Post by jh45gun on Jul 21, 2005 16:17:51 GMT -5
Hi I am new here live in WI but Woody posted about your forum at the Excaliber site so I thought I would join in.
Hey a few years ago I bought a couple of barrels at Gander Mountain on a close out. Some days I just cannot resist a good deal. They were for a knight switch barrel sytem and were origionally 180 bucks a piece. Marked down to 30 a piece. So I bought them both. A 54 Cal 1 in 28 twist Green Mountain barrel and a 12 guage barrel with a Reminton Extra tight Turkey Choke. I figured I would call Knight and buy a reciever and stock the gun myself. Well the reason they were on close out was knight discontinued the gun and they had no more recievers so I decided to make my own underhammer guns out of them. I had a buddy that had some full stocks laying around so I got them for 10 bucks a piece. Ok so good so far now to make a underhammer system. Well after searching the web for plans and pictures and getting Logan's Book of the Underhammer I soon found that few guns were made with full stocks and that was a stumbling block as the spring/hammer systems were just too long and would have wound up in the wrist of the stock for the plans I tried to mock up. These were different plans from the Hopkins and Allen type underhammers you see. So I decided to make my own system out of parts I had laying around. I have shot the 54 cal and the recoil is a bit stout since the guns are light so I made recoil pads for them. But then I was shooting heavy conicals and using 777 powder so that would make the recoil a bit on the stout side anyway. These look unconventional I know but I like them and they have a very fast lock time since the nipple goes straight into the breech plug. Total cost into each gun is about 50 bucks so I got a couple of shooters for little cash outlay and if nothing else they will be Conversation pieces when I shoot them. Forgot to add that the nut on the bottom of the striker acts like a safety so the gun will not fire when the nut is up towards the top and it also acts like a stop so you can cap the nipple and shake out the old fired cap. Jim
Hey a few years ago I bought a couple of barrels at Gander Mountain on a close out. Some days I just cannot resist a good deal. They were for a knight switch barrel sytem and were origionally 180 bucks a piece. Marked down to 30 a piece. So I bought them both. A 54 Cal 1 in 28 twist Green Mountain barrel and a 12 guage barrel with a Reminton Extra tight Turkey Choke. I figured I would call Knight and buy a reciever and stock the gun myself. Well the reason they were on close out was knight discontinued the gun and they had no more recievers so I decided to make my own underhammer guns out of them. I had a buddy that had some full stocks laying around so I got them for 10 bucks a piece. Ok so good so far now to make a underhammer system. Well after searching the web for plans and pictures and getting Logan's Book of the Underhammer I soon found that few guns were made with full stocks and that was a stumbling block as the spring/hammer systems were just too long and would have wound up in the wrist of the stock for the plans I tried to mock up. These were different plans from the Hopkins and Allen type underhammers you see. So I decided to make my own system out of parts I had laying around. I have shot the 54 cal and the recoil is a bit stout since the guns are light so I made recoil pads for them. But then I was shooting heavy conicals and using 777 powder so that would make the recoil a bit on the stout side anyway. These look unconventional I know but I like them and they have a very fast lock time since the nipple goes straight into the breech plug. Total cost into each gun is about 50 bucks so I got a couple of shooters for little cash outlay and if nothing else they will be Conversation pieces when I shoot them. Forgot to add that the nut on the bottom of the striker acts like a safety so the gun will not fire when the nut is up towards the top and it also acts like a stop so you can cap the nipple and shake out the old fired cap. Jim
