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That is a lot of gun for the money. The short grip will make it rock a bit harder than my K40 but still a hard hitter with good ammo. I'm very happy with my 40 as a carry gun. With modified followers, The K has 7+1 and 8+1 capacity. And this gun has a great DAO trigger. off a rest at 35 feet, the machine work shows.

OK, Thanks. looks like they are sprung the same exact way they have been for decades. Many years ago CCI was known to have the hardest primers in the cartridge industry and those rounds were the preferred cartridges to tune a hammer spring on. If a cut spring could still get a good firm hit and it light up, everything else would be absolutely no question sure fire. For what ever its worth.....

Well, I'v been wanting one of these for a few years and finaly did it on Gun Broker. Oddly, I was the only bidder on the $300 auction with $15 to ship and my dealer here gets $25 to make it happen so it comes to $340 OTD so to speak on this Stoeger import. Any one know when Stoeger dropped the Uberti Stallion line? The gun was advertised as new old stock but it did look like it had a cylinder or so fired threw it. The colors are really nice on this particular gun along with the over all fit & finish. I do need to do a little work on the trigger since its a tad creepy and its only 1.5 lbs away from a Bang! This is the first 30 rounds fired at 40 feet off a rest. If not for the one flyer (me), its holding 1.5". I'll tune the sights in better but now I'm after a Mag cylinder and then I'll decide on any sight mods. The second pic puts the Stallion along my JP Sauer 44mag. Great guns with about as close to Colt fit & finish as your going to get without Colt stamped on the barrel.

Keep an eye open for a Hawes or J.P. Sauer both made in West Germany. Normaly pretty good shooters on the lower coin side of things. I picked up a JP Sauer 44mag for $275 on GB a number of years back and its dead on and groups extremely well.

Nice pair of snubs for sure. Question... can you test the pull on the 640? I'm just wondering if S&W ever changed their spring rates on this latest edition of the J's. The 60's that I worked on in the past usually came out of the box with 14+ lb DA pulls. 9-10 lbs was doable on those and still be in a functional reliable carry condition with the factory springs. Just curious.

An old timer I knew back in the 70's that used to be a WWII Navy navigator on a destroyer gave me a tip on how he annealed many thousands of rounds. He said just stand them up in a large pan of water that's about 1/3rd deep on the casing. Propain can heat the neck slightly down into the mouth long enough to get a good sizzle in the water when you knock the heated case down into the water. I used this on .308 casings back then and never had a brittle problem after this simple method. Spinning the casing is a cool idea but I saw no need to improve on ol' Virgil's ..(God rest him) method with the couple hundred casings I put threw my FAL.

Good Lord! a gangsta belie gun for the hood....... Once the dudes that pony up the $1200 for one of these realizes 6" of bore pressure = nothing more than card table anti personnel potency, used ones will soon be available.

Yes indeed, The Husqvarna HVA action was one of the very finest actions ever made. When I was in gunsmithing school 79-81, There were 2 actions that were top of the line candidates for custom builds and that was the Sako's and the Husky HVA (not 98 Commercial). The HVA is a small ring Mauser action with 98 featured bolt design. It was the only small ring Commercial Mauser action offered in belted magnum chamberings. I built a couple custom rifles for folks on that action. I like it so much that I bought one many years ago and modified it to suit my thoughts of a perfect hunting rifle in a classic way. I put a Win M70 style safety on it and modified it for a detachable 4 round magazine that feeds from center in line. Needless to say, this unit is as slick as it gets working 30-06 in & out of the chamber. I put my signature 3 sided bolt handle flats on the bolt. One of these days I still need to reshape the comb over the grip to fit my hand better but hey, the shoe maker's kids hand no shoes either! These HVA's are sleepers on used racks.

I would also like to see some new falling block guns back in the market. Even if it had to be an import like Taurus keeping Winchesters 1890 alive at a non Italian repro price. Personally I would revamp the old Iver Johnson line. Here I remade this 922 by machining threads into the receiver and then screwing in a old octagon barrel that was sleeved with a 17HMR chamber. The original straight butt stock was converted to the Savage 1903 pistol grip unit. At 25 yards All these I.J.'s have auto eject and rebounding hammers like the H&R's This is a 38 shot gun I recently acquired that I plane on sleeving the original rusty bore with a SS bll in 22 hornet. Only this need an extractor made from scratch and the firing pin will need to be bushing-ed down to smaller ID. Great designs that SHOULD be reborn with modern materials. Break opens........ not so much.

Clearly the stock has been refinished and somewhat butchered like most non professional jobs. The butt plate over bite on the wood proves it and is a huge value killer. The condition of the bore is also a big ? A very close look at the bore must be conducted to ensure there is no bulge as that's a common value fault in these old guns. If the bore is dark and pitted ( like most) I cant see it private sale for any more than 600 tops. A pristine bore, maybe 750. If it was original wood finish on a bright bore with bayo, then yah, 900 and up. God knows, a Gun show table would see the mentioned $1200. The blueing "looks" original by the pics. and these are more and more collectable every day.

Thanks MP, I don't have blueing tanks any more so I just stick to smaller projects more or less. True for Win .308 or larger capacity cartridges and 600 yards is a tad far for the rather mild 6.5 swed but the caliber is a nice combination of low recoil and flat trajectory of the .26 cal bullet. If the Howa has a heavy varmint taper barrel, the thing will recoil on par of a light weight AR in 5.56. Add a good BDC scope and that all spells fun for those of us that arnt excited any more by the belted magnum braun of our youth days passed. As a reloader, sure the bullets are not in great variety but for informal targeting, I don't fault the choice one bit!

The 6.5 swed is a fine choice for a nice comfortable, accurate cartridge. In its day, it had numerous long range grouping records in Europe. The Howa is a fine action and I'm sure it will be a great gun for what you want. Last fall I was at Sarco in PA and they had a row of about 20 or 30 96 Swedish Mausers on the back wall. Even a few of their big bucks match target Mausers. I don't remember what they were going for but it wasn't the pricing of yester year for sure. About 10 years ago I built a 6.5 Swed for an old customer of mine who became a good friend. We tossed the build around a bit and this is what it ended up as. Styled after a Mannlicher Schoenhower , I used a Mexican 98 Mauser short action with a Military Swed replacement barrel That I removed the steps off of. M70 style swing safety and reformed hot forged handle into a pear spoon handle. This rifle would shoot 1MOA all day with the heavier factory 156g Norma bullets. The 6.5 military chambers have a very long throat. Not sure if Howa kept to the long throat or not.

When the Mc Connals and Ryans go limp on his demands, he needs to go directly to their districts and threaten to cut them down in rallies like this. How else can he get the rinos on board?

If there is any truth to the Bible and I think there is, the bulk of the libtards nest in coastal cities. Since they say they would move to Canada and they didn't, and they say global warming and oceans rising would upset their homes but yet to move...... Its coming... Oh yah, its coming to a coastal population some day soon and no one will be laughing. Yes indeed, the Bible has something in store for those sea side nesters right off the git go. The San Andreas on the left and the sub surface sand dunes along the leading edge of the Atlantic trench on the right. Life for us all will change drastically but those coastal citiots will get a life's review before the rest of us!

Older Taurus 941 22mag 3" pick up at GS private table $350 OTD. $50 for the grip. A keeper The old model 94 is the same but with lighter barrel and 9 rounds. If you are patient, you can find the older 3" Taurus guns. for a $3-400 dollar stainless gun, you cant go wrong on these 22 cal J frame sized guns.

+1 about 6 years ago a co worker brought me a nice Stainless PT1911 that had major accuracy issues. It shot way off to the right and would even key hole every now and then. The gun had a bad barrel. Visibly, the outside of it looked OK but internally, you could see a pronounced bend and a bit of a kink mid way as if the raw rifled casting had gotten bent after rifling but before the barrel OD was turned. The kink would explain the key holes. So I called Taurus and sent them the barrel as requested. I called them every month for my replacement that was supposed to be a 4 week max wait. Mean while after 2 months, the owner agreed to have me install a Clark match barrel that made the gun shoot 2" @ 25 yards with factory FMJ. Still no barrel from Taurus! After a couple more calls and 3 months latter, I get a "new ?" replacement barrel that was clearly a re-sandblasted and polished up used one. Very sad..... because the rest of the gun was actually pretty nice. As a side note, I spent some time on targets with my brother's new Ruger SR1911 and I was impressed. Ruger hit it out of the ball park! Trigger, sights, groups..... perfect! A need nothing factory package worth every penny.

I wouldn't fire it until you get the head space checked. The Indians were the only ones to take that receiver design and bump its working pressure by 10 -20 percent with the 7.62 cartridges. Basicaly it was a cheap way to use Nato ammo in guns they were all ready tooled up to make. Its not unheard of to find a well used 303 SMLE with headspace. That's why the Brits made several bolt heads of varying length to keep head space problems of the lighter 303 in check with a simple bolt head replacement.

A Smith for every season n reason! Very Nice indeed!

A creased tube or dent is not very hard to repair. All you need to do is find an acceptable "dent slug". A dent slug is simply a piece of steel round stock that is sized to just barely fit into the tube. As you move it down into the tube lubed up, you will need to tap it under the crease. As it is forced into the crease area, you then lay the OD of the tube on the flat of a vise and tap all around the creased area where the dent slug is. You then tap the dent slug in deeper and repeat the hammer taping on the OD on the vice flat. Eventualy you will reform the tube to the point where the slug only has a slight resistance pushed threw end to end. A pump tube doesent have to be perfectly round since the mag tube is considerable smaller in OD. About a 4" long slug or longer is ideal. Sometimes a SAE or Metric socket might be a close enough fit in the tube to tap out the crease over it. Otherwise, a machine shop can make one in about 5 minutes if you give the tube to spec out. Good Luck

The kiln and PID will both top out at just over 2000F so its good for anything I need to do. The lock was glass hard before I put it in the kiln. After I machined it and tested it out, I put a map gas flame to it until it lost its magnetic quality then swirled it around in Amsoil ATF for a few seconds. Now I'v read that 4140 will quench harden on small parts at 1475F and some say anywhere 1500-1600. Im guessing it might be associated with warpage? Maybe a complicated part with various thin/thick parts threw out will have a greater percentage of warp at 1600 rather than 1475? What do you think? Bownells calls for 1350-1425 for color case hardening and even at those temps dummy blocks n plugs need to be used to contain some warping.

Its basic hot rolled plate 4140 with these specs. If there is another designation.... there not saying over at speedy metals where I buy this stuff. Carbon (C) Manganese (Mn) Silicon (Si) Chromium (Cr) Molybdenum (Mo) Phosphorus (P) Max Sulfur (S) Max 0.35-0.43 0.75-1 0.15-0.35 0.8-1.1 0.15-0.25 0.035 0.04 4140 As-Rolled Plate conforms to ASTM A829 I was hooked on the idea of 4140 back in the 80's when I got a tour of the Winchester factory by Mr. Stoner the VP. He said 4140 is used exclusively on the Winchesters as barrel and receiver material. Thanks for the tip on stepping the temp up, I was thinking to just let it sit toped out for half an hour or so before I put anything thing in just to normalize the kiln but stepping makes sense even on the ware n tare of the kiln. I only intend to do small parts like adjustable gas blocks and such. Making a crucible that big enough to fit a single shot action yet small enough to be farthest away from the coil heat is the next thing to consider. Im going to size it towards a 1 1/2 rolling block action that I have. Its all trial n error at this point so if you see anything else that can be a potential issue.... by all means let me in on it! Making stuff you cant buy is always a most enjoyable part of gunsmithing.

Im not sure with this controller since I only ran it to the 500F you see there to heat treat a barrel lock on a Mossberg Brownie that I made. It was only about maybe 8 minutes for the 500. Im going to guess about 20-30 minutes to level out at 1500 F. 500F on 4140 should be about 50 Rockwell and the Safire blue looks cool on my mix master Brownie.

Years ago I bought a used Vulcan 111F on Ebay for about $275 if my memory serves me right. I really didn't know what needed to be done to it to make it work out for a parts hardner and mostly a unit that could color case harden receivers & parts. I knew it could easily provide the 1500 degrees F that is the highest I would need but just what was its failing. Well I found out pretty quick that the thermostat is pretty bogus on a ceramic kiln. It needs constant monitoring and fiddling with the super imprecise thermostat regulator. At the time Vulcan wanted about $475 for a refit controller that could be a set it and leave it unit. So the project languished. Ebay comes to the rescue with a digital PID plug & play controller for kilns for the sum of $168 shipped. So I just finished heat treating a part I made and man this thing works slick now. Here is the Vulcan in stock form with the mickey mouse regulator knob Here is the new PID digital regulator unit Now I really didn't like having the 2 units as separatee entities so I gutted the PID box and installed the components onto the 111F's control box frame The digital controller monitors the temp precisely with a variable pulse width that slows the heating coils gradually so it doesn't over shoot the set temp value. Only down side is it only works the high temp I need in the Celsius scale so I had to print out some C to F tables. I like the fact that its the perfect size for gun parts and it should be just right to fit a receiver sized crucible for encasing single shot receivers like rolling blocks. Here you see a junk Rem 742 receiver in it. So far, so good!

OK, I was not aware of what "any other weapon" meant to the shooting public until now. I truly understand the "I wont be here long" feeling. I retired out of NY Corrections in 2013 from Ellenville area south of you. I do miss the Allentown/Harrisburg gunshows. None of the TN shows can hold a candle to them on shear size and parts guns. Your 1000 table show at the fairgrounds used to be a favorite to until SAFE (send another family elsewhere) A hit. The America I grew up in still exists here TN. Good Luck with your move.

I thought NFA weapons were not allowed in any form in NY. Am I wrong on that?