16 Bore Purdey style Side by Side Caplock Muzzleloader

[StolzerandSons]

This is the beginning of the next project, a 16 Bore(.669″) Purdey style caplock side by side muzzleloader. This project is going to be very similar to the 10 Bore double rifles that I built last year so I’m not going to be doing a lot of video with this build. I will be posting some update pictures as I go along though just to let everybody(especially my customer) know how things are progressing. If you'd like to see the videos of the 10 Bore builds you can visit my blog at stolzergunsmithing.wordpress.com

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I Started by turning the barrel blanks down to a straight taper, then breeching them and then clamping them to a steel plate for soldering together.

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I use silver brazing rod and flux to join the barrels for the first couple inches at the breech end.

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Both sides of the valleys were fluxed and soldered.

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A shot of the muzzles… .669″ bore.

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I don’t run the barrels exactly parallel with the bore line, I actually like them to convert slightly, so that later on when it comes time to regulate them I can drive the wedge in and spread the barrels as needed. After some careful measuring I determined that parallel would leave a .215″ gap so I went .200″.

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The next step is to make the top and bottom ribs, to machine the radius in the bottom rib I soldered it onto a piece of 1/2″ x 1″ bar stock so it would be easy to clamp in the mill and easy to clamp in my vise to clean up and fit the ramrod pipes to it.

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As you can see it makes it very easy to machine this way.

That's it for this update, I’m actually a little farther along but those pictures will have to wait for the next update.

Colin

[Nobade]

Thank you for continuing to post here and showing the details of your projects. I learn new things every time. I just wish we could do some of what you do in our shop. The modern rifles are getting kind of boring.

-Nobade

[elk hunter]

I do love those two shooters smooth or rifled, muzzle or beech loading.

Question, where did you get your rifled 16 bore barrels? I'm wanting to build a 16 bore English stalking rifle for hunting elk, but haven't been able to locate a barrel.

[StolzerandSons]

Joe Williams at The Gunworks Muzzleloading Emporium(Oregon Barrel Works). Joe and Suzi are really great people, very good to do business with.

HTH

Colin

[StolzerandSons]

I meant to update this last weekend but ran out of time to get it done.

All the metal work is finished to the point of being ready to inlet into the wood.
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The ribs and pipes are completely soldered on and mostly cleaned up.

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Trigger plate, Triggers and Triggerguard all filed and fitted together. The Tang is fitted to the barrels as well.

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Locks have been modified and fitted and every thing is ready to start inletting.

I’ve also polished up the buttplate and made the entry pipe, front sight and rear sling swivel but I didn’t get pictures of them.

Enjoy

Colin

[nekshot]

awesome, thanks for sharing. Some got it and some of us just watch and drool!

[TheGrimReaper]

Keep post'em this is NEAT!!!

[shredder]

Mmmm boy! I can't wait to see the next set of photos.

[StolzerandSons]

I didn't do a complete documentation of this build because it is a match for the 10 Bore L/H Maple Double Rifle I built last year. I fully documented that build in detail so I didn't see a lot of reason to repeat all the same steps again.

Here are the final pictures.
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I'm very happy with the way the regulation came out.
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The pair together.
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Colin

[nekshot]

Sure appreciate your talent and showing those guns to us! Awesome!

[gmsharps]

Fantastic workmanship. Good to see a left hand from time to time

gmsharps

[shredder]

Wow. Very very nice. How comfortable are they to shoot with that amount of drop in the stock? I imagine that your customer is very happy with the results.

[RED333]

Great work man, but, but, but there are right handed.

[white eagle]

wow these are really nice
great job

[pjames32]

Amazing workmanship. Thanks for sharing!
PJ

[starmac]

The only fault I can see, is you must have mistakenly carved the cheek piece on the wrong side of the stock, other than that they are beautiful.
Well I reckon even with that little mistake, they are just plain beautiful.

[waksupi]

Nice project!