.32 cal Children's Caplock Rifle

[CowboyCS]

I should have been shooting pics and documenting the build all along, but it's to late now, so I will just show you what I have.

I built this one as a speculation gun, it will be in the for sale section as soon as I work up a load and sight it in. I'm hoping to raise a little extra x-mas money with it.

It is a .32 Caliber, I built every part on it from scratch, except the barrel liner and the nipple. All the other parts including the lock were built from rough stock. It weighs 4 pounds 5 ounces, is 33 1/2" long OAL. The length of pull is 11 1/2". The inlays and the forearm tip are purple-heart, and the stock is sugar maple, it has a nice bit of figure in the butt. The pearly gray finish on the metal is an acid etched. finish

I'm planning to offer some letter engraving to whoever buys it. I'll engrave a set of initials in the lockplate and the trigger guard for free. And it will come with the bullet mould and whatever bullets I have left from sighting it in.








Colin

[Roaring Bull]

Sure is a nice looking little shooter.......might have to look into that one.

[FrankG]

Looks like a miniature Rigby rifle !

[CowboyCS]

Looks like a miniature Rigby rifle !

Purdey actually, Purdey's have the trigger guard grip and straight stock, while Rigby's have the pistol grip stock.

C

[FrankG]

I was close almost 

[Roaring Bull]

yep, I think its purty, too!!

[bull frog]

Nice!

[CowboyCS]

Thank you for the compliments.

Colin

[Ranger]

Very good job, Colin!

[Roaddog]

That is a jimdandy, your workmanship shines. What a gun for a cub to start with.

[CowboyCS]

Thank you,
If the weather would let up, I'd get out and find out how it shoots. Yesterday the wind stopped blowing, so I started getting my gear together and just about the time I had everything ready to go out to the field, it decided to cut loose and rain. When I say rain, I mean it only lasted about 10 minutes but for that 10 minutes I couldn't see from my shop to my house(about 60 feet). You'd have thought it was being poured out by the bucket full. And this morning the wind is blowing 20mph and gusting to 40 again.

C

[CowboyCS]

It was cold but calm this morning, so I finally got a chance to work up a load and sight it in. This is ten shots at 25 yards, patched conical over a 22LR case full of FFFg.

A Half dollar will cover the group.
I'm not gonna show you the sight in paper, it looks like I hit it with buck shot from a 12 gauge.

C

[Chaffa Hosa]

Sir
That is some fine shooting
(Note to self: Don't challenge Colin to a duel)
And a Beautiful little rifle

[Roaring Bull]

AWESOME!




I agree with your note Jerry!

[CowboyCS]

Thank you, yeah I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.
If you want to shoot like that just go out and put a couple hundred rounds a week through your rifles. Of course I have a slight advantage over most guys, cause I have my own range right out in my pasture that goes clear out to 300 yrds.

C