Falling Blocks
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ASSRA site is your best bet.
The various falling block actions are pretty easy to do. Depending on where you live one of the top benchrest smiths on this site who is closest to you should be able to help you out.
What will you be chambering it in and using it for one of them might already have that chambering reamer is why I ask.
What will you be chambering it in and using it for one of them might already have that chambering reamer is why I ask.
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Here's a link to his website. Lee does a lot of falling block stuff...give him a call and directly discuss it. I'd suggest contacting Allan Hall about the basic tenon dimensions.
http://stores.leeshavergunsmithing.com/
Good shootin'.
-AlP.S. If you want to rehome that Hall falling block, feel free to contact me....hint, hint.
-Al
TomD
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A little history about falling blocks but not as far back as to Buffalo hunter rifles.
After my nephew finished his 1st Iraq tour with the 4th ID in 2004, I went over to Ft Hood to visit. He gave me a tour of his tank company's hardware. In the hull of a M1 looking at the back end of the 120mm main gun, I noticed a couple of things. First, it was manufactured by Rhinemetal and secondly, it was a falling block action. A little research later taught me that the US main battle tank weapon is a linear descendent of the famously effective German WWII 88mm and still made by the same company. If you look at pictures of the breech mech of an 88, it is visually identical to a modern 120mm.
The recoil lugs are a little bigger than we're used to but a 300,000 grain "bullet" at 5,000 fps+ is a bit more muzzle energy too.
Seems to me that whenever I get the chance to see a large US Naval gun, they tend to be an "interrupted screw" lockup.
After my nephew finished his 1st Iraq tour with the 4th ID in 2004, I went over to Ft Hood to visit. He gave me a tour of his tank company's hardware. In the hull of a M1 looking at the back end of the 120mm main gun, I noticed a couple of things. First, it was manufactured by Rhinemetal and secondly, it was a falling block action. A little research later taught me that the US main battle tank weapon is a linear descendent of the famously effective German WWII 88mm and still made by the same company. If you look at pictures of the breech mech of an 88, it is visually identical to a modern 120mm.
The recoil lugs are a little bigger than we're used to but a 300,000 grain "bullet" at 5,000 fps+ is a bit more muzzle energy too.
Seems to me that whenever I get the chance to see a large US Naval gun, they tend to be an "interrupted screw" lockup.