Question about my Type I Richards Conversion Reproduction

[Ephraim Kibbey]

My first time using a micrometer!!! And it is a cloudy/snowy day in Cincinnati so I will try this again on the next sunny one we get.

Just curious, what is the bore diameter of the barrel?

The .38 Special ASM 1860/1861 Richards Type I Fantasy Conversion - Bore Land to Land (I think) : 0.314"

Does it have a .43" bore, or the percussion .45?

The Caliber unmarked AFF 1851 Richards Mason Fantasy Conversion - Bore Land to Land (I think) : 0.410"

I could not see well enough to get the micrometer into the grooves so I do not have their depth!

I am guessing that the barrels ASM and AFF used were the same as the ASM C&B barrels and bored the same but I do not know. I an still researching!!! If I were to slug the barrels, which I have not done before, what do you advise?

 

[hawg]

Drive a ball down the bore and measure the ball.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Bore Land to Land (I think) - 3.14"

Minus three inches and fourteen tenths?

 

[Jackrabbit1957]

Methinks the decimal point is in the wrong spot. Details!

 

[Ephraim Kibbey]

Methinks the decimal point is in the wrong spot.

My Bad!!!
That would be quite the cannon!
I will edit.

 

[Ephraim Kibbey]

Minus three inches and fourteen tenths?

A Pi gun???

 

[woodnbow]

Minus three inches and fourteen tenths?

No way to drive a lead ball into that!

 

[Jackrabbit1957]

A Pi gun???

Now that could be fun! A gun flinging pies! I'm in!

 

[Miguel Loco]

Now that could be fun! A gun flinging pies! I'm in!

....as long as it's not cow pies....!!! lol