Frankenrifle redux: The English-ish Sporting Rifle

[Handsome Rob]

I started on this particular build prior to the shorty Frankengun, but just got it finished this afternoon.

It started off with a stock I found at the County dump. I think it may be from a Cabelas sporterized Hawken, but I'm not sure. I pursuaded an Investarms lock into the mortice, without too much hassle, which leads me to believe it's a Lyman/Investarms/Cabelas gun.

The Barrel is another .50cal T/C Hawken I picked up on EBay, minus sights, rib & nipple. I had the Lyman globe sight from another gun & fitted a Skinner rear peep. Track of the Wolf supplied a suitable under rib & thimbles.

The trigger guard is a Lyman Trade rifle. I fitted this simply because it was the nearest thing I could find to the correct pattern, without having to do too much chisel work which, as we've already seen, is NOT my strongest talent!

The trigger unit started as a double-set set I replaced with a Davis Deerslayer on my GPR. I removed the set trigger & all associated gubbins, stoned & polished it to within an inch of it's life (along with the lock internals) to produce a creep free, clean breaking, zero overtravel, 2 pound break. It took a little re-inletting & maneuvering of the trigger & guard to get everything lined up, so the trigger wasn't right at the front of the guard. That was actually the toughest part of the entire build!

Again, please forgive my sloppy workmanship. Wood confuses me! I still need to blue the rib & thimbles too.

Once again, the total out of pocket build cost (not including the parts I already had) came in a shade under $100 & from my few shots today, seems like it'll make a FINE gun for the range!

[RED333]

Nice looking rifle, Like it a LOT, ya done good, real good!

Wood confuses me! I I liked to busted a gut when I read that, it dont confuse me, IT PISSES ME OFF!!!

I can cut steel wrong and weld and grind it back and do it again, wood, I got it wrong, it goes in the FIRE!!!

[peejman]

Nice work! I want one.

[Guest ochretoe]

That sure is a funny lock. Where do you put the flint? LOL Nice looking gun and you can't beat the price.

[roverboy]

I think it looks awesome. If you bought that rifle in a shop it'd be at least $250 or more. Looks goooood.

[enfield]

Inletting wood is like parking a boat - ya gotta sneak up on it slow.

I spent 40 hours on the barrel channel of my first kit pistol, and it was "95% inletted".

[urdubob]

sweet