The back story is this:

A few years ago my father did some work for a lady that had a gunsmith for a grandfather. He had passed away and had left everything to her after his passing.

As payment for the work my father did he received a couple of Mausers and misc stuff. So I helped my dad post a few pictures of the Remington #1 action that was a part of the stuff.








So as of a few months ago we have enlisted a fellow fire member to do a build on the action of a carbine/carry rifle.

More pics to follow,

jeez,....that scratched up, DyKem and Silver Solder Flux stained Masonite bench surface looks vaguely familiar,...

Masonite, is that a product name, or something darker, and more sinister ?

GTC

Hmmmm you better be careful or that Masonite may start a devil worshiping cult when you turn your back on it.

Getz Barrel



More pictures of the action

The loaded cartridge is a .43 Spanish. The spent one is an 11MM Mauser.

The barrel stub is a handy "Comparator",.....welded shut at the muzzle, so's not to freak out the regulators.

GTC

Barrel getting mated to the receiver:













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Very cool. Great photography, too!

Ed

Chambering for 45-70:

This is really looking good.This is a fun project,from being gifted with this action,and watching it come together.

Yep I like that we can do it together. Especially nice to see something come back to a shooter with so much history in the action.

Somebody just sent pics of a disreputable, and tired rear sight for this effort.

....The vendor's asking a ridiculous, inflated price.

All the "New" stuff is so much better, in terms of fit, finish, and intrinsic value, what ?



GTC

Neat photos, guys

The only roller I ever worked with was one of the Pedersolis in .45-70. It shot accurately despite some sloppy fitting. The eyes were many moons younger then

One of these days I should revisit the roller. Preferably an old one

Pictures received and appreciated. I think that old sight has just the character needed for a rifle like this. I know my dad was excited about it.

Sure looks like a keeper to me,this old gun will be HOG ready.Good find...

$50 for that vintage Redfield peep is a deal, if it is in good shape. The lever silhouette game is one factor pushing the prices up.

As an aside, I've been playing with a simple modified electronic depth gauge to facilitate accurate elevation settings with this sight, geared toward the silhouette game.

Paul

This sight is in as new mechanical condition. Have had my eye on it for a while, and I am glad a project rolled through to apply it to.
I've got the "Sporting" version (identical, except it wears "Dime Slots" in the Adjutment heads) on one of my old Springfield '03s.
The repeatability is as good or better than a lot of Soules, with good perceptable detents.
The only reliable way I know to check repeatability is in a stout vice, with a good dial indicator deployed.

GTC

What type of leade are you going to chamber that beauty with?

Ed

After eye balling that lube system it is a real work of art.

1* - 30' (1 1/2 degrees)

This thread makes me wonder if I shouldn't have kept that Husqvarna roller, and had you work it over Greg.

Ah well the new owner is making grins with it now.

Barrel cut to length and crowned.

Other work done to fit the firing pin. Excuse my briefness as I can see what was done but would not try to explain it.
















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He "bushed" the firing pin. It's a good thing. Makes it a lot safer for you to shoot

I always enjoy watching Greg's work.

Ed

Me too. I am learning as this project progresses. Some may claim I am smart in some areas of knowledge. I always say I am a fountain of useless facts myself. I truly am at the bottom rung of the knowledge ladder when it comes to the type of work Greg is doing.

I truly do appreciate the small group of men that can do what he does.

Mack

Wishin' I knew a doc that could reconstruct my carcass as well.

Great project well done. Huzzzzzah!

Are you saying that you need to be reamed and a bushing installed????

Ed

No reaming, but a bushing or two might be helpful.

Well the stock finally arrived and I think it is a pretty nice chunk of wood. Still some work to go I am sure but things are progressing along.

Dat's nice wood - who did the stock?

Ordered the stock from Treebone.

"pretty nice"? That's a great looking piece of wood from here!

What front sight is Greg going to put on this work of art?

Ed

Ed,

I am not sure. He has discussed it with my dad though. Either one of them can chime in. It is going to be a hunting rig so I am sure something appropriate for the use.

Mack

The front sight is going to be fabricated by Greg,I feel confident it will be nice.

Now I see where Mack gets his mastery of understatement from.

Greg will put a work of art on it for you.

Ed

Ed,

After seeing the quality of Greg's work I am confident that whatever choice he would make would be outstanding. I am sure by the time this is complete this will turn out to be the finest firearm I will have the pleasure of handling let alone shooting.

As to understatement you just have not spoken to my father. I am sure Greg can chime in on that with some of the phone conversations they have had in this process. LOL

Mack

My mistake, , I didn't mean to insult anyone.

Ed

None takin.

Ed,

Everything I said was to be taken with a grain of salt. One thing my father passed onto me was the ability to yammer with the best of them. He has more dry one liners than just about any person I have ever met and is quite humorous in his own mind now if you ask my mother he is not as funny as he thinks he is.

So no insult taken as there was none to give.

Thanks for posting on this as I know Dad and I like to get the feedback from others that have more experience with the BPCR genre. Neither of us has anything like this project in our background. We have just taken advice from Greg and tried to look around to find examples of rifles that we like.

I know we would both like to make it somewhere to burn some powder with others who like to shoot the old boomers.

Jim Jr.

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

Back when Old Dave Higginbotham (Lone Star Rifle Co.) graced our midst with his all to brief presence, I would have ordered up one of his EXCELLENT CNC'd extractor blanks, as opposed to welding this extractor up. Alas , those days are long gone.

I WILL be making a drawing of this piece, and filing it,....against running into this requirement again.

Very "Old School", the weld up approach (Frank DeHass, and Dunlap would be proud), but I'm more than happy with the finished product, it functions reliably and smoothly. Sharp edges have been radiused, tool marks (a place for fouling to nest) polished out, and a slew of unsized cases run through by way of testing. Let me emphasize again that in no single shot BPCR is it a good idea to have solid cartridge to extractor contact, once in battery,...No, I'm not saying one wants things flopping and rattling around, either. Just be sure to leave a coupla' thou clearance for best accuracy's sake.



Yup, I can hear em' muttering now,...."He sure cuts a lot of that chamber wall away, the original extractor cuts are NOWHERE near that big or deep."

Well, I've also cut away an awful lot of modern Cartridge bases, and know that good modern brass is gonga stout in that unsupported area.
The reason that your original extractor hooks were so thin (read prone to BREAKAGE) was dictated by the weakness of the balloon head cases of the day,....back when. I LIKE a stout and beefy "hook",and certainly DO cut more material away than the originals....it's pretty likely that the ear would break off a rolling block before a hook of this size and geometry gives it up. When one gets into the leveraged force applied in the Sharps, Hepburn, Winchester "walls", it's just flat crazy to "replicate" a spindly and weak balloon head type extractor.



I actually went back and readjusted the upper rim radius just a bit, after taking this shot below,...



Here it is, no ejector function, but a snap to rake out of the way, or the brass will just drop out if the block's opened muzzle up.



It's now time to move on to tuning and slicking up the action's guts, and bringing the trigger down to a good crisp, repeatable and safe 3 lb break.

Later,

GTC

Greg,

Thanks for the pics and update. Your explanation of what your doing on the extractor and why is much better than anything I could have written.

Jim Jr.

Just rang off with your Pop,
....it's certainly a little "cool" in his neck of the woods.
The "wind chill is BS" bunch were discussed / dismissed.
We batted around barrel band v. forend mounted sling swivels, after solving most all of the world's problems in a few brief sentences.
Glad that extractor's history now,...
GTC

Helluva nice evolution ongoing here. Seriously enjoying this.

Dan

Planning is something we do between bouts of reality.
Rose colored specs in place I had intended to be a bit further along with this project, but December and January's muses had different plans.
That's a different story.
I did get back onto the bench, and spent a rewarding and enjoyable day or two "Slicking Up" this action.I usually shoot whatever's coming together in the white, and it was time to look at doing so with this one.
Yesterday evening saw the rifle buckled up as pictured. I bore sighted it on a favorite power pole / transformer combo. I dug out some old 440 Grain "Chicken Loads" (originally intended for offhand out of a 12 Lb Sharps). Good match ammo, albeit a bit green and mossy in cosmetic aspect, weighed bullets, Swiss Powder, etc, etc..
Had a pretty nice day afternoon at the Sierra Vista Range, with typical right to left Zephyrs to keep one honest.
The target was NOT placed at 200 yards, ... Given the sight set up, I opted for a more realistic FIFTY ( 50) yards.
The mossy old ammo was wiped down , and than had the exposed grease grooves refreshed with a swipe of TC 1000. The Getz barrel was wiped between shots with 90% Iso Alky and Murph's oil soap. No adjustments for wind or elevation were made during the 8 round string,....the 2 low shots are #s 4 and 6, and I figure that I pulled em' (flinched em') down there.
This 9 Lb 11 Oz. rifle will definitely let you know that you are handling some horsepower, when shot off the bench, and by shot #8, I figured that it's going to be a great shooter, and that the next time I wring it out it will be with milder loads, and the sharp edges on that butt stock softened just a bit.

My fears about the shallow grooves were apparently misplaced. This is going to be a NICE hunting rifle.

GTC

Greg,

All I can say is wow. It looks wonderful and seems to shoot already. Thank you for all the hard work and I am excited to see it make some holes in paper. I am sure my dad will be touching base to say the same thing.

Jim Jr.

It's a nice departure from the ubiquitous "Buffalo Gun" or Match Rifle,...reminds me more of a Business Rifle or a saddle gun.
While the current LOP is a tad long for me (14"), it sure comes up and swings / points well.

I LIKE it !

GTC

wonderful!

how shallow were the grooves?

JC

Good read. Thanks for posting.

How shallow ?

Laid beside a Badger, visually giving the impression of almost not being there,...imagine a large .22.

It's a 7 groove barrel, so "rolling" an impact slug between dial calipers is about all one can do by way of trying to catch an OD. I don't have the gear to measure it properly, and the caliper stunt is half azzed, at best.
IIRC , it's a .456, but the bullet alloy may be springing back a bit.
Guess I should try pure lead.

The grooves are maybe half again as wide as the lands, and round bottomed, presenting an almost polygonal appearance.

The bore's a TIGHT slip fit for a .449- pin gauge.
Very smooth barrel, albeit with lots of first operation reamer marks on the narrow lands.

I'm looking at the 5" crop I lopped of this barrel, and figuring too bisect one part of it in the mill, and maybe we can study on it some more.

Sure as hell no flies on the way it woke right up and went to work, and I'm looking forward to tossing a few more groups down range, lighter loads, and at a somewhat longer distance, too. The silver front bead is EXTREMELY hard to see, shooting south into bright desert Sun, a flat topped post would be easier to define. The rear aperture , to my eyes is basically a small ghost ring, but seems to be alright for centering things up.

GTC

Greg,I have been eye balling that picture off and on I think what we talked about is the way to go,it is gonna be a dandy.Dabble

Oh great,

.....now if I can only remember what we talked about.

GTC

I love these threads. Great job.

Yep, a Craftsman and Magician is what you are Sir. I shall tipple a bit of nose paint to you.

Buttstock is trimmed and the search for a buttplate has commenced.

BUILDING A QUALITY STEEL BUTTPLATE ON A WORKINGMAN'S BUDGET
( Or one could say "Mausing" one together )

Nice steel, but too small / short



Different Mauser, same situation, too damned short



HMMMmmmmmm, what if a guy,.......



Damn, THAT will work, get the torch ( A Victor Super Journeyman with a freshly cleaned #000 tip ). Founded in Sweden, in the late 1800s, this stuff is AMAZINGLY pure, and cuts like a dream,.....would without doubt be an amazing light show in low light



I'd say this will be long enough to get something half decent out of




I have to build up (weld) the edges at the top, I REALLY don't want to give up any wood width there. Than there's the splice. TIG argon shield and 3.5 Nickle will likely make a good joint, but one always wonders about color match with bluing.

I'm tempted, SORELY tempted, to weld the splice, than, once profiled to close to finished shape, REDUCE the outer edge REAL uniformly, and than lay a bead of 309S all the way around the outer dia.,...Once blued, a svelte and somewhat "bling" lookin' detail on the BP, e.g. "Pimp My Roller"

Also thinkin' about grafting the left over top tang to the bottom / toe part of the plate.

I dunno',but have to get some other things out of the way, and will be considering this.

I know that somewhere on this planet there's a BUCKET full of discarded Mauser stock metal,.....I will now be keeping my eyes peeled for same.

Later,

GTC

Looks like they will work out real nice,going to look sharp.

Decisions, decisions,...etc.

The "traditional" military buttplate had that whatchacallit
(tang ?) up on the comb line, forever.

On reflection, not a bad idea if you're going to have the operators slamming the dam thing onto the pavement, cobblestones, dirt, endlessly....while performing his drill, or manual of arms. That would be the place to slam it, and have the arm come up in a natural vertical pose.

Than there's the clubbing , head smashing, and vertical butt stroking involved with bayonet drill and fighting,....

In my experience, a hunter / sportsman usually avoids slamming the butt of his rifle on anything, ....being more inclined to rest the butt on his instep, while parked in a relaxed, slouchy, un-military manner.

You very seldom see an old and hard run rifle missing a chunk from the comb line.
We see pieces split off of the TOE of rifle stocks a LOT, don't we ?

....really tempted to soften the top whatchamacallit / tang to almost gone, and grafting the other one onto the BOTTOM of this metal massaging stunt in progress,...thereby protecting the more vulnerable part of the whole lash up,....and also providing one hell of a practical place to locate a Q.D. sling base.

Just musing, under the assumption that you're not going to be running around knocking heads with this thing ( at least not to frequently).

....I don't see a bayonet mount on the plan, either.

....Phew

GTC

Artistry in the room, quiet please! Proper reverence must be given to this work of art!

Ed

Shhhhhh

I'm currently working the Minnesota bunch, trying to convince em' to let me finish this with Gold, Platinum, Silver, and precious jools.

Ha,....solid old working gun with a buttplate that looks like it was ripped off from the Vatican.

Rubies ?

GTC

I STILL can't believe how cleanly that cut with a torch. Those old Swedes knew what they were about when they called something steel.

GTC

LOL if I had rubies we could bling it out!

It's called pride in craftsmanship, Greg. Something you and others like you with an appreciation for quality and willingness to maintain that quality are gifted with.

I do enjoy watching you work.

Thanks for sharing this journey with us.

Ed

Albeit a bit cool and breezy, this seemed to be the right morning to tackle this,.....



Half the fun of this game can be building fixtures and shop accessories, so an empty Dos Equis box was chosen as the "Tig Booth" and some 3.5 Nickle rod was blorped around with an air cooled torch, a 3/32" Lanthanated Tungsten, under a somewhat porous and flighty pure argon shield.



A bit of hacking, grinding, and filing ensued. I had been concerned about this Fine Swede steel perhaps going glass
hard , actually went in the opposite direction and the whole piece went dead soft, and to consistency that "pins" a file in short order.





The belt sander and some 3M Rolox discs in an air grinder got the sucker's attention though,.....



I LIKE the way this turned out, and as far as I can see this Buttplate is deeper and wider than anything out there available on the commercial supply line. Damn good way to tame the hard kickers, I reckon. The current condition of finish is really overkill, and once the piece is inletted into the buttstock, some more filing and grinding will be inevitable. Oh, and YES, that is a high spot down by that screw hole,......it'll all buff out on fitting, and adjustment of the final shape. (and that can take as long or longer than all of the roughing thus far)




Time to fire up a tractor,....see ya'll later.

GTC

Greg,

Amazing work as always. I love the way it looks and even better is that you are able to use so many pieces from other old firearms to do it. I am sure my dad will chime in here or with a phone call soon enough.

Jim Jr.

Got some new pictures from Greg of the fitting of the forearm.

Like always I will let Greg describe what he is doing if he wants to chime in. I am more and more excited everytime I see pictures of this rifle. I have a feeling it is going to make my father and I speechless when we see it in person.

Mack

Nothing of earthshaking magnitude taking place there, Mack.
Simple concentric drilling and tapping ( 10-32 ), to secure the forend .

The little portable SHOP was shaking, though,....I'll just post what I e-Mailed to you and Dabble.




And (following day)


Cheers !

GTC

So Greg has gotten the rifle to a close to finish state. A couple more decisions to make about bluing and finish of the wood but it looks like a complete rifle now and I love it. I can't wait to see it in person and put some lead down the barrel.

I will always be in awe of Gregs handwork and artistry in putting not only all the pieces together but understanding how to make this a special rifle in the eyes of my father and I.

Up 'til now I've been gagging on thinners fumes (MVP&Naptha) whilst trying to get a half decent pic of this nicely figured furniture as it flashes off in August Az. heat.

Finish "roughed" to a rough #180 grit, and a few toolmarks still visible, it got it's first "soak" of EXTREMELY thin oil finish yesterday evening, and will get one or two coats a day until provisionally "sealed".The next two / three coats will just use the rifle itself to fixture the work. This is a "Never sweat" approach, and beats the crap outta' dangling things on wire. The metal won't care, at this point,and gummy residues wipe off handily. MAY be shooting it before dismantling and starting the metal finishing,...hope so, anyway.

Everybody that's picked this one up and mounted it has commented on how well it "hangs", and balances.It's going to be "Lively" with 550 grain loads. One would not want to use this barrel profile with anything smaller than a .45 caliber, you'd wind up with something clubbish..I'd REALLY like to assemble one in .50-70

Looks wonderful!

I've got enough roller odds and ends put by to build one, up to and including a completely ridiculous set of very old Navy Arms Italllllian stocks,....replete with a bizarre brass butt plate.

Noodling around with something larger than 50, ....a BPCR pressure Hubel #,....based on 20 or 16 ga.brass, and tossing BIG balls and punkins.Just may have landed on the quintessential American single shot hunting arm here,....fewest parts, and beyond any shadow of doubt, the QUIETEST.

Spent too many YEARS immersed in this "Buffalo Gun" and Creedmoor rifle game, I think,....and the appeal of a short, balanced, and fast swinging HUNTING rifle had apparently gone into dormancy.

I think from here on out I'll be confining this shops attentions and ministrations to guns weighing OVER 20 pounds, or UNDER 10.

This particular setup we've been writing / illustrating on was intended to be a sorta' "show and tell" outside of that commercial Larry Potterfield league guff....we wound up with Bud Light metal married to Finest 100 year old Cognac wood,....and all involved are a bit confused now, this scribe, in particular. A "where do we go from here?" situation.

Roller's just don't have any "curbside appeal".

Looks like it's course is about run, and with any kinda' luck, I'll shoot some "low and slow" hand rolled into paper, this coming Wed.

Fun project, all the way through.

GTC

1 week to go!

I have to go drop off some repaired ancient double gun trigger group,
and check the Swap meet out for likely plunder. ....back later,

GTC

Quick shot of cold blue, and a fit check are where the deal sits,...need to bore sight it and put a witness mark,...than maybe Niter Blue or Rust Brown it

I LIKE the idea of changeable beads,....sure don't like the idea of changing them anywhere but on a well lit bench,....if you thought front inserts were a bit fussy to handle, you wouldn't care for the demand place on clumsy old hands getting that little bastid planted in the right place

I personally would choose to FLATTEN the face of that round bead,against glare on one side pulling one's sight picture off.Hell, I'd use IVORY. Fun being able to say at this point I'm just the mechanic

Dazzled here, very nice work underway!

D

Mack5511 and OIDabble rolled in Saturday, and after a Sunday breakfast at the local cafe we did a little visiting /hanging out.Put a mechanical wind zero on the roller. Yesterday was a get 'er done clinic,....annealing, case forming, loading,...etc. Mackk5511 will mebbe have some pics of alla' that. On the way back to their digs they piced up a smaller bead, which we fitted this AM

Suitably coffeed up, we hit out for the S.V. Range,....and spent one of the more enjoyable days I'll remember,....The rifle's just a real pussycat and refuses to foul or misbehave. The "tight bore" aspect of the Getz barrel did raise some minor PITAS,...simple ones related to forming dies and cleaning jags on hand being spooled up for the standard .450-4585" dimensions,....

We got right after shooting at longer ranges, and found that 500 yards was a bit beyond the elevation available with the Receiver sight fitted,....so we pulled in closer to 300Yards and went to work on a
12 X 12 plate. Garnered great response to corrections, on a rare calm day, tossing 550 gr Leeth Gordon bullets in sensible mid 1100s velocity range.


We moved in to 50 yards,.....and I shot some of those brutal full house loads that I didi the initial shoot with,....
Minor tweaks to the final mechanical wind zero ensued

Fussy job,....but worth the time,....Tomorrow AM I'll hit the sight with some Green Loctite, and make a witness mark,....

A compendium of OLD match ammunition lefovers were obviously making for some vertical stringing, ....but the target called out not to worse horizontal,...I would have RATHERED a post, the glare off the bead in late afternoon desert Sun made for a sketchy, one sided sight picture.It WILL be cat's anus in low light and dense cover....

Mack5511 is going to be a holy TERROR with this rifle,...we moved back on out onto that 300 yard plate, and I walked him in,....making 2 or three corrections,...and after that he put 4-5 into a very tight KNOT,...threw a couple off,....but called his misses well.I was at that point feeding the rifle with HOT ram loads, and he just soaks that recoil up like a post. Rugby player, dontca' know.


Tired here after a LONG day,....THANKS for a fine feed at Ricardo's fellas'

More soon.

GTC

Tried my hand at creating a video from some of the video shot on the range day.



Still have more pics from the trip to go through.

Mack

Mack,.... Says," Sign in" ???

Okay,....so how the HECK do we view this ?

Merry Christmas, Old Timer !

Greg

Greg,

Sorry I had to change a setting in youtube as the music I used was copywrited. Should be able to view now.

Mack

Good thing there's no audio,....that too tight wiping stick had a fella turning the air blue, for a while there IIRC.

...that "tight bored" barrel sure does shoot like a house afire, though.

Watched all the dark low cumulus that's now blizzarding NM pass over last night,into a VERY dark dawn,...an "Arch" formed NW to SE, and the sky cleared,...one can smell the Polar bear pizz and seal dung in the N X NW wind that's up now.

....this ain't an Az., "Warm Cold"

Cheers!

GTC

Audio wasn't to profane but with all the other shooters in the background I thought music would be a better background plus I was trying to figure out the whole video editing software I was using. Now if I could figure out on the audio track to just mute the loud "bangs" and not the voices I would keep it. You passed along some very valuable information in that shooting session. I have a almost an hour or more of unedited footage that could be split up into more manageable chunks.

I will see if I can put some more together in the rest of my downtime.

Although I am trying to pin Dan down for a beer or lunch Mon or Tues. I will pass along your well wishes Greg.

Mack

A rather final evolution,...Packing one up RIGHT

The bottom of this box was made up of clear kiln dried pine
planks, 1 X 8 and 1 X 6,...the rest, odds and ends of good material, with LOTS of wood glue and Torx head screws. You could block up a truck with it.



"Pool Noodles" are on sale every Fall, Early Winter here, at giveaway prices... as well as being the BEST pipe insulation going, ...you'll never work with a better material For packing a long arm,...Bubble wrap has it's place, too,...that stuff is damned sure getting SPENDY, though. There are longitudinal and transverse wooden cleats, and some well padded tying wires holding the whole shebang in skew



Some ossified, splintery old Fir 1/2" ply suffices for a lid, again LOTS of screws.



You CANNOT ship a wooden box, bare, anymore. The shippers and freight outfits want cardboard or heavy paper covering em'. Get your box / crate sizing calc'd right, and that part becomes fairly EASY....bang, zoom, done.



Another "Adios'" in play here,...wishin' I'd gotten in more time behind this one,....the weather simply hasn't cooperated.Things work out right, I'll be seeing it again, though.If it turns up at one of your gatherings, grab ahold of it, swing it around a bit, bum a round or two of good BP ammo from one of the main perpetrators and ENJOY !