Great job on your restoration. It came out really nice! What did you apply to the barrels and lock to protect them? The natural look is pretty sharp. Ive never seen barrels and locks not blued. Any advice you can give me would be great. I have an 1860 side by side I'm redoing. Thank you for your time and talents. Keep up the great work.
Not quit how I would have done this restoration :). I do this as a hobby on older Winchester rifles, late 1800s to early 1900s, and it's truly a learning experience. Lots of photo, writings, videos, hands on research and experimenting to try and get the rifles cleaned up or totally redone. I do commend you on your courage to take this project on. I'm not sure I would recommend shooting this rifle. if you do, keep the loads light. All in all nice job and thank you for the time taken to share with us all. :)
@@TopGunRestorations I have to thank you! I'm so happy that I subscribed to your channel, there are so many things to learn! this is not just about restoring old guns , it is an art just like poetry in motion!
Fantastic work - Congrats! Exceptional video quality and editing, although I had to watch it on mute. Your soundtrack was not the ASMR experience for a restoration video. Curious, why did you choose not to blue the steel? Probably best you didn't remove the breech plugs too. What other firearms do you have planned?!
Thank you for great review, it keeps me motivated to do more videos because of it :) Honestly it never came to my mind to blue the steel I guess I wanted to see the original texture of the steel from 1850's
I find it weird that my break barrel late 1800s shotgun has the exact same triggers, trigger guard, and but pad as that muzzle loader. Looks like allot of them around them made similar looking parts
What did use to protect the piece you didn't blue? Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for sharing your time and talents with us.
@@TopGunRestorations thank you for sharing. I will look into that. Your videos are awesome!!! Keep up the great work. I look forward to seeing more videos on your channel.
You did great for the first restoration! I am 72 and would not want you to see my early work. I just want you to understand the barrel keeper needs to pass completely thru the stock so it’s easily removed. When removed the barrels can come out of the stock for cleaning after a shooting session. It was a clever system that you failed to understand properly.
There was an old bolt stuck in it and wood was patched with wood filler. I couldn't find any good information on how to do it properly. I will try to do another restoration of 1783 tower marked muzzleloader in a near future hopefully I will do a better job. Thank you for your input and now I am glad that I couldn't find anyone to test fire that shotgun :)
I live in Canada where shooting any rifle requires a gun license and I couldn't find anyone with right knowledge to test fire the muzzleloader although I am still looking.
A classic RU-vid "restoration" - sandpaper, acid, grinder and lots of comments from delighted people without knowledge of the subject. You destroyed this weapon and didn't repair it. After this pseudo-renovation its value is lower than before
