Recent content by jester_s1

Alrighty then, you guys have been a big help. It never occurred to me that it could be a knock off of something. I do recall how bad USA mags were, so I'm just going to toss it instead of selling it to some dummy who's too cheap to buy the real thing.

I bought a whole boatload of unknown magazines from a store a while back, and this is the only one I haven't been able to identify. It has a couple of distinctive features; the stiffening ribs stick out instead of in, and the mag catch is a machined divot instead of the usual cut out slot. I...

Shooting at those distances barrel life is going to be bad regardless of the caliber you pick. Unless you're just looking to put a 10 foot wide target out and hose it, you're looking at a barrel that costs $500-$700 installed and probably will need to be unscrewed around 1000 rounds if you clean...

No way a TSX disintegrated. What's far more likely is that it did exit, possibly after yawing and losing most of its energy.

I worked in a gun shop for a while and saw this scenario many times. It never goes well. An impetuous guy reads a few gun magazines and gets convinced that he has to have hot rod of the bunch, but he wants it cheap. All he's thinking about is the price of the gun because he doesn't intent to...

So it was that someone worked on it that didn't know what they were doing! I'm glad you figured it out and now have a functioning gun. 625's are so sweet.

KCJ- Color case hardening is a completely different process. The colors come from quenching in a water tank that has air bubbles being blown through it. I wasn't going for beauty here, so all I got was a case of surface hardness. crossrhodes- With mine, I could see wear within 30 dry fires. I...

Has the gun been worked on in any way since it last worked right?

Something is either broken inside or it's been worked on by someone who didn't know how to do an action job. Probably needs to go to the gunsmith. I hope you have a return option.

West Fort Worth here. I've lived here 8 years and haven't found a range that I really like yet. It's all slow fire, no holsters, and rifles on the bench only. Any of you guys around the metroplex know somewhere better that doesn't require a membership?

I worked in a gun shop for a while and found that the majority of new shooters preferred the M&P over the Glock 17. The exception was smaller handed people who nearly always bought the Glock 19. It'll be a long road to actually become the majority gun given the sheer number of Glocks already in...

You're right about bone meal being the material of choice back in the day. I honestly don't know why it was preferred though. I needed 10-15 thousandths of hardness on the parts for them to hold up, and the instructions for the Kasenit indicate that that takes 30 minutes. It's the same process...

If it's cold drawn steel then the steel was annealed already before the barrel was made. The two steels you mentioned are not made for a harden and quench process, so heat treating isn't a part of the process anyway. If the barrels had been hardened the way springs or trigger parts are, then...

How is it going to alter the metallurgy of the barrel? Unless the barrel is made of a hardenable steel and has been hardened a tempered, there won't be any change with the 1200-1300 degree heat unless I'm missing something.

$125 is what I've seen from the guys who go through your whole action and remove as much friction as possible, also making sure every part is fitted right. That also includes a reduced power trigger return spring and mainspring if you want them.