{"id":5691,"date":"2013-03-04T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2013-03-04T05:56:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T10:56:28","slug":"first-shots-of-the-hopkins-and-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5691","title":{"rendered":"First shots of the Hopkins and allen"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought this rifle for$20, with a 32-20 WCF barrel and no breechblock. The stock had apparently been made from a 2×6, because it still said ‘Boise Cascade” on it in green letters. I would have kept that but for the fact that it was loose and therefore useless. I found an octagonal 22 blank and a correct breechblock, and I have to make a firing pin which I will do on monday. These are the first pictures of the stock, which began as a 2″ by 8″ piece of bloody hard wood- so hard that it will probably not take a finish, and will have to be buffed- as it gets fitted to the receiver. I have the receiver completely apart so none of the pieces get lost, and once I have the stock fitted, and the barrel chambered, and the ejector fitted, i will fire up the tank and blue this puppy. I hope to have a functional single shot by spring.
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This is the top of the stock as inletted to the receiver. It’s a long way from block of wood to this point, trust me.
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The bottom. You get an idea how much material has to be removed to make this work. <\/p>\n

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\nThe block roughly shaped with the receiver inletted to it. Now I need to start shaping, and this is a light rifle, and this is dense wood, so I need to remove a LOT of it. Here’s the first evening’s sanding progress.
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There’s a LOT left to do. This is going to be like a splinter when it’s done.<\/p>\n

Now I understand why Pope liked that ballard action so much- almost no stock fitting to do, no tang, nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought this rifle for$20, with a 32-20 WCF barrel and no breechblock. The stock had apparently been made from a 2×6, because it still said ‘Boise Cascade” on it in green letters. I would have kept that but for the fact that it was loose and therefore useless. I found an octagonal 22 blank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}