its not what you think, its just 2 rifles bolted together to make a SXS rifle
This thread may be in the wrong section as its rimfire but its also a sporting rifle. So, mods can feel free to move it if they wish.
For a while now I’ve wanted a really small impractical rifle chambered in something that would be most likely in a rook rifle. Some silly old little black power case. But having the million projects on the go I didn’t want to really spend any money on this build. So, I used parts that I had laying around. It’s chambered in 22 short I had 2 rimfire barrels sitting on the shelf so I used them.
I put way more work into this then I expected. Fitting the hand made parts is where the time is used up. The machining is the fastest part of it.
I made the barrels from old savage 22 take offs. I made 6 springs for the receivers, longer pins, both extractors, fit them all, set headspace, made firing pins, made the rib, had the sights sitting around already. Soldered the rib on with lead free plumbing solder (5% silver)
The barrels are 18.5” long the LOP is going to be 13” and the OAL will be 32”. It does have some weight to it id assume around 7 pounds when done.
Its easier than it looks to fire both barrels while aiming. The triggers are side by side opposed to front and back. You can see in the video how I put my finger through them both to fire them, if there was a lot of recoil, I could see it not working well.
You will notice one major fault in the barrels. It was late and I was rushing so not thinking, I made 2 left side barrels. I wasn’t sure how to continue, then I just said frig it, I’m making universal barrels and ill see what one fits what receiver the best. So the barrels have flats on the out sides of them.
The stock wood is from a big walnut that blew over here 2 years ago, the thread linked below is a thread on cutting the blanks from the tree.
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...223-Cutting-logs-for-rifle-stock-blanks-today
It ended up taking a lot longer than I had assumed it would but It didn’t use any funds so it didn’t take away from my other projects.
Mechanically the rifle is done, now it needs the wood finished and some bluing to happen
ill have to regulate the barrels with the muzzles. right now with the gun in a vice both barrels hit a 8x11 piece of paper at 15 yards. im not sure if they are crossing each other or both in line but i feel i can make it work by altering the crown by trail and error
If you click the last pic it turns into a video of it cocking and dry firing
The receivers are two Remington no6
The rib and rear sight riser were made from a rusty piece of 2x3x1/4" angle iron I found out back. And it was only 17 3/4" long so the rib doesn't come to the end of the barrels.
PXL_20231014_184911537.TS
This thread may be in the wrong section as its rimfire but its also a sporting rifle. So, mods can feel free to move it if they wish.
For a while now I’ve wanted a really small impractical rifle chambered in something that would be most likely in a rook rifle. Some silly old little black power case. But having the million projects on the go I didn’t want to really spend any money on this build. So, I used parts that I had laying around. It’s chambered in 22 short I had 2 rimfire barrels sitting on the shelf so I used them.
I put way more work into this then I expected. Fitting the hand made parts is where the time is used up. The machining is the fastest part of it.
I made the barrels from old savage 22 take offs. I made 6 springs for the receivers, longer pins, both extractors, fit them all, set headspace, made firing pins, made the rib, had the sights sitting around already. Soldered the rib on with lead free plumbing solder (5% silver)
The barrels are 18.5” long the LOP is going to be 13” and the OAL will be 32”. It does have some weight to it id assume around 7 pounds when done.
Its easier than it looks to fire both barrels while aiming. The triggers are side by side opposed to front and back. You can see in the video how I put my finger through them both to fire them, if there was a lot of recoil, I could see it not working well.
You will notice one major fault in the barrels. It was late and I was rushing so not thinking, I made 2 left side barrels. I wasn’t sure how to continue, then I just said frig it, I’m making universal barrels and ill see what one fits what receiver the best. So the barrels have flats on the out sides of them.
The stock wood is from a big walnut that blew over here 2 years ago, the thread linked below is a thread on cutting the blanks from the tree.
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...223-Cutting-logs-for-rifle-stock-blanks-today
It ended up taking a lot longer than I had assumed it would but It didn’t use any funds so it didn’t take away from my other projects.
Mechanically the rifle is done, now it needs the wood finished and some bluing to happen
ill have to regulate the barrels with the muzzles. right now with the gun in a vice both barrels hit a 8x11 piece of paper at 15 yards. im not sure if they are crossing each other or both in line but i feel i can make it work by altering the crown by trail and error
If you click the last pic it turns into a video of it cocking and dry firing
The receivers are two Remington no6
The rib and rear sight riser were made from a rusty piece of 2x3x1/4" angle iron I found out back. And it was only 17 3/4" long so the rib doesn't come to the end of the barrels.
PXL_20231014_184911537.TS
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