Recent content by jrhines

Penn & Teller were there last year.. It's one of the "red neck" comedians replacing Leno, Bill Engvall.

I'll be there. When/where for the THR meet?

From Google News: "MOSCOW -- Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world's most popular firearm, died Monday at the age of 94." RIP Excuse my butchering his name, poor Western pronunciation.

A client brought in his Browning SxS with a complaint of second barrel not firing. He can hear the hammer fall, no light strike, no bang. The gun has been stripped and cleaned, lubed, didn't help. This is a non-select trigger gun. Your thoughts?

Don't use cotton swabs... Go to Wal-Mart and buy the cheapest pack of tooth brushes you can find. Nothing but plastic bristles. The FDA doesn't allow anything on a toothbrush, no oil, lanolin, skin softener, nothing. I have used the same brush for over a year. Clean pan? My iron pan is a...

One more time... what usually jams is the bronze brush. If that is the case here, plug one end of the barrel and fill with MEK (methyl ethyl ketone). This will dissolve the copper in the bronze bristles and should allow the snake to be extracted. MEK is safe to use, it is not cancer in a can...

Dave, On my bench, in front of me right now, is a 1939 Model 12. It was brought in by a client complaining of intermittent light strikes, says it cost him a gobbler last season. His grandfather hunted over it for the better part of 40 years, and when I asked if it had ever been detail stripped...

PJR - Thanks for the data, mine is .042 wire, 4-1/2 coils/inch. Same length. Are both the 20 & 12 ga the same? MGW sells the same spring for both. The 1-1/2 coil per inch increase in yours would make a "lighter" spring, but by how much. Any guess at the spring constant of yours or can you...

Bump this to smithing if you like,,, A client brought me his pet Urika 20 ga, would not spit the empty hull out of the port. I gave it a good cleaning including full detail strip of the recoil spring & tube. Re-lubed, assembled and it ran 100+ rounds flawlessly. Over the years he had run in...

A barrel is not a gun... Just an aside, but giving the barrel to someone overnight is no problem as long as the receiver/frame is not attached. You do not need an ffl to take possession of a barrel, but it had better be 18+ inches long! If you destroy the barrel, I would chopsaw the chamber...

I've got one... An absolutely pristine Colt .32 pocket pistol, only one round ever put through it. Guy bought it, walked across the street to his motel, loaded a single round and kissed this life goodby. All back in the mid-fifties. A LEO took the gun, put it in the box and put it in his home...

Doc - Got one in my shop right now... that I am restoring. It was my clients' "Dad's old gun", just not in very good shape. Re-lined the barrel, getting a re-blue, chromed the bolt, rebuild firing pin, refinish the stock. It is a Springfield Arms Co., Model 53A, out of Chickopee Mass. Just a...

Just my 2 cents, but... Crickett with a good trigger! I ran a trigger scan on my granddaughters Crickett (the pink one), and it came out looking pretty good. The X-axis is trigger travel in 1/1000" and the y-axis is pull in pounds. It could be smoother, but less than 2.5 lbs seems light...

The Hollies... Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress the best rock & roll song ever!

No other markings, but new pics... showing a close up of the painted slide (it is paint), and the blued frame.