Yes, you read it. I need detailed drawings of the Delisle carbine.
Anything I can put my hands on will be welcome.
Not an easy thing to find, there are few copies of these floating around. It took me over two years to obtain mine (sorry I cannot share, as one of the conditions of my obtaining them was that I do not distribute them)so your best bet will be to reverse engineer from pictures.
But make sure you are using pictures of an original, there are a LOT of bad copies out there.
Now, first, I'll need to find a proper barrel that I could chamber in 45 Auto.
Who sells such blanks already rifled?
PP.
You need a .444" bore, .452" groove, 1-16" twist barrel, the export regulations in the US have cut off my supply and I am still looking for a new source.
Hardest single operaton is boring out the receiver from the front so that the barrel can extend back into the pre-existing boltway.
This is not so hard once you set everything up and do it a few times. I have had more problems with the bolt modifications, specifically in boring out the bolt and re-threading it after shortening. Some of those bolts are HARD and like to destroy tooling!!
Mike (jessum?) on weapons build guild built one. He has pictures and some drawing on his site as well. Good luck
His build is better than a lot of the reproductions out there but it is still not historically accurate. He put more effort into it than most people do but has still missed some things.
I think part of the problem was that he was using pictures of the Valkyrie Arms replicas, they were pretty bad.
His measurements on some things are also off and he does not use the proper threads in his bolt modifications which will lead to problems later.
Building a Delisle is a project that is not easy, even the original armorers that put them together described them as an absolute nightmare!!
