tightgroup tiger
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Try S&B practice loads, I think S&B only loads maximum loads in their ammo. Their target loads seems hotter then most of the SD loads I have bought.
Luger....
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Over the years I've done a respectable amount of research on Luger pistols.
I've found that (one of the) original loads was a 120TC with a mild steel jacket.
They, of course, changed because of wartime necessities/limitations.
They also seem to prefer a "stout" load; not necessarily +p and certainly not +P+.
I don't have my data handy right now but a "warm" load (I do use a TC style PC'd bullet) has never given me a problem.
As long as your "old" shooting iron is safe to fire, you're doing a vintage pistol a disservice by just looking at it.
Unless it's obviously "junk" these were designed, produced and intended to be used.
Period.
Thanks everybody.
I've done a few of these.
My wife has had some fairly serious health issues for the last 7 years: life flight helicopters, 9 months in hospital, homework (had a 5 snd 8 year old). dinners. laundry, soccer, T-ball, travel base ball, swim team, theater production, Christmas, bithdays, full time job building houses... well, you get the idea and this gave me an outlet that desperately needed outlet that kept me sane....and alive (no exaggeration)
All wood, including the leather and flint
All 100% wood (scrap I am able to bring home from work), using files, sand paper and a "dremel"
Lotta fun and extremely therapeutic
Hope you enjoy!
Thanks for looking!
I've done a few of these.
My wife has had some fairly serious health issues for the last 7 years: life flight helicopters, 9 months in hospital, homework (had a 5 snd 8 year old). dinners. laundry, soccer, T-ball, travel base ball, swim team, theater production, Christmas, bithdays, full time job building houses... well, you get the idea and this gave me an outlet that desperately needed outlet that kept me sane....and alive (no exaggeration)
All wood, including the leather and flint
All 100% wood (scrap I am able to bring home from work), using files, sand paper and a "dremel"
Lotta fun and extremely therapeutic
Hope you enjoy!
Thanks for looking!
You're right
S&B loads come up a lot when talking to shooting these old Lugers
tark
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Could you provide a link, or a website or even just some text or graphs? I am not familiar with this gentleman's name and googling it gets me nowhere.
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He's retired, may be dead by now. He was the head armaments manager for the command for many years after he hung up his uniform. The specific info I reference is why he would not allow us to live fire many of the older weapons using current production ammo that were in the command's inventory- not because they belonged to him personally, the weapons were and still continue to be property of the US gov't.
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Very cool wooden guns! That's a great gift you have! I'm glad you have a chance to make use of it.
And your Colt Model 1851 reminded me of how Samuel Colt got his start designing a revolver; it too was made of wood!
Very cool wooden guns! That's a great gift you have! I'm glad you have a chance to make use of it.
And your Colt Model 1851 reminded me of how Samuel Colt got his start designing a revolver; it too was made of wood!
Thanks for the kind words.
I gave that '51 to my old boss.
When my wife was sick, in hospital after hospital and bedridden he protected me and my job, occasionally even paying my when I wasn't even there (I had clocked in numerous times in the morning only to get 'the call" and have to rush back to the hospital)
"Oops, I forgot to take you off the roster again, oh well, don't worry about it"
My company would occasionally cater lunches for us as a reward for good safety records and he would always save me some food or even secretly send home bags of food to help feed my children.
I never forgot what he did for me and my family and I never let him down when it came to my job; I would've done anything he asked.
When he decided (quite unexpectedly) to retire I decided to give that pistol to him.
I probably had 200 hours in making it but it was worth every minute to see the appreciation in his eyes.
He has it hanging in a nice oak shadow box in his living room.
It brought tears to both of our eyes when he realized how he changed (and probably saved) my life.
Sorry to get sentimental but every so often a person comes into our lives for a reason and, as far as I'm concerned, he was one of those people.
Thank you again for your kind words and allowing me a minute or 2 "off topic"
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Hope your wife is doing much better and that your lives are a little more back to normal than before.
Your boss is a wonderful humanitarian and has a very generous soul. You were truly blessed to have a man like him looking out for you and your family.
Please post any future wooden guns you make as you definitely have a talent for working with wood!
Take care and God bless!
Hope your wife is doing much better and that your lives are a little more back to normal than before.
Your boss is a wonderful humanitarian and has a very generous soul. You were truly blessed to have a man like him looking out for you and your family.
Please post any future wooden guns you make as you definitely have a talent for working with wood!
Take care and God bless!
Heres a few more
Except for paint (and graphite to make the metallic look) these are all wood, using nothing but a file (that I found on the side of the road 25 years ago and a $25 "Dremel tool (Black and Decker actually.)
Hopefully you enjoy and appreciate these . Thank you!
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Your wooden guns are amazing, as well as your craftsmanship and ingenuity in building them.
Then if that wasn't enough, you make them almost look better than the real thing!
Your wooden guns are amazing, as well as your craftsmanship and ingenuity in building them.
Then if that wasn't enough, you make them almost look better than the real thing!
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Your attention to detail is simply amazing, especially the way you get all the little pieces right!
And I have to admit that I had to look twice at the Ruger .22s to see which one was which!
Your attention to detail is simply amazing, especially the way you get all the little pieces right!
And I have to admit that I had to look twice at the Ruger .22s to see which one was which!
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We need to ask Derek to add a 10X like button, or maybe one of those "fire" emojis all the kids are using because our current toolbar cannot adequately express how awesome Y-T's creations are.
Im stunned, literally stunned.
Im stunned, literally stunned.
Monac
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John Dillinger would be green with envy!
Thanks for your well wishes for my wife.
She's currently having another flair and is stubbornly resisting the hospital
Since you asked, here are a couple of random pictures (I never thought people would care and I made these for my son to play with so I didn't think much of taking too many pictures)
I feel bad taking time away from the true purpose of this site so, unless someone has a specific request (that I can accommodate, remember, I didn't take too many pictures because I thought these were toys for my son and not anything special) I'll be done posting these for awhile.
Thank you all very much!
Derringer for a guy a work to hang in his den
Flintlock for my uncle
The beginning of the AK
Operating spring for the AK (my son asked me to make this one "work")
Suppressor mount: a wire nut for an electric panel I had laying around
Waaaay before it was finished and trying to figure things out (lotta sleepless nights figuring out how to make something and then I'd get up and carve a toggle, trigger or side plate (I wasn't sleeping well then, still don't
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Loading lever in operation
Couldn't stand the cheap, black plastic handguards on my Yugo M70AB2 so I made my own
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Thanks for the new photos!
Thanks for the new photos!
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