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Offline alex e.

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Anybody seen this before?
« on: June 23, 2024, 03:51:13 PM »
I was fixing some other things  on an acquaintances fusil,when I figured out why the bridle was missing  a screw.
The rest of it is half a train wreck also...

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Offline tooguns

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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2024, 04:24:17 PM »
I'd say whoever built the kit screwed up some where and turned the bridle upside down to correct it. A mad scientist indeed! I hope he's not a surgeon
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2024, 04:36:27 PM »
Nifty
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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2024, 04:40:31 PM »
Well, never say never, I guess...  ???
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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2024, 05:17:08 PM »
The lock bolt goes through the bridle  hole to hold the lockplate on....
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Offline rich pierce

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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2024, 05:53:36 PM »
Creativity is sometimes overrated!
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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2024, 06:18:44 PM »
It looks like a bridle from a left hand lock.
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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2024, 08:44:58 PM »
A little oil and it’ll be just fine 😉
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Offline Daryl

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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2024, 09:39:51 PM »
Or a bigger hammer. That usually "fixes" everything.
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Offline Clowdis

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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2024, 03:34:43 AM »
Left handed bridle on a right hand lock. May have been a screw up from the kit supplier and the builder couldn't figure it out. If it was a kit.
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Offline Clark Badgett

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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2024, 03:14:09 AM »
Quote from: Clowdis on June 24, 2024, 03:34:43 AM
Left handed bridle on a right hand lock. May have been a screw up from the kit supplier and the builder couldn't figure it out. If it was a kit.
Its an L&R lock, probably not a kit
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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2024, 02:30:57 PM »
Hi,
Yes, I have seen this before.  The bridle is not upside down or backwards.  The guy simply positioned the lock bolt to go through the bridle hole because he wanted to avoid drilling a hole through the bolster of the beech plug .  He probably positioned the lock too far forward on the barrel thinking the vent had to be well out in front of the breech plug and then realized the rear hole would go through the plug if he located a hole in the lock plate bolster.  For some reason he decided he shouldn't do that so he did what he did.

dave
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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2024, 03:04:32 PM »
A classic example of Occam’s Razor
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Re: Anybody seen this before?
« Reply #13 on: June 26, 2024, 02:30:04 AM »
Quote from: smart dog on June 25, 2024, 02:30:57 PM
Hi,
Yes, I have seen this before.  The bridle is not upside down or backwards.  The guy simply positioned the lock bolt to go through the bridle hole because he wanted to avoid drilling a hole through the bolster of the beech plug .  He probably positioned the lock too far forward on the barrel thinking the vent had to be well out in front of the breech plug and then realized the rear hole would go through the plug if he located a hole in the lock plate bolster.  For some reason he decided he shouldn't do that so he did what he did.

dave

Dave , I think you nailed it.

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