Not a Cowboy Gun but Kool little gun

[Big T]

Hello Here is an Old Flobert made pre 1900 I believe 4 digit serial number cadet rifle , originaly chambered in 32 rimfire , I got it for little of nothing about 20. worth of work for my local gunshop ,had bailing wire barrel bands no rear sight an no hammer spur , I thought it would be a nice project , ,Had a friend Bore the barrel to accept 32 S&W short cartriges , then i converted the breech block to center fire made 1 barrel band for it an milled the hammer for a new spur I made out of 4140 I pinned it to the hammer because I didnt want ot heat up the hammer other than just cleanning it off ,I have fired it about 20 times so far at 30 steps at a paper plate ,it hit it every time not a great group but hey what do you expect from one this old an wore out ,great play gun to freek out buddies with , hope you enjoy , I been loading it with 6 grns of 2 f black an a 70 grain lead bullet in the little 32 cal ,

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Neat!

[Blackpowder Burn]

Now that's a cool little project and cheap to shoot.  Ya' did good!

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[Dick Dastardly]

Nice old gun.  Good on you for bringing it back into service.  I load the .32 S&W cartridge for my lil spur trigger Remington with a Kirst Konverter cylinder.  I have trouble getting that much powder in.  Are you compressing the powder before seating the bullet?  I'm loading the DD 32-80 Big Lube®LLC bullet.

DD-DLoS

[Paladin UK]

Done a great job on the hammer pard

Looks jest fine!! `n a shooter too!!

Paladin (What lurvs ole smokpoles  ) UK

[Shotgun Franklin]

I don't know, I could see some young Cowboy sitting in the bunkhouse showing off his new carbine. Remember that danged near everyone who went West took whatever kinda gun they could afford with'm. Beats carrying a sharp stick.

[Big T]

To tell the truth I am not sure on the powder , my powder measure digital scale says 5.9 grns fills up the hull then i compress the bullet down on top to the second line on it an crimp , scale can be off as much as .4 gr too so I just rounded the number , I did make the mistake an will not do it again of hollowing out the base of 1 bullet as an experiment to make it like a mini ball (Dont do this ever) didnt have a catastrophic failure but did get gassed a bit from backpressure an was unhappy from the experience , the whole deal on the gun though was just to make it shoot again , I dont own anything that wont shoot or dont want to shoot it ,,t