Author Topic: Building a rifled big bore Dragoon Pistol (Read 31004 times)

Angus · « **Reply #25 on:** January 28, 2014, 04:43:24 AM »

Runar,
You are going to put the BOOM in the Dragoon.
There needs to be some kind of Craftsman award for the work you do over yonder.
Great work as you have an audience at attention here awaiting the next segment of your broadcast!

runastav · « **Reply #26 on:** January 29, 2014, 06:38:14 PM »

Hi all and thank you Angus

Trigger guard
Runar

gunmaker · « **Reply #27 on:** January 29, 2014, 08:22:17 PM »

coming good & getting closer...Tom

runastav · « **Reply #28 on:** January 31, 2014, 04:07:59 PM »

Hi all and thank you Tom

Buttcap button, nice face

Runar

gunmaker · « **Reply #29 on:** February 01, 2014, 01:10:52 AM »

Looks like my wife--when she sees the UPS/FEDX guy at the door

...Tom

runastav · « **Reply #30 on:** February 03, 2014, 07:54:01 PM »

Hi, gunmaker hmmm looks like my wife to

Triggerplate.
Runar

Clark Badgett · « **Reply #31 on:** February 04, 2014, 12:33:46 AM »

Runar, you have some of the best build threads around here. Love 'em

runastav · « **Reply #32 on:** February 07, 2014, 07:45:03 PM »

Hi all, and thank you Clark B

I make the tang bolt and lockplate bolt of cheap 5 mm carrage blot little latch work and bingo

Runar

Nice and tight haaaa

D. Taylor Sapergia · « **Reply #33 on:** February 07, 2014, 07:50:59 PM »

Runastav, I very much enjoy watching your project evolve. I too like using carriage bolts for #10 screw blanks. They have a nice large head and you can cut the slot size that suits you. Before I got a decent lathe, I used to file them out by hand, and them 'turn' them in an electric drill held in the vise.
Your pistol is coming along nicely.

Bob Roller · « **Reply #34 on:** February 07, 2014, 09:10:38 PM »

Get some 12L14 in different sizes.I use 5/32"for internal lock screws,3/8"
for hammer screws and some times 7/16".This stuff machines with no effort
and takes good threads. I also sometimes use 1/2" to make 2/2x16 lead crews
for the Atlas 618 lathe I made into a screw making machine.
Stove bolts and the like are usually at the low end of the scale in new made ones
and there is no need of them once the real screw stock is tried.
The little 1x72 I make from drill rod and it's for the link to the mainspring.

Bob Roller

runastav · « **Reply #35 on:** February 10, 2014, 07:10:05 PM »

Hi and thank you Taylor and Bob

Sideplate of 3mm brass. This pistol is big so far 1765 gram

Runar

gunmaker · « **Reply #36 on:** February 10, 2014, 08:58:03 PM »

A big girl with a loud voice....looking good real good...Tom

runastav · « **Reply #37 on:** March 12, 2014, 05:36:50 PM »

Hi and thank you gunmaker!
Back to the pistol, stock is sanded and ready for carving

Runar

dlbarr · « **Reply #38 on:** March 12, 2014, 10:54:29 PM »

Runar, this is a fascinating build. Thanks for sharing it with us.

runastav · « **Reply #39 on:** March 18, 2014, 03:10:01 PM »

Hi Gents, and thank you Dave

The pistol is now ready for proof testing. It is 48 cm long, and weight 1720 kilogram, the earlyer build Derringer is small hehe

Water base stain and Danish oil finish, it is not perfekt but good enough for me.
Runar

oldfox · « **Reply #40 on:** March 18, 2014, 03:27:17 PM »

Very nice! Well done!

sweed · « **Reply #41 on:** March 18, 2014, 04:35:04 PM »

Beautiful

I want that!!!!
Thanks for the education..
By the way Tom, Thats what a work bench should look like....

for normal people anyway!

swed

Kermit · « **Reply #42 on:** March 18, 2014, 05:57:55 PM »

Quite the bellygun.

Clark Badgett · « **Reply #43 on:** March 19, 2014, 12:32:38 AM »

Quote from: runastav on March 18, 2014, 03:10:01 PM

Hi Gents, and thank you Dave
The pistol is now ready for proof testing. It is 48 cm long, and weight 1720 kilogram, the earlyer build Derringer is small hehe Water base stain and Danish oil finish, it is not perfekt but good enough for me.
Runar

The only thing left to make it perfect is to polish the lock. All told, that is an awesome looking service pistol.

snidervolley · « **Reply #44 on:** December 12, 2014, 10:29:59 PM »

that is totally awesome work and thank you for the progression pics
I should add the sight notch in the tang on mine nice touch.

snidervolley · « **Reply #45 on:** December 19, 2014, 03:38:17 AM »

runastav
what lock did you use ? it looks like a quality lock that will fit mortise for my dragoon with not so quality lott lock

runastav · « **Reply #46 on:** December 19, 2014, 10:30:10 AM »

Hi All and thank you!
snidervolley, the lock is a very nice Jim Chamber Virginia Fowler flint lock

I havent testshoot the pistol yet, it is on the list of guns wayting for the shooting range

Runar

McLeanWelsh · « **Reply #47 on:** December 19, 2014, 10:39:50 AM »

Wow just awesome.

Now where might someone find a piece of barrel that size ? $

Daryl · « **Reply #48 on:** December 19, 2014, 09:30:18 PM »

Thank you, Runar and very well presented.

kaintuck · « **Reply #49 on:** December 20, 2014, 05:32:50 AM »

Very nice.....I've seen wal guns....now this is the 1st "wall pistol"!

Marc n tomtom

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