Over the last year or so I've been applying the free time to this 4 bore project. When I say I "made this gun" I mean just that. The small screws, the nipple and butt pad and some of the lock components were purchased, the remainder I made from scratch. This included a 3 inch by 8 inch by 3ft maple board for the stock, a 2ft piece of 3-O.D 4140 for the barrel and a smaller piece of 4340 for the breech and tang. The trigger group was a combination of machined and forged components. To give you an idea of the time involved, the hammer took 4 days!
While I was at it I made a round ball mould throwing 1194 gr. balls and a nose pour conical mould throwing 1212 gr bullets. At the first range session I got up to 200gr of 2F behind one of those round balls before calling it quits. Bear in mind, I'm still standing in knee deep snow to shoot the thing! Once the weather moderates, we'll get after it in earnst. And by the way, it's not the monster I had it made out to be (in my mind).
At 15lb she's 2lb lighter than W.W Greener says it should be using the 96:1 theory but my intention is not to slay pacaderms so it will be fine. As most were, in the day, she's smooth bore but with a .0005 bore tolerance lapped to 4 micron, the thing will be quite accurate to 60 yards or so.
My motive was simple, because I can. I would imagine the grandkids will be impressed when we knock a chunk off a glacier off the back of the boat this summer. Beyond that, one hapless Black Bear or Moose will feel the sting before being relegated to impressing folks at the range!
Theres way too much to recant in a quick post, look er over and let me know what you think.
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Nice work.
Originally Posted by smoked turkey
