New Toy

[mooncoon]

Bought a new toy recently; a belgian revolver @ 1880's or early 90's and officially decreed an antique. When I recieved it, it had been rebarreled with a portion of .30 cal rifle barrel and the chambers bushed to 7 mm Tokarev (I think)
Needless to say I had to tinker with it and make it into something more practical, hopefully to use in black powder cartridge events. I shortened a 30-30 shell down to 1.1" and loaded it with black powder then a 150 grain cast slug. Obviously rechambered the cylinder to fit same.
Had it out to the range today; looks like I will have to put a much higher front sight on as right now it is shooting about 1' high or more at 15 yards. Keep my fingers crossed that with the new sight I will start hitting the paper :>)

cheers mooncoon

 

[gunasauras]

SWEET looking piece...!

 

[Steppenwolf]

Is there anything you can't do? Do you want to trade

SW

 

[Al Flipo]

That barrel looks a little home made, machine up a nice one, tapered or hex with a bit of flare to it.

 

[mooncoon]

to answer steppenwolf; a couple of things come to mind --- hit a barn door with a smoothbore and please Al Flippo :>)

to Al ---- the barrel is a piece of rifle barrel that a previous owner put on the gun to meet the provisions of antique status. Before I do anything with it, I want to be sure the gun is semi accurate and working reasonably mechanically. Currently have a couple of minor problems --- the firing pin hole is too large which results in the shells sticking a bit after firing. Rifle primers help this problem somewhat. For the moment I am relucatant to bush the hole. I am also having occasional problems with the hammer dragging on the trigger/sear and eventually will have to pull the gun apart and see if there is a way to correct that.

cheers mooncoon

 

[Al Flipo]

I know for a fact, that when you are done with it, it will look and shoot great.