It takes me a while to get things off the bench. This project is almost there, it's a "Why Not" project. I shortened a badly pitted vz24 by 1.2 inches, made a firing pin that would allow me to assemble the shroud and cocking piece then install the striker spring and screw on the "striker spring seat." Without this it would be nearly impossible to assemble, with this, it easy. I milled a retainer for a 1911 magazine, added a side swing safety, added adjustment screws to the military trigger, which now let off at ~2.5lbs with almost no over travel and turned the barrel from a Green Mountain blank. The stock is a Weatherby reject from CaliCo.
It's fun to shoot, but it doesn't feed well if there are more than 5 rounds in the magazine, but who cares. My mentor doesn't like pistol cartridges in rifles, but when I told him it was a purpose built rifle designed to kill tin cans he blessed it. I call it The 45 Mauser. What do you think?