Stock is looking good btw.
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Stock is looking good btw.
akaroa the hares will be totally confused as well when they see those slugs coming for them, "Were` d the train come from," and when they hit you will be lucky to find a hair!!.
Day 2 and wet so most of the day in the workshop
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Job 1 Test the paper patch jacket projectiles in the 500 express
Total success
Job 2 Harden and temper the Stevens 44 1/2 firing pins.
Pin 1 broke on the first shot. I think i went just past the straw colour when I tempered.
Pin 2 Worked just fine so I put the rifle back together and bore sighted the 6x Malcolm scope. It shot bloody well considering how stormy it was and the stock is hopeless and I need to lighten the trigger from the 8 pounds it's at.
Very happy to finally get this rifle shooting after a long list of jobs
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Job 3 @Tentman s Stevens 38-303 which I have had for a while and done a number of jobs in it to finally get it ready to shoot.
Level 4 meant he sent me the cases rather than me send him the rifle.
So i worked with a range of dies to get some ammo assembled with 375 250 grain hard cast bullets. RL 7 30 grains and exactly 1800 fps.
Sights and stock not ideal for me hence the very ordinary group I shot and miles below the target. So maybe I will have to fit a much lower fire sight tomorrow.
It has a very nice bore and excellent trigger pull so I'm sure @Tentman will be able to shoot it much better than me.
But at least it all worked as hoped and he can finally shoot it himself after a very long patient wait for it all to come together
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Nice. I like .
@Tentman the cases are ( how do I say this nicely ) rubbish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tentman
But I managed.
I boots like a bitch
Very lively despite the #3 barrel
Seems to like those 250s
A lot faster than you anticipated hence the " boots like a bitch "
Awesome to finally fire it
Would look nice with a repop Malcolm scope on it !
I did allow they were a bit "tired looking" . . . I feel the same way just now having spent two days extracting the rusted in pins from a bale grab and rebuilding it!
It doesn't count its not a gun !Quote:
Originally Posted by Tentman
heard of using the edge of a piece of glass for this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Preacher
Decided to rip apart my winchester 375 and give a hell of a clean and make over
PicturesQuote:
Originally Posted by Gibbstl
Stripping down and fixing the left barrel firing pin on my 450/400 double .
@Maca49 you know the rules. Pictures essential or we don't believe you even have a 450/400 double !Quote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
Oow yeah like to see the Doubles & is that a Big Bore Win 94 Gibbstl ?
Yeap is the big bore 94. Its the 2nd ive owned. First was a minter never been fired So to good to use so sold for a scope. Regretted it and found this for 500 in terrible state so bought it and chopped it. Stock and front sight is stuffed
It’s in isolation, you’ll have to wait until cindy says!!Quote:
Originally Posted by akaroa1
Oh dear it's in another bubbleQuote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
Very poor planning
I have finished the Chevy engine and now starting to reposition the spring mounts on the 10 bolt rear end after having replaced the outer bearings and seals. Another wee project is to make a tap to fit a new magazine tube in a Turkish shotgun. The early models were very weak in the thread and the later ones are an increased diameter to solve the problem. It is easier to make a tap out of silver steel than buggerise around setting up the receiver in the 4-jaw. Some piccies attached.
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I'm going to make a home made gun vise with what ever I can find round the place
hi i have a friend building a 9mm bolt gun on a ruger 22 hornet action,i have an anchutz action im thinking to get made into 9mm also,after the lockdown for me. anyone else made a 9mm bolt gun cheers
Mauser 98 Action
Kongsberg 28" Hammer forged barrel
Timney trigger
Bedding job
Cheap paint
Bolt lapped with grinding paste
100% Wind up job against my Swedish mate.
Still got a bit to do with it,but it's pretty much there.
This is what we will all be like in 2 weeks @norsk has a head start on The Lock down
500 express safety catch spindle and lever roughed out
Spindle has rough tapered square on it
Now i need to drill the safety lever and start to file the female square taper in to that.
I expect this will take all afternoon to smoke for it all together.
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Nice work to have to do, good luck on it !
That went ok
Not perfect yet and still need to finesse the exterior of the lever
Spindle and detents all work ok.
Might just need to tig on a tiny bit where I filed the safety notch to take up a fraction of play
And I need to re shape the screw head that attaches the square tapers together
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Not a proper gun project, but I had an old slug gun and wanted to teach my daughter to shoot in the backyard. The old iron sights were janky as and not useable. I had a crappy old Simmons scope and some old rings. With no other way to attach to the rifle, I reached for my trusty cable ties and duct tape. Seems to be holding up so far, shot about 30 or so and still holds zero
I’ve got on of those rifles ( sadly swapped a BSA Meteor 22 for it in a moment of stupidity) and tried using Araldite to stick on a home made dovetail scope mount.
It didn’t end well.
Have pp all my bullets and luded resized ,so a head there. I had the last length of 12/15 steel so set it up in my lathe for gun drilling a .444" hole in it. Will end up being a .45 cal black powder barrel with a twist of 1-48", six groves cut rifling, 27" long, you know, my normal stuff. Well one has to keep busy and looking at my plans for the Remington rolling block I have a large block of 10/45 Steel that may be ok for the action but it`s round, will have to machine off 40mm, that will keep me busy for a while.
Attachment 134323, All up and running, drills going in.
Attachment 134326, Oils going in at 400 psi blowing out the chips.
Attachment 134327, All do hickeys working.
ok curiosity has got the better of me and my pride will survivethe hit thats sure to follow asking this......
what is a .44 1/2 I know what a .44/40 is and what a .44 magnum is.....please enlighten this poor uneducated heathen.
So, after 120 grit, hand sanding the stick to bare wood and shaping the hand grip area with a rash and sandpaper, to 240. That was the toughest bit, because the 120 grit left quite a few deep scratch marks for the 240 to take care of. Then it was another go with 400, then repeat with 600. Not there yet, because next up is 000 steel wool pad, then 0000. Now, the wood is smooth, almost like its been polished. My arms are sore from the few hours of sanding and buffing! Here's the results - bare wood with a dab of oil on the comb to show its colour after oiling.
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And here it is, reassembled.
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@Micky DuckQuote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
44 1/2 It's a model not a calibre
Does cause some confusion
The last evolutionary step in Stevens rifle line up
They stopped making the 44 1/2 because it was expensive to make with a forged steel receiver etc
Stevens continued to make the model 44 for a while after that but sales continued to fall
All the returned service men from the first world war had been using bolt action rifles and that was the beginning of the end for single shot rifles.
Some target single shots held on for a while and then the great depression closed all but a few of the USA gun makers
Bol T, bloody lovely job, should look a treat with some oil rubbed in.
I have a question for you @homebrew.357 those paper patched rounds you rolled up with oil in the paper. Will the oil not sweep into the powder?
I know it’s only a little, just asking.
Cheers S
Thanks for everyone's interest and encouragement and for dissuading me from carving a hook into the stock. An old English gunmaker used to say you should oil a new stock once a day for a week, once a week for a month, once a month for a year, once a year forever. I'll try it and see how we go.
thanks for that explanation...isnt it a funny thing that the single shot is sort of making a comeback again.....
Made up a biltong drying box this afternoon,got some venison marinating overnight,4days from now should be tucking into it..
Don't worry about the photos, just send out some free samples!Quote:
Originally Posted by The bomb
Sideshow , no should be no problem, such a small amount of oil will not even lube, that's why I roll them in a bit more and a card wad goes in first.
I took my bottle of marking blue off the window sill to mark out a wee job and the bottle disintegrated in my hand when I tried to unscrew the top. Luckily it was over my bench and I only got it on my hands and not my clothes. What was left has now been transferred into a glass bottle. Moral; Don't leave plastic in the sun!
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