Rail Gun interest

[RwBeV]

Hello all, I have been reading on this forum now for a little over month now, looking for information about rail guns. I have a friend that used to shoot BR in the "old days" and would like to get back into it. Unfortunately he has had some sort of brain surgery and shakes quite a bit. Any way he asked if I would help him build a "unlimited rail gun" so I have been looking at what ever I can find and reading all the articles I can find, I found quite a bit out there on shooting and having one built but not much that I can find about building one. Any one out there know of any building info that might be out there?

Bob

 

[HovisKM]

Your best bet might be to find someone with a Powell or Young and reverse engineer it. They are really a pretty simple device, you just kind of need to see the lay out. But again, I highly recommend copying the Young or Powell.

Hovis

 

[RwBeV]

That might be kind of hard where I live, I think there are 2 registered BR shooters in the whole state of Wyoming. If I could find someone on the Forum that could get me some pictures that would be a great help. Wyoming is a great state to live in if you hunt and fish, but when it comes to finding what you need for the most part your SOL.

Thanks
Bob

 

[Steelhead1]

RwBev
Tell us what part of Wyoming your in and we may be able to guide you to someone that could help and there are a number of shooters that come to mind in Wyoming! Just had Thanksgiving day dinner with Ron Brown in Sheridan, and I know Ron has a rail gun. Theres 2 guys that come from Wyoming to shoot the Springville Utah Matches. There's a great bunch of guys from Northern Colorado, so shoot us some info and lets see if we can help out.

 

[333smitty]

Young U/L Rail

That might be kind of hard where I live, I think there are 2 registered BR shooters in the whole state of Wyoming. If I could find someone on the Forum that could get me some pictures that would be a great help. Wyoming is a great state to live in if you hunt and fish, but when it comes to finding what you need for the most part your SOL.

Thanks
Bob

 

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[JerrySharrett]

That might be kind of hard where I live, I think there are 2 registered BR shooters in the whole state of Wyoming. If I could find someone on the Forum that could get me some pictures that would be a great help. Wyoming is a great state to live in if you hunt and fish, but when it comes to finding what you need for the most part your SOL.

Thanks
Bob

A good cross section of rail gun designs.

http://www.bryantcustom.com/galleries/railguns.htm

 

[LorenC]

gawd that is beauty in metal!

 

[RwBeV]

Im in Cheyenne, Northern Colorado might be my best bet. That is a very nice machine you have there, looking at the pictures I dont see anything that I cant build except maybe the action and trigger. I can see one big problem though, once I build one for Ken then Im going to have one and then my shooting partner.......oh boy.

Bob

 

[Boyd Allen]

Gary Ocock's modified Young:

Tom Libby's by Skip Otto:

 

[RwBeV]

Is it just the weight of the rifle that takes the recoil? Is there some sort of bering where the base contacts the rifle? These things look more like a work of art than rifles.
Bob

 

[Steelhead1]

If you look at the first Rail gun Pic the top and base are seperated and you can glean a few details from this picture! There are 3 bearing points, 2 on the long silver bar on the back of the base, ( Delrin Buttons) then there is one on top of the mariners wheel at the front of the base. If you look closely at the top at the lower left edge of the top you can see a bar that is fastened to the side of the rail gun that has a "V" shaped groove in it that rides on the Delrin Balls! There is also a stop mechanisim under the top that prevents the top from sliding to far to the rear during recoil so the V Grooves don't slip off of the delrin balls.
Yes for the most part they are a work of art! I particularly like the picture of Tom Libbys gun because it reversed the tradition bearing points, and I would think the center of gravity would be below the bearing points instead of on top of them. Notice that there are 2 bearing points on the front and one on the rear!

 

[RJG]

Here are a couple of pics of the mechanics of my older Powell rail. Some changes were made on the newer ones, but it has been a very good rail.

Rick Graham