol build

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I build this this pistol in .22cal, it was a joint effort between me and a friend with him drawing the parts in CaD and we had the parts lazercut in rough. The grips are Rosewood but will be replaced shortly with Wild-olive.

A lot of elbow grease later and this was the finished product, there is still a few marks to be polished out. I quickly assembled it before our Easter weekend to shoot it, pure joy:evil:

I'm using plastic toy-caps since they are smaller than regular caps, a lot cheaper and still give reliable ignition.
 

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Thanks Jim,
It's a off-cut from a .22-250 barrel, I fitted a silencer for a friend and had to chop off 4 inches of his rifle. I'm currently shooting 5 grains of pistolpowder (bp) in the little pistol and its light and easy on the hand while shooting.
 
Oh no. I have 5 AR15 barrels in my garage that need something to do.

I may have to try something similar.

Well actually I have 6 barrels but 1 is brand new and unfired so I will not be cutting that one up.
 
It can be a lot easier than that. There's literally OODLES of Ruger 10/22 barrels to be had from folks that swapped 'em for something fancier. I've seen them at gun shows for crazy cheap. Like $15 to $20 each isn't uncommon at all.
 
Now that right there is jist way too cool !!!!
Did you incorporate a breech or just drill and tap for the nipple and just use the bore ?
The frame looks like a laminate. Is that correct ?
 
Hi Jim,
I made a insert to screw into the barrel, the nipple screws into the insert. It is sort of a adaptor, the nipple and bore are almost the same diameter, 5,5mm bore and 6mm nipple, thus the need for a insert.
I had to make the nipple too since the toycaps are much smaller than regular percussion caps.
The body consist of 2 sideplates which screws onto a small frame which houses the hammer, trigger and mainspring on the insides.
This is a pic of the inside a few weeks ago, I made a few parts like the spring and better trigger afterwards. A lot of cleaning up was also needed before bluing the pistol.
 

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[/IMG] Your pistol looks great ! This is my first attempt at making one.It's a .25 caliber smooth bore.I even made a bullet mould for it.All the parts are ss and the stock is made from a piece of red oak I had.All the parts were from what I had in my little shop.I made everthing on it,even the breech plug and nipple.It was one of those projects that I just wanted to see if I could do it with what I had.The most helpful was a drill press to drill out the barrel.I use about 7 grains of my own powder and it really makes some noise.:pThey're really fun to shoot :D ahhh my picture didnt show.I'll try to post it again.
 
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Wow! That right there is some fine home gunsmithing! :D It kinda reminds me of a cross between a Butler .22 short and a Cobray derringer. What kind of accuracy are you getting with it? Those BP powered .22's are fun to plink with.

Lately I've been working on a little .22 project of my own. It's a .22 short break action that is sorta based off earlier blackpowder cartridge handguns. I haven't gotten as far as you have but it's gonna be funner 'n hell to plink with when she's done.
 
Any way I could get the CAD files on this project? This is so cool and I have a .22 barrel piece I could use....
 
Was talking with a gunsmithing student last year and I don't see why frames can't be bolted together from flat plates. Now I see proof that the concept is feasible.
 
Thanks guys,
It was a really fun project and I learned a lot from working with small parts.

The accuracy isn't to bad, at around 10 yards I can group 5 shots in a 6inch circle. It takes a little time to get used to aim along the barrel but even my 9 year old daughter enjoy shooting it.

@Crazyjenny: What about a trade? I'm not getting any .22 caliber bullets in South Africa for the NAA pistols, how about a you send me a bag and I'll send you the CAD plan and sizes of the springs etc?
I attached a link from Cabelas :
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Shoo...4792580&WTz_l=SBC;MMcat104792580;cat104547780
 
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Thanks 72Coup, I might have to take you up on that offer sometime. :)

Speaking of building guns, right now I'm looking for a 30-30 or 06' barrel. I'm fixin' to git me a .410 single shot and create a .32 S&W Long barrel for it with buckhorn sights just like on my flintlock rifle. The idea of having a rifle chambered for that caliber really gets me going. I can cast and load for that caliber and since I can't get .22LR anywhere it would make a great substitute. It would carry like a good ol' cane fishing pole if I'm out bumming around the woods like I usually do. It would also be very quiet, with .32 S&W shorts the sound signature wouldn't carry far at all. :D

Yes, I know I'm pretty quirky for wanting to do this. Yes, I know I'm not like most 19 year olds. But I want more than anything to build one and there's an empty space on my gun rack so I will.
 
See if you cant get a old .303 Brit barrel, I'm busy building a stock for a inline-type muzzleloader rifle in that caliber. I'm loading .32 handgun bullets(.310 77gr) in the rifle and the accuracy is spot on. I build it inline to fit a scope on it, using no 11 caps as ignition and build it along the plunger-type version. I even used a Timney-trigger which adjusts crisply.

I still want to make a few modifications, a "side cocking lever" same as on the White rifles to do away with the rear-cocking of the plunger and then a shorter pistol in the same caliber to accompany the rifle, maybe a little bigger than the mousegun.
 
Levi you might check Sarco and Numrich. They have odd ball barrels for sale really cheap occasionally. I have already given away all my old 30 cal barrels.
 
I'd love to make one of those, maybe for a 209 shotgun primer.
What can I send you from Sweden to get the CADs ? :)
 
wildeboer said:
I build this this pistol in .22cal, it was a joint effort between me and a friend with him drawing the parts in CaD and we had the parts lazercut in rough. The grips are Rosewood but will be replaced shortly with Wild-olive.

A lot of elbow grease later and this was the finished product, there is still a few marks to be polished out. I quickly assembled it before our Easter weekend to shoot it, pure joy:evil:

I'm using plastic toy-caps since they are smaller than regular caps, a lot cheaper and still give reliable ignition.
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Tell me a little how you are using toy caps to fire this off? Do you have a tap o cap or something like that?

Pretty well done... and is up there in the coolness factor... :cool:
 
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