Hey LAGS, based on your description of your rifles having Sako barrels and dates of 1934 and 1935, and using the M39 type sights, they should be M28-30s. Do they also have an Sk.Y stamp on the...
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Forum: Military Rifles
Hey LAGS, based on your description of your rifles having Sako barrels and dates of 1934 and 1935, and using the M39 type sights, they should be M28-30s. Do they also have an Sk.Y stamp on the...
Forum: Military Rifles
Your pics show a M39 sight, take a closer look at your M27s and notice that they do not have the windage adjusting screws in the sight base.....unless they have been changed out on this side of the...
Forum: Military Rifles
The Finn blade sight is the same on their M27, 28, 91, and the 91/30 with the stacked sight assy. The M39 front sight will not work because it is designed to move sideways w/screw adjusters and is...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Acra-glass if you want, but how about tightening the action screws first? The rear receiver tang is machined at an angle that holds the receiver to the rear as long as the screws are tight!
Shims...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
No point in wasting primed brass so go ahead and work up some loads... I have a stash of 8x56R and 7.62x54R brass that have lost their bullets to other projects, so they eventually get reloaded. ...
Forum: Military Rifles
Shooter first, then go for the Buffington rear sight as it has windage adjustment and a peep. You will find that the front sight needs to be higher for 100 yard zero, but the blade is pinned in and...
Forum: Military Rifles
I doublechecked, and yep, my 8x56R Lee dies came with the #16 shellholder. It fits my PPU brass (stamped nny, cyrillic) as well as the 1938 Austrian. It also fits the 7.62x54R as well. I am not...
Forum: Military Rifles
I went out to the shop and started digging.... Graf's brass uses the RCBS #13 SH or the Lee #16. Looks like the 8x56 is a tad smaller both in rim diam. and head thickness, neither of which should be...
Forum: Military Rifles
I have heard about using the 8x56 but have never tried it. Buffalo Arms makes their Danish cases out of 45/70, which is also short, but they are able to stretch the brass to the correct length. I...
Forum: Military Rifles
I am assuming that this fires the same cartridge as the big Gras rifle, the 11x59R, since I can't find any other Gras listing in Cartridges of the World.
348 Winchester works as a parent case but...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Now that 45-90 brass is available from Starline you can make full length cases for cartridges such as the Werndl, Gras, and Murata and it's not too much more expensive than 348 which can be hard to...
Forum: Military Rifles
Your rifle started life as a Gras cartidge breachloader so your measurements are normal for what you have. The link you referenced deals with the Chassepot needlefire rifle that was later converted...
Forum: Military Rifles
Dixie Gun Works, good folks. Make the order worthwhile and pick up other odds-n-ends you might needs, too....
Forum: Military Rifles
I believe that the extractor problem only applied to the M95M which was the (Yugo?) conversion to 8x57 Mauser round. There should be plenty of parts for the original 8x50R and 8x56R Steyrs, but I...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Another option for brass cases is to fireform 45-90 cases using an "O"-ring at the base as a spacer to hold the case head against the bolt face for the first firing and then you will have a shoulder...
Forum: Military Rifles
My sizer die is a Lyman for the Lubrisizer, I found it on ebay. Lots of good stuff shows up on ebay but it takes endless patience to find what you need when it is not being bid beyond what it's...
Forum: Military Rifles
One of my Vetts has a groove diameter of .438" and will do consistent 3" five shot groups at 100 yards with .430 boolits. Those big tall lands displace a lot of lead! You do not mention if you are...
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Congrats! If you did not know it already, the Hakim has an adjustable gas port, it is the small metal triangle in the top of the handguard about 2" behind the middle barrel band. When the point of...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Thanks guys! Looks like I'll be set for life at the rate I shoot.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
How well does beeswax age and what might be the downside of using some REALLY old wax. I came across about 30 pounds of the stuff at a yard sale recently. Age unknown, but at least fifteen years of...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
A survey for a group buy on an Australian CBE collar button type mold is starting over on the Brit Military forums. No info that I have seen as to price, but those brass CBE molds are nice....
I...
Forum: Military Rifles
You need a lathe since Mosin barrels rarely line up when swapped from one receiver to another, they often are at least a quarter turn out of time and the extractor groove must be cut after timing the...
Forum: Military Rifles
This came up on Gunboards a while back; congrats on a cool find! I want one!
http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?158947-Single-shot-danish-krag
OK, I re-read the thread on GB and saw your...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Two things to consider here, how is the recoil on your carbine compared to the rifle? My good 1892 carbine kicks like a mule...... and I flinch a tad, throwing some shots wild.... and the bore is...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Per "Hatcher's Notebook" the bores were spec'd at .300 and groove diameter at .310, so your 0.311 measurement is pretty good! My three are all pretty close to .0312- measuring a slug to get the...
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