Home Built Volcanic Pistol And Ammo

[Rick459]

http://www.homegunsmith.com/cgi-bin/...ST;f=3;t=22531

[briang]

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[Old Ironsights]

You have to be more than a "general" member too...

[EMC45]

I used to look at that site all the time, then I joined with a password and user name. After that it wouldn't let me look at the galleries and half the forums and pages I can no longer look at.

[CRM]

It's not finished, but she is starting to look like a Volcanic.

It shoots a highly modified 40 S+W

[Old Ironsights]

How utterly cool...

[Dutchman]

With all the go-fast black plastic rifles and sheet metal Ak's its nice to see something like this. I wish you'd share some more photos and keep us in the loop. Its beautiful.


Dutch

[deltaenterprizes]

Volcanic ammo was a little different than that, yours should have more power!

[Old Ironsights]

Man, what I want is one of those in .22 S/L/LR...

Did you start with a set of schematics?

[CRM]

Volcanic ammo was a little different than that, yours should have more power!

The original Volcanic had 56 ft lbs of energy, mine has over 300, depending what load I want to shoot.


Ironsights, I designed this gun from scratch using pictures of the original Volcanic. The throw of the Bolt allows a Cartrige to be .812 lg. I believe a 22 Long Rifle is too long to cycle through this action.

The only restriction I put on myself designing this action was that it have the same outside dimensions as the original. As it turned out this was not easy because of the very short "Rocket Ball" the original shot.

In order to shoot something longer this action would have to be totally re-designed, and not use the toggle link system.

Dutchman, I will share more pictures and information with you Guys. Thanks for the invitation.

[Old Ironsights]

Interesting. I'd love to see a pic of your cartridge next to a .22 LR.

How "highly modified" is the .40?

[CRM]

First thing I do is cut about 1/4" of a fired 40 S+W. Then I swedge the inside out for room to put the powder and bullet. (the factory case thickens down toward the bottom) Then I turn the outside stright again, trim them to .545 to .550 long. Load em and shoot em.

These baby's are loaded with Berry's Copper Plated 135 grain bullets being kicked out by 4 grains of "Bullseye". I am getting an average of 1040 FPS here.

[Old Ironsights]

Wow.

[Hobie]

Oh, that is just too cool!

Thanks OI for leading us over here.

[Hobie]

You know, your cartridge has an application for a sub-compact pistol like the LCP but BIGGER caliber. OOoooooooooooooooooooooooooh yeah!

[HeavyMetal]

Hey!

You can call the cartridge the 40 PLG ( Pygmy Lever Gun)

[briang]

That is cool, thanks for sharing

[rjohns94]

That is very kewl. Thanks oi for the link

[CRM]

GEE!!!!

OI is gathering a crowd to look at this thing. (at least 2 )

I did not realize so many Folks would be interested in this kind of thing.

For those of you who bothered to walk across the road to see this, I want to thank you.

I am honored.

Tomorrow, late in the day, there will be more pictures and details.

Thanks for visiting.

[spurrit]

That's pretty danged cool!