Tips or suggestions to improve look of old stock repair

[725]

That's one one repair. Well done!

[StrawHat]

Here is one I repaired a couple, maybe three, decades ago. Found the barreled action in Pop’s garage, the rest came as a rifled musket with a crappy barrel.




Lots of fun to hunt with and a good shooter.

Kevin

[redhawk0]

Rockingkj....that looks good. You should be proud. Enjoy it...and take it for a "walk" once in a while.

redhawk

[Rockingkj]

Rockingkj....that looks good. You should be proud. Enjoy it...and take it for a "walk" once in a while.

redhawk

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I will. If I get a chance to shoot it ahead of time and sight it in my club has a “turkey “ shoot in Oct. my be the gun to shoot for fun.

[Rockingkj]

The old gal has the potential to be a good shooter. 5 shots offhand at 25yds with 45gr 3f .440 ball and .017 patch all just randomly selected for the 1st shots. Stopped after that since I want to try and replace the nipple. That might be a challenge sure rusted in place.

[redhawk0]

Nothing wrong with "fun" shooter...I have some pretty ugly guns...that are just plain fun. Yours is shooting alright...is that with the open sights...or did you get that tang sight installed?

Try a little kroil to get the nipple off. If they are rusted fast...it's tough to get them out. Sometimes a little CW pressure first will help break them free before CCW to unscrew it. I had an inline that was like that. I then used a copper impregnated anti-seize before putting it back together.

Anyway...I'm sure you'll figure it out. I'm glad you're happy with the repair. Happy shooting.

redhawk

[Rockingkj]

That was with open sights. The nipple may require professional help. Its rust wielded pretty good.

[LAGS]

I worked on a rifle with a nipple rusted like that.
I taped off the area around the nipple.
Then I Bead Blasted off the surface rust.
Then I soaked it in Kroil for over a day.
The nipple didn't come loose until I applied heat with a heat gun.
I cleaned out the hole and ran a tap into the breech plug to clean up the threads.
I reinstalled the new nipples with the threads coated with shotgun choke lube to keep it from rusting up again.

[StrawHat]

ATF is a good penetrator. I have used it and heat to pull cones from c&b cylinders.

Kevin

[LAGS]

One other thing I often do to get nipples removed.
A lot of time the nipples that are rusted in place , and someone tried to remove them already.
Sometimes the nipples get part of the corners rounded off , and the nipple wrench doesn't fit snug on it.
So , I clean the nipple and wrench and epoxy the wrench on with JB Weld.
I let it sit for a day.
Then it fits better when I try to remove the nipple out.
After the nipple comes out of the gun.
Just warm up the nipple wrench with a heat gun or torch to get the nipple to come out of the wrench.
It sounds funky , but most of the time it works.

[Sasquatch-1]

I had a nipple stuck in an 1851 revolver. A friend made a nipple wrench out of a small socket and used an impact wrench to remove it.