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Double Rifles, Single Shots & Combinations >> Building Double Rifles & Gunsmithing

Rolland
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Loc: Camp Verde, AZ

Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)
17/02/10 07:17 AM

I started with a piece of 4140 annealed 2 1/2 inches square and milled the bottom lugs. They were left .004 over size to allow for fitting as they are tapered. pretty much straight forward milling.

I drilled the block and reamed it to allow for threading I used 3/4-24 as I had the tap and die. This is kinda where things get slow as both ends of the block has to be cut at 89 degrees to allow for it to line up when fitted to the action.
I used a spud to help aline the holes after reaming and before running a tap through.

These are the spud and barrel mock up to check and see if things were going according to plan.

After threading the block I set it back up and cut the tang and inlet for the extractor.

Machining the lugs was a somewhat different problem I did not have a cutter for the back lug and had to maching it with a standard round mill coming in from the side the back cut was done with a 3/16 round mill and filed to fit. The cut for the hook is 8 mm or .335 that was a cut and smoke until it got a 100% fit. Every thing else was hand cut.

Success after 40+ hours of smoke and fit and using many stones it fits and locks up with 100% fit on face. Waiting for barrels then the block gets cut to finished outside shape. I also started the forearm iron as I will make one for this set of barrels.

The next step is to fit the cross bolt and wait for barrels.

Edited by CptCurl (17/02/10 10:45 PM)

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Building a .303 double	Rolland	16/02/10 06:28 AM
Re: Building a .303 double	Rolland	05/09/10 07:38 AM
Re: Building a .303 double	Sniper	08/09/10 05:04 PM
Re: Building a .303 double	AZDAVE	04/10/10 11:49 AM
Re: Building a .303 double	Rolland	06/10/10 04:09 PM
Re: Building a .303 double	Rolland	24/09/11 12:58 PM
Re: Building a .303 double	davejensen	22/02/12 05:38 AM
Re: Building a .303 double	Birdhunter50	22/02/12 11:28 PM
Re: Building a .303 double	davejensen	23/02/12 06:19 AM
Re: Building a .303 double	DennisDaigger	12/12/11 01:55 PM
Re: Building a .303 double	Birdhunter50	24/09/11 10:08 PM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Rolland	17/02/10 07:17 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	mehulkamdar	17/02/10 02:06 PM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	CHAPUISARMES	17/02/10 10:04 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Rolland	23/02/10 11:48 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Metalguy	27/02/10 11:59 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Rolland	27/02/10 02:41 PM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Metalguy	27/02/10 03:06 PM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	whitey	27/02/10 04:49 PM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Rolland	28/02/10 08:12 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Rolland	14/04/10 01:59 PM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	4seventy	15/04/10 07:50 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Ron_Vella	15/04/10 11:32 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Rolland	13/08/10 12:32 PM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Sville	19/08/10 05:29 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	FATBOY404	19/08/10 07:15 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	500Rigby	23/08/10 10:36 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Ben	23/08/10 06:06 PM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	500Rigby	17/08/10 11:43 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Rolland	17/08/10 12:36 PM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Mauser416	19/08/10 03:17 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	GroovyMike	14/08/10 02:48 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	Mike_Bailey	14/04/10 05:16 PM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	whitey	17/02/10 10:24 AM
Re: Building a .303 double ( photos)	NitroX	17/02/10 12:05 PM
Re: Building a .303 double	Raff	16/02/10 12:07 PM
Re: Building a .303 double	Mauser416	16/02/10 08:43 AM
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