Project for Kings6

[zeus]

This is something that Robb and I have discussed and so last weekend we started turning metal when I had some time. He wanted a 5.5-6” hunting pistol in 41. We grabbed a Douglas Premium in 41 for the project. We won’t have sights on this as it’s getting a picatinny mount machined for it to hold an RMR. Think pure hunting pistol. Will fit it to the gun for BC gap next, mill flat on ERH and drill tap ERH screw. Then we machine the mount and polish it all up for bluing. Figured I’d share a few pics of the process. We turned this one OD concentric to bore by turning on centers. I may do the next ones like our long range rifles and indicate in on 4 jaw and work from there. Same result, different path. Octagon barrels are a lot of work but sure are nice when you’re done. I love the banded as well, maybe biased because it’s all on the lathe but the mill is where the fun is 🤣

[bushog]

SWEET!

[foxtrapper]

Oh boy this is gonna be good!

[princeout]

Really interesting! Thanks for taking the time to share!

Tim

[foxtrapper]

Any room left on that blank?. Just saying while your all chucked up ! Lol ps. No really I’d love one!

[zeus]

Sept 21, 2021 17:34:01 GMT -5 foxtrapper said:

Any room left on that blank?. Just saying while your all chucked up ! Lol ps. No really I’d love one!

I will be making more and will do installs or sell them like this one ready for your smith to install when you want them to. The hard work is done. I’m considering checking interest and ordering blanks and doing a run of different ones depending on what guys are wanting. Im not planning to really take on full custom projects. I don’t want my hobby to run my life. I’ll build guns from time to time and sell them if I really love the way they finished up. That will keep it fun for me. But supplying barrels from time to time and doing barre changes I will most likely make time for.

We also have our new heat treat furnace that we had built and it took forever with covid hooked up and will likely do some CCH work from time to time. The shop is pretty much complete other than final tweaking on small machine placement etc.

I’m going to turn a 10” one for my stainless Bisley next. Figure if I’m making a mount for Robb I can make one for myself as well. Haha

[sixshot]

Off to a great start! Those octagon barrels can really get under your skin. Getting one from Glenn, all ready to go is a great project for a lot of guys.

Dick

[squawberryman]

Picatinny machined into the topstrap for low optic placement, go

[zeus]

Sept 21, 2021 18:14:40 GMT -5 squawberryman said:

Picatinny machined into the topstrap for low optic placement, go

Hahaha. I’ll leave that to someone else. 🤣

[squawberryman]

Half octagon half tapered round?

[kings6]

What Glenn didn't share was that the gun this is going on was the one I purchased from Roy Fishpaw's widow, Glenda. It is an old model 41 that Roy made a set of custom grips for and then he had a BIG rail mount screwed to the barrel and top strap in several spots so he could mount a rather inexpensive red dot tube sight on. He used it for hunting whitetails and took several deer with it. Roy had also either bought the converted or had it converted so I sent the gun to Ben Forkin along with a set of parts including one David Clements bisley spurred hammers and Ben put it back to the only load five configuration and fit the hammer and did an action job. I tried to use the gun last year for deer hunting but decided to change the optics set up and while we were at it, Glenn offered to do the octagon configuration so I said go for it. The plan is for it to be my primary hunting revolver for deer sized game. Hopefully I can carry one Roy's tradition of bringing home venison with the gun, even with y own twists to its configuration. Here is a picture of the gun before the project started.

[zeus]

I can say with certainty that the scope rail was never going to shake loose with the screws they had holding it on 🤣🤣

[zeus]

Sept 21, 2021 18:20:31 GMT -5 squawberryman said:

Half octagon half tapered round?

I have actually considered that. Wondered what it would look like to do octagon to end of ERH and then round to the end. Hahaha

[squawberryman]

Ive got another thought I wont share because you WOULD do it

[foxtrapper]

Sept 21, 2021 18:47:11 GMT -5 squawberryman said:

Ive got another thought I wont share because you WOULD do it

Jeeze squaw your going to run him off! Lol