Greg, thanks for the pictures. It will be fun to see as you build this.

Val, thanks for the link, interesting read....and gun.

Hmmmm...never paid attention to manual extractors before....now I see them everywhere!!
Bob

ndnchf wrote on Apr 19^th, 2021 at 8:08am:


Steve,
I did a post a while ago on my version of a Striker Ballard, but here's the short of it...
I'd seen a few photo's of striker's in this action and was somewhat intrigued by them.   Then an individual had posted pictures of his recently acquired Worn/Hubalek on here.  I jokingly mentioned to him he ought to take his apart and share some pictures of the innards with me as I wanted to make one...  His comeback was "I have rifles from the 60's that shoot well and I've NEVER taken them apart, this one shoots very well- do you think I'd take this one apart!!!???" 
Sooo... with a little help from Solidworks modeling, and a lot of help from my son, we started throwing things together that would fit in the confines of the space allowed by a Ballard breech block and would function like a true striker system.  I use a CNC mill to rough the basic design but the larger part of this build is done on a manual mill-and by hand.  If I had 4th and 5th axis on my machines I'd probably do more with the modern equipment but I'm cheap that way and struggle justifying it for the everyday work we do. 
Here's an early sketch of striker we made.  This one didn't work but by the 3rd or 4th version we had it shooting.  I'm on the 5th or 6th version of it now and four breech blocks/rifles completed and four more in the works.  For sale? none. 
I did a patent pending on the design but there isn't a market that justifies chasing a patent, JMO.
Regards,
Greg

Spent a little time with the wood for this project tonight.  The wood blanks whimpering went to screaming but I had my ear plugs in while the duplicator was running so I couldn't hear it...
(for Tony's benefit  )
Trying to decide on the butt plate material, but another twist I came up with - the knob for the manual extractor - the elk teeth ivory I've collected from the past decades - may have found a use for one of them besides cuff links or some other piece of jewelry I'll never use 

I actually enjoy using the spring loaded manual extractor (on the right side of the barrel) on my Frank Wesson 2-trigger.

Greg, I don’t remember which size of Morris taper reamer to use but one matches the Ballard tang pretty well. Just a thought.

Just a little more ho-hum stuff.  Was able to work the tang over a little bit but there is still a bit more fitting to go.  My little slotter has a different action set up in it that I didn't want to tear down so to square up the toe fit I used the quill in the Bridgeport to broach.  Here's a few pictures as it progressed.