![]() The design of the lock plate and its bolster, and to some degree the design of the breech plug or hooked tang, will determine where you end up drilling the hole for the lock screw. You'll often see used rifles with a crack from the side plate to the barrel cutout where the offside lock panel starts to swoops down toward the centerline of the barrel. It is often wise to angle the screw upward to reach a small bolster, so it's threaded higher at the lock bolster end and the head sits a bit lower on the off side so as not to contribute to splitting of the wood at the side plate. ![]() That's a common mistake I see in the custom builds. Be careful not to have the head and side plate too close to the top of the wood on the off side. I never heard of any flange, and I cannot at the moment guess what that might be.Īnyway, the Hawken rifle, the late ones at least, had only the one lock screw just behind breech and they were considered strong rifles. The rest of the lock plate sits against the wood in the lock mortise. ![]() The lock plate has a bolster into which the main lock screw is threaded and which sits against the barrel. What's this talk of "flanges"? I know of no such part.
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