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My Martini style pile seems to be growing. Came across a couple of the little Trade Mark .22LR target rifles a while back. A little rough but complete and restorable.

There are some very nice home built forges over on Instructables.com. Some coal, some propane fired. Might be worth a look for ideas.

Ditto the Cathead. If you don't have one you need it anyway and it is a very simple, straight forward project.

The issue of safety with the 11 centered around old paper cartridges and violation of common safety practices, i.e. DON'T GET IN FRONT OF THE MUZZLE. Paper cartridges could/would swell and then not...

Ditto Johnson's paste wax. Lots of other uses as well. Light coat on all metal surfaces if you are hunting in wet weather for one.

Smoky oil lamp will work as well for inletting black.

Matte urethane.

Gunni, I was reading through your response and was saying "WOW! This guy found the mother load of Cadets." then I realized you were in Queensland. Guess they are a tad easier to find their than in...

I love bull-pups. What action is that built on. Care to share some more views of that nifty rifle?

Some of what I was looking at was dollars. When I compare my two primary choices, the .327 Fed Mag and the .30-30 Wesson it works out to be a break-even proposition. Maybe favors the .30-30 Wesson a...

The guy that had this ahead of me, or somewhere along the line set a bushing. He just didn't drill it. I'll just set it up in the mill with a gauge pin and drill it myself. Back in the day, when I...

Think I have pretty much settled on the .327 Fed Mag. Already have a Bunny Gun in .32 S&W Long so the dies are in place.

I think we are all co-dependent. LOL.

Treebone Carving has some nice stocks for the Martinis, both large and small.

On this cadet I have decided to go with a .30 caliber. It will be based on...

I have a Lilja 3 groove Palma barrel on the rack. The throat is shot out but that whole end would have to be cut off. Makes me lean more and more to one of the little .30 calibers. Guess I'll start...

Availability of brass is a good point. Once I decide I'll lay in brass and such, if I can find it, before I barrel and chamber.

Now I know what that rear sight I have kicking around goes on. Thanks.

A personal observation. Martinis seem to be habit forming. (Maybe both solid and liquid.) I was fortunate enough to land a very nice Greener GP for a 1970s price. Then along came a Victorian era...

I seem to be drawn in to two options: first is the .218 Bee in some form, maybe Mashburn; second is a .30/.32 caliber in the size/length of the .357 Max. My daughter is only 7 so I want to keep it...

The .218 Bee in one of its many configurations seems to be maybe the most popular conversion I have seen. Very efficient and can give the .222 Remington a good run for it's money.

I am now in possession of a Martini Cadet action. Action only, nothing else.


I am in need of some ideas on barreling/chambering, preferably from folks that shoot these in something other than...

If my new round will chamber in the headstamped chamber, I mark them. If not I don't get too concerned. Example: I made 7.5 French MAS brass from 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser. Won't chamber in the Swede so...

They are available from MSC. They are called On-Edge Threading Inserts.
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Glad you guys like it.

After getting a picture of the mold Johnson 1942 had made for a .50, I put something together to try in my .58. Dimensions aren't set at this point. Just a start and need to refine them some.
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I'd be happy just to see a picture of them. Maybe I can whip up something for the .58 that way.

And considering the price on the Pedersoli repros, that is a great price.