xtriggerman

Welcome to a great state. We moved here 3 years ago and consider it the best move we could have made. Like Charley Daniels says, " I wasn't born in TN but I got here as soon as I could" !

Nice set of pistols you have there BW. I just set up a small pottery kiln to CCH small receivers. The only thing you need to put traditional colors in the process is wood charcoal and powdered bone charcoal. Some folks may add various other things like leather char or some kind of fruit pit char but its really the process of charcoal and bone that does the hardening and the water quench is huge in determining the colors. I Ran the process 4 times so far and had to do both receivers over twice because my canister floor plate was not dropping the receivers in the quench tank fast enough. When that happens the extra "to atmosphere contact" between the hot kiln and cool water certainly did produce a whole lot of grey and not much color. The key is to get the cherry red receiver surrounded with the charcoal in the water just as it was with in the heating canister. If open air hits the receiver for any more than a split second, the colors are in jeopardy of materializing. Heres the last one I did and its dry in the picture but not bad for a 4th try at it. Its a Marlin No 47 22 pump. This pump gun was in a fire with very heavy water damage pitting.

Yeah, in a pinch, a well placed piece of lead can save a person some labor. I remember a story a co worker told me back in the early 80's about how one day he went to this old guy's junk yard looking for a ford manual trany input shaft so he could line up a clutch plate under a pressure plate in his truck. The old guy tells him he can make one up for him and pulls open a drawer in his desk and takes out a Ruger 44mag black hawk. They proceeded to walk back to a pile of manual transmissions. The old guy flipped a few around and then flung one to the ground and told Terry to stand back a way. He then shoots the heavy casting around the input shaft 4 or 5 times, walks over to it and kicks the shaft loose and hands it to Terry. I could see hitting it at rifle range..... maybe, but pistol range in the open? Then again the old guy was a Korean War vet with all the "fear" pretty much drained out of him from what I was told.

No, there were only various shards of copper jacket all mixed in with the back fill. I hoped to find some of the hardened steel AP inserts but no luck there. I don't know if they were using tungsten carbide back in the 50's when my AP rounds were made. It would be interesting to see if they were damaged much once the jacket & lead were striped away.

Come October, we will be in our new home 3 years. About 9 years ago the previous owner put an addition on the back of the garage with a basement below the garage floor level. When ever there is any kind of steady rain for a couple of days, the basement floor would flood out from water seepage threw the back block wall. Apparently the builder wasn't to bright when considering water management of the foundation. The basement floor slab is poored on ledge rock so if you seal up the back wall with no footing drain..... I get what I had..... water intrusion. SO, A jack hammer was out of the question with arthritis setting in so level one is 7.62x39. After about 200 some odd rounds, I drained out a lot of the item 4 back fill. I still had to get back about 5 feet in there to where the water was seeping in with a small trench and the x39 was proving not so effective on the floor slab. So I stepped it up to some M2-AP. Its from the 50's but did a fine job. Then about 80-ish round of old M2 ball to excavate the back fill. About a dozen hang fires and equal amount of duds got me to where I wanted to be. A good flush of a garden hose left no puddles behind but a nice fast drainage. Now I don't want folks to think this is particularly a safe thing to do since a bullet frag could very well have been along with the showers of concrete chips flying out of there but I have to admit.... it was fun as all get out blasting the crap out of that slab & back fill! Time to clean the ol 03-A3 tonight 8)

After working on an AR10T that had issues the factory failed to fix, Im not impressed with them. No adjustable gas is a big concern. I bought a M1A in 1977. After 8 years with it I sold it so I could by a Springfield SAR48. The M1A is a decent shooter but a walker after as little as 8 fast consecutive rounds. Pick up a guide on how to national match bed a M14 and you will see why they are very finicky shooters hot. After you own and spend time behind a FAL, those other 2 don't generate much excitement compared to the proven right arm of the free world.

Another fine "should have stayed in the line up" gun from Ruger. 22mag is perfect in that lever gun. Great score & investment.

I like the mirror trick.... never heard that one before. Caliber is always a consideration when I mount. If its a fair kicker, put a dab of rubber cement in the ring saddles before you drop the scope in. This trick will even keep a 375 H&H from doing scope slide under recoil.

Many of the upstate counties like Oneida had Sheriffs that said they would not enforce the SAFE Act back when it was passed. Well, well.... look at what time can do to shortening memories! To sue the county for a mistake of removing ones guns form their premises will be an expensive effort. Since there was never any Tort reform enacted, he can only sue for the initial cost's of getting his guns back. Only after that is settled in his favor, can he then open a new case for the associated cost of the initial court settlement. Very few attorneys handle firearm related cases regardless of innocence so the cost of retainer of one who will take the case will be no less than about 6K and to run its course more than likely another 5K to see it threw as long as its a slam dunk case like the guy in this post. To add insult to injury, The Police there have no obligation to return the firearms in the physical condition in which they were seized. I know for a fact that the NY SP uses simple steel lockers and steel drawer cabinets to lock the guns into. Talk about scratched up bluing and dinged up wood? A good chance the owners will get all that and no recourse. 70 year old Don Hall's biggest mistake was staying in NY to retire as a gun owner. Its mind blowing that a state of 50 thousand square miles can be so corruptly ruled by the idiots that live on 300 square miles with in its boarders.

In an AK type weapon, the difference between the 2 is pretty much non existent. I would be surprised if the difference was more the .0015 of an inch. Excessive head space in any center fire firearms starts at about .007-.008 thousandths. The CIP, from what I'v just read is cut to give slightly less head space. In a target gun, that would be the way to go. in a SHTF hi cap weapon that may have to eat a varied diet of may be not so desirably clean ammo, the slightly bigger headspace gap would be preferable. But again, that's really needle dicking the subject. Good luck on the build.

In a rim fire.... nothing makes bad fruit fly apart better than a 17HMR. Like an A bomb inside a tasteless wally world orange

To do a decent job, you need to have a milling machine of some sort. I use a small bench top mill with a mod of a dial indicator on the depth quill. I suppose some one who is very carful might be able to hollow out the cavity with a drill press & drills with maybe a dremil to clean things up but in my book that's a night mare since grinding aluminum packs up a grind stone or diamond infused cutter pretty quick. After a diligent search for a jig a couple years ago, I bought this one http://www.kearms.com/ke15-jig Its a nice jig with hardened pin bushings. Iv only done one 80 so far but it worked well. I always thought a 45ACP in a AR set up is nice since I have a number of grease gun mags but just as many other irons in the fire! Good luck with your decision.

Once you have personal experience with a number of friends and your own kid suffering damage soon after vaccines, you might see the validity in the film. Follow the money trail. Merck made nearly 700 million on shingles vaccine in 2016. Its a free of law suit litigation business. The CDC has been know to craft their studies to stay within the "safe" reaction times of vaccinations. I wont say more.... its your kids, your roll of the dice. The REAL focus should be on insuring a healthy immune system within the population. But that's another can of worms.

My rant...... DO NOT TRUST ANY GOV AGENCY *** ESPECIALY *** the CDC. Here is the interview on the making of the movie VAXXED. This was/is a major peeve of mine for over 20 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KrpK0rbl9w The movie can be bought for 25 bucks here. http://vaxxedthemovie.com/dvd/

Nassau county..... ow , that's the King Cong of NY tax monsters! Gez, its so bad their even a NY CCW permit is not valid there. I feel for your pain. Armpit is a kind expletive in this case. I had a full service store front gun shop in Kerhonkson NY & back in those days had a number of regular city hunters come threw every year. I looked at all the places you are now looking at and I gotta say, its getting a bit too elbow to elbow for me in that neck of the woods on top of the fact the elevation is not much at the Smoky foot hills & lakes. That all equals heavy hot humid air like what they have right now. Up here on the Cumberland plateau that runs 1900-2000' its a very noticeable temp difference. Winters are a bit more chilly with some icing and a passing inch or 2 of very short lived snow. And that's just fine with me. Crossville is our adopted town and after visiting dozens of other small towns, we would not be happier any where else for numerous reasons. One of the most important parts of this web page is listening very carefully to the regulars thoughts on the politicians running for office. They will guide my 4 state wide votes. Your conservative? vote here will not get trumped by massive metro brainless dems like in NYC altho the cancer is growing in Nashville by leaps & bounds now a days. Just be carful in your final selection. "Dam Yankee" can carry some weight in places. http://www.city-data.com/city/Tennessee.html is your best source for stats on everything from the county vote totals to what stores each town has. PM me if you need anything more. Good Luck on your hunt.

I was in your same position 3 years ago. What part of NY are you coming out of. Most folks think city but NY is about 10,000 Sq miles larger than TN. Maybe I can give you some good tips. Down here the high deer limit keeps the deer pop really low compared to upstate bumper bouncers.

It appears the NRA is only rating her a 64% on gun issues.

Yes, welcome from an X Catskill Mtn resident.

I had done some reading on near death experiences and this particular book had some info that this woman was possibly exposed to that certainly seemed plausible about this very subject here. What she claims to have seen taking place after several nuclear detonations in the US was pretty interesting. Read the reviews... https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Death-Extraordinary-Experience/dp/0966497058/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497368994&sr=8-1&keywords=there+is+no+death

Nice pistola! You don't see them around much for sure. Too bad who ever refinished it didn't pay more attention to the edges and exposing the barrel lug groove was a bit of a boo boo. Nice shooter with a past.

With the right load, I still like my 40. Those last two 45 loads are inspiring! got to get a couple boxes of that medicine! http://www.luckygunner.com/labs/self-defense-ammo-ballistic-tests/#9mm

Thanks for the Likes guys. Its fun making something better than what it was in the first place and the $150 turn around aint bad either.

A friend of mine gave me this revolver since it looked like it was too far gone to consider any kind of repair cost. The hammer & trigger spring was shot along with all the other springs. Cylinder timing was toast. After looking it over, I found it had a bore that was incredibly nice and the cylinders chambered up the 32-20 rounds nicely as that was one of the calibers these were popular in. Well between those 2 things, I thought I'd have at it. The internals were more Colt than S&W but the V spring looked like a 12 year old make it from scratch. The lock work had no provision to rebound the firing pin back into the safe position with the trigger let off. So, since I had a pair of new S&W M+P hammer & trigger in the drawer, I decided to do a S&W lock work transplant. The frame needed to be drilled for a trigger rebound slide spring post that would get welded in and the frame needed to have a notch cut for a S&W hammer spring along with a D&T for a strain screw. The rest was tweeking the frame and cylinder star after replacing all the springs. Here is the challenge S&W parts The original lock work Here the S&W parts are in place All the screws were so badly buggared up I ground out the driver slots, mig welded them up and recut a new screw driver slot in all the frame screw heads Now the BIG disappointment. After getting the action to work exactly like a basic S&W M10, I found the 32-20 were all key holeing the target! I guess that's what happens when you shoot a 312 bullet in a 329 bore! The gun is actually a 8mm Lebel M94 cartridge. You can see the fire formed casings in this shot After all this work, My friend wants to buy it back......... Off it goes! What are friends for?

If I had some smoke coming out of my pocket.......... probably one of these. They are pretty well made. https://northamericanarms.com/shop/firearms/naa-32naa/

Gez.... they sure put some serious wheel time on that carrier! I have never seen one like it.