jack garner .36 headed for a bobby hoyt makeover

[RobD]

really was looking for a .40 when i did a trade to get back my jack garner (of TVM fame) .36 a few weeks ago.  dunno the barrel or lock origins, but i'm sure it's prolly good gear.  i pulled the barrel and breech plug and sent it off to bobby who will ream it out to .40 with 1:48 radius groove rifling.  should take a few ounces off the current 7# weight and make for better offhand shooting ... i hope she'll be a shooter!

[Winter Hawk]

That's one lovely, trim rifle!  And no antechamber to worry about! 

~WH~

[RobD]

... And no antechamber to worry about! 

~WH~

     

[Ohio Joe]

Yes sir, that is a very nice looking rifle for sure. Is that a 42 inch barrel on it, Rob?

Very nice! 

[rollingb]

really was looking for a .40 when i did a trade to get back my jack garner (of TVM fame) .36 a few weeks ago.  dunno the barrel or lock origins, but i'm sure it's prolly good gear.  i pulled the barrel and breech plug and sent it off to bobby who will ream it out to .40 with 1:48 radius groove rifling.  should take a few ounces off the current 7# weight and make for better offhand shooting ... i hope she'll be a shooter!

I'm sure it will be.

What size of barrel did Jack put on that rifle?

[RobD]

gents, that's a 42" barrel indeed.  gonna come home a tad lighter and hopefully a tad easier for offhand.

[Winter Hawk]

I've been thinking of getting my T-C .50 opened up to .54.  I have had Ed Rayle do some barrel work for me in the past, may give him a call and see how much he would charge to do so.  I remember that he told me that Thompson-Center sometimes drilled the sight mounting holes too deep and there was a chance of hitting one, but that was with a New Englander I thought of boring out to 20 gauge.  I'll have to run a screw in as far as it will go and measure to see how deep it is.

~WH~

[rollingb]

gents, that's a 42" barrel indeed.  gonna come home a tad lighter and hopefully a tad easier for offhand.

What's the diameter?

[RobD]

gents, that's a 42" barrel indeed.  gonna come home a tad lighter and hopefully a tad easier for offhand.

What's the diameter?

.820 across the flats.

[Winter Hawk]

That's scary close to 13/16"!   

~WH~

[Uncle Russ]

That's scary close to 13/16"!   

Knowing Winter Hawk, he probably did that in his head while I was looking for my "Mitutoyo Chart".
Actually it's closer to 53/64 ....lol

Color me green with envy! 

You guys have all these nice, really handsome rifles, and all I have is some old something I'm working on, trying to get it to shoot.

Rob, you have shown us some rifles here that I'd actually be scared to death to hunt with, totally 'fraid I'd scratch, or put a ding on it.

All of my guns have been drug through the mud, the blood, and the beer, and all look like crap...except maybe my Pedersoli Flinter, in my eyes she's still a right pretty girl, although she doesn't get used all that much anymore.

Someday I'm going to own one of those super nice rifles, complete with a switch-over action, my choice cap or flint, like Joe has, it's mostly on my "Bucket List", but a man has to look forward to something, I reckon.

  Keep 'em coming Rob, at least I can look at the pictures until something nice comes my way.

Uncle Russ...

[Winter Hawk]

okay, I'll split the difference and call it 105/128.   So what's eight thousandths between friends?  Let's go have a beer.... no wait, I have bible study tonight.  Give me a rain check, will you? 

I also drool over the pictures I see and wish for some fabulous, hand-built rifle.  But it ain't gonna happen; I just keep making improvements/modifications to my Deer Creek rifle and T-C.  At least I think they are improvements!     Thinking of adding a patch box to each of them but that will require inletting - scary!!!

~WH~

[RobD]

i'm still questing for "THAT" rifle - ya know, the one that hits the bullseye for ya without any effort on yer part.      

guess i'll see in a few weeks .... 

[Ohio Joe]

Rob, I'm serious thinking of shortening my 7/8" x 42" .45 caliber GMB flintlock rifle (barrel) to 36 or 38 inches one of these days. (don't know exactly when)... The reason for this is it's muzzle heavy and out here where I live the wind can be relentless and even a 7 to 10 MPH wind can make that long barrel into a sail.

Now in the woods where wind usually isn't much of a problem and you have access to trees to lean that rifle off of, there's no problem at all,,, but at the Range in the wide open it's another story.

So,,, with all this said above,,, have you thought about perhaps shortening the barrel and reworking the stock for better handling purpose? Just throwing this out there as an alternative.

That's a beautiful rifle! 

[RobD]

oh yeah, was thinking of taking that barrel down to 36".  i sure like the way she looks so i'm gonna see what bobby does with that barrel, see if she points better for me.  if not, it's off to the guillotine for that gal!