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Eric Krewson:
This rifle is such a mess I only pick it up when I need to kill time, such was the case lately. I inletted the entry pipe but the ramrod wouldn't go in to the forestock. A check with my borescope indicated although the inletting looked good the pipe was still a little high. I lowered it a bit and everything worked out just fine. I slopped the pipe around trying to get the alignment right, I ended up with a few gaps that will need to be shimmed.

Eric Krewson:
I started in on my trigger guard, this and the nose cap are all I need to finish before I shape the wood and get the basic construction done.

PaulN/KS:
Good to see you back at the bench Eric.
Looking forward to future updates.  :OK

Eric Krewson:
I hope this one shoots OK, if it does it may be my last. I had the barrel reamed out to .54, the guy who did it left a slightly loose place down near the breech, the rest of the rifling is spot on.

If this one isn't a good shooter I may throw in the towel and get a Kibler colonial kit to finish for my final gun. I have two or three of everything now, fowlers, squirrel rifles and deer rifles.

The bad thing is I can't see the sights on any of them as cataracts and old age have started blurring everything.

I made a prototype tang mounted peep for my deer rifle the other day, I stuck it on the gun for the picture but it isn't finished up and still a little rough. I did take a few shots with it to adjust the aperture size. In the right light the sights are very clear but I have to have my head just right on the stock to achieve this.

Eric Krewson:
This rifle has been a pain, partly because of the precarve and partly because I am not doing the quality of work I once did and I don't know why.

Case in point; simple job, line up the side plate with the lock plate, drill the bolt holes, tighten down the bolts, scribe around the plate and inlet it to the proper depth.

Something went wrong, somewhere between tighten down the bolts and scribe around the plate something shifted. I took out the bolts and inletted the plate to the proper depth, the lock bolt holes were very slightly off and were binding in the holes through the stock and wouldn't hit one of the threaded holes in my lock plate. On close examination I could see I had the plate inletted a bit too high.

I recut the inlet to where it was supposed to be and still had a slight interference with the holes in the lock plate so I filed the holes slightly larger.

The recut inlet now had gaps, I hate gaps so I started adding shims, it took 9 of them in all and several days to get the plate fit just right and tight.

I like to show my builds warts and all, I have had a bunch of warts lately.

First the patches, none will show on the finished gun, then the final side plate fit.

 

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