Hardware Store Muzzle Loading Pistol Part 2 - SHOOTING! 

Thank you very much, Charles. That is a great compliment coming from a gunsmith!

Like all the ones from Royal Nonesuch?

Seth: Right? How is that guy still alive?

I like the look of the gun but I wish he would have gone into depth about how he used a hex screw for the nipple I had to pause and observe the finished product to see it. When loading though, doesn’t it go powder, patch and then bullet? I mean, I know if shooting a black powder shot gun it goes powder, patch, shot, patch but I don’t think that’s how it goes for much else.

Charles Driggers. If you think making a gun barrel from off the shelf mild steel is a good idea you are a piss poor gunsmith.

+userunavailable3095 What youre describing is called 'proofing'... All firearm makers do it to this day, they just have a more controlled setting ;) Im unsure about the other manufacturers but I know Ruger proofs their guns with 150% loads.

Thanks!

My father did that with the family's Civil War rifle. Way too much powder. (Likely a triple or quad charge). The barrel blew apart. He got one heck of a whuppin'. He survived only because he tied it in the crotch of a tree, and used a string to fire it with.

LOL - That is a great story!

Proofing of barrels is still done the same way. Double charge.

Thanks for the kind words and encouragement PL!

That is so cool, Daniel. Keep me posted on your progress.

Thanks!

I didn't know that about New Jersey, Brett. You should get a cap and ball revolver.

seriously?!??!

I live in Florida part-time I can own them in Florida but there's some states that you can't even own a cap and ball revolver Pike Pennsylvania Virginia New Jersey New York I own a cap and ball revolver back brass frame the nipples are seized but it still shoots fine last i tested it a bout year ago I am looking at the 1858 and I can do a cartridge conversion but I do not know if that would be legal

And I was charged with a third-degree felony 3 years later still pending

Add New Jersey cap and ball revolvers must go through National background check and you need a pistol permit

Thanks so much for your kind words and for taking the time to leave me a comment. I appreciate it :-)

You can get a CVS kit and it wouldn't blow up in your face.

@@terranceperkins9656 CVA

Thank you, Simon. I appreciate your encouragement and taking time to leave me a comment. Cheers

Haha, I am too old to be a child, Dave. So I must fit into the latter category :-). Wanting to keep my fingers and eyes, I did check the PSI rating for both the liner and the black iron pipe before I fired it. I have ample strength for the light loads I shot. But, one can never be too careful... I don't want to tempt that protection. Have a great week.

Glad to hear that you checked out the PSI rating BEFORE you shot it. I used to tie mine to a tree and use a rope to pull the trigger. I built a 69 caliber smooth bore Tower pistol that shot a 300 grain bullet back in 1975 and that's how I tested it. I couldn't even find a bullet mold so I made my own. I was terrified of it before that first shot :~))))) God bless. Dave

Gunsteel is mild steel not some secret formula.

If it's a secret, you would know?

@@billwessels207 High tensile strenght mild steel but yes - mild steel.. If I would every would have to rely on the rubbish steel grades sold in DIY stores I would go at least double wall thickness for the target pressure... just my thought...

Thanks!

Thanks, Paul. That is a good pointer. Please keep me posted on your progress. I have been wanting to make a flintlock sometime too.

Thank you for the kind words, Nick :-)

Thanks, Floyd!

Haha, thanks Liam

Thanks very much for your kind words. That is what encourages me to keep making videos. Have a great weekend!

Thanks for taking the time to leave me an encouraging comment. I really appreciate that.

It really is. It took me awhile to get them. I made knives, sold them, saved up the money and slowly bought tools. Have a great week!

What "all those tools" are you talking about? He built the thing with NOTHING! This is a great demonstration that you can build a weapon with nothing but a drill and a file!

That is very cool :-)

True that, Dave. And making them is fun and stress relieving! Have a great week.

Yes. Thanks :-)

Thanks, buddy :-)

What song

+juan manuel marchioli Thanks, Juan

I drilled an tapped a hole and threaded a piece of a bolt into it that had an "L" shaped hole. This L was formed by drilling 3/4 of the way through the bolt, and then another hole drilled down to meet it from the top of the bolt face. I threaded that top hole for the nipple (the part the percussion cap goes on)

Thanks, SS. It was so odd and alluring to me too. I then wrote to him and asked for permission to use it in my video. He wrote right back and told me he would be honored if I used it. He is a great guy

SugarcreekForge that’s awesome. Really enjoying this build series. You’re a new find for me on RU-vid. It’s great when two cool things come together! Appreciate the response!

Thanks for the kind words and taking time to leave a comment. Have a great weekend. Tim

Thank you, Mark. I am glad that you like it.

Hi Michael - Thank you. I am glad that you enjoyed the videos. I made some percussion out of aluminum foil and paper toy gun caps, but I am able to buy percussion caps very cheaply. I bought the springs and only had to modify one of them for the trigger return spring.

Haha. Please don't make it, Ca! I need you to be out of jail and free to make great videos for me to watch. :-)

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Well cant Build one Buy one you can Own one in germany still Not Build one yourself

@@klompex100 man kann Perkussionspistolen bauen aber da muss man dann natürlich Beschluss bekommen.

@@einhundertfunfzig4919 hast du recht

Hi Allen - Yes, that is exactly what I did. Thanks for leaving me a comment and your kind words.

I don't have a parts list, but if you look in the description I have a link to some of the parts I drew

Thanks, Alonzo. If you look closely, that was during the build and the nipple is not installed. Completely inert at that stage. But, it is always good to keep fingers off the trigger. Have a great weekend.

Ahhhh, I see. No worries, then, I'm seriously thinking of building one of these for myself.

Thanks, Drew

Thanks, Michael. I appreciate your kind words

Thanks CSGS. It was a lot of fun to make

Hi Robert. I just used a common bolt. I didn't want to use one that was hard. I did thread the inside of the barrel. I just used a hand tap and got a few nice turns of the threads.

I just screwed it in tight

@@SugarcreekForge ill try it

Thank you! I appreciate the encouragement :-)

Thanks for the encouragement! It is a percussion cap-fired system. So, I threaded a screw into a tapped hole in the barrel. I drilled a little hole down through the center of that screw. So the hammer hits the cap which is placed over the screw with the hole in it. When it goes off, the sparks go down that hole and into the barrel.

@@SugarcreekForge so like, there's a little bit of a turn in the vent? i was wondering if that would still work if there was a turn

Y@@UnKnown-so5wk Yes, it does

thank you!@@SugarcreekForge

Thanks. It was solder

Haha, indeed! And you can make it at home :-)

Thank you very much. I am guessing $20

I wanted it to clearly be plywood :-) Kind of post apocalyptic meets backyard tinkerer

+lonestarrider Thanks, Rex

No. I just used a photo I took with it at the end of the video. It was while I was fitting the part :-) I shot the video a day or two after I took that last photo.

@@SugarcreekForge oh ok

Hi Isaiah. I am not exactly sure what you mean by "live round". It was a small safe charge of black powder and a .38 lead bullet. The priming cap ignited real powder and the bullet fired out - so that was a live round I guess you would say. I could fire it with simple wadding on top of the powder and it would just go "bang". So I wouldn't have to fire a projectile. I hope that answers what you were asking?

Hola hermano, muchas gracias por dejarme tu comentario. Puede utilizar herramientas manuales sencillas como un taladro, una sierra para metales y limas. Sólo hace falta un poquito más de tiempo.

@@SugarcreekForge gracias amigo en realidad reitero mucho lo de eres sencillamente genial 🫂.

+RDPproject Thanks, Rob

Yes, I left it smooth. No... I don't have any plans like that.

Thanks for your kind words and encouragement, Steven. Yes, I used a much smaller ball (slug actually) and I wanted it to stay back against the powder.

+sergeantbigmac Thanks, buddy. I copied an original historic design. The angle certainly could be changed to match what you like.

Thanks :-)

anti Gun folks i guess

the music was overbearing

Icy Uranus Yeah....This guy is really strange, for example......His taste in music for one. Secondly his channel is called Sugar Creek forge, which sounds okay BUT this fella has the skills of a dead wildebeest! He's meant to be a blade smith? Don't make me laugh! He cannot sharpen a frigging chisel! The gun looked like it was made by a retarded ten year old....just like everything else he attempts. It's cute really.....those merry cans, even when they know they are shit at things, they keep on trying (and failing at EVERYTHING!) It's kinda like they (including the author) enjoy being the butt of the world's jokes. I mean, who gives themselves the choice of Trump/Clinton? Only in America lol, poor deluded dumb fucks ha ha ha ha

*Sigh*

lol Thanks, Zachary. I think that would be super cool. I saw a rifle that shot .22 pellets. I am not sure if it could be done or not.

It is about 36 caliber

Hi! I tapped threads into the back of the barrel and then screwed in a small section of a bolt.

+Don Lester Thanks, Don!

+A.J. Rusinek Thanks very much, A.J. :-)

Thanks for the kind words, buddy. I appreciate it.

No

Thanks, buddy.

Thanks, buddy. Go for it :-)

Thanks, Nick!

I tapped threads into the barrel and then screwed in a breach plug.

Evan Jones not trying to be pedantic but it’s a caplock my man. Flintlocks are much more intricate

It has a small bolt and a nut on it. I drilled a hole through the center of the bolt so the spark can reach the powder.

Oh ok I see. Thx for the reply.

What size cap? 10 or 11?

I used 11 because that is what I had.

Thank you. It is percussion cap pistol. It uses a metal cap that goes over a hollow nipple. When the hammer hits the cap, it detonates and sends sparks down the tube onto the powder in the chamber. Here is a link that will help explain it more. guns.wikia.com/wiki/Caplock

Oh thanks, i will check that out

Hi. The hammer hits a percussion cap that is placed over the nipple. That causes the percussion cap to fire sparks down through the hole in the nipple into the barrel where it ignites the black powder.

@@SugarcreekForge thank you

Thanks, John!

Thank you!

Cadillac CTS I was like wtf is he doing haha glad you caught that too

Dudes wrong as can be. I've shot severely underbore balls with a tight wad or patch and got a 3 Inch group at 40. A tight bore and patched round ball should produce similar at 75-100.

@@fahey5719 😉👍😊

I think the patch went last because the round wasn't tight in the barrel. In this case it should have been powder, patch, bullet, patch or powder,lotsa patches bullet.

Generally speaking in smooth bores, with a ball it is Powder always first. Then Ball, and then patch sufficient to keep the ball in place if in a hurry, otherwise the ball wrapped in patch for better accuracy and range. In Rifled barrels, it is Powder, then tightly patched ball, all in one. The exception to that is when an oversized ball is hammered in to the muzzle with a false muzzle device and a small mallet; that is to say no patch because the soft lead ball has been engraved with the rifling.

Thanks, John! I am glad that you like it :-)

@@SugarcreekForge where did you find blueprints? The state I live in this would be legal, I have no idea how to go about it though.

@@trustworthydan I looked at several examples of lock mechanism drawings on line and then I drew them with a simple CAD program. Also there are copies of old plans floating around. Search "Jaco gun plans" and you can find them.

@@SugarcreekForge I would but I don't want to be on a "watch list" lmao

@@SugarcreekForge also I have to say it's awesome that the last comment was 3 years ago and you're replying to me.

Thanks!

+thebrokenbone Hi Pete. Thanks very much. I am glad that you liked it. I threaded the barrel for the breach plug. I also threaded the bolt that I used for the primer chamber/nipple. I used black powder and about 7 grains.

It is made from a piece of steel tubing inside a piece of water pipe. I tapped a hole into the barrel and threaded a small bolt that I drilled a hole through the middle. I drilled and tapped the bolt and screwed in a drilled through screw and shaped that into the percussion cap nipple.

Thank you very much. If you have or ever make a video of how the barrel was made I'd like to see it.This was still one of the best videos I have ever seen. The sound,resolution,clarity & stability are excellent compared to any others. You could teach how to make a quality youtube video. I'll be looking at all your videos. You earned my Best of youtube award.

Thank you so much for the kind words!

:-)

To America and her craftsmen

+Joseph Barge Thanks very much!

Haha, thanks, Alex! I am glad that you like it 🙂

Yes, exactly that. You can see what it looks like in the video at 0:29

SugarcreekForge ah I did mine a bit differently I used a bolt like you but I cut of the threads at the smooth section so the cylinder and the bolt head were the same length/thickness then I drilled a hole through and then rammed it into the barrel and then welded it where the seam was then I tapped the small hole for a homemade nipple made from a piece of thread, kinda like this but you get the point ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MHboDW9NLac.html Also thanks for the fast reply but where are new videos? :(

@@KClO3 That sounds like a good way to do it, buddy. I will check that out. I know... I need to start making videos again :-)

@@KClO3 You are so welcome, my friend. I know... I have had a bunch of stuff happen in my life that put videos on hold. I need to start posting again. I would love to see what you made sometime!

SugarcreekForge Sure I should be able to show you somewhere, do you have any messaging software? And thanks for the nice comment btw

Thanks, Br. I am glad that you liked them. It has always been fun for me to make things. Even some things that seem complicated can be made if you just are patient and do it little by little. Have a great weekend

Very small charge. I think it would be wise for you to consult some BP pressure charts before you try anything like that. It can be very dangerous.

It was actually welded seam tubing hot fitted inside of a piece of water pipe. I made sure that the seams were on the opposite sides.

So smoothbore I take it?

DirtyFrigginHarry Yes, indeed :-)

Yes. You can buy commercially made ones for sale, and kits for them.

It is music by Shakey Graves. There is info in the description

+knoxi82 Thanks, Knoxi!

Thanks, Alex. I appreciate the kind words.

You are very welcome, Miguel. Thanks for leaving me a comment.