I'm trying to find some reading materials on the alloys and techniques used for making brass or bronze barrels. I'm working on building a percussion cap blunderbuss from scratch.
Does anyone perchance know of good reading on this? I'm making it a 50ish caliber. Depends on what tooling I can get my hands on.
I'm assuming brass barrels were cast, machined and then honed for durability to final size. Why brass? Because it's pretty and I'm not going hunting with it so I don't need any stopping power.
Does anyone perchance know of good reading on this? I'm making it a 50ish caliber. Depends on what tooling I can get my hands on.
I'm assuming brass barrels were cast, machined and then honed for durability to final size. Why brass? Because it's pretty and I'm not going hunting with it so I don't need any stopping power.