Westly Richards project.

[wr.sainsbury]

Pictures of a rare find in Alberta. A Westly Richards monkey tail carbine built in 1872, 45 cal rapid twist barrel with lots of rifling left. Story is that it was de-activated as a captured weapon from a Boer combatant. Will see if I can reverse that. All bits seem to be there but no cleaning rod in the butt. Will post more as it progresses.



Update - piece appears to be now in firing condition - need the right ball mold or appropriate slug. New Pictures of completed project.

 

[jpc]

A worthy project for sure ☺

Keep us posted and thanks for sharing

take care

jpc

 

[BlackPowderBurner]

Nice find. Well worth the effort to resurrect.

 

[mooncoon]

obviously unsafe --- you should trade it to me for proper disposal :>) :>)

cheers mooncoon

 

[dan belisle]

Pretty cool, I look forward to updates. - dan

 

[jpc]

Very Nice ☺☺☺

 

[Incurable Collectoer]

That's looking pretty good. Are you going to have that with you at the gunshow in October?

 

[marshall]

I have never handled one, you did all that in a month?
I would still be thinking about it , unless it was a customers.
Nice job.

 

[drm3m]

Quite the transition!
Well done.

 

[Boolitcaster]

That turned out very nice. Too bad that I didn’t know it was yours. I had bullets to fit the Monkey Tail on my table at the Courtenay Gun Show. I made paper cartridges for a similar gun about a decade or so ago.

 

[Sir Richard]

Neat gun Bill.

 

[bross]

I am in the process of making some paper cartridges for my new toy.
Trial run bullets: 450 Lee minute- 296 gr; base expanded to .461+- using Lee case expander. Have not yet gotten paper tubes to stay together.