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Finally, finished (well I need to polish the chamber, but that is tuning, not building ^_^)
What an experience. There were several times, I was sure this would be another failed project, like the VW Squareback, and the Time Machine, but this one I finished. Three or four months, I think and definitely more than $1300 total, including parts, supplies, etc. Not a bargain, but its done, and I love it. I'll let the blueing cure for a week, then fire it next weekend to find the sweetest load, then in two weeks its off to the club for a match!
Jack,
The rust blue job looks great. I think you got it down pat!
Yea, you want to be easy on the finish for at least a week and then be careful on the type of oil you use on it for several months. Remember, Hoppe's #9 will eat that finish right off, so if you shoot it, keep the solvent where it belongs............in the barrel.--------------6
The "Lemonton" saga has been a classic. I'm going to miss those updates of the lemonton, but I'm glad you are finally going to get to use it to make big holes in some things.
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Sixgun wrote:Jack,
The rust blue job looks great. I think you got it down pat!
Yea, you want to be easy on the finish for at least a week and then be careful on the type of oil you use on it for several months. Remember, Hoppe's #9 will eat that finish right off, so if you shoot it, keep the solvent where it belongs............in the barrel.--------------6
Haha! For a minute I almost wet myself. You followed up the oil warning with the solvent warning, and i am curing the finish with Hoppes oil. It took a minute to realize you were talking about the solvent!
This rifle is BP only, so there will be a minimum of No. 9 anyway.
Looks great!!! I'm glad you're pleased with it... I'd be proud too
Rollers look better to me than the Sharps rifles do... Must be the reason they were made so much longer
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I miscounted and the match is this coming weekend. So I snuck off to the range with it to test out some loads. It was strange, though, the more powerful the load, the lower the ball hit at 50 yards.
Anyway, I think I will try 50 grain/volume of 777 FFFG, with cream of wheat, compress under a 500 grain bullet, COL 2.83.
Even with just 50 grains of BP and that heavy barrel, this sucker kicks. I kept hitting my glasses on the eye cup. I am a bit of a stock crawler, though. I need to maybe sit up straighter and keep my head further back.
It cleans out beautifully, too. Three swipes with a water soaked patch and the bore was clean. No lead, no nothing. The sights are dead on vertically, too. I am very exited to shoot it next week. I wont have time to get a smokeless load worked up for the 7mm Roller, so I'll shoot a light smokeless load from the Trapdoor. That gun seems to really like shooting the big 500 grain bullet over 22.2 grains of SR 4759.
Once new thing I am now doing for loading, is I bought the .459 neck expander from Track of the Wolf. It really makes seating the bullet smoother. I think I was deforming the bullets or case before, trying to squeeze a .459 bullet down into a .457 neck. Now, the slide in smooth and I do a soft taper crimp to hold them in.
Alphawolf45 wrote:Finished up to be a very handsome gun.. What is the competition you are planning to enter with it ?
Its just a monthly club shoot at the Dalton Gang club in Dalton New Hampshire. I started shooting there last year, and a nice old geezer named Oakwood Dick (he swears he wasn't bragging) took me under his wing and showed me the ropes.
Dick passed away this past winter and I honestly havent enjoyed going there as much, so I haven't been much this year. So, this shoot will be to celebrate his memory for me, and then I think I'll head the other way and see what upstate New York has to offer for sillouetted shooting and such.
BlaineG wrote:I hope that sucker can shoot the balls off a gnat at 300 yards If Beauty could equal Accuracy, you will have no problem...
I have high hopes. During testing, the bullet holes were all on a vertical strip of electrical tape at 50 yards. My only problem is I keep banging my glasses on the rear tang sight from the recoil. If I don't remember to set it back into position, or to hold my head further back, i keep shooting low.
BlaineG wrote:I hope that sucker can shoot the balls off a gnat at 300 yards If Beauty could equal Accuracy, you will have no problem...
I have high hopes. During testing, the bullet holes were all on a vertical strip of electrical tape at 50 yards. My only problem is I keep banging my glasses on the rear tang sight from the recoil. If I don't remember to set it back into position, or to hold my head further back, i keep shooting low.
Maybe you can shim that little spring so it won't move around so much.....When I get the tang for the Sharps, I want to get an eyepiece that has the rubber ring attached....You'll Poke Your Eye Out
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