/k/ related DIY / homemade

You can buy a DIY muzzleloading kit from cabelas. Just buy it for a safe barrel and then any other part that it too hard to machine yourself.

>>34193152
The one I see on the website is a Kentucky long rifle. I'm assuming that changing the lock mechanism won't have any bearing on how safe the barrel is?

As a side note, product description says that the Kentucky long rifle'a barrel twist is 1:66. Is it really that low?

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My first attempt at making my own sword. Hand forged the blade from a bar of 1075 steel, home made handle from a bit of white cedar, guard and pommel from bar steel from Lowes. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

>>34193445
Post video of it cutting shit

>>34193551
I wish to remain anon, and it's quarter after midnight. I'll make a fresh anon'd vid of me cutting shit later.

>>34193192
They used to sell two different pistols as well. The entire affair with muzzle loaders is pretty simple. It's just a simple mechanism that drops the hammer onto the cap. It gets a little bit more complicated with flintlocks but not to much. The point is it would be pretty simple to drop a premade barrel into something you made yourself. I don't know much about barrel twists, sorry.

>>34193192
>As a side note, product description says that the Kentucky long rifle'a barrel twist is 1:66. Is it really that low?
Yeah, historically they were much lower, I think it has something to do with how spherical the projectile is but I'm not really sure.

>>34194063
That's correct. Round balls require very little stabilization. Longer projectiles require progressively more. Spin stabilization becomes infeasible with very long projectiles, hence why APDS evolved into APFSDS and tank guns are smoothbore.

Couldn't you build it out of a suitable steel pipe?

Not that it would be very good looking or authentic.

>>34193445
Did you harden it?

>>34193445
probably should remove pointy end of handguard

>>34193445
dude..you had the tools at your hands and you made some fantasy novel teir shit?

>>34195047
read a book you jabroni

>>34195056
had to look up that meme

cable TV!
xD

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>>34192690
It was made as a weapon for a videogame, but it was built in real life and it worked, blueprints here.

https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/metro2033/images/6/6e/3696557.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130920013200

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>>34194850
It is heat treated, yes.
>>34195011
It's rounded off at the end.
>>34195047
Fantasy teir? Have you never seen a cutlass before?

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I made this .22lr integrally suppressed 'wand' or whatever a couple of years ago. Pressed a bunch of washers into domes, spaced them with short pieces of steel tubing. Has a 6" smoothbore barrel, chopped from a cheap pellet gun barrel and drilled out slightly, ported with a few 1/8" holes to vent into a 4" long section of reduced barrel outside diameter. Back end unscrews to load. I fired it in the kitchen once, into a duct seal trap, while my wife was making dinner. She got annoyed by the smell of the burned CCI SV round's powder. The noise wasn't enough to bother her, and this is a woman who more or less forced me into suppressing my airguns for use target shooting in the house as they were too loud for her.

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>>34197152
Then I made my first 'pen' gun.

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>>34197166
Made a few more of those, learning some skills, then started making takedown rifles. These four so far. The first one weighs 48oz and is a bit clunky but works well, uses a length of Winchester Cooey barrel with the front half turned down in diameter and ported into a reflex space before the baffles start. Pretty accurate shooter. Cocking is independent of loading though, and the breech unlocks by partly unscrewing the stock tube, which is annoying.

Second one is a folder. Complicated breech/cocking, fussy, but works reliably and no assembly time, just open the stock and flip a toggle to lock that. Quietest of the bunch.

Third was a bit of a dud, used an airgun barrel, mucking about with ideas not really worried about final functionality. It works, but accuracy is poop and it's a bit clunky.

The last one, shown on the bottom, weighs 32oz with one in the chamber and 11 in the stock tube, takes down to about 13" for the longest part, and is accurate to about 1" at 40 yards. Not brilliant but getting there. Has a 10" barrel liner soldered into a steel breech block and carbon fiber tube epoxied over the rest of it. Fairly quiet. Takes about 40 seconds to assemble ready to shoot. Cocks on closing the breech, extraction pretty reliable with subsonics.

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>>34197152
>>34197166
>>34197224
Can you tell me more?

>>34197544
Hello ATF. I'm not in the USA, so whatever I guess...

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>>34193445
10/10 would sail the seven seas and call Cap'n with.

VSS airsoft to 10/22 conversion is underway and has reached first major pitfall, 10/22 is pretty fucking wide 1.258". Internal width of the VSS frame is ~1.100" 10/22.

Im thinking about thinning out the 10/22 at the barrel mounting screws but i'm still waiting on a cheap 10/22 while investigating other options.

>>34199604
use a marlin instead of the fat pig of a 10/22

>>34199674
Was thinking of a marlin 70 do you have one? I could use just the receiver width measurement.