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DarylS
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: twobobbwana]
      #297740 - 25/03/17 03:25 AM

Yes - trap guns.

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DeweyVicknair
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: DarylS]
      #298268 - 02/04/17 02:23 AM

Here are some more photos. The sideplate catch and safety mechanisms are yet to be made. The final screws will be made after it is stocked.













Edited by CptCurl (03/05/17 08:57 PM)


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DarylS
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: DeweyVicknair]
      #298270 - 02/04/17 02:41 AM

Incredble work. Thanks for this journey into the making of a DR.
Those locks are wonderfully compact and so simplistic in appearance - they are truly marvelous.

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Re: In the beginning... [Re: DarylS]
      #298294 - 02/04/17 11:11 AM

Lovely work.

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Re: In the beginning... [Re: transvaal]
      #299997 - 03/05/17 09:00 PM

Splendid! I hope to see this rifle finished.

What are your plans? Sell, keep?

I am in western Virginia - close enough to visit your shop one day. I would dearly like to do that. I have a good friend who has used your services on double guns and speaks highly (for obvious reasons).

Thanks again for sharing this wonderful journey. I can't think of any other place on the internet where something like this can be observed.

Curl

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Re: In the beginning... [Re: CptCurl]
      #300033 - 04/05/17 05:04 AM

Really fantastic work, how you manage to find the time in a working day to build a rifle from scratch boggles the mind. Can I ask how you determine the initial convergence angle of your double rifles?

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DeweyVicknair
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: CptCurl]
      #301172 - 02/06/17 04:14 PM

Quote:

Splendid! I hope to see this rifle finished.

What are your plans? Sell, keep?

I am in western Virginia - close enough to visit your shop one day. I would dearly like to do that. I have a good friend who has used your services on double guns and speaks highly (for obvious reasons).

Thanks again for sharing this wonderful journey. I can't think of any other place on the internet where something like this can be observed.

Curl




Thanks.

As of now, it's not spoken for. The main reason that I made this rifle is so that I could legitimately refer to myself as a "gunmaker" (ha!).

I'd tell you where on the internet you could see more but I don't want to be accused of trying to "poach viewers" again.

I've got a number of clients from your neck of the woods.

You will see it finished, I'm stocking it now.

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DeweyVicknair
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: Matabele]
      #301173 - 02/06/17 04:18 PM

Quote:

Really fantastic work, how you manage to find the time in a working day to build a rifle from scratch boggles the mind. Can I ask how you determine the initial convergence angle of your double rifles?





Thanks, time is the rarest commodity, that's why it's taking as long as it is. Paying work always comes first.


.005 of an inch per inch of barrel length usually gets them both in the same ballpark for final regulation at the range.

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DeweyVicknair
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: DeweyVicknair]
      #303263 - 25/07/17 10:41 AM

It is stocked. Now I've got a boatload of screws to make and fit.

















Edited by CptCurl (26/07/17 09:21 AM)


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twobobbwana
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: DeweyVicknair]
      #303265 - 25/07/17 11:01 AM

Dewey,

I can't see your pictures.

The Photobucket message says "Please Update your account to enable 3rd Party Hosting" however I do believe that Photobucket has been pirated/scammed so be careful.

Been watching for progress photos on this project.

Hope it can be sorted so that we can see them.


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DeweyVicknair
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: twobobbwana]
      #303268 - 25/07/17 11:18 AM

That's weird, they show up fine on my computer. Are all of the previous photos gone?
I don't know what is happening with these photo hosting sites but everything will be on my blog shortly.

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DeweyVicknair
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: DeweyVicknair]
      #303270 - 25/07/17 11:26 AM

Well, I found out what is going on with Photobucket. It seems that they want me to upgrade to the $399/year level of membership to restore my photos. That's not going to happen so I guess this thread is dead. I'm glad that Blogger doesn't use third-party photo hosting.

Sorry everyone.

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Re: In the beginning... [Re: DeweyVicknair]
      #303274 - 25/07/17 02:44 PM

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... Photobucket. It seems that they want me to upgrade to the $399/year level of membership to restore my photos.




They don't expect much then do they??? $400 a year!

One can get a domain name and "unlimited" storage account with an ISP with FTP access for $30 to $120 p.a. And no advertising.

I think photobucket will die a rather quick death using such extortion tactics.

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DeweyVicknair
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: NitroX]
      #303321 - 26/07/17 08:59 AM

I agree, it looks like they might put themselves out of business. I sent the photos to our own Cpt. Curl. Perhaps he can find a way to post them. Apparently, all of the previous photos are archived, which is why they're still visible. Thanks Cap!

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Re: In the beginning... [Re: DeweyVicknair]
      #303323 - 26/07/17 09:25 AM

Now it's there for all to see. This is an extraordinary project. I can't wait to see the finished rifle.

Yes all the other photos are safely archived on the NE.com server. Sometimes people get upset and want to know what the heck I'm doing editing their posts. Well, I'm not editing. I'm archiving the photos. This PhotoBucket fiasco makes a good illustration of the value of doing that. Look at other forums around the 'net. Most photos are gone. I don't get them all, but I get a lot of them.

Curl

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Re: In the beginning... [Re: CptCurl]
      #303330 - 26/07/17 12:09 PM

Really glad to see this one resurrected!

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twobobbwana
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: Iowa_303s]
      #304983 - 08/09/17 10:39 AM

Dewey,

The way you've got your mainspring does this also act as an "easy/assisted opening" function ??

Or could it be made to do that as well as power the tumbler ???


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Re: In the beginning... [Re: twobobbwana]
      #304984 - 08/09/17 10:48 AM

Dewey,

I reread your post of 21/3/17 and you did state that it was self opening.

Great project. I just need to reread it occasionally.


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Re: In the beginning... [Re: CptCurl]
      #304994 - 08/09/17 05:07 PM

Quote:

Now it's there for all to see. This is an extraordinary project. I can't wait to see the finished rifle.

Yes all the other photos are safely archived on the NE.com server. Sometimes people get upset and want to know what the heck I'm doing editing their posts. Well, I'm not editing. I'm archiving the photos. This PhotoBucket fiasco makes a good illustration of the value of doing that. Look at other forums around the 'net. Most photos are gone. I don't get them all, but I get a lot of them.

Curl




Curl does a wonderful job making silent efforts to keep our posts and photos archived and there for the future. Over a year takes many hours. I know from when I do it myself.

Still impossible to get them all by even a fraction. Lots and lots of threads now quite redundant with missing images.

Thanks to Curl. And others who do many jobs, like MikeH with new members. And members like Lancaster who post many many images via their own net server access.

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Re: In the beginning... [Re: NitroX]
      #306555 - 17/10/17 10:19 PM

Wow.

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DeweyVicknair
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: Lockingblock]
      #308302 - 26/11/17 09:14 AM

Here are some more photos. Still on the agenda are a safety mechanism and QD mounts for the Leupold VX2 1-4X scope.














Edited by CptCurl: Photos above are archived on NE.com server. The original links to larger photos are preserved in the links below. Click on a thumbnail photo for the full size.












Edited by CptCurl (26/11/17 11:48 PM)


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Re: In the beginning... [Re: DeweyVicknair]
      #308303 - 26/11/17 09:34 AM

Doesn't work for me.

Waidmannsheil.

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DarylS
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: Waidmannsheil]
      #308315 - 26/11/17 12:03 PM

Nice Dewey! I hope you don't mind, I have these photos and the others in a folder marked DeweyVicknair.

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DeweyVicknair
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Re: In the beginning... [Re: DarylS]
      #308318 - 26/11/17 02:38 PM

Quote:

Nice Dewey! I hope you don't mind, I have these photos and the others in a folder marked DeweyVicknair.




Thanks Daryl, I don't mind at all.

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Re: In the beginning... [Re: DeweyVicknair]
      #308321 - 26/11/17 04:40 PM

Wow....

just, wow.

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