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    Someone say Blunderbuss?

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    Someone said Blunderbuss and I found
    this old piece of steel under my bench
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    Not having a mandrel I had to go RedNeck
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    This ...
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    And this...
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    Sure makes a lot of this....
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    Ruined a perfectly good step drill doing this
    Bored to 11/16 to fire a patched marble.
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    A nice firm push through
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    Will probably shorten the barrel a bit
    when I fit the breech plug.
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    beginning to look like something

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    That looks like fun!!!

    Great job!! Keep the posts/pics coming

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    Looks nice.
    I wish I still had my lathe.
    What kind of lock are you going to use ?

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    This will be another of my, "Franken" projects. I'm going to use an old style percussion lock as I've never had much success with flint. The hooked breech plug and tang will be Hawken as I feel they have a large safety factor and the stock is a piece of Congolese Mahogany from a friend of mine who is a, "Wood Magician". I'll figure out the trigger and guard as I bring the stock into shape.

    The plans are between my ears and they get a little fuzzy at times...

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    I would like to build a Blunderbuss that is set up with two locks.
    One percussion and the other Flint.
    That way I can change the lock out depending what kind of shooting I am doing that day.
    I would prefer a percussion for hunting and plinking.

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    That would be quite a trick as the Pan is usually part of the barrel on a flint and the drum with the nipple
    is usually part of the barrel on a percussion. You would almost have to change the barrel and the lock and
    if you did that the only common pieces left would be the stock and trigger. It could be done with a double barrel,
    flint on one side and percussion on the other. What an interesting beast it would be.

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    WOW! that is the cats A$$!

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    Quote Originally Posted by LAGS View Post
    I would like to build a Blunderbuss that is set up with two locks.
    One percussion and the other Flint.
    That way I can change the lock out depending what kind of shooting I am doing that day.
    I would prefer a percussion for hunting and plinking.
    Should be doable , my Dixie mountian rifle was set up like that when I got it . Came with identical locks one of each and the man I bought it from said he had the drum indexed with shims to be able to just take out the touch hole liner and thread in the drum .
    If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!

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    I know that a gun having Two locks is Doable.
    I have seen them before.
    But it takes a little work to get everything to like up when you change from one format to another.
    The flash pan is usually on the flintlock lock.
    A Threaded flash hole liner can be removed and a drum installed on the same barrel.
    So rifles like TC percussion barrels will not work to be swapable with a flintlock because of the snail style breech plug that they use.

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    Outstanding!

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    I can see the feasibility of a conversion as percussion caps could have been a scarce item on the early frontier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Capn Jack View Post
    That would be quite a trick as the Pan is usually part of the barrel on a flint and the drum with the nipple
    is usually part of the barrel on a percussion. You would almost have to change the barrel and the lock and
    if you did that the only common pieces left would be the stock and trigger. It could be done with a double barrel,
    flint on one side and percussion on the other. What an interesting beast it would be.
    All the FL today the PAN is part of the lock it is not attached to the barrel and there are many convertible guns of FL to CL or either way.

    A touchole liner is uded and then removed to install the drum and niple. Change the lock presto!

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    OK, OK. I should have looked a little further into the existence of, "Convertibles".

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    Most people don't know or have never heard of a convertibles because most shooters are either into Flintlocks or Percussion , and don't shoot both

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    Marbles at 25 paces

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    Marbles seem like an awful nasty projectile for anything other than paper targets.

    They made wonderful wrist rocket shot in the 1970's though.

    Robert

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    Thumbs up Marbles in a .62 cal.

    Marbles are cheap, light weight, Shatter when they hit something solid, only need 30gr.FFG and virtually no recoil.

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