entropy
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Unless you're shooting them over a chronograph, you won't notice much, if any difference.
I've got 50 rounds of 9mm loaded up with magnum primers. Can't find any standard small pistol primers. Not a max powder load by any means. Wish me luck.
... wanted something different. So I bought one of those mosin bent bolts for sniper conversions, cut off the bent bit, and notched it out for the bolt handle to get a good weld.
A few years ago, my BRNO side by side broke a firing pin the night before a quail hunt. Now this firing pin isn't complicated, but does require a lathe to make. Guess what I don't own? Yep. So, I did the only thing I could think of: I used a broken screwdriver shank as my stock and chucked it in my drill press. I used a flat file to turn down the shoulder and shape the ends; then fitted it to the gun and used it for at least a half-dozen hunts afterwards. However, I did have my gunsmith make me a replacement, and a set of spares, not long afterwards when I took the gun in for other work.
Actually, I am a leftyWow! That's a lot of handle reciprocating. Don't go lefty or you'll shoot your eye (and teeth) out, kid.
I did the exact same thing years ago.First time disassembling aM1917 Eddystone, I broke the leeetle tiny arm-like ejector spring that pushed the ejector out and away from the receiver after bolt cleared. After wasting no little amount of time looking online for a replacement ejector that still had a spring, I cut around 3-4 coils off of a ball point pen spring and installed that between the ejector and the receiver.
That was, oh, around 1000 rounds ago, and it still does the job.
OS
I watched my Pop make a firing pin for an old .22 single-shot,,,
Out of a ten-penny nail.
Does that count?
Aarond
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