Some photos of a rook rifle project that I challenged myself with. The chamber of the gun and next inch of the bore had been destroyed and I decided to move the lumps forward and rechamber. The lump in this case is two pieces; one for the pivot point and one for the locking lug and extractor.
I decided to make a new front lump and silver solder it to the barrel, using the existing lumps as a reference to keep everything in line. The original pieces appear to have been silver soldered in place as well.
Hopefully the above photos give some idea of the method. I clamped a piece of flat bar to the original lumps and then clamped the replacement front lump to the bar. That more or less insures that the front lump is correctly in line. With the front lump in place, I cut the back one off and moved it forward the same way, this time using the new front lump and the old front lump as references. Finally I cut the old front lump off plus the damaged chamber area and stuck everything back in the gun.
The bottom gun is a closup of the receive being repaired. I still have to rust the barrel and eliminate the shiny patch.
I had a couple of surprises; both the gun repaired and the second rook rifle in the last photo were supposedly 380 rook rifles or 380 CF as stamped on the top rifle. The groove diameter was actually .370.
The second surprise was that I used Green Dot (fast smokeless) to check the sights and it grouped very poorly at 25 yards. When I switched to cartridge grade black the groups improved dramatically. I think the gun will shoot better yet when I replace the front sight because I think at least some of the problem is sighting combined with my eyes. The target pictured was shot twice with a 6 o clock hold at 25 yards and I flipped the box over after the first 5 shots.
cheers mooncoon
I decided to make a new front lump and silver solder it to the barrel, using the existing lumps as a reference to keep everything in line. The original pieces appear to have been silver soldered in place as well.
Hopefully the above photos give some idea of the method. I clamped a piece of flat bar to the original lumps and then clamped the replacement front lump to the bar. That more or less insures that the front lump is correctly in line. With the front lump in place, I cut the back one off and moved it forward the same way, this time using the new front lump and the old front lump as references. Finally I cut the old front lump off plus the damaged chamber area and stuck everything back in the gun.
The bottom gun is a closup of the receive being repaired. I still have to rust the barrel and eliminate the shiny patch.
I had a couple of surprises; both the gun repaired and the second rook rifle in the last photo were supposedly 380 rook rifles or 380 CF as stamped on the top rifle. The groove diameter was actually .370.
The second surprise was that I used Green Dot (fast smokeless) to check the sights and it grouped very poorly at 25 yards. When I switched to cartridge grade black the groups improved dramatically. I think the gun will shoot better yet when I replace the front sight because I think at least some of the problem is sighting combined with my eyes. The target pictured was shot twice with a 6 o clock hold at 25 yards and I flipped the box over after the first 5 shots.
cheers mooncoon
