Step wrist southern rifle

[B.Barker]

A certain customer wanted the Buzzard head rifle. I have seen this rifle once in a museum in Bristol TN or VA. The original has brass mountings with silver inlays but I'm using forged iron mounts on this one. Wallace Gusler has written more than one article on it. Muzzle Blast November 2007 has one of his articles with this rifle in it. The step on the original was more pronounced than this one is too. It should have been started a couple weeks back but I've been dealing with tractor and forge blower difficulties.

[Mike Lyons]

That’s going to be a neat project Brian.  Is it going to be rounded at the stepped wrist?

[J.E. Moore]

Do you remember the name of the place you saw it, I'd like to check it out.

[B.Barker]

Mike it will be rounded a bit. It's been so long since I seen the original I don't remember how it was done. I have photo's of it but pictures can be deceiving.

J.E. I don't remember the name of the museum but it's no longer there. Wallace had a special exhibit there that ran for a year I think. 

[Tim Crosby]

 Neat project, the Iron mounts should realy look good on it.

  Tim

PS: Tractor difficulties; want'a come up and help me put a clutch in my old '73 Ford 2000

[Dennis Glazener]

Neat project, the Iron mounts should realy look good on it.

  Tim

PS: Tractor difficulties; want'a come up and help me put a clutch in my old '73 Ford 2000

Shoulda kept the 8N😊
Dennis

[Cory Joe Stewart]

I look forward to seeing more of this.

Cory Joe Stewart

[B.Barker]

Tim, I'll help you put in the clutch if you want to help me put piston rings in my Ford 2600 this winter.

[Greg Pennell]

Brian, that looks like a real neat rifle...looking forward to seeing its progress.  Glad to hear you found a bearing for your forge blower.  My old Champion growls a bit, but she still works.  I’ve never had it apart to see if it runs on bearings or babbit.

Greg

[Mike Lyons]

Mike it will be rounded a bit. It's been so long since I seen the original I don't remember how it was done. I have photo's of it but pictures can be deceiving.

That stepped wrist will show up a whole lot more pronounced once you round the wrist.  I didn’t cut a step in my current project gun and it magically appeared when I rounded it. 

[Tim Crosby]

Neat project, the Iron mounts should realy look good on it.

  Tim

PS: Tractor difficulties; want'a come up and help me put a clutch in my old '73 Ford 2000

Shoulda kept the 8N😊
Dennis

 Still got it, 68 years old and runs like a top, use it to mow a couple times a week. (Probably shouldn't have said anything}

  Tim

[Tim Crosby]

Tim, I'll help you put in the clutch if you want to help me put piston rings in my Ford 2600 this winter.

 Rings would be better, at least you don't have to split tractor in half. If the thing wasn't so solid other than the clutch I'd make a planter out if it

   Tim

[RMann]

What is a stepped wrist?  Is it the architecture that insures the the comb line intersects barrel breech?  Thanks ahead of time.

[RMann]

What is a stepped wrist?  Is it the architecture that insures the comb line intersects the barrel breech?  Thanks ahead of time.

[Bob McBride]

Look closely at the bottom of the wrist opposite the comb. There’s a step.

[RMann]

Oh, I see....!  I didn't notice that.  Thanks Bob.