A Ferguson Rifle build

[xtriggerman]

This is a Rifle Shop kit that is one of the most rare BP rifles out there. The kit comes with a finished barrel and breech screw. Most all the rest of the parts including the brass all come in raw dropped out of the mold condition with pour sprues sticking out. If you ever order one of their kits, spend the extra $100 and have them put the lock together. That way they will fit, finish and harden the springs and related parts. They did nice color case hardening on the frizen and other hardened parts but the rest of the lock will still need to be resurfaced from the sand blasted cast surface. The first pictures shows how I lined up the barrel wedge loops with the drill, then slip the stock on the chucked up barrel so there is an accurate guide hole drilled in the wood for the 3 barrel wedge holes. Im not a big wood work guy but I struck up a friendship with they guy I bought my home from and agreed to build this gun for him. I installed a TC touch hole liner for practical reasons.

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[MacGyver]

Boy, that sure looks like it turned out well.  I bet that was a fun project.

[KahrMan]

That is really nice.  Good job! :up:

[Pete123]

Nice work!

[E4 No More]

That's really nice looking. :)

[rugerla1]

That's a work of art right there!

[DT INC.]

That is truly amazing!

[TNWNGR]

Nice work! Did you keep track with the total umber of hours you spent on the project?

[raildog]

I'm a little jealous of you that is awesome

[xtriggerman]

Thanks guys.
Im the worst at keeping track of hours spent. And being picky about visual things kicks up the clock considerably. Sometimes I only get an hour or 2 at it with a few days off at a time so it has dragged on since January. At first, kit sight unseen, I said I would build it for nothing but after I saw all the raw parts, I about bit my tongue! I thought it would be like a TC or CVA kit of old..... not! Well, The owner realized what we had in front of us and made me take 200 for the work. So, I chalk it up as a learning experience on how to keep ones mouth shut next time asked to build something I hadn't seen yet.
He should be picking it up tonight. He's the History professor at Roan State CC here in town. First time I met him, he had a 4.5" repro Civil War mountain Howitzer apart in the bed of his pick up. I knew right then & there we were gonna hit it off just fine!