Hi All
Thanks’ for all the comments, I will try to address them as well as I can.
First I want to make clear that I am not making the false muzzle I simply do not have the skills for that but I have a very good gunsmith there is able to do so...well at least he says that he can make it, my gunsmith is of the kind you don’t ask about prices and you don’t ask about delivery time, if you do you can take your work somewhere else so if he finds the job interesting he takes it and the work he makes is first class.
The idea of making the barrel with the false muzzle starts from a blank barrel, when the barrel are finish and ready to be cut at the muzzle then make a tiny cut of the muzzle end, make the FM and then melt some very hard metal and fill a small part into the barrel muzzle and when it is hardened push it out a bit and then "screw" the FM on make the index marks for the 4 pins drill, mark the barrel and drill and then attach the pins.
I will make then bullet starter myself and have a mechanical drawing from an original
I was lucky on my last trip to Cody WY to find a Pope barrel with a false muzzle so I took all the measurements of it and a lot of pictures, then I made a mechanical drawing to my gunsmith, funny all the sizes was in mm not in inch. I will try to post it here.
Thanks’ for the link to book it was informative but did not reveille the mystery off how the muzzle loaded bullet is designed but a must have in the library
xxgrampa where do you have the info that the bullets are the same as breech seated bullets??
I have been through my tiny library but have not been able to find any info on this subject but I had contact to a guy in Australia who own a Stevens-Pope and he has two different moulds for breech/muzzle seating
I have a Hoch 38-55 mould which is supposed to be a copy of a Pope BS bullet.
Michael
