My Highwall project... complete!

 
Lots of late nights have been happening here! The .410 is almost done.

The last thing to make was a side saddle. I figure a single shot firearm needs a convenient ammo supply...
I made a reamer to suit the cartridges.
https://flic.kr/p/LKp53S
This one is for the .303
https://flic.kr/p/27MBWdm
Almost came out looking colour cased!
https://flic.kr/p/268arwh

https://flic.kr/p/27MBT19
If a fellow had freakishly skinny fingers, they could almost be brass knuckles!...kinda.
https://flic.kr/p/28NKFQS

https://flic.kr/p/27vcvBT
Final polishing before bluing!
https://flic.kr/p/28NKBgG
Parts laid out for bluing...
https://flic.kr/p/28T6HrT
Parts are blued!
https://flic.kr/p/28Thx4r

https://flic.kr/p/268okQb

https://flic.kr/p/27vqpoV
Hopefully Monday I'll have an assembled shotgun to show off!
Stay tuned...
 
Wow. Your work is impressive. I'm blown away. Hats off to you!

I agree with the comments of others, I think you'd easily be able to sell those if you wanted to... And you've already done all that work on forming tools and stuff! Lol
 
Thanks all!
Suther: That is the ultimate dream and goal(not selling this pair obviously) but I'll need my own shop, equipment and licencing so it'll probably be a couple years down the road yet...
My next big plan is to build myself a deep hole drilling machine and a programmable single point rifler and get playing with barrel making.
 
Hi Leelad,
Congratulations on a FINE looking machine! The wood is simply amazing to look at also. So what do you figger? How many hours have you invested between the two? I have a humble little shop. I am by no means as talented as you but I try to do what I can with what I have... Im working around runouts of 20 thou or more.. How 'tight' are the machines you used for these FINE CANADIAN MADE fireamrs?

again congrats. That is a $25K gun right there.. Im telling ya! add some inlay/etching.... ad anothe 10k.

Cheers!

hehehehe!!! So hows she shoot? LoL!
 
Mr. Jeffery: Thank you sir!
I logged most of my hours and figure I'm sitting around 750hrs for the pair. A good chunk of that of course was "figuring". Making drawings, making jigs/fixtures and tooling which wouldn't need to be done again. But there's no way around it, its a very labour intensive process! (but extreeeeeemely satisfying!)

The equipment I have access to is pretty tight. I work to a few tenths on my lathe(weiler CNC) every day making fancy shafts for pulp and paper mills. The milling machine I did a lot of this on(Microcut retrofit "programmable DRO") is kind of a toy. But like anything, measure 3 times, cut twice and there's your size.
I made most of the parts for these size on size and then hand worked them till they just fit ever so sweetly. The result is a silky smooth gun that doesn't stick or bind at all but also doesn't rattle or wiggle. With the action open for instance, You can probably wiggle the end of the lever .005-.010"? You cant fit a piece of paper anywhere around the breach block. The extractor doesn't rattle or jiggle(action closed, empty chamber) and the hammer has about .002" side play.

How does it shoot? "Oh Mylanta!" I can't claim to be a shotgun guru(A competitive trap guy would want to make adjustments I'm sure). But shooting clays in the back field, its balanced beautifully, handles and points very well, comes up nice and is very comfortable to shoot! I wasn't sure about the crescent butt plate for a shotty, but it kind of "scoops" your shoulder into position and it's only being a .410 leaves you with some forgiveness....

Now I'm all bent on getting this rifle finished up and put together so I can start working up a load! I'd like to shoot a sheep in the mountains with it this fall...
 
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