Woodsrunner #4 in .54 bore w/standard maple stock

[RobD]

I guess I like these guns, sorta, kinda 

Anyhoo, assembled and ready to take apart for the stock stain (aqua fortis) and finish (Tru-Oil).

First thing I like doing with these guns is to pull the breech plug, clean it off and send it back into the bbl with a liberal coating of Nikal anti-seize.

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Next up it to fit on the nose cap as that takes a bit of doing to line up the stock screw holes with the threaded screw holes in the nose cap.  The brass machine screw heads are inside the stock and protrude out past the cap itself, and will get filed down flush.  What helps with this whole process is to slightly enlarge the stock screw holes and round off the forward corner edges so that they'll fit into the slightly rounded inside corners of the nose cap.  Even with a good fit of the cap and clear stock holes for the cap screws, the cap screw hole threads will be tight.  What I do is oil the screws and screw them in from the outside of the cap, for the initial screw fittings.  Then slip on the cap, check that the cap threaded screw holes can be fully seen from within the stock bbl channel, rub some beeswax on the slot of each brass screw so that it will stay put on the screwdriver tip, thus making it easy to find the nose cap thread.

Then I'll lay in the bbl, install the side plate, lock, and bbl tang screw.  Since Woodsrunners come with the trigger guard and trigger installed, those pins will first require removing, cutting to size, and reinstalling.  For all pins I round off the front inserted end, rub on a bit of beeswax for lubricant, home the pin about 1/32" shy of coming out of the stock, use a fine Sharpie to mark the other side for cutting, remove the pin and cut 1/32" LESS than that mark (shorting the pin) so that it will tap and stay hidden inside the stock with a 1/16" punch.  The cut end of the pin gets a bit of filing to remove any burr.  The pin gets another rub of beeswax and is 95% tapped into the stock, then punch tapped fully inside the stock.  With the lock, bbl, and trigger guard placed into the stock before pinning, it pays to take the time to use a light source to check that all stock holes are totally open. 

An extra step before the bbl and pipes are installed is to create a test pin, with rounded front end, that's also been rubbed with beeswax to better run into and pull out of all stock pin holes.  This will insure they are drilled correctly and it will prep those stock holes to better accept their specific pin.

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