I am getting old and going downhill. I don't want to delete my old good gunsmithing pics to post my new bad gunsmithing pics.
Type: Posts; User: Clark
Forum: Testing Area
I am getting old and going downhill. I don't want to delete my old good gunsmithing pics to post my new bad gunsmithing pics.
Forum: Testing Area
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?324089-Another-day-and-I-made-another-firing-pin&highlight=
I have uploaded lots of pictures in the past.
I will have to type out this display:...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I paid $383 for a Sav model 19 three years ago at a pawn shop.
Forum: Testing Area
I turned off the contribution through paypal, see if that works.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOjYro4w0Bc
I made this video 10 years ago.
Forum: Military Rifles
The best groups I ever got when I was shooting my Ishapore 20 years ago was with Copper washed Berdan 10 cents a shot steel case surplus ammo.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I shot my first deer with a Win M70 I rebarreled from 30-06 to 270 with an Atlas lathe.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
The late gunsmith Randy Ketchum told me about this and it worked for me.
Put oil in the barrel. Hammer the oil with a brass rod and a hammer. Try to get all the air out [air acts like a spring].
Forum: Our Town
I have been taking care of grandkids 6 days a week.
Ages 0,2,3, and 5.
Yesterday we planted peas.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Larry was on all the forums promoting his die in 2010 and I bought one. They work. I have more belted case rifles than I could count. This makes hot loaded brass interchangeable between rifles.
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Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
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This 510 was cut down and sold for $7 in the 1970s.
I put a new butt on it.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
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This is what I do to the magazine to convert Mosin Nagants to 300 Win Mag or 7mmRemMag
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
My father got an Iver Johnson model X 22 single shot bolt action rifle when he was a little boy in the 1930s. When I was a boy in the 1960s I dry fired that rifle until there was no firing pin. My...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I got a Firestar 40 in starvel finish in ~1994 at a gun show. I took it home, shot it, and it jammed. I took it back and threw it at the guy I bought it from.
I did not have enough money to throw...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I fired 3 cases with bullets. The first had a tiny split on the shoulder. The dried spillage ceramic bore cote residue in the chamber got more cleaned out with each shot in the new barrel. This is...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=247671&d=1567397323
Lar, thanks for the kind words.
I have hijacked a Krag rifle build thread in the gunsmithing section:
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Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I put the 30-40 brass through a 6.5 Krag sizer and shove the shoulder back so it just chambers. I can't get the 30-40 brass into the 25 Krag Ackley sizer or the shoulder will collapse. The necks of...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
https://youtu.be/Mkp_2DkcrSE
I cannot upload pictures to this site any more, but I can post this youtube showing how I got 25 Krag Ackley pointy bullets to feed in a Krag action.
Forum: Vintage Reloading Manuals
"Accurate Smokeless Powder Reloading Guide Number One 1994"
"Accurate Reloader's Guide 1996 revision 1"
"Accurate Reloader's Guide 1997"
"Accurate Reloader's Guide 1999"
"Accurate Smokeless...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
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I sanded the stock, watered the stock, sanded the stock, oiled the stock, sanded the stock, oiled the stock, sanded the stock, and waxed the stock.
I did a grind to fit on the Limbsaver...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
That is the S&K Krag no drill scope mount. It would be good for left eye shooters. I moved mine closer to the center by drilling holes yesterday.
Years ago, when I would call S&K, it was one old guy...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
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a) The 1900 Krag with like new bore to be returned to non sporterized condition is done. I would say there is no bluing, but there is under the rear sight.
b) The 1902 Krag...
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 |