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Been out of the loop the past year or so on working on my rifles.
I went to upgrade one of my 98 Mausers (1936 Mexican type) the other day to a Timney trigger I had bought new a few years ago.
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I am putting together parts that make up a Pre 64 Model 70 rifle , I have the barrel, stock , action , bolt, aftermarket trigger so I am missing some small parts but the most is the floorplate and...

Yep there is a wealth of good information with the members here!
Thank God we live in the USA and they havent pulled the curtain down on us yet!
Ron

I have put on a lot of octagonal barrel on levers, most time they are very easy to index as no matter where the sights are the most important thing is the extractor cut, it HAS to line up for the...

BTW I made a portable Rockwell bandsaw into a stand up permanently mounted unit 25 years ago. use it daily, a few years ago I was looking for parts to rebuild it with and ran into the company SWAG...

Yes its a nice vise and stand, I do this as a hobby and try and make a rifle or pistol every winter, I am behind a couple winters now.
My barrel vise clamps into a 8" jaw vise and is securely...

took PT&G almost a year to get me a 22 savage HP and gauge, had my money all that time. I usually Order from Dave Manson.

Ron

I have made a lot of external tapers using the compound and using a thread turning bit but not one on an internal taper, so I would need to use a small boring bar?
Yes I understand how to set...

Nice looking barrel vise, mine is a little deeper and an over kill as far as materials used but only uses 1/2" grade 8 bolts but has 4 of them. and am in the process of changing them out to a wheel...

Thanks Country Gent, 2 questions, if I turn the o.d to 1.395-1.400 that would be just under and right on the od of the vise when closed?
and you mean not cutting the bushing al the way thru on one...

I have a very nice barrel vise that I made about 20 years ago.
I have gotten by with an old set of B-Square aluminum bushings and thin lead shims that an old gunsmith friend of mine gave me and I...

I have often wondered how and why of bluing a barrel and action either before assembly or after?
Over the years I have done it both ways, I m not a fan of either, although I do prefer to...

After thinking about it Ed , I did have the same problem as you did with the shoulder.
I had to move it back .002.
I did it by using the RCBS shell holder instead of my Lyman SH.
Even though the...

Y4es Ed I read your post about the brass, I did it and I like the 30-06 brass better has a thich neck and I can make it right up to the maximum at 2.250 the 8x57 was terribly thin necks and too...

Yes reamer cut the throat at the .375 size .
Yes the brass neck expands when bullet is loaded but not to the size of the cut neck size.
I did reduce the size of the cast bullet and loaded one...

Thanks everyone, to answer some or the members here, I want to shoot cast in the 375 nitro express but look as though the PT&G reamer is only cutting the freebore @ .375. the cast I have are from...

Thanks everyone, to answer some or the members here, I want to shoot cast in the 375 nitro express but look as though the PT&G reamer is only cutting the freebore @ .375. the cast I have are from...

Thanks conditor22 but I have nothing to install these in? do these work in a reloading press? the NOE die holder is out of stock. so it goes.

405grain,Its either the boolit is too fat to chamber in the barrel or the boolit has made the case neck to fat to chamber.?
I am going to "saw" off the bullet at the end of the case neck and see...

Feeling the growing interest or whatever in to guns and reloading, Lee dies has quit taking custom orders and I need one of their push thru bullet size die kits, they used to custom make them for me...

This is a copy of the 9.5x57MS reamer Headspace gauge that Dave Kiff made for me in December of last year , it mimics the old Eley cartridge drawing dated 8/1913 that is found around the internet. ...

405 grain, check out the post I started last year on the 375 nitro express, just now getting back around to it, took PT&G about 3 months to get a reamer and HP gage to me and and I had other things...

after almost a year I threaded , and chambered my barrel , headspaced the last few thousands by hand while on the reciever.
I am .002 over the go gauge, both go gauge and reamer was made new for...

I have some cast Boolits that were given to me to set up some dummy rounds for a 375 Nitro Express I was making. after threading and chambering, checking the headspace was set on GO, I found that I...

What should a 375 caliber gas checked lead Boolit mic after lube sizing? checked and unchecked.
Just curious what you find in measurements O.D.