Do not do a break in, bring your money, and pink slip, see you at the side match.
If your gun sat for a long period, it might have surface rust in the chamber. Examine a piece of fired brass, if any frosted look anywhere on the...
This is the Mad Dog Weapons Systems forums page https://mdws.forumchitchat.com/?forum=645266 Lot of original AR-15 wildcat stuff, note the 350...
I do not use reduced loads for fire forming brass. Did that for years, but learned different from three PHD Ballistics Engineers working the Gau 8...
I powder coat using an automotive chrome blackout powder, all black, used for wheel and other chrome coatings on cars. Use the shake and bake...
If you start duplicating factory markings on current manufactured guns, then creating model numbers that do not exist, sounds like a great way to...
Probably the most versatile 6.5 is in fact the 6.5x55 Swede, it will shoot 85s to 160s without issue and has moderate recoil with excellent .5”...
Well everything is relative, I built two custom 45-70s on 98 Mauser actions. The Mauser makes the 45-70 walk and talk with R-7. The 300 JHP at...
Folks have covered most everything, I will add a few items, A two allen screw locking gas block, holds up tight to the barrel port A pair of...
Sounds like you have a good group to shoot with, let you start again and loaned you one of their guns to compete against them, to boot. Thumbs up...
I like the buying the TC Hawken repair method…… I tried the snail weld on my old 50 gun and it just blew the end of the snail off, 2nd shot, hope...
I think the Gatling gun fouled so bad, hey had to grease the cartridges to keep it functioning. The French “potato digger” (Chauchat) that armed...
I prefer round knurled aluminum free float tubes. If I need to mount anything on a forearm, which is rare, I just drill and tap, with a lock nut...
Glass quality, coatings, repeatable adjustments, the rest is just aluminum tubing. The better quality scopes today are made in Japan, but the do...
That spray lube gets in places where it ain’t suppose to be, like primer pockets, a very bad habit to get into. Do not even ask. I must have a...
In 60+ years of reloading I have heard all the Micky Mouse excuses not to reload. If you do not want to reload, then just go shoot, throw rocks....
RCBS makes very good reloading stuff. I do not have any Lee stuff in my reloading room any longer with the exception of two old die sets I was...
Did you not check the seating depth on just one laded cartridge with a magic marker before you loaded up a bunch of these? Come on, that is...
Take the forend metal mounting screws out of the fore-end metal, replace with proper fitting counter sunk screws and heads. You could turn the...
In a Smith conversion to DA it is usually also good to smooth off and round the front of the trigger.
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