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George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
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I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
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Yessir, and that little rifle will be a barge load of fun. Gunner
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There needs to be more threads like this here instead of the other BS.. that being said I surely like to see people with machining skills at work at is it like artwork to me..and I don't have an artistic skill in my body.
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It sure is amazing what a fellow with patience and talent can do. A rarity these days. Nice work, sir! AMEN, and to be the recipient of such workmanship is incredible! I will never be able to properly repay you Sir. Terry, having you around this place to guide, steer, coach, and toss out a steady barrage of good humor is MORE than enough "payment". GTC
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Cold out there this AM. Once the shop was warmed up a bit, I popped the frame loose, and cleaned things up a bit
There's a LOT of "beef" to play with on this stock, it's going to finish out nicely. Just beading the frame made a heck of a difference, too. This snow storm's got the Air compressor blowing moisture, so I'll have to hold off on any further beading 'til it warms and dries up a bit.
The Lower Tang is all bedded in at it's tail, and a pretty good amount of wood will have to be milled away above the front of it, to clear the hammer spring strut.
I'm headed back out to drizzle a little Acraglas in through the Upper Tang Screw hole, and get it properly situated /supported, prior to drilling the stock, and milling that recess in
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Keep them pics coming! and whaddaya mean snow? you are close to the equator
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Humph!,...I wish I was getting to work on fun stuff.
The work at the shop lately has been particularly uninspiring.
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,...and that's lookin' real good.
I'd have one that pretty reamed to .22 mag.
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That magazine tube follower you sent over is a piece of JEWELRY !
Waking up these old 'Brown Guns' is most always pretty rewarding.
There's a LOT of young men out there now whose first rifles have been across my bench,.......and more on the way.
As the New Year unfolds, I'll get started on Roger's New Grandson's Stevens Model 44, ......
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,...and that's lookin' real good.
I'd have one that pretty reamed to .22 mag. I dunno,..... These old cast actions really thrive on standard velocity ammo, and lower pressures. Start feeding em' a steady diet of 'Mini-Mags', 'Velocitors', and other HP stuff, and the links and pins batter out,....pretty soon one see's 'Lever droop',.... Remember, Smokeless was the new kid on the block when they were new. GTC
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That magazine tube follower you sent over is a piece of JEWELRY !
It was your suggestion that made me think to turn one out of bronze. I turned a couple out of stainless before the bronze one. I hope you got an old 336 to stick it in.
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One of our Buffalo League shooters needs one, I think.
If it won't fit my rasty old .44 carbine,it'll make a nice gift for him, I reckon.
If it fits, I'll give him my old one.
Those plastic things are a bloody disgrace!
GTC
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Sounds like a good idea.
It'd been rattlin' around in my tool chest for long enough.
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,...and that's lookin' real good.
I'd have one that pretty reamed to .22 mag. I already have one I re-chambered to .22 Mag, this one is for shooting .22 LR like I did as a kid. A time machine of sorts for a nostalgic old fart.
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If I ever do another one I am thinking .32 S&W Long powered by BP.
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
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I sure like my little Hopkins and Allen in .25-20 Win.
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George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
"Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison.
I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
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I sure like my little Hopkins and Allen in .25-20 Win.
GTC As mentioned ad nauseum,.. .310 Cadets are my rook rifle of choice.
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"ChesterPulley" dropped by late this AM with some belated (welcomed nonetheless)'New Year's Cheer". We shot some fine breeze while I got down to the short strokes on this improvisational stocking job. Started out fitting some original Winchester High Wall Tang screws top and bottom, than set up in the mill. An angled 3/8" cut was trammed into the foward lower tang area, to clear the coil spring hammer strut. Here I've mocked the strut up with tape so's you can get an idea WTH I'm going on about. The new roughed clearance cut's visible on the LHS of the pic. Some hand scraping or a little chiseling may be called for when the Florida crew final assembles this beast. As promised the Butt Plate got a ride on the belt sander, and a bit of filing to leave the wood 'proud", e.g. at a dimension finding the metal just BELOW the level of the wood,....this will really ease the final finishing and profiling steps ahead.
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A quick swipe with the jitterbug sander sees these stocks ready to pack up and ship After looking at fore end at some length, have determined that it would be better for it's shimming / final fitting take place over in Florida, once the barrel's fitted and headspaced properly, on a restored action. Terry and his guys will get alla' that handled admirably, I'm sure.
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