Flintlock Pistol from Deer Creek kit

[Patocazador]

I got a "Mountain Pistol" kit from Deer Creek. They just put parts in a box with a parts list and send it out. The .50 cal. flintlock kit was $189.95.
The barrel arrived with several patches of rust with deep pitting in 3 spots.

Parts after much work.


First fitting.


Second fitting.

I haven't shot it after final assembly. I'm waiting for the Loctite to set. I shot it during the first assembly. The lock needed lots of work on the frizzen spring and sear.



Final assembly.


Left side.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Looks nicer than that miserable Trapper we had to build. What type of mainspring does the lock have?

 

[Patocazador]

I haven't shot it after final assembly because I'm waiting for the Loctite to set. I shot it after the first fitting and had to do a couple of hours of work on the frizzen spring, hammer interference and the sear. I also had to deepen the pan near the barrel to get it below the touch hole. A .490 ball is very tight in it so I've ordered some .480 balls from Graf.
Graf is now taking a week just to process orders - RIDICULOUS!!!

 

[Patocazador]

Looks nicer than that miserable Trapper we had to build. What type of mainspring does the lock have?

Gary, I don't really understand the question. I don't know much about rock locks. It's a leaf spring is all I could tell. The frizzen spring was so strong that I had to remove quite a bit of the spring thickness and really polish the devil out of the bearing surface of the frizzen. It could still stand more reduction.
The main spring is strong too but necessary due to the heavy frizzen spring.

 

[davepool]

VERY NICE !

What did you use to blue the barrel, i need a lot of tips for the flintlock kit i'm working on.

The first barrel that came in my Pedersoli kit from Dixie gun works was like yours, terrible rusting inside, in fact it looked like it was cut from a longer .50 cal barrel. I sent it back to Dixie and they promptly replaced it with a brand new barrel, great folks over there.

Is that a buckhorn rear sight?

Pedersoli kits are the same, minimal instructions, that why i tackled the cheaper Lyman percussion kit first, if i totally botched it, it wouldn't be to big a loss.

 

[Patocazador]

I followed Gary's tip on "Express Blue" in another thread. However, there sure wasn't any 'express' to it. It's got a lot of steps to follow and takes many series of applications, boiling, carding, etc. to get a decent end result. The small parts weren't bad but the barrel presented problems due to uneven heating with the torch and lines where the tongs held the barrel.

It's a semi-buckhorn rear sight.

I had to do a lot of work on the cheap lock. The touch hole was even with the bottom of the pan so I had to remove metal from the pan bottom and the front part of the pan edge. The frizzen spring, length of lock screws, and trigger pull needed work too.

 

[davepool]

Glad to hear you used the express blue, i was going to try that based on Gary's results also. Might try to warm it up in the old toaster oven and avoid hot and cold spots.

 

[mec]

very nice work. the cap and wedge and belt hook look a lot like those components on the old CVA -mountain pistol -which was a caplock with drum.

 

[Patocazador]

It is a CVA but it's not a CVA kit. Deer Creek bought the entire inventory for CVA discontinued guns. They just gathered the appropriate parts and put them in a box and call it a Deer Creek kit.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Thanks for answering my question. Leaf spring it is.

 

[Iggy]

Yup, sure looks like the old CVA Mountain Pistol, that's for sure.

Wow! There some fast posters here.

 

[Patocazador]

I shot it yesterday.
It was hard to get a .490 ball started with a lubed .015 patch due to constriction at the muzzle. I spent 30 minutes this morning with some 220 emery paper 'coning' the muzzle. It seems better now.

 

[25cschaefer]

Very nice job, a great price too, I think our Trapper pistols were between $250 and $325

 

[AJumbo]

Back when i was browning a lot of barrels, I had a brass rod about 40"long, and just under 7/16" in diameter that "id use for handling the hot barrel. I'd heat the rod up, too; it kept he barrel hotter longer, and killed the cold spots.

 

[Patocazador]

Back when i was browning a lot of barrels, I had a brass rod about 40"long, and just under 7/16" in diameter that "id use for handling the hot barrel. I'd heat the rod up, too; it kept he barrel hotter longer, and killed the cold spots.

That's an idea I had but was afraid that the bluing solution would get in the bore. I cut down a synthetic wine cork and plugged the muzzle and put a round toothpick in the touchhole.

I suppose I could have driven a thinner rod through the cork and used it for a handle.

 

[bothenook]

Sweet.
As others have stated, I too am having an "interesting" time with a Trapper kit won in a raffle at the club. the stock is cracked where the nosecap mounts, and the sear looks like a bobby pin. I sent pics to Traditions, but am not getting a lot of joy out of it. bummer. I can say that there will never be another Traditions kit darkening my doorway. Thought it would be an easy transition from the Lyman Plains pistol on my way to something a bit more complicated. Joke is on me.....