@@olympicblackpowderrifles3155 painted tradeguns were common back in the day. Some were blue, red, and yellow. It’s what the client wanted. You got the peso, you got the say-so
Yes the hooked breech was pretty much already pre-fit together. Everything was preinletted and surprisingly fit into place fairly easily. I’m already just about done with assembling this thing.
I would wonder about a 60# Bow that only put's a Zwicky 6 1/2 inches in probably a 130 gr razor head. But I saw all 3 arrows hit solid and even vibrate,.... so perhaps this was a good test.
I guess I'm unsure if bone can be used for hunting but I would like to see you shoot a road killed deer as a test. Bone is way easy to work,.... way easier than flint too. The weight of the shaft is the key to penitration depth/ Kinetic energy. Your arrows do look the part though.
You did not mention resizing the base part of the hull. Since you picked these empty shells up that are of different manufacturers and fired from various shotgun chambers , this resizing operation should not be overlooked. It’s not a problem if the shells were fired in your gun and will be fired in the same shotgun again.
Circle Fly makes 11 gauge wads for exactly this. Example I do this with 10 gsuge brass hulls. My wads are 9 gauge for a tight fit. Source, Dixie GunWorks. Gorilla Glue in that container is $23. Gorilla Glue also has a relatively short shelf life and next year it will be as solid as a rock. A tube of curing silicone say for bathroom tiles is like $8 and it will last you forever. You can reuse the same partisl tube about 3 years into the future.
If you have a drill press you use that to press in the primer. I don’t like the idea of using a hammer. Just put a wood dowel in the hull to back it up, put something flat in the chuck, set the primer on the pocket and press it in.
My understanding is it’s called swan shot bc it’s “shot” with a spread as useful for fowling but with enough kick to take a swan. Lol I could be wrong though
My Tulle has to be drilled thru the breech plug as well. I've broken three bits so far. How difficult, torque wise, was it to get the witness marks to realign? Do you just force it into alignment?
You can also use watered down Elmer's glue. It's basically the same as water glass made for reloading. Also, you can simplify things and use the same volume powder and shot. So if you you use 1 1/8 shot dipper, you can use that for the powder too-to make a square load..
I've read elsewhere that a "swan" shot was just the name of the shot size... Shot Name---Pellets/Oz. Buckshot-------5 Ditto small------7 Grape Musket----9 Swan----------15 Goose---------24 Duck----------34 BB------------50 B-------------72 No.1----------94 2------------120 3------------140 4------------175 5------------240 6------------260 7------------320 8------------622 9------------900 10----------1600 Dust---------4300
I have an interesting rifle. Its pretty nice but the breach plug stops a 1/4" From the where the barrel starts. I noticed thst it had a bad habit of grabbing patches. So i removed the drum and nipple and i looked in there and i saw that big gap in there. Its a mystery to me how someone could such a nice job on the rest of the rifle and not get that most important thing right? Anyway, all i can think of to do is put a new patent breach in it and install a drum with a longer threaded part. Or take out this breech-plug and drill it out like a patent breach and put a new drum in it. The fun never ends. Thanks for the video.
