Well put a tapered barrel into a boyds thumbhole stock made for a bull barrel. Had some other issues to contend with, how to attempt to pillar bed the gun by making a pillar in the rear by soldering two nuts threaded for 10-32 together and bedding them with the barrel. Did similar on the front lug but tied it into a recoil block.
Well all that came out ok... messy and not pretty but certainly functional. The boyds stocks (2) that I received from them it turned out were cheap because they were inletted wrong and drilled off as well. I tried my best to open up the drill channels and get everything lined up and when I put the sights on it tonight noticed that looking down the barrel from the rear, the sights are indexed about 5-7 degrees clockwise...
Took it apart to see what is possible and went and opened the box with the other boyd stock in it... and its actually worse...
Upshot, and I'll post some pictures later tonight on the project when I get it put finally together... but when I shouldered it, it has to be rotated slightly to accomodate the sight picture, but it comes together quite naturally... if you don't look at it... It is a .410 caliber and I love that caliber. I'm going to make some bullets for it later tonight or tomorrow morning. A friend of mine has a mold he had made for him from Mountain Molds that are gas checked... copper cruisers we call them, and they I am convinced, eliminate leading even with soft lead.
The reason for this post is that whether you are a skilled gun/stock maker or not, don't hesitate from your tinkering with stuff if you're interested in something. I've two other guns built on damaged stocks... one split pretty bad that now has a 58 green mountain 1-70 twist locked in.. and another a .54 flintlock that by the time everything got fitted together the gun was a mess. Took my time relieved much of the inlet for the lock and discovered that the way it was set up, it was set lower in the stock so much I had to fill an 1/8th of an inch of the around the lock... and the set trigger wouldn't work... and not knowing where it came from I just took it out. It locks and double clicks and actually shoots... so I'm going to try it out tomorrow as well..
I use ballistol for my patch lube and it works very well.
Well all that came out ok... messy and not pretty but certainly functional. The boyds stocks (2) that I received from them it turned out were cheap because they were inletted wrong and drilled off as well. I tried my best to open up the drill channels and get everything lined up and when I put the sights on it tonight noticed that looking down the barrel from the rear, the sights are indexed about 5-7 degrees clockwise...
Took it apart to see what is possible and went and opened the box with the other boyd stock in it... and its actually worse... Upshot, and I'll post some pictures later tonight on the project when I get it put finally together... but when I shouldered it, it has to be rotated slightly to accomodate the sight picture, but it comes together quite naturally... if you don't look at it...
It is a .410 caliber and I love that caliber. I'm going to make some bullets for it later tonight or tomorrow morning. A friend of mine has a mold he had made for him from Mountain Molds that are gas checked... copper cruisers we call them, and they I am convinced, eliminate leading even with soft lead.The reason for this post is that whether you are a skilled gun/stock maker or not, don't hesitate from your tinkering with stuff if you're interested in something. I've two other guns built on damaged stocks... one split pretty bad that now has a 58 green mountain 1-70 twist locked in.. and another a .54 flintlock that by the time everything got fitted together the gun was a mess. Took my time relieved much of the inlet for the lock and discovered that the way it was set up, it was set lower in the stock so much I had to fill an 1/8th of an inch of the around the lock... and the set trigger wouldn't work... and not knowing where it came from I just took it out. It locks and double clicks and actually shoots... so I'm going to try it out tomorrow as well..
I use ballistol for my patch lube and it works very well.
