After further bbl repairs to the ‘73 bbl my rifle is back from the smith. I just put 20 rds through it and hit everything, small sass marshals, plates and pins on my rail and the real small marshals. Using 5.2 clays, 200 gr rnfp in schofield brass, hitting a tad high at 35 yds-dead on for windage. A few more cosmetic things and I’ll be done. Pictures tomorrow.
Btw, what I eventually did to the front sight was to use the saddle ring band sight that was on the rifle and cut the band off the sight and then my smith silver soldered it to the bbl. Turned out nice and seems to be dead center.
Got my stock sling swivel installed, going to touch up the bluing on the muzzle and try a lever wrap tonight. 20 more rds and all hits though I’m not crazy about the steel carbine buttplate, wants to slip all over my shoulder if I run the gun fast.
Did some more work on my rifle yesterday. The cartridge carrier was moving forward when the rifle recoiled so I cut a walnut blank to fit into the stock swivel mortise, took two tries. I then installed a modern screw swivel stud in the center so the lacings will hook behind it and keep the carrier from moving. I’ll just swap the blank out with the sling swivel to change from the centennial to the Spanish Contract carbine. Planning on shooting the ‘centennial’ this month along with a schofield and 1860 conversion.
Decided that it needed a faux cleaning rod to complete the military look so I’ve been messing with that. Drilled and threaded the nosecap but didn’t like it so I had to make a piece of aluminum to go inside the cap to give me something more to thread. Got my nosecap side screws installed. About done, a couple more coats of stock stain and truoil and I’ll be done with it. Photos soon.