Another thing to consider is the source of the charcoal, if you are going to the effort of building a mechanism to puck the black powder at least find or make charcoal of something that is of a known good source, any kind of fast growing hardwood should work with weaping willow being the best.
3" pietta ace model from taylors and co with a .22 conversion and checkered grips.
Uberti stainless steel target model completely plated in titanium nitride.
Went to Angie's list and sent out a request to buy willow wood to every available tree trimmer in my area. Bit of a stretch but better than waiting 10 years for my little 6 inch cutting to grow.
I went for a 2 hour drive around Central California and I did see 1 weaping willow next to someone's driveway. Might be the dry climate here but there just aren't alot of willow trees in my kneck of the woods.
I went to home depot and got some ceder fence boards, will see how well that works. As for making charcoal out of willow just got 5 cutting of weaping willow from Amazon and will see what I can get from them over the next decade hahaha.
Well if I don't get any response I will have to do a charge back with my credit card. If they are out of business they should not be accepting payments for order that will never be filled.
I believe my best option will be to try western red ceder bedding from tractor supply and build my own...
I've got everything needed to make my own black powder except the charcoal. From my research willow charcoal is best and the first place that pops up on a Google search for willow charcoal is customcharcoal.com at $45 for 8 lbs, I placed an order october 20th and am waiting to see of they...
Its a ultra hard ceramic coating, I believe the hardest possible coating for a gun that exists. Its called titanium nitride, here is a link to the company I sent it to.
https://www.titaniumgun.com/
I do have the picatinny rail that attaches to the barrel but that is for my 1858 carbine. Will post it on this forum once I am done installing the sword to it.
20210920_094328 by CorsiarRiley posted Sep 21, 2021 at 6:36 PM20210920_094352 by CorsiarRiley posted Sep 21, 2021 at 6:36 PM20210920_133903 by CorsiarRiley posted Sep 21, 2021 at 6:36 PMjust finnished putting this together on September 20th. Has a taylors conversion, upgraded sights and fully...
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