A double barrel pistol was never really on my wish list until my visit at Dyson. He was rebuilding an original wogden double pistol. The Stock was to bad to salvage, so he was restocking at the original parts. I fell in love with the pistol and ended up buying two 10" long, damacus barrel blanks, suitable for making a copy of the gun. I also order a casting of the standing breech. Dyson also had casting of the Locks, but these come without the guts and springs. Blackley can supply complet lockkits for an almost identical wodgen pistol and I 've sent him an email asking about their availablity.
The barrel dimensions on this pistol:
Caliber 0.54, smooth bore.
Length 9".
Breech 0.827"(21mm) across the flats.
Waist 0.650"(16.5mm) across the flats. The waist is 3"from the muzzel.
Muzzel 0.708"(18mm) across the flats.
Wall thickness at waist 0.055"(1,39mm)
The bores in the blanks I've bougth will clean up to 0.54-0.58. I hope to avoid lining these barrels, because I fear lining will make it hard to get close to the original barrel profile.(Not enough left of the damascus tube to profil). If I have to line them, I'll be making the liners from a 22 Caliber rifle barrel.
- How thick do the walls for a barrel liner have to be to be safe?
Best regards
Rolf
