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Not a pretty cut but enough spare for file work to 5/8ths.


Intial file work

Jewellers file work getting near my Intial scribe marks 360° around barrel I got after mike measurements.

Once you get the muzzle squared up, a round headed brass screw chucked up in a hand drill and some lapping compound will radius a nice crown on the barrel.

Your Exactly right bristoe.

Jewlers files and emery cloth for shoulder profile


Coencentric outside shoulder and face as best i could with hand tools


1st grind 1st brass bolt and valve lapping compound

2nd bolt used real light
Then 4ot steel wool spun
Then passed cotton ball test for snags.

What's it going on?

Got all that blue wonder waste of money crap off days ago
600 degree engine paint
Pic don't do it justice
Get me thru deer season till I can get it cerracoated next spring
Left crown unpainted so i can read the carbon star on wensday in case I might have to
do some fine tune filing

Put it back together in the morning with the float work I did on the forearm.

Accurizing work on my Mauser
New crown
Free floated forearm from full length bed job someone did way back when.

It would pair shots at 100 yds if shot 10 - 15 mins apart.

Had verticle string issues when barrel got hot

Barrel needs to sing and vibrate on its own accord and not have heat and up pressure issues being full bedded like it was.

Copper fouling revealed 2 lands had fouling equal to the muzzle
Other 2 lands fouling stopped 1/4 th to 3/8ths down in the bore
Worn like someone had cleaned from the muzzle

Now remnants of fouling on all 4 lands end equally at muzzle

1.5 inch 3 shot 100 yd group is the goal hopefully

Have original ammo and another type for wensday.

Will try 2 others if results are not what I expect.

LOL. You ain't far off me some days. Took me 2.5 hours to pull a zipper and sew a new one in for wives favorite vest yesterday. New vest would have been cheaper but they don't make that one anymore and not much fits her as small as she is...

But boy can we figure out how to burn time sometimes.

I thought this was gunna be about a buncha elves and some fantasy role playing at ol' Renegades cabin.

Hey, nice job on the crown bud. Let us know how it shoots now.

Is it Wednesday yet?

This tool makes life so much easier.

kwg

https://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-...s/79-muzzle-crowning-cutter-prod628.aspx

Gotta be some improvement over this

I got 300 rds of golden tiger AK ammo coming in from SGammo for start of a SHTF stash on thursday.
I'm outta funds in the swiss bank account fund that the wife don't know about.....I did see that tool surfing the web.
I had to buy the valve lapping compound and ceramic engine paint to get the rifle up and running and hopefully shooting way better.
Everything else I had at the house.

I always used a tubig cutter to give me a scribe mark to file to before hacksawing one off.

That's a good idea.
The rollers on a tubing cutter would square that scribe mark well 360.

Ok, it's Wednesday; how did it shoot!
Good bad or indifferent, we NEED to know.

At least I do....

I wanted to read all about it but can’t. I have him on ignore. Hasbeen

Well then youre a sheepish little p hag. Stay in your hole and hide your eyes.

Tell mannlicker you need another capri-sun

18 volt Milwaukie Sawzall.