Deepening the inletting under the receiver is what I use them for mostly. I also use scrapers.
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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?
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I form 17 HH from Privi brass no problem. I also form 219 DW, that one can be a PITA. I also form 17 & 20 Garin from 30 Carbine and that makes the DW look like child’s play.
I’ve got a...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I’m getting closer. I bought a used Wilton Pow R Arm 301. I’ve got a 18 inch steel block off plate for water main that I was going to make a hanging target out of, but now I think I will use it as...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I can state unequivocally that Boggs file sharpening service is one of the best things going that few people know about. If they paint it red on the tang they don’t want to see it again, don’t...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I only use the best hack saw blades, usually Starrett and use high tension frames. I think they are Bahco.
I have a Harbor Freight about six blocks from my home and don’t buy much there. Zip...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
A half dozen of mine were given to me by my mother and grandfather. If they have lost anything since new it surely wasn't apparent.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I don't believe so, and the German ones weren't what they had been advertised to be. It was Japanese that stand out.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
That’s not quite accurate about Nicholson files, I was on the phone with Boggs and telling them that I had just bought a 10” Grobet fine cut mill file and it was a total piece of junk. They said...
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Dennis Olsen, Plains Mt it will come right up. Phone is dead and can’t find charging cable. Kids, uggh.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Impressed me as doing quite well, he has been in really good cheer when we've talked recently. I haven't seen him in over a year, it used to be easy for me to swing in when the kids and I were...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I was chatting with Dennis Olsen and mentioned that someone had posted they were looking for a 50 cal 1:36 barrel. He said he was pretty sure he has a 50 cal 1:28 Octagon that came from C Sharps and...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I’ve got a pretty decent selection of counterbores, don’t have any this large diameter. I had this shaft that was part of a $50 grab bag I bought to get a 541 trigger and I put it to good use.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
De Haas’ book Mr Single Shot’s Gunsmithing Idea Book goes into detail on the Martini actions. It covers the various methods.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have an old Forster case trimmer cutter shaft and already had a bunch of neck turn pilots. It has come in handy for putting pillars in stocks. I can usually come up with a pilot that fits the...
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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 |