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Mornin' Gents (and Ladies)...

Been nursing / getting over an eye injury, and trying to put / keep this little Farming venture on it's rails,.....that, and a bit of other nonsense currently going down have seen me reticent to post much of anything outside of a bit of prerequisite troll smashing.

Mack's dad and I have had a running dialogue that I'd not trade for all the tea in China. He's one of the more authentic North Woods Men that I've had the honor to speak with, and I look forward to meeting him in person, some when. Understatement and a
fine,dry wit always leave me smiling after a conversation with him.

The wood's one of George ( Treebone Carving) Peterson's excellent blanks,....and it was FUNNY, trying to keep it wet enought to get a half decent pic,......ambient was about 110*F,....and a thirty MPH gale, at 0 humidity. It is going to finish ot well, as has everything I've ever gotten from George.

Front sight,....I dunno, but am thinking along he lines of an "Armored Beech",.....something with "Ears" protecting it for work the thick stuff.

Will own up to being a bit concerned about how SHALLOW the grooves are in this Getz barrel,.....and am going to shoot in "in the white" with sights lashed up, before going into finishing mode.

Ya'll have a great weekend !

Greg

Glad to see you chime back in, Greg. Hope the eye thing is healing properly.

Can't wait to see the shooting results.

Ed

So we have gotten another step farther along in the build. The stock is being inlet now. Here are some pictures.

Looking good!

Ed

Ed,

I agree Greg does some amazing things with metal and wood.


Mack

Well progress has been made and lots of pics to share.

Stock inletting and fitting:

Mocking up different sights:

Creating the mounting point:













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Redfield Rear Sight is the one chosen. Here it is on the rifle.







Picture of the created mount:

Getz Barrel being tapered:









Sight all the way elevated:

Front Sight mock up and fitting:

Cont:

I want to thank Greg for all the hard work and the great pictures of the build as it progresses. I love it and know my father does too.

Jim Jr.

Thanks Jim, for posting this,...

You and your Pop have seen the back story on the pieces and parts,...I'm just going to post that as written,...

Almost forgot,...
Semper BLUE TAPE !

Phew,...to many close ups,...here's a shot of the horribly depressing, and disorganized sweat shop where alla' this transpires.

If I was a real "Arizonan" I'm sure things would go a lot smoother.

GTC

Obvious that you don't have enough to do Greg. I'm gonna go find another roller project for ya.

Nice work there.

Dan

Well, my call out that this action was probably for a .43 Spanish was WAY off,...more like one of the larger based cartridges. The Extractor told that tale, and I'd really not looked at it closely 'til now



Well, we'll have to make that one work, I guess. Fairly good sized excavations of the barrel shank ensue,





One or two little "dabs" at a time is about all one can deposit in this old nickle steel, and than things go muddy. One has to stop and clean things up in the bead blaster. Used that 3.5 Nickle from Brownells, a 3/32 Lanthanated tungsten with a pure argon shield.



GTC

In and out of the mill,... massaged into rough form, than spotted into the recess with some judicious hand filing. The recess sees just a bit of adjustment,but with the beefy new "hook" getting the lion's share of fitment.







Wouldn't you know it, right there in the face of the thing there's a little porosity / asperity. No biggie, another "dab" of the nickle rod will be required (once this weather breaks).

A cut away cartridge case is used to lay out the outer rim recess radius



That radius is than cut to JUST barely below the level of the rim recess in the barrel shank / chamber.



Yup, a little bit of weld repair, and final polishing and this extractor's back in business.



At this point an old badly oversized case was hammered into the chamber, and the actuating tail of the extractor belabored with a copper punch, driven by a fairly good sized hammer. Looks good, and it will never see that amount of force again in normal service.

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time to go see why my well pressure switch froze last night,....looks like the brooder lamp bulb may need a replacement.

Cheers !

GTC