gun test

Nicely made. Wonder what it would look like photographed together with the tupara .22

Just as an aside I was in the Pataka museum the other day. There is an exhibit about local Maori. Just absolutely fantastic. There is a double shot gun there that shoots four shots, one behind the other. Think of the firepower that gave Maori.

Te Rauparahas musket and the stern post of his war canoe.

There craftmanship was wonderful.

 the design concept is little unusual in that the breech section will be machined as a single unit from a single piece of 1inch x 6inch alliminium plate to a simialler design of a traditional lever action rifle,the idea being a solid receiver with all the working parts inside this receiver and covered by a separate machined outer receiver cover proberly made from a suitable piece of alli box sectioned made to fit etc,this will allow me to more easily machine out the internals of the receiver from both sides where necessary,still in design stage on drawing board but well under way now and looking good,actually quite a simple desisgn as all lever does is operate bolt/cock hammer etc/mag based on maurauder design is self operating and requires no mechanical parts in gun to operate etc,this action could very easily be changed to be a pump or slide action which i may look into for another rifle eventually possibly in 30 cal,having owned several of the Korean made lever actioned rifles previosly and found them rather hard to cycle their lever actions due to the type of internal hammers with rather strong hammer springs etc i have designed my lever action to use an exposed swinging type hammer simialler to the revolver to resolve this cycling and cocking issues,this type of swinging or pivoted hammer is very easy to cock as bolt simplily cams it over ,rather than having to actually push hammer back against a strong spring,result being a very smooth cycling easy to cock action,still some design work to go yet,but getting there,more to come on this one .

 cheers mike

 

 cheers mike

 cheers mike