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The only thing Ive ever made any money from is land .......I recently sold my junkyard for over a million,I bought the land in 1980 for $12,000 and included in that was tons of scrap metal and an old...

As a kid I picked strawberries and beans for a few cents an hour .........I was able to buy guns and old motorbikes with that .........first real job was IIRC about $40 a week ..$1 an hour.

For sure .....the blocks are high carbon steel ,and hardened ..........and if you weld they will turn glass hard and need to be annealed to drill .....if you break off a drillbit inside on a hard...

If you buy reagent grade its going to be a lot more expensive than industrial ......but it will also be 100% pure ..........my 1c worth is that anything you can make explosive out of is watered down...

I got my last job at 50 ......pair of skinflints paid me labourers wage for a plant mechanic.........then they would make a big deal of a 50c raise .......pretty soon ,I was keeping the whole place...

Incidentally,for the home experimenter ,one practical barrel for these guns is the large ring 98..........the 98 thread is 1.1"x 12 ,the Mannlicher is 1.0625"x12 ............so by using a thread...

Some of the old time gunsmith books described methods of enlarging bores and rifling,but they entailed lots of work and a good deal of mechanical knowledge........I very much doubt a rebore would...

i was probably lucky ...I got a lee loader for 44-40 ,it was hopelessly wrong ,might have done 38-40 ...........However ,44-40 dont need more than a reprime to reload ,the case necks are always tight...

The noise from brakes has just about caused the closure of the local range ...........they wont ban brakes (say they cant) so they are down to 308 as the max caliber usable there to stay within the...

Well ,there s a funny thing ...a Lee cast iron press is now $100 more expensive than a RCBS........when I bought my Lee ,they wernt quite $100,and the RCBS was $400.............yeah ,I know...

6.5x54 MS ammo is available ...........id warn against altering 303 rimmed cases to rimless ..........or indeed ,altering any rimmed case .

You could still buy a 94 in 32 spec in 1973 when I bought mine ............It was probably discontinued in 1982 ..........although the commeratives were in 32spec sometimes for many years .

Martinis can generally be converted from 22rf to CF by simply raising the breech block a small ammount ...........while the BSA Cadet block will fit the 12/15 ,they are not commonly seen as spares .

Power loss is due to the gas vs liquid phase of the fuels ............when the liquid fuel is carburated ,it absorbs heat and densifies the charge into the cylinder ,propane gas does not do this...

brother took some guns to a WW1 memorial shoot back at the 2014 centennary .......for sure none of the 18 year olds wanted to fire a second shot from a Berthier ,Mannlicher,SMLE ,or Gew 98.

Id say you can blow them up....Sam'l Colt wrote a number of times to his detailers about returning guns with blown cylinders as discreetly as possible.......and we all know Colts first revolver...

Small charges of fast powder in large volume cases always carries the risk of chamber ring forming.

Seems the original 22" twist barrel is a bit slow for 32/40 or 32 Special,but the guns seem to work OK......I would say the Cadet action was considerably stronger than the military Martini Henry...

Winchester used 3% nickle steel up to the 1933 bankruptcy,and Olins takeover ...................after that they used ordnance barrel steel...........Incidentally,3% nickle steel was much used in car...

Krupp guns were effective all right........the Turks used 1890s Krupp guns to drive off a British and French invasion fleet in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915.......one gun was hit with a shell from a...

Rub some moly (MoS2) grease into the top and underside of the sprueplate to stop scoring ..........if bits come loose ,as they sometimes do,simply wet the part with beeswax ,which will carbonize and...

I always remember Jack Stacey ...he had a small shop that once was an ice cream parlour .......he sold three kinds of powder,and kept them in the ice cream tubs ....he always had a cigarette in his...

Krupp used a brass shell to seal the breech,the French used a different system ,adopted by the US ,of the mushroom headed breechblock.

A cheap hand held IR thermometer solved my problems .....I was casting too low temp ...........Iron molds were OK ,but ally took forever to cast cleanly ........now ,at the correct temp,I have used...

Incidentally,a special argon foaming spin probe is used to deoxidise aluminium alloys before casting.........this is because the oxide is the same weight as the metal ,and there is no other way of...