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#355182 01/28/14 02:30 AM
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I've been collecting the parts for a three barreled Martini project and only lack the .17 cal barrel and can get started. When the third barrel arrives the plan is to machine identical ovate profiles on the .17, the .223 cal and the .257 cal 1 3/8" round blanks. Integral bases for a Unertl Small Game 6x scope will also accommodated. The chamberings planned are .17 HMR, .22LR and .25-20 WCF.

Here is the take down Model 6 BSA Martini action, the second breach block and the fixture made for truing the face of the blocks.


Because the fore end is going to be so small, I was having trouble visualizing the figure in the fore end wood blanks so I turned them round. It was helpful being able to rotate them through 360 degrees and this is the outline of where I'm headed with that. On the left are three horn blanks that have been drilled with a 15mm Forstners bit and an attendant dowel will be turned on the front of the fore end blanks for fitting. The Hoffman fore end is shown in the middle.


Here is the butt blank. My Hoffman model (pictured in an earlier Michael Petrov post) has a petite butt so I think it is going to be possible to eliminate the sapwood evident in the image.


For anyone interested in a detailed commentary of this project it is being chronicled at: http://blog.alaskaarmsllc.com/ovate-barrels-miniature-martini-action/


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Great choice of calibers!

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Dennis:

Do you have a photo of the Hoffman Martini you could share?

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This looks like a great project. Please post progress photos and descriptions!

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Dennis:

Thanks.

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Dennis:

One more suggestion:

The small Martini frame will take a .30-30 sized cartridge, as long as pressures are kept in the .30-30 range. You could add one more barrel and extractor in .30-30, .32 Winchester, .25-35 or 7x30 Waters and have a first class whitetail rifle.

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Still waiting for the last barrel so I worked on the fore ends. I used cyanoacrylate to attach the horn. The second image shows the dowel detail that I turned on each of the blanks. Probably should have been longer but didn't want to run out of horn on the bottom. I shameless plan to copy the Hoffman so know what the final is going to look like.

For the sharp observers that noticed four fore ends that is because I'm finishing a Cadet in parallel with this project. It is going to be a 5.6x50R and the full octagon barrel got cut last year on a friends horizontal mill. Have a Zeiss Zieleins that has some kind of front attachment not unlike the Litscherts and appears to be about a 6x. I removed a AKAH ring/base set from a Hensoldt Klein Dialyt and that will attach to a rib on the barrel.

I just got two new finger planes and they are quite handy for shaping. One is a standard block plane type affair in miniature and the other is a scraper. Controlled material removal and the shortness allows wonderful curves to be applied to surfaces. They are shown between the fore ends.



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Dennis,
The 5.6x50R is a great choice too.
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Rem,
Our Sitka black-tailed deer are often accessorized with brown bears and all of your suggested chamberings might be a bit puny.

This is from Nov 1980 on Afognak Island and the cape gun is a 9.3x72R/16 ga. My back trail returning to camp had these tracks on mine. For perspective, the LOP of the gun is probably around 14".


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