Milsurp After Hours

Had a problem with one of the screws in the stock plate where one of the barrel pins goes in. The screw head broke off because the wood was too hard and the pilot hole too narrow. But, got around this by drilling it out, inserting a dowel plug and gluing it in. Then all I had to do was put in a new wood screw after finding a suitable one at Lowes.

I got as far as browning the barrel and a first stain to the wood. Still need to put in the sights and put a tung oil finish on the wood and do something to seal the browning, wax or boiled linseed oil being suggested.

The Laurel Mountain Forge barrel brown worked pretty good. I think when I used some 0000 steel wool between coats it was a good idea, although not in the instructions. But... it also went on without having to use a degreaser or having to use boiling water either. I put a BLO coat on the barrel and hardware after the browning to protect it and give it a bit of a finish.

I used tung oil on the wood after a very light stain. I wanted it to be low gloss and it is like that. Real smooth with a hand rub application.

I haven't had a chance to shoot it yet. That will have to wait until next week.

It was a nice day. Not many more before the wife's old family farm becomes a subdivison or shopping center. I took advantage of it while I could.

I took the Lyman and the P38 and the J C Higgins model 29.

The iron sights were put on knowing some adjustment probably would be necessary. In the target fired from about 50 yards away, the first two hits in the paper to the bottom left were fired first. Then I drifted the rear sight to the left and the two in the wood were made. I got a little smarter and drifted the rear sight to the right and adjusted my hold on the front sight to account for hitting low. The remaining five hits were pretty good. Note the three hit string.

Great.

How's the satisfaction level?

Eoin.

You got that right Eoin.

Good job Robert

Joe

A good job well done What powder ,charge and bullet weight are you using?

blackisler. Robert, I was using 60 grains of Goex BP and a patched .490 lead ball, CCI No. 11 caps.

The nipple wasn't the greatest though. I had a couple of misfires I ordered a better one last night.

A reasonable charge ,not too heavy on recoil either.

As for the misfires if you run a dry patch down the barrel first then snap a couple caps before you put the first charge down the spout should eliminate misfires

The misfires were caused by the caps not seating down completely on the nipple as the nipple cone seemed just tad too thick for the opening in the cap to fit correctly with moderate pressure.