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Craftsmanship => Gun Building and Repair => Topic started by: FlintSteel on April 27, 2012, 11:17:06 AM

Title: Sliding wood patchbox question.
Post by: FlintSteel on April 27, 2012, 11:17:06 AM

I'm working up my first sliding patchbox, on a York rifle. I have seen (in one of my reference books, can't remember which) a patchbox with a small steel striker plate, that was dovetailed into the buttplate edge at the latch location to minimize wear there from the latch spring. It's a nice touch, but was it common, or recommended?

Title: Re: Sliding wood patchbox question.
Post by: Hank in WV on April 27, 2012, 05:09:13 PM

I've never heard of this before and would like to see a picture of it myself.

Title: Re: Sliding wood patchbox question.
Post by: Captchee on April 27, 2012, 11:31:33 PM

i dont know that it was common . but it would be useful to reduce wear on  a very soft  yellow brass butt plate .
 Is it needed ???  IMO no not really .
Maybe if you spring notch/ catch  is  very  shallow .
Any chance that what you were seeing was a repair .
 Possible  the catch spring came lose and it had to be driven deeper . Thus the thickness of the  butt plat in the catch area had to be built up ?

Title: Re: Sliding wood patchbox question.
Post by: pathfinder on April 28, 2012, 06:56:24 AM

Gotta agree with Captchee on this one. Although OCD was also around back then too!

Title: Re: Sliding wood patchbox question.
Post by: FlintSteel on April 28, 2012, 08:31:31 AM

Thanks guys.