Ok.
Lets unwind this a little bit. This is an old thread. I don't think anyone posting in the last day is advocating using 308 ammo. For some reason, we all agree yet we are still arguing about it.
I have a weapon that matches the description. I did a chamber cast...its 7.62x39.
I...
resurrection: dead thread edition
I found one of these marked guns in my father's cabinet. He's gone so i felt the need to figure it out. The comments here made me look closely at the mark...sure enough, its not 7.52 it is 7.62.
I first read this thread and similar ones and everyone was...
Here is the state of the project so far. I will have to pick up a full length sizing die...only a neck sizer available and the rounds still have no headspace after neck sizing.
Would I be better off with a Mauser action? Would this barrel have been made special for this receiver?
But the...
Thing about my dad...he never sold anything. That brass is from a different gun. I'll do a full length resize and go from there.
Given some other rebarrels he has, I bet it's an ER Shaw job. It shouldbe good is my gut feeling.
Thanks
My dad died a year and half ago. He left about 70 Milsurps behind. I have figured out they are and what caliber etc. But I kept finding 22-250 brass everywhere. I know he didn't have one but he had the brass. Curious.
Sure enough,poking around in my mom's basement I find a type 1 jap carcano...
My father recently passed away. He was an amateur gunsmith and had a c&r license.
My mom can't find his catalog and I haven't had time to count them all, but conservatively, he left about 75 milsurp rifles and barrels, actions and stocks for maybe another 50.
Do I need an armory or a c&r...
I bought a promag 15 rd for my P95 about 6 months ago. Sometimes it locked the whole damn pistol up. I tried hollow point and fmjs. Same same. I got mad and threw it in the garbage. Bought 2 mecgars for only $10 more, not a problem.
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