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Here are some photos of the barrel making process for a double rifle that I thought you might enjoy seeing. Individual barrels with shoe lump, clamps and wire.  Shoe-Lump being wired in place for assembly.  Barrels with Shoe-Lump in place.  Joints being cleaned up.  Barrels (with Shoe-Lump in place) with top & bottom ribs, quarter rib and front sight ramp.  Barrels being wired together  "Nailing" the ribs.  Soldering the ribs in place  Completed, rough-fitted barrels  Machining the quarter-rib for the rear sight  A two-barrel set (375 Flanged & 500 NE) in-the-white.  | ||
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Very interesting. Cory Still saving up for a .500NE double rifle(Searcy of course) | |||
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Very good pictures. Please continue posting other operations of double gun building. | |||
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Careful what you ask for... I just got back from visiting the maker and have about 600 photos and about 3-hours of video! | |||
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Great stuff Chris! Thanks! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Thanks for sharing. That was pretty cool. | |||
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very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!... thanks... go big or go home ........ DSC-- Life Member NRA--Life member DRSS--9.3x74 r Chapuis | |||
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Cool stuff!! How was your trip. 505ED DRSS Member | |||
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newguy, OK, how about picking out the best 30 or 40 and put them on. I would love to see more pictures, It is interesting to me. THANKS | |||
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Keep this up and I will just build my first double!  Double Rifle Shooters Society | |||
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WOW! Thanks so much for the images. Please post more. A double is obviously what the ONE TRUE CHURCH would call a "mystery"! There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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Thanks Chris, keep it coming. Hog Killer IGNORE YOUR RIGHTS AND THEY'LL GO AWAY!!! ------------------------------------ We Band of Bubbas & STC Hunting Club, The Whomper Club | |||
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thanks for posting. very interesting. please continue. DRSS | |||
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OK, PLEASE more photos!!  When I talked to you, you were right about getting the "double rifle bug"! Sadly it will be a while yet! | |||
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More more more more !!!  L | |||
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OK, here are a few more. A 600 NE pin-less sidelock action. In-the-white, parts being fitted. Parts and barrels in the background. Look at the locks and you can see how they are made "pin-less." They are machined from a solid piece of steel with the "stems" for the lock pins integral.  Rough-fitted locks. Still need final polish, indexing of screws etc...  600 NE Barrels being fitted to action.  The "working end" of a 600 NE.  A "PH" two-barrel set. 470 NE with 28" 20-gauge barrels. You'll see this one completed at SCI and DSC.  A sidelock 500 NE having the balls on the back of the action shaped. You can see how material still needs to be removed from the action to "fit" the outside profile of the barrels. Done with file and sandpaper.  A fitted and unshaped forend.  Heading up a stock.  Shaping the stock.  | |||
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Chris, oh WOW!!!! jeffe opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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Now I understand "why" double rifle's cost so much!!! | |||
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Great stuff Chris! It sure does answer alot of questions Thanks, Doc52 B. Searcy & Co .577 NE Double Rifle Shooters Society "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote!" Benjamin Franklin 1759 | |||
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Newguy, All right, I said your best 30 or 40 pictures, don't just tease us with another 9 measly pictures!! keep um comming. Great pics. | |||
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That was simply fabulous! Thank you for the views of the rarely seen.  Member NRA, SCI- Life #358 28+ years now! DRSS, double owner-shooter since 1983, O/U .30-06 Browning Continental set. | |||
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Chris, Exactly what is the "nailing the rib" process? Is it the forming of the rib to the barrel contour? Very interesting. Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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I really want to be a gunsmith now !!! Rifles are fun | |||
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"NAILING THE RIB" is forceing a wedge between the wire, and the rib to seat it down to the barrels so there are no WAVES in the rib! Sometimes this is done while heating the solder, and some times before soldering on fluxed rib, and barrels, then laying the solder! There are other ways to accomplish this, but the wire, and wedge is the most common, among the old makers! H&H uses the wire and wedge method, but their method of heating is not over a burner table,or with a torch, but the barrels are heated to soft soldering themprature, by slideing a series of heated, bore size, rods inside the barrels while applying solder. This gives a more uniform heat aplication, causeing less stress, because the whole barrel is heated to the same temp. ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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 What an excellent thread! Chris you have outdone yourself. I can not imagine how great it would be to be able to make a living building double rifles... Only treking through the dark continent hunting huge tuskers for a living could be better! Jack OH GOD! {Seriously, we need the help.} | |||
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