A quick trick for moving the open sights on a rifle or pistol in the correct direction - whether it's the front or rear sight - is to imagine moving the chosen sight a couple of inches and then...
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Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
A quick trick for moving the open sights on a rifle or pistol in the correct direction - whether it's the front or rear sight - is to imagine moving the chosen sight a couple of inches and then...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
No need to make it harder than it is. [smilie=1:
On the other hand, it took a a bit of trigonometry to work out the elevation-scale for my 1885 High Wall replica, based on the boolit drop at...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
MOA is a constant value, found by dividing 1 degree with 60, which gives 0,0166.
All you have to do is multiply this number with the number of MOAs you want, and you now has the angle.
I once had the pouch of a slingshot snap where the band was fastened. The now uneven pull rotated the fork in my hand and caused me to lose my grip, sending the fork flying right back and splitting...
Forum: Casting Equipment
A good machinist or tool & die maker with a CNC mill could fix the thread and make a new nut in a couple of hours. But unless you know somebody like that, you're out of luck.
One way to fix it...
Forum: Special Projects
But if you use a starter solenoid, any remote controller/receiver capable of closing a circuit (like juniors old RC car) will do.
Forum: Special Projects
Over here we used the solenoid from a car starter.
Forum: Special Projects
I would most certainly go for a "mechanical" trigger. Make the connection rod from an arrow shaft - aluminum or carbon - it will be both stiff and lightweight.
Forum: Shot Guns
Don't feel sorry, LB, I'll back you up:
While I was still a teen, a friend's father complained of a branch on a large chestnut tree, interfering with the flag on their flagpole.
Always willing to...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
If there's room enough, I would probably enlarge and deepen the dove tail slot in the slide to allow for a sturdier insert.
You could also reduce the sight's male dove tail - or make a "stepped"...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I had a CZ 75 once, and It was very finicky when shooting with a full (15 rounds) magazine. After being dropped on the ground a few times (IPSC shooting) the magazines would fail to feed properly. It...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I've seen one of those modified M53 rifles. The rear sight had been removed and the various holes been filled/welded and milled flat. A new V-groove rear sight had added directly on the barrel, and...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Well, no harm came to the barrels, except for a slight resistance when screwing in the bottom choke. A thread tap would no doubt cure that, but, alas, I don't have one.
Luckily, the chokes were of...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Good observation!
I've seen the same thing with the screw-in chokes on a Beretta. I first saw the gun at a gun shop. It was a second-hand gun, but it looked like new.
When I remarked that the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
My dad had to do the same exercise as a mechanist apprentice.
In this video from the Krieghoff company, we learn that it takes three years to become a gunsmith. The whole first year of the...
One way to improve venting is to use a checkering file to (carefully) add venting lines across the top of the mold.
A thread repair file is cheaper and will also do the trick.
Clamp some sort of...
Forum: Special Projects
Isn't gel just water without the splash? I would think a trough, maybe 1'x1'x4', would stop anything and give a fairly good idea of the expansion. Of course you'll need some sort of rubber seal in...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
If your brass rods are made from a free cutting brass alloy (and they probably are), you don't really need to use cutting fluid.
Don't worry about breaking the shavings either, as they will come off...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Lightening the hammer (like when bobbing it) doesn't necessarily result in a weaker primer strike. If the weight reduction makes the hammer drop faster, it may actually strike harder.
I once...
For what it's worth, I've seen a lot of beautiful Damascus barreled hammer guns on Holts auctions which have been re-proofed for smokeless loads - Like this one:
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I guess the material was PP? You can add a foaming agent to the material prior to molding. This will reduce shrinking to almost zero, and reduce weight as well, saving money.
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Forum: Leverguns
Hi Longbow. Good to see I'm not the only person to draw out projects over a decade or more.
At the moment I'm tinkering with a 1885 replica in 45-70, and one of the things I learned the hard way...
Forum: Special Projects
A little heat, quickly applied and in the right place, can sometimes works wonders.
There's a good article about the Vitt slug, by George Vitt himself, in this 1963 GUNS Magazine. It also has some loading recipes with Red Dot, Unique and Herco powders.
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Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
When I bought my 1885 Uberti replica, it would misfire 50% of the time (somehow the seller forgot to mention it)
I put a bend on the coil spring to increase tension, and the misfires were reduced...
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 |