Beekeeper
06-13-2012, 09:45 PM
OK to start off I will eat a little crow.
Had a chance today to dig out the original slugs from when I slugged the barrels of my 71/84"s.The sluggs read .433 land, and .449 groove
A lot of water has passed under since I made them and old age makes you forget." No excuse on my part just fact"
Any way in the next 5 pictures I give a representation of the barreled receivers when I got them, the completed 71/84's and a couple of Martini/Mauser guns I built to play with.
With the exception of the barrels and receivers there no matching number parts so everything was hand fit to get the smoothest action possible. ( lot of stone work)
The furniture is of my own making from pictures I gathered off of the internet.
The wood is furniture / bannister grade walnut from the local lumberyard. ( here it is take it or leave it, I took it)
The only power tools used were a saber saw to cut the basic shape ( leave lots of room as a saber saw blade likes to wander) , an electric drill to drill the tang screw and action screw holes , and a finish router to cut the magazine groove.
I tried to hand drill the magazine tube hole and messed it up so bad I had to do a duffle repair to the blank and then route the channel.
All other work , ie: inletting and shaping of the stock was done by hand with simple hand tools, mallet chisels and rasps!
All deminisions were taken from pictures I found on the internet by eye and I guess and by gosh.
The Martini/Mausers are Gahendra parts rifles that had seives for barrels . Again all furniture is of my own manufacture.
Maybe this will dispell some of the finger pointing and I heard and they said.
Since I made them the bottom 71/84 has only been shot with smokeless and the top one only with BP.
beekeeper
Had a chance today to dig out the original slugs from when I slugged the barrels of my 71/84"s.The sluggs read .433 land, and .449 groove
A lot of water has passed under since I made them and old age makes you forget." No excuse on my part just fact"
Any way in the next 5 pictures I give a representation of the barreled receivers when I got them, the completed 71/84's and a couple of Martini/Mauser guns I built to play with.
With the exception of the barrels and receivers there no matching number parts so everything was hand fit to get the smoothest action possible. ( lot of stone work)
The furniture is of my own making from pictures I gathered off of the internet.
The wood is furniture / bannister grade walnut from the local lumberyard. ( here it is take it or leave it, I took it)
The only power tools used were a saber saw to cut the basic shape ( leave lots of room as a saber saw blade likes to wander) , an electric drill to drill the tang screw and action screw holes , and a finish router to cut the magazine groove.
I tried to hand drill the magazine tube hole and messed it up so bad I had to do a duffle repair to the blank and then route the channel.
All other work , ie: inletting and shaping of the stock was done by hand with simple hand tools, mallet chisels and rasps!
All deminisions were taken from pictures I found on the internet by eye and I guess and by gosh.
The Martini/Mausers are Gahendra parts rifles that had seives for barrels . Again all furniture is of my own manufacture.
Maybe this will dispell some of the finger pointing and I heard and they said.
Since I made them the bottom 71/84 has only been shot with smokeless and the top one only with BP.
beekeeper