Gallager

[Racing]

Pics there.
Lost the last piece of text for some reason though.

[Racing]

Well, let


Edit. Nope. Half a page, what came to remain was those two words above. All pics gone.

[mazo kid]

Maybe try starting a new thread, something like "Gallagher page 2, page 3".

[Racing]

I hear ya.
Boys are on it though so i guess i


Edit. Now i even can

[Racing]

[Racing]

[Racing]

150yr old rifling for ya.

[Captainkirk]

150yr old rifling for ya.

Looks like plenty of meat left, Racing. I love the way you tackle a problem!

[Racing]

She´s coming around. For sure.

[Racing]

Looks like plenty of meat left, Racing. I love the way you tackle a problem!

Yup. No doubt and what´s more the mold for it is done too. Just haven´t been able to pick it up yet. Still need to adress the cone/nipple situation as well, have one ordered and expect it to show up in the mail beginning of the week.

Need to redo the threads for it tho, rather marred.

[Captainkirk]

Got a feeling that one's gonna be a real shooter!

[Hawg]

Got a feeling that one's gonna be a real shooter!

I don't think Racing touches anything without it becoming a real shooter.

[Racing]

LOL!
Hey! I´m the little techie! 
They´re guns. They´re SUPPOSED to shoot! In fact, that´s the general idea...



Threads for the nipple were shot and to the level where the correct option was to fab an insert, a weldbung. Thread is the correct 5/16-24 (UNF in other words) and that small "mismatch"/opening between the insert and the receiver isn´t a mismatch...
It´s a weld ditch.
Be adviced that the openings and details here are rather small to hit even with a TIG welder, and the idea is to use the TIG to basically merge to the materials together.



In turn, yes a fresh one is on route. However... This is a cartridge gun and at that one that lacks a built in primer. As such the opening at the bottom of the nipple needs to actually be drilled OUT in this case, seeing the design at hand.
The restriction, of backpressure, takes place at the flame hole in the actual cartridge. Ie; the cartridge opening is set to 0,8mm and thus i try and hand the passage for it, from the nipple down, all the help it can get.
So 2,5mm (0,1") it is...

In turn, need to readress the extractor. As it turns out it´s to stiff, bends the rim of the cartridges ever so slightly. Need to make it more "spongey" in short.

[Captainkirk]

I continue to be amazed at your ingenuity...

[Racing]

Truth be told things kind of evolved. Came to fire form them 50Beowulf cases and that turned out to work 100%. A slight taper to the chamber was what was needed, and now the things can actually be extracted with your bare fingers even.
GOT TO love black powder chamber pressures! 

That said i´m to order yet a bag of them 50Beo casings. Idea if mine, ran around like a one legged chicken trying to arrive on a "final solution", is to simply leave them be and redo the extractor claw to grab a hold of the 9mm parabellum round these rounds sport.

Shooting the thing with a slightly oversized Smith boolit, we cut our own mold for it of course, at approx 390grains and in turn backed by 60 grains of powder in that small gun told us we were into a powerhouse, seeing what it is.
We saw an easy 1200fps on the LabRadar, so... yeah well. She sure goes BOOM and does so with a vengance!



Uhu. Per always right. Nah. This has come full circle. Redid the flame channel slightly and in turned drilled out the fresh nipple to make the most of the "go fast pill" installed.
Works. What can i say?

As to if to keep it or not? There´s always more of them out there guys. ALWAYS.

As this one´s kind of done.. right now it´s rather much about Chassepot rifles. Will make a separate post on that..