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I form 17 HH from Privi brass no problem. I also form 219 DW, that one can be a PITA. I also form 17 & 20 Garin from 30 Carbine and that makes the DW look like child’s play.

I’ve got a...

I’m getting closer. I bought a used Wilton Pow R Arm 301. I’ve got a 18 inch steel block off plate for water main that I was going to make a hanging target out of, but now I think I will use it as...

I can state unequivocally that Boggs file sharpening service is one of the best things going that few people know about. If they paint it red on the tang they don’t want to see it again, don’t...

I only use the best hack saw blades, usually Starrett and use high tension frames. I think they are Bahco.

I have a Harbor Freight about six blocks from my home and don’t buy much there. Zip...

A half dozen of mine were given to me by my mother and grandfather. If they have lost anything since new it surely wasn't apparent.

I don't believe so, and the German ones weren't what they had been advertised to be. It was Japanese that stand out.

That’s not quite accurate about Nicholson files, I was on the phone with Boggs and telling them that I had just bought a 10” Grobet fine cut mill file and it was a total piece of junk. They said...

Dennis Olsen
(406) 826-3790

Dennis Olsen, Plains Mt it will come right up. Phone is dead and can’t find charging cable. Kids, uggh.

Impressed me as doing quite well, he has been in really good cheer when we've talked recently. I haven't seen him in over a year, it used to be easy for me to swing in when the kids and I were...

I was chatting with Dennis Olsen and mentioned that someone had posted they were looking for a 50 cal 1:36 barrel. He said he was pretty sure he has a 50 cal 1:28 Octagon that came from C Sharps and...

I’ve got a pretty decent selection of counterbores, don’t have any this large diameter. I had this shaft that was part of a $50 grab bag I bought to get a 541 trigger and I put it to good use.

De Haas’ book Mr Single Shot’s Gunsmithing Idea Book goes into detail on the Martini actions. It covers the various methods.

I have an old Forster case trimmer cutter shaft and already had a bunch of neck turn pilots. It has come in handy for putting pillars in stocks. I can usually come up with a pilot that fits the...

I would be inclined to have Lee make a custom Collett die and seat the bullets with a Vickerman.

25-20 SS cases can be made by pressing 223 up into the neck of a 7mm die with an arbor press and a punch then turning the case ahead of the rim. There is a bit more to it, but I've only seen it...

I ran out of space to post photos here, so have been posting about my Stevens 44 project here

I bought wood from CPA. It’s just wrapping up. All I need to do is finish my foreend hangers and get...

I’ve got a Teslong flexible one. It’s OK for my purposes. Will get a rigid one, the flex one is a PITA because it wants to turn away from what I am trying to look at. They are inexpensive enough...

My inclination is that some gun scribe dissed on the 58 shortly after it came out and then others followed their lead. I think my experience with my grandfather’s 58 and a few other firearms that...

What a guy. I’ll try and give you a call this week.

Orange juice does a bang up job. Takes bluing off pronto. I had one friend whose bottle leaked into his day pack and stripped the bluing off his kit gun, another had a spill in the back seat of the...

Thank everyone once again for the tips.

Maybe it’s meant to be that I finally give it a whirl. Went over to my buddy’s place with a couple problems, and some Lima bean soup, and came home with...

Well, I got a call out of the blue and don’t know what I have headed this way, but a friend is headed this way from Montana with a box of checkering tools. He retired locally so it’s probably mostly...

I looked again at the checkering I touched up yesterday and it is sharp and not the least bit fuzzy. That file is every bit as sharp and clean cutting as my Grobet needle files. $50 by the time it...

We send flea market files to Boggs every couple years. Most come home better than new. Once they have been through their service I take great care not to have to repeat that. I am going to...