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Yeah, I'd like to see that.
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ETA: Too late tonight, but tomorrow I will post pics of my .25 caliber micro-gonne.
It will fire either a patched #4 buckshot pellet (serious punch), or a reduced charge behind an airsoft BB for less destructive target practice.
Yeah, I'd like to see that.
Sorry it took so long to get back to this. Couldn't find my bottle of #4 buckshot pellets and didn't want to cut open a new shell.
Took these a little while ago . . .
I also made the aluminum powder measure .
Here are a couple of old pics showing the socket details. The screw thread pulls the wood into the socket and holds it fast without visible screws. The brass trim is simply an oxygen hose ferrule with the center opened up to the diameter of the socket . . .
Because the whole thing is so small, for acceptable scale the vent is only 1/16" diameter. It uses a very thin stiff fuse called cross-match visco, which is sold on Skylighter.com.
It can also be primed (carefully) with 4F priming powder, but any coarser granulation won't work.
Fired with a short piece of fuse . . .