Dennis Olsen, Plains Mt it will come right up. Phone is dead and can’t find charging cable. Kids, uggh.
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Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Dennis Olsen, Plains Mt it will come right up. Phone is dead and can’t find charging cable. Kids, uggh.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
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...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
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...
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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.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
De Haas’ book Mr Single Shot’s Gunsmithing Idea Book goes into detail on the Martini actions. It covers the various methods.
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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...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I would be inclined to have Lee make a custom Collett die and seat the bullets with a Vickerman.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
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...
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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...
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What a guy. I’ll try and give you a call this week.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Couldn’t find the Grobet anywhere and bought the Corradi from Woodcraft. I have a few Grobet files and they are top shelf. I bought a fine cut ten inch mill file from them that was a disaster, but...
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I took the plunge. Was out of town and it was on the porch when I got home. The verdict: I don’t see how it could be any better. Sharp, sharp, sharp and comes to a razor’s edge V. It was spendy,...
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I like it! That is what I have in mind. Nothing fancy. Just get going and learn a little bit every day.
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I have the illuminated visor. It comes in handier every day. I’m thinking an 18 line tool, a single line tool, a tool for tight spaces and that ought to be it for tools. A couple of the plastic...
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I have been given tools over the years, they used to be made in Tacoma when I was a kid and were everywhere, but didn’t use them and gave them away. I’m finally going to give it a try, and want to...
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Agreed. My file card is never out of my reach. I have some really nice files and rasps and take particular care of them.
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Thank you for the suggestion. It seems that the "diamond grit files" have pretty much taken over that market segment.
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My grandfather had one. It handled and pointed very well. My dad considered it to be temperamental, he had a Model 11 Remington that also pointed very well. I started shooting trap with both and...
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