Recent content by feets

We stopped short of building a reinforced cave dug into the backstop. Not that the thought hadn't crossed our minds...

The shooting benches are 200 yards from the steel. No real spalling concerns there. The problem we had to solve was elimination of any opportunity for a round to leave the range by deflecting off a target hanger. There is a barrier below the target plate. We were struggling to install the plate...

I didn't want to burn up my tooling trying to countersink a bolt in AR500. If I did, we wouldn't be able to flip the plate when it bows because opposing countersinks would seriously weaken the plate. The stainless carriage bolts have proven to withstand bullet impacts and spalling better than...

Thanks! The backing plate and counterweight dampen the ring more than I like but they were necessary. The board of directors overseeing the range made us remove all the old steel plates due to fear of rounds deflecting off the range. In this design the entire device is behind the plate. With...

A friend has a membership to a high-volume private 200 yard rifle range. It is a supervised slow fire range that is access controlled and only open when a range officer is present. No 50s are allowed. Last year all the steel targets were removed due to fear of bouncing rounds off the range. He...

S&W nickel plating changed over the years. In the old days it was an electrolytic nickel plating applied by using DC current. That finish was not a uniform thickness. It adhered better (and thicker) in areas with better current flow. The finish was prone to cracking. Once the crack formed it was...

I've been concerned with the guts rusting if the gun isn't disassembled and dried/cleaned afterwards. If that's still necessary it kinda defeats the purpose of the USC with the exception of scrubbing the bore.

Take a few thousandths off the hammer stop and call it a day.

Ha! I have no talent. I'm just a loose nut with machine tools and bad ideas. A really cool design for a rifle rest came to mind when I was driving back to work after lunch today. I really need to explore this one and see what I can do with it.

Thanks. I've got a wee tiny Pratt & Whitney Model C 12 x 30 lathe. The mill is an old Gorton duplicator that few people have ever seen. I had a little fun making the rest. The pillars actually screw into the upper bar and nest into recesses in the lower bar. Bolts and washers are...

My 460 was not an X frame. It was an Encore pistol with a 15" barrel. That gun was FAR more violent than an X frame. Velocity was up drastically. Those 200 grain Hornady loads were advertised at 2200 fps from an 8" revolver. Mine averaged 2697 fps but that was after I had the last inch of the...

Thanks. It's a home made rest. I have a machine shop in my garage. The rest pictured above belongs to my friend. I cut the aluminum and made the spoked adjusting wheel. He did the assembly. Mine is similar. It was made for a spoked adjusting wheel like he has but I stuck a knurled wheel in...

I have that problem on my 454 SRH too. In fact, it was misfiring yesterday with 45 Colt rounds. it wouldn't fire them on a second hit either. I stuffed those twice hit loads in my Redhawk and they lit just fine. As stated above, measure the firing pin protrusion. Make sure it's on the high...

It looks like the biggest problem with my Redhawk rests squarely on the loose nut behind the wheel. In my "new gun let me down" post I was concerned with the new Redhawk scattering bullets everywhere despite the same loads running tightly in my Super Redhawk. A close examination showed...

I might be able to talk Ruger into replacing the frame. The constriction in the bore has been my main concern but I've been looking at the hammer pin hole in the frame. It's not round. You can actually see the pin move around as you pull the hammer back. Hammer down means the pin is at the...