General Hints

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ASSEMBLING
THE RIFLE KIT
WARNING:
These instructions sheets are only a general guide.
Please check the correct part number of your gun on specific spare parts list.
Our compliments on your choice! A scrupulous selection of the materials and the accurate working
techniques make your new gun a product, which is synonymous of prestige and quality.
The kit that you are going to finish has been pre-assembled; all the metal parts have fit to the stock
and you have only to polish and finish them.
If it is not so, you may proceed paying attention to our instructions.
Reminding that the most feared enemy of the “do it yourself” is hurried work, we wish you good
luck … enjoy it.
These brief notes want to be an explicative guide to enable you to finish work a kit of any kind of
our models.
Following you will find some examples featuring various building solutions.
See figures and exploded view at
pages 8a, 9a, 10a, 11a, 12a of this booklet.
1) (See fig.1) - Start by installing the barrel into the barrel channel of the pre-carved stock.
Carefully remove any excess wood beneath and around the barrel tang. File the tang down
until it is flush with the stock wrist. File from metal to wood, not the reverse. This prevents
chipping or splintering of the wood.
2) I
NSTALLATION OF TRIGGER (See fig. 4) - With barrel installed in stock (use a clamp or heavy
rubber band to keep barrel from falling out), install tang screw (11) through tang and stock.
This will line up trigger plate. (part. # 23) As with the tang, install trigger plate flush with stock
surface. Next install trigger (part. # 24), using trigger pin (part. # 25), to trigger plate. Install into
stock, removing the wood as necessary to allow the trigger to move freely. If kit has set
triggers (fig. 12), follow the same procedure as with the trigger, fitting one piece at a time. The
trigger assembly is held to the stock by the tang screw and a small wood screw at the rear of
the trigger plate.
3) I
NSTALLATION OF LOCK AND SIDE PLATE (See figs. 2, 6, 9) - Disassemble lock. Stock is pre-
inletted for the lock. The location of the lock is determined by the hammer (part. # 40) to the
nipple (part. # 14) / fig. 9, and the sear (part. # 38) to the trigger (part. # 24) / fig. 2. Install lock
plate into recess removing only what wood is necessary to make lock surface flush with stock.
(In the case of a flintlock, the plate must be fitted tight against and in contact with the barrel
flat). Using fig. 6, install lock mounting screws (part. # 10) through side plate (part. # 9),
through pre-drilled holes in stock and screw them into the pre-tapped holes in the lock plate.
Install side plate (part. # 9) into stock. As with trigger assembly, install lock parts to lock plate
and fit to stock one part at a time. Remove wood necessary to allow full and free movement of
parts.
4) F
OR FLINTLOCK (See fig. 9a) - Install touch hole liner (part. # 16A) into the pre-threaded hole in
the side of the barrel. The liner should be flush with the surface of the barrel flat.
F
OR PERCUSSION (See fig. 9) - Install the drum (part. # 16) into the pre-threaded hole in the
side of the barrel. The drum should fit so that nipple (part. # 14) will align with hammer nose
(part. # 40a). If it does not, file the drum shoulder a little at a time to obtain the proper fit. G
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SLOWLY SO AS NOT TO STRIP THE THREADS WHEN TIGHTENING THE DRUM TO THE BARREL.
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5) C
OMPLETE THE LOCATION OF THE BARREL TO THE STOCK (See fig. 5) - With barrel in stock, fit
nose cap (part. # 8) into position. Remove only wood as necessary to have a tight fit.
Carefully measure and drill hole for pin (part. # 18). Finish nose cap and stock flush to each
other (Fig. 5a). Remaining barrel pins can now be installed. To find locations for pins (part. #
18) and to secure barrel to stock:
• measure from barrel muzzle to the center of each barrel lug (these are already
attached to the bottom of the barrel);