I recently bought a collection of muzzleloader parts at a gunsmith's shop. One of the barrels is a swamped 44" 40 caliber which came with its own badly broken half stock. It has an underrib staked to the bottom flat and was a percussion rifle. A friend wants me to use this barrel but he is a "lefty" so I will have to cut the breech off and have a new plug installed. I hesitate to do this as I feel that the barrel was once in a fullstock and used a flintlock. The bore looks very nice but will need to be cleaned to see the actual state of the rifling. In the deal I got two 13/16 drawn octagon barrels 42" long...one 45 caliber, looks like 1 in 60 twist...the other is 30 caliber with much faster twist than the first...I'd guess 1 in 40 or thereabouts. The grooves in the 30 are very wide in relation to the lands. Both barrels are unmarked but the bores are mirror brite. I need the three barrels breeched and since my local machinist isn't too interested in the project I wonder who the members here might recommend. Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Dave Gross
