New or next build ... rot ro! Bring on your inner Sgt Harper of 'Sharpes Rifles'!

Well, I have 6 or more other builds ahead of it (flintlock, 2 wheellocks and some matchlocks, all to be left-handed to boot!) ahead of it, so this will take some time, but here she is!

Well, at least what it will look like when built, but I just got a bunch of parts and a rough cut blank of wood. My plans are to do the build and take pictures all along the build process, but I won't be posting them as I go, I'll wait until it's done or just about done. Then I will post a series for the:

• Lock build
• Stock build
• 7-barrel set build

Woo hoo! Start your engines ... huzzah!

Big Bore 44 said:

You do know those barrels are "sequenced" don't you. I've seen a drawing of the breech,,,,,,once,,,,,,somewhere.

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I do have the plans and schematics, a few versions actually. The lock only fires off the center barrel via the breech tang/trunion. The center barrel then had touch holes feeding each outer barrel, so it actually ignites all 6 other barrrels at once.

Big Bore 44 said:

… pity your shoulder.

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Like the early 1700s English hand mortar, they were more likely fired from the hip.

The Naval service load was only 40-grains per barrel, but of 50-cal smoothbore. Whenever done, I will ONLY use 20-grains, to fire it, shootin’ it kind of like a blunderbuss, although maybe I’ll try a full load, like Jesse Merlot (The Rifle Shoppe) and Garry James ;Guns&Ammo) have done … at least once anyways, LOL!

Lloyd Admiral Nelson actually had them removed from his ships in 180x, as the muzzle blast would set the sails on fire! They would fire them from the crows nests, way high up on the masts of the ships, to rake the decks of the opposing ship they pulled up next to, aiming for Officers of course, but it shot a tighter pattern than either a shotgun or blunderbuss, especially from afar.

Only 12- 13 pounds ... barrels are only 20" long.

woodnbow said:

@Ugly Sauce this might be just the thing for rambling through Mr. Grizzer’s livin room.

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Well, with 240-grains of powder ... going off at once ...