Arrived safely! A Doc White, in the white kit gun. I've already started by inletting the barrel channel larger and then proceeded to bed the tang and barrel for a nice weather resistant sealed fit. Any tiny little wood splinters, I shaved or sanded away before bedding it. By the time its fully bedded, It'll be from the tang, all the way to the nose cap. This gun uses an Austin & Helleck .50cal barrel with 1:66 twist. Maple stock is gorgeous! A lot of wood removal at the butt end of the stock, but that's a good problem to have. The lock panel will also need quite a bit of wood removed. The pewter nose cap needed a lot of filing inside of the barrel channel. I got it close to flush with the wood, but that wasn't really needed as I was bedding the rifle anyway. Just some shots I took today of the rifle. I'll post more as the build goes on.
Nice were you get it from, should make a nice ball shooter. How you going to finish the wood and metal.
http://whitemuzzleloading.com/sales.php?category=7 All steel parts ( Barrel, Lock & Butt Plate ) will be slow rust browned. Not sure what I am going to do with the stock yet.
Very cool. I'm not fond of the dot matrix lettering... are you going to leave it or burnish it or file/refinish it?
