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Timberghozt
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| Joined: | 11 February 2005 |
| Location: | Plaza De Los Armas, Mexico |
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Posted: 17 August 2008 07:08 PM |
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I am working on an old 22 bolt action single shot made shortly after the turn of the century,badly neglected little rifle that will be starting life over as a fine looking rifle for a young man or young lady to cut his or her teeth on learning to shoot..
No pics yet though
You fellas got anything interesting you are working on during these hot summer days??
lets hear about it
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sdb777
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| Joined: | 16 October 2005 |
| Location: | Cabot, Arkansas USA |
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Posted: 17 August 2008 07:42 PM |
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Nothing rifle/handgun or shooting going on. Trying to re-cooperate from a summer cold that was given to me by a customer while setting up a bow at work. Haven't been able to 'shake it' for about two weeks!
Have a target bow riser being painted, but it isn't getting done due to the amount of work the guy already has....too many banged up redneck cars. As soon as it's finished, I still need to wait about a month for assembly can happen. Then who knows?
Might have a Handloadersbench 'garage sale.... Have been collecting sooo much stuff related to archery it's starting to 'take over' the entire garage(can't find my reloading bench-think it's a lost cause for awhile). I know a few people here are into archery, but I've been holding off because it's time consuming doing pictures and posting the stuff....that and I've had a severe case of lazy going on.
Scott (might post some stuff to see what happens) B
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Dirtkicker
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| Joined: | 3 September 2007 |
| Location: | High Plains |
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Posted: 17 August 2008 08:48 PM |
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Changing over my .45ACP midrange loads from Bullseye to Unique; developing deer loads for .243 Kimber 84M; refining varmint loads in .243 Savage heavy-barrel 12FV; developing all-around carry load for CZ-75; refining my standard load for .45 Colt; a few other piddlers in the hopper. Dang, I'm gonna have to get a job so I can get some rest! 
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shooterjon
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| Joined: | 24 March 2006 |
| Location: | Twin Falls, Idaho USA |
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Posted: 17 August 2008 09:30 PM |
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Converting my Tikka M95 in 17 Remington to a 6X45.The 17 just gets blown around to much here in Idaho
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corn-county
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Posted: 17 August 2008 10:28 PM |
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| Been working on gathering parts for a 25-06 ai. Have the action and the stock (BAT action, and mcmillan lazzeroni style stock). Just waiting on my barrel to arrive from lilja and waiting on cash to order my trigger. Then it is all going to Randy Melvin of Bull Mountain to be smithed. He does a hell of a job. He built my middlestead a couple of years ago and it drives tacks (52 grain seirras @ 4175 fps measure .17 consistantly @ 100 yds). Anyone with some ideas for loads with the 25-06 AI pass'em along the help would be much appreciated. _C.C.
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miestro_jerry
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| Joined: | 28 June 2008 |
| Location: | Somerton (AKA BFE), Ohio USA |
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Posted: 18 August 2008 12:18 AM |
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Besides building the foundry building, lets see, reaming out some .357 molds to .3585, planning on going to the Monroe County Fair this Wednesday. Thursday and or Friday help track down a Coyote in the area, this one has all the dog barking all night long. Probably can some more veggies, today I canned 8 jars of hot peppers, onions and yellow peppers together in the same pot with a touch of garlic this afternoon for my the winter that is coming, as well as the new political possibilities.
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Charley
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| Joined: | 9 September 2005 |
| Location: | San Antonio, Texas USA |
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Posted: 18 August 2008 03:10 AM |
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| Don't know if they are interesting, but do have projects going! Drilling and tapping a cutdown Krag for a receiver sight (damn, that case hardening is tough), refinishing the stock amd degreasing metal on a you-fix-it Yugo M24/47, another Yugo barreled action to strip, looking at a CZ-24 action in the safe, hoping it will morph into a .35 Whelan. Those are just the gun projects. Still working on the cabin, trying to find time and money to tile my front porch and add a rail to my deck. Oh yeah, hot, dry weather brings out the critters, me and my folks have been working our collective asses off.
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Rockydog
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| Joined: | 26 July 2005 |
| Location: | Wisconsin USA |
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Posted: 18 August 2008 03:49 AM |
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| TG, Rebuilding a 335 Stevens 12 Guage SxS. Was given to me as a "wallhanger" but it had fluid steel barrels and nice bright bores. Wood was trash, loose rib for about front 8 inches, broken firing pin on R barrel, broken hammer on left barrel, incredibly rusty all over. So far: Purchased vintage but new Fajen buttstock off E-bay, made a new splinter fore end, fitted both to gun, Close to final finish. 9 coats of oil and counting. Ordered solder from Brownells and resoldered rib. Barrels now ring like a bell when struck with a wooden dowel. Cold Blued barrels. Polished frame. Ordered 2 new hammers, firing pins, actuator rods, trigger springs from Wisners inc. Fitted one hammer, firing pin and actuator rod. Working on the other. Left to do? Final wood finish. Can't seem to get it just the way I want it. Finish fitting internals. Test Fire. Take it back and show it to the guy who gave it to me. Hope he doesn't want it back. RD Last edited on 18 August 2008 03:50 AM by Rockydog
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dakotasin
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| Joined: | 8 February 2005 |
| Location: | Dizzy City, Wyoming USA |
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Posted: 18 August 2008 01:30 PM |
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i managed to get my hunting battery into fine shape for this year's hunts, so that left me an opportunity to work on a couple backburner projects.
i have a 1920's vintage savge 99 that i started on, and then shelved. i pulled the lyman alaskan scope and sold it and re-invested the money into a tang sight. got the sight mounted and worked through some of the kinks w/ it. the gun will now be my primary focus until hunting season comes. yesterday's range session w/ it did not show any headspace problems, but i still suspect the gun's headspace is excessive. we'll find out this week when i start working on the brass. the gun is a takedown model so just cutting a thread off the barrel and re-chambering it will actually be a really involved project, and i have already decided that if it comes to that, i'll just spring for a full-blown custom job. the gun also needs re-stocked, so i am keeping an eye open for possibilities there.
i have also decided i need to be a better pistolero. i have been spending an inordinate amount of time on the range w/ handguns, trying to make myself a better shot. i am much improved from this time last year, and my handgun battery has grown a bit this year. my current handgun project is getting myself (mostly) and a couple of hunting-style handguns into shape for shooting out to 100 yards with the issue sights (no scopes). things are going well there, but there's always room for improvement!
my projects aren't all that interesting, but i enjoy them, and they keep me entertained.
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The_Mountaineer
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| Joined: | 4 February 2005 |
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Posted: 18 August 2008 08:13 PM |
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Working on two rifle loads right now.
First is the 338 Win. Mag. Working with RE-22 and Sierra 250 grain Game Kings.
http://www.handloadersbench.com/forum16/5405.html
The other is the 7mm WSM. Working with RE-19 and Sierra 160 gr. Game Kings
http://www.handloadersbench.com/forum16/5667.html
Been toying a little bit with my Grandfather's old Rem. 760 in 30-06 with a vintage Weaver Marksman 4X that I thought about using in the woods this fall. Working with Hornady 180 grain round noses and a variety of powders.
Probably gonna keep playing around with a few others but these are getting the bulk of my time here lately.
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DPSTex
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| Joined: | 15 July 2008 |
| Location: | Leander, Texas USA |
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Posted: 19 August 2008 05:30 PM |
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Building a Schuetzen Rifle (243 Win) out of a push-feed Model 70, gonna take a year or 2, (economy...), but it'll be fun gettin 'er done and working up a load....
Darryl
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72coupe
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| Joined: | 11 June 2006 |
| Location: | Iowa Park, Texas USA |
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Posted: 20 August 2008 12:46 AM |
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| Joined: | 30 July 2007 |
| Location: | Denver Area, Colorado USA |
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Posted: 20 August 2008 01:01 AM |
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Working on a Win 100 that I found this week-end at a local gun show for $250. That's right....
BUT..it has been bead-blasted and blued, and the stock needs refinishing. Mechanically perfect, and since I was fresh out of 308s, it seemed like a good deal at the time.
After I strip and prep the stock, I'm going to sand as necessary, then apply Flecto #66, a Verathane product that renders wood impervious to moisture. It's a very thin oil, with almost the consistency of water. Set the stock in a fairly warm place for a couple of days, and wipe off any residue with a rough cloth. You can then apply any filler as necessary, buff with 0000 steel wool. I like to apply a dark paste wax in 2-3 coats. You can't apply oil finish over wax, but if needed, more wax can be used if you need to cover "carry dings". You'll have a nearly waterproof stock...
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VarmintGuy
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Posted: 21 August 2008 06:26 AM |
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Timberghozt: I have a couple of projects going on here in SW Montana. I have been "robbing" scopes off of Varmint Rifles and putting them on Big Game Rifles for the fall season that is near at hand and I need to re-sightin the Big Game Rifles.
I am 2 scopes behind in the over-all scheme of things.
The price of scopes is just driving me crazy anymore. I am shopping for used Leupold scopes at "good buy" prices - this is a time consuming project in itself!
I also am awaiting the production of 338 Federal brass - I have 3 boxes of factory 338 Federal ammo that has gotten my new Tikka 338 Federal sighted in and broken in and through the Spring Bear season.
I have about 30 rounds to get me through the dark timber part of my upcoming Elk season. That should be enough but I am looking for 338 federal dies (Redding preferably) and some Elk and Black Bear "friendly" 338 bullets.
Busy guy I am.
Hold into the wind
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reddnek
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Posted: 20 September 2008 10:08 AM |
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Trying to ressurrect my old Universal M1 carbine .I got it back from a friend recently and it looked like it was stored out doors.Next project; find a use for it
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CapnMidnight
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| Joined: | 5 September 2008 |
| Location: | Carson, Washington USA |
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Posted: 30 September 2008 06:52 AM |
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Finally found a Siamese Mauser, found one that already had a 45-70 barrel on the action, been working on it for 2 months or so. The metal is at the shop getting blued as we speak, stocks all inletted and I'm working on the finish and checkering now. It's starting to come together.
W.D.
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Hi Ball
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Posted: 9 October 2008 01:17 AM |
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Timberghozt I am trying to put the finishing touches on a big bore rifle I plan to use in Africa next year. It is the model 70 Winchester .375H&H, rebarreled to a .475 caliber, shooting a 500 grain bullet at 2300fps.
We chopped off the 26 inch barrel, down to 23 inches. Also removed the "muzzle brake", used at the bench for working up handloads. I am in the process of changing iron sights on the rifle, want just one iron fixed sight zeroed in at 60 yards. I won't be shooting more than 100 yards and can more than allow for bullet drop. I don't want a 3 bladed express type sight on the rifle, to often people flip up the wrong blade and that is not a good thing.
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buffybr
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| Joined: | 31 October 2006 |
| Location: | Bozeman, Montana USA |
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Posted: 14 October 2008 09:18 PM |
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Last winter I thought I needed to put together a new rifle for a winter project. My old elk/moose standby of 30 some years, a .30 Gibbs, was beginning to show its age, so I figured I needed a new .30 magnum. I decided on the .300 Wby for my project and found a .300 Wby Vanguard on Gunbroker that would be the start of my project. The rifle came with the factory target with a 1 1/2" 3 shot group, so I thought it had potential.
As soon as I received the rifle, I ordered a semi-inleted stock blank from Richard's Microfit. The wood that I ordered was AA Fancy Feather Crotch Claro Walnut. They said it would take 6-8 weeks for the order. Four months later my stock arrived, only it did not look like their pictures of AA Fancy, and was not Feather Crotch, and it had been cutoff and had a recoil pad installed. The length of pull was shorter than the factory Vanguard stock. After a couple of phone calls to the Richard's factory and another month, I finally had the stock that I wanted. My winter project was now into summer.
To help control recoil, I had a KDF barrel diameter muzzle brake installed by Billings Gunsmith in Billings, MT.
I then began my "winter" project stock work:
The factory trigger broke at a hard 4 pounds and the trigger adjusting spring was so long that it's pressure could not be backed off. I polished the sear faces and fixed the spring so now the trigger can be adjusted to break at a crisp 2 1/2 pounds.
I cut the stock and installed a 1" Limbsaver recoil pad to a 14" length of pull.
I pillar and glass bedded the action and glass bedded the barrel channel, but free floated the barrel.
After final shapping and sanding the stock, I finished it with 10 coats of Tru Oil and buffed it down with 6/0 steel wool for a smooth satin finish.
By now my winter project was well into August when I began the checkering. This is the third stock that I've checkered with a multi-panel Brownells pattern. Each side of the pistol grip has two panels, and the forend pattern wraps around the stock in four separate panels. It usually takes me about 80 hours to complete the checkering using Dem-Bart tools.
Last week I finished the second side of the pistol grip checkering, but now we're into hunting season, so it will be December or January before I will be able to checker the forend.
To also help control recoil, I installed a Break-o mercury recoil reducer in the shock. With the KDF muzzle break and the mercury recoil reducer, 180 gr full power loads had the same felt recoil as my .257 AI. The down side is that the Break-o reducer adds 13 oz to a total gun weight of 10+ pounds. I will replace it with a 6 oz mechanical reducer.
For optics, I topped it with a Leupold 4-12x Vari-x I scope on Leupold bases and rings.
Also last week I took my new project to the range. I was very pleasantly suprised when my first 3-shot test group of Barnes 180 gr TSX bullets in front of IMR 7828 powder and CCI 250 primers put the three bullets in 0.65" at 100 yds at an average of 3157 fps. My third test group (1 grain more powder) at 3191 fps measured 0.85" for three shots. There were no signs of excessive pressure, and all loads were below the Barnes puplished maximum.
I think this will be my new favorite elk rifle!
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72coupe
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Posted: 15 October 2008 12:13 AM |
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| Pictures man, pictures!
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Gnarly
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| Location: | Kentucky USA |
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Posted: 15 October 2008 04:12 AM |
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Still trying to get my handloading bench together....not enough spare time!
Some of my stuff had been in storage for almost 20 years....
Sure feels good to get back into it,though.
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