Old School Hideout Conversion

Sharps40

Old Mossy Horns
Chop the 3 in barrel to 1.8 inches. Square the face. 11 degree crown. Round over the outer edge. Shorten the face of the ejector rod 1/16 inch and round over its outer edge.

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Sharps40

Old Mossy Horns
Nothing ventured.....Nothing gained. Jigged up for a centered and shallow #31 front sight hole. 80 thousands will get me at 3 threads, e.g. 3 to 4 threads is max strength for a threaded fastener. 2 bottoming Taps will be used. One stock lead to start the thread and one with almost all the lead ground off to chase thread clear to the bottom.

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Sharps40

Old Mossy Horns
Soft brass for a temporary cone front sight. Later an ancient Marbles Sunspot bead if I can find one.

But, shank the .25 brass rod to .134. Die cuts the 6x48 thread needed.

Shorten the thread, shape the cone and put in cut off lines.

Snug it up and clean off the excess.

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Sharps40

Old Mossy Horns
Good news. A pair of ancient Marbles SunSpot shotgun beads are on the way from Numrich/Gun Parts Corp and.....there appears to be some lovely walnut under that "made the grips with an ax" pair of grip panels. I might have to clean it all up and rust blue it too.....
 

Sharps40

Old Mossy Horns
Sand the axe marks out, add 2 coats of urethane and while tacky rub it satin including the Checkered panels. Let dry. Inlet the panels for the prongs of the grip adapder so the panels sit flush on the grip frame.

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Sharps40

Old Mossy Horns
Good spring humidity with adequate temps for a multi-day rust blue of the areas worked on. The color won't exactly match the still good factory blue but it'll be more durable than the factory blue and of course, cold blue. (Which is not oxide blue but rather blackened copper plating)

Here, the barrel, sight trough and butt polished 220 grit , cleaned, and in moments, the first faint bloom of red rust.

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45/70 hunter

Old Mossy Horns
Contributor
Interesting project coming along nicely. I do have a question if I may. How did you come up with 1.8" on the barrel? Why not go 2" and not have to shorten the ejector rod?
 

Sharps40

Old Mossy Horns
1.8 was 1/16 longer than the full length ejector rod sleeve. Removing 1/16 from the sleeve makes a nice looking pairing with a 1/8 difference. And 1.8 is a pretty common length for 2 in barrels.
 

Sharps40

Old Mossy Horns
Done. Basically trench sighted (beatbis same height as the former cone).

So, at 3 and 7 yds I pick up the big red bead at the bottom of the 4x8 inch A-Zone and get good hits ringing the steel easily. Nice for point shooting.

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