Track of the Wolf Bucks County rifle kit - Draw Filing

I know not many of you are into this rifle building stuff. But, for the few who are, I hope you're enjoying this series.

This is a mini update on the TOW Bucks county flintlock rifle kit build. It is kind of out of sequence with the rest of the videos. so I broke it out on its own.

It covers draw filing the barrel. Typically I only draw file and polish the top three barrel flats. But for this build I did the bottom obliques and the side flats. I'll do the top later.

I've been complaining that the barrel was tight in the channel, and I was blaming it on the stock. I finally got around to measuring the 13/16th Colerain barrel I'm using.

True 13/16ths is 0.8125 inches. This barrel is 0.8245 inches. I measured a couple of Green Mountain barrels from rifles I built 20 years ago and they measured 0.8145.

So the Colerain barrel is a little fat.

Here's my draw filing procedure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yse2N2jMI4I

Hi Jim. I do know that. I was out of chalk when I filmed that. I stopped at the hardware store yesterday and bought a big hunk of chalk...35 cents worth...LOL

080-512-000AE Brownell's draw file

It is on page 446 of my catalog (#64).

I can't find anything on their web site either. I always pull out the catalog to ind what I need, then go to the web site to order it.

Just checked the web site and can't find it...maybe they discontinued it.

Articap, the purpose of draw filing is to make the flats truly flat. To do that you need to bring the high points down to the low points and level everything out. The depth of metal you take off is generally pretty small, so I wasn't worried about making the barrel too narrow. But, if I had, I'd have glass bedded the sides of the channel to fill in the gaps.