Looks nice. Good job.
When I was a young’n rancher neighbor ordered one of them scope sights out a the Monkey Ward catalogue and after looking through the bore while lining the surplus aught...
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Forum: "The Barrel Works"
Looks nice. Good job.
When I was a young’n rancher neighbor ordered one of them scope sights out a the Monkey Ward catalogue and after looking through the bore while lining the surplus aught...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Brownells used to sell a solder on cantilever scope mount. I have a couple. They attached to the sight rib IIRC. I’ll have to look at one.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
They usually shoot WAY low with reduced loads unless it is a load that is specifically fine tuned to shoot to same POI as full power loads. These slug guns are pretty unique in how they act compared...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
If it were mine I think I might be rapidly approaching the point at which even oven cleaner might be worth trying.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Yea, that is them. I’ve shot quarter inch fifty yard three shot groups with the full power 3” ones out of my DS II. It and the kids’ H&R are wicked accurate. The cantilever scoped barrels a little...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
They were made to shoot Hastings sabot slugs. Quite similar to Lightfield commanders. Neither are available currently. I think my buddy Bill nailed it and it was used with the Dragons breath rounds...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
A can of computer duster upside down will coat anything sprayed with it with dry ice. Differences in coefficient of thermal expansion can break bonds between most different materials. That might be...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I’m reluctent to use stainless anything. I think what you have is layers of lead or copper sandwiched between layers of plastic or powder fouling. Man, oh man, what the devil was someone shooting to...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I take a magnet to the store when I but copper Chore Boy scrubbers. I don’t know any other way to sort out the all copper from the plated ones.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
What I found is that a really tight jag and copper Chore Boy will scrape the heavy lead and plastic buildup out but I have to put the handle of an old Kleen Bore shotgun stainless rod on the floor...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
If it were mine, I would pour it full of mercury. Don't know anyone else with access to that much mercury though. I know a guy who works in aeronautics and they use it it in the anemometers and...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
My inclination when he told me that was that the rifle must have had a Mauser claw extractor and lots of excess headspace going on. Some folks I wouldn’t want to be on the next bench to at the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I was hoping this wasn’t going to be like the guy I worked with who told me his dad has a 30-06 “that also shoots 308 and 270, just not as accurately.”
Anyway, John Taylor is spot on on there...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Piece of wood dowel a little to large in diameter sanded and knocked in. Probably lead and plastic. Those barrels shoot well when clean, my buddy has one.
I use a copper chore boy and a solid...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Deepening the inletting under the receiver is what I use them for mostly. I also use scrapers.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Looks like you are off to a good start. The checkering tools used to come out of Tacoma when I was a kid. Someone told me that once I get going and figure out what I will actually use to get a...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
https://www.dixiegunworks.com/index/page/search?FullText=File
I’ve got one that I’ve had for thirty years and have wanted others with different profile head. I don’t know about the quality of...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Really sad, they were the only new rifles I have been interested in in decades. We have four in 17 HH, 22 Hornet, 204. They are all at or under half minute rifles.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
When I ordered Jerrow's a few weeks ago from Muzzle Laoding Emporium that I provided above I ordered four. While we were chatting I mentioned that it's been hard for some folks to find recently. I...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
After my mother passed away her home was broken into and I lost quite a few tools. I had purchased them over the previous fifty years and the cost was usually a bit higher. MAC, Plumb, Snap On,...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I was horrified when I saw that their old standard shop aprons had been discontinued. I have a pile that my late mother patched that have never seen bleach, but are bone white from going through the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
You can get Jerrows Inletting Black
https://thegunworks.com/shop/custom-gun-building-parts/gun-care-products/stock-finishing/inletting-black/
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I can relate. My Honda HR194 rotary mower I bought ~1986 starts on about the first eight inches of pull every time. My neighbor borrowed it Sunday and ask me if I had it enumerated in my will. It...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Jerrow’s inletting black. I’ve got a Gunsmoke carbide lamp I use for really fine jobs too. It’s harder to buy carbide than it used to be. Either one generally leaves me looking like a mammy singer...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Doesn't Steve Earl make cutters for Dem Bart tools?
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |