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Something else ain't it?

Yessir, and that little rifle will be a barge load of fun.

Gunner

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.

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

Keep them pics coming! and whaddaya mean snow? you are close to the equator

Humph!,...I wish I was getting to work on fun stuff.

The work at the shop lately has been particularly uninspiring.

,...and that's lookin' real good.

I'd have one that pretty reamed to .22 mag.

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, ......

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

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.

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

Sounds like a good idea.

It'd been rattlin' around in my tool chest for long enough.

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.

If I ever do another one I am thinking .32 S&W Long powered by BP.

I sure like my little Hopkins and Allen in .25-20 Win.

GTC

I bet you do Sir.

As mentioned ad nauseum,.. .310 Cadets are my rook rifle of choice.

"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.

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.