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My new Ruggles Style Underhammer Pistol

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enfield

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Well - Final control still seems to be a serious problem for our Italian friends !

My shooting buddy war one of the first to purchase the then new Pedersoli Kuchenreuter Pistol , SerNo 10 .

After the first string , the sear nose broke . Having got a replacement ( after a loooong time ) , the spring broke ... Also after a loooong time , he got a new spring - after the third shot , the stock broke ...

The main issue from the third or fourth shot on was , that it became nearly impossible to load the next shot without throughout cleaning ...

Completely confused , my good friend considered this entire pistol as complete chunk , took it apart , kept the barrel and threw away all the remainig parts as far as he could . !

Now , after several years , he gifted me the barrel .

The scope shows the main problem :

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After a good polish with finest steel wool and some chrome polish , this left hand drill barrel shouldn't be too bad , therefore I tried my hands to turn out something functional .

After lapping the inner surface of the barrel , I decided to fill the cutout for the underlug , adding a new sight . and make a completely new and different pistol .

Some of You already know , that I'm a complete fan of the Ruggles style ( only four moving parts ! ) pistols but I'm also aware of the superb handling qualities of the great Billinghurst works of art .

Therefore I started to make a blend from the the best of both :

Barrel : Remake of a Kuchenreuther ( Pedersoli )
Lockwork : Remake of the original Ruggles - Patent - Underhammer ( self made )
Stock : ( With a little phantasy ) : Billinghurst ( self made )

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