Garufa

I had a brilliant idea the other day....lop the top of a jalapeno, stuff it full with sausage ball mix and bake it up.  That sounds real good to me.

  I don't think the factories have raised prices much more than natural inflation.  Prices go up every year...without fail.  Since .22 has not been readily available for close to 3 years now it's hard to truly gauge.   But I do know this. Academy and WalMart have not seen any increases attributable to anything more than yearly hikes.  For example,  Acadamy still sells Federal Automatch 325 rnd boxes for $17.99, WalMart sells them for $18.97 I believe.  That's not a whole lot more than a couple of years ago.   You can thank DEALERS and the umpteen middlemen in between the factory and them, and of course those who pay the absurd prices for the problem.

Just did a quick bit of Googling and it looks like E.R. Shaw still does .45-70 conversions or at least knows how to do it.  Maybe they could advise on 7.62x54r.

Although bolt-actions are incredibly simple they require far more skill than slapping together an AR.  First you'll need to find a barrel that fits with the correct threading.  I don't know anything about buying Mauser action barrels but am pretty sure a barrel in that caliber will most likely be a custom job......more than the cost of an entire Mosin rifle.   The barrel on bolt-actions such as this are screwed in and held on with nothing more than good old-fashioned tension.  There aren't any screws, pins, gas tube or anything else to hold it in place.  It has to be screwed down tight!  You'll need some kind of barrel or receiver wrench to do it right....then there's the headspacing.  That will require not only gauges but a lathe to tune the barrel face if needed to adjust it correctly.   Not saying it's not doable,  just thinking it will be really expensive.

Unless you really want to take on a project of that magnitude it would be cheaper just to buy a Mosin.  Are you a gunsmith or do you have all the tools to mount and headspace a barrel?

That's a real game changer.  :bored:

It's a Siamese Mauser action alright.

Doppler radar apparently has something to do with it.

I bet those commercials come on at about 3:38 in the AM.  :lol:

Unless it's Blazer .22 of course, which is brass. But I know you know that. ;)

By the time you're done asking questions your old lady'll be out of prison.

  I believe he's referring to ammo.

I wonder how many times they shot themselves before getting it right.

  Could you imagine the size of it if they did?

  This!

He's cost me a lot of money!  :lol:

  He's been threatening to veto the bill for weeks now.  Not clear on why but there's a good chance this might be a victim of collateral damage.

FYI, that Marlin was made in 1971.

SOG may be charging that much since they went to all the effort of taking actual photos and posting them of the thing.  This seems to be a new development.   Seems to me SOG has always been a bit on the high side for their "collector" pieces.

That looks like a bit for one of those weird screw heads.

  I was thinking an old Marlin goose gun would be much more satisfying.

  Pretty sure they would be as all 1911 contracts were cancelled at the end of WWII (I'm fairly certain of that).

For those interested here is the exact verbiage authorizing the transfers from the final bill being sent for his majesty's approval:   https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr1735/text/enr#link=A_X_G_1087&nearest=H87B6FE20649145D0B2612406666FFC1B

The last I heard the Senate put in some stipulations:   1)  The CMP must get an FFL and sell the handguns through normal FFL procedures. 2)  They will only be allowed 10,000 per year.

  You thinking about September's American Rifleman?  Yes, the price of Snake guns has gone through the roof....they were expensive enough brand new.