I recently bought a "made in 2005" Uberti 1860 Army replica, a very nice piece which due to my own stupidity now has a problem. In brief, while patterning at the range I either short charged or did not charge one of the cylinder chambers. In due course the hammer hit the cap, only the cap fired and I assumed this was a normal misfire and carried on - in reality, a ball had been propelled into the barrel and the next shot resulted in a hell of a bang and a bulged barrel in the vicinity of the loading rod retention dovetail.
Please guys don't spend time pointing out my mistakes, I am only too well aware of them! What I need to do now is try and save this weapon, and my investment, from disaster. Don't suggest that I hand it over to a gunsmith, the few gunsmiths left in my anti-firearms legislated country are over-worked and frankly I think I can do a better job than most of them.
What I intend to do is to cut the barrel about half an inch back from the bulge, this will leave me with a 5 and a half inch "Sheriff" type barrel, I will also need to shorten the loading lever and install a new front sight. Although my workshop is more set up for wood than for metal work, I am reasonably sure that I can handle the project. In my long ago and misspent youth I worked in a machine shop and reckon I can hack this one.
Comment and advice will be most welcome. My main concern is cutting the barrel "dead square". My current thought is to mount the barrel on a slowly turning wood lathe while advancing a high speed "thin disk" angle grinder upon it.
Please guys don't spend time pointing out my mistakes, I am only too well aware of them! What I need to do now is try and save this weapon, and my investment, from disaster. Don't suggest that I hand it over to a gunsmith, the few gunsmiths left in my anti-firearms legislated country are over-worked and frankly I think I can do a better job than most of them.
What I intend to do is to cut the barrel about half an inch back from the bulge, this will leave me with a 5 and a half inch "Sheriff" type barrel, I will also need to shorten the loading lever and install a new front sight. Although my workshop is more set up for wood than for metal work, I am reasonably sure that I can handle the project. In my long ago and misspent youth I worked in a machine shop and reckon I can hack this one.
Comment and advice will be most welcome. My main concern is cutting the barrel "dead square". My current thought is to mount the barrel on a slowly turning wood lathe while advancing a high speed "thin disk" angle grinder upon it.