Clod Stomper

Not quite that long. Mid nineties, sometime. Buford Tune. Heh, that's where my wife and I went in '98. What a character. Yeah, he recommended that everyone recertify with everything they might carry. Good way to make extra money, I guess.

I wasn't going to reline it for the .32  Just turn down the barrel to fit the receiver.  Of course, that would be the easier thing to do with other rimfire rounds too, I imagine.   Are you certain about the pressure?  Factory pressure of a .32 acp is less than a .22 lr.  Of course then you have a larger cartridge, less chamber wall, more bolt thrust, etc.   What did you rebarrel yours to?  

Reading this thread has gotten me thinking (which makes my head hurt  :drunk: )...   A few months ago, I found a good deal on a used .22 "Cricket".  It was going to be my little boy's first rifle, but I'm not a huge fan of the quality, so I'm going to get him a Savage "Rascal" instead.  So.....   What to do with this one?  I'm a tinkerer, so I thought about relining it to .22 mag or one of the .17 rimfires.  But...   I just remembered that I have a barrel taken off a Lee-Enfield.  The rifling is good, but the chamber was all buggered up.  I'm pretty sure I can take a piece of that barrel and fit it to the Cricket.  Cut a .32 ACP chamber, open the bolt face and make the bolt a centerfire instead of a rimfire.  And VIOLA!  A handy, quiet little carbine.   Need to do some math regarding the bolt thrust, but I'm pretty sure it will be safe.

  They do, but I don't think that's the factor.  Civilian federal employees do too.  At least I did.  Each time I got a new position.

Why not.  BO does it all the time.

Oh yeah, here it is from another angle showing the lean better. Please overlook the mess on the carport. My mother-in-law was having carpet put in the basement at the same time. Yes, the lean was favorable. Almost exactly in the direction we wanted it to fall.

Well, here's the tree that we cut a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pics of the logs or the rest of the tree in the yard. But since my saw is still ailing, it's pretty much still there, so I'll get a couple pics of the logs. We're going to try to cut some lumber out of them. We have an Alaskan mill, but a friend of mine (the one who did most of the cutting) thinks he may be able to borrow a Lucas mill, which would be better for these logs, I think. Hopefully we can make a little money selling the lumber. I'm sure glad that thing is down. It was dropping killer limbs. Some on the house. Next to go is the hickory just up the hill from it.

They are pretty cool.  And were cheap at one time.     Like you said, the de-cocker is iffy.  I tested mine once on a loaded chamber.  Yes, it did fire.   Another thing that you probably already know, don't dry-fire it.  The firing pins can be brittle.

No, you're right, I didn't until just now. I was just answering the thread subject in general terms. That is a complete new design. I like it. Wonder how the accuracy compares to a DI?

Just be sure to rotate them occasionally.  I've had them go bad after a few years.  

I have in the past considered a piston AR.  But the piston conversions introduce, in my opinion, more problems than they solve.  A better solution for me is an adjustable gas block.  A proper tuning makes it run cleaner, which is the only real complaint some people have about the direct impingement AR

Had to be them.  I remember their ads in the newspaper.  "Must love loud music."  From what I read, it's because they would drive around in a van, dangerously, with the radio cranked up.  Very high turnover.  The owner makes money by putting a ton of kids out there selling expensive vacuum cleaners and every once in a while, they sell one.  Salespeople don't make much unless they manage to sell a few.   A couple of them freaked out a buddy of mine a few years ago.  He lives at the end of a dead-end road, sort of out in the sticks.  They pulled up, mumbled something, shoved a can of cleaner in his hands and left.   One stopped by our house a while back, in the daytime.  An attractive female who was not at all pushy and seemed genuinely disappointed when I didn't have time to let her do a demo.  But she just left.  Looking back, I should have introduced her to an endeavor that I was involved in at the time.  It hasn't worked out all that well for me (I'm a terrible salesman), but a pretty girl may have better results.   I don't blame the salespeople.  They're enticed by an ad promising them easy money then pushed out on the road with no training.

Let me guess...  Ultimate Technologies?

  How about relining a .223 barrel in a H&R or Rossi with a .32 liner.  http://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/barrel-blanks-tools/barrel-liners/centerfire-barrel-liner-prod10976.aspx   I haven't stubbed or relined a barrel, but I have plans to do both.  I think relining is easier since you don't absolutely need a lathe to do it.

My first thought was red oak.  Not sure, though.

"We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it."   "I will tell you these are ammunition. They're bullets. So the people who have those now, they're going to shoot them....." (Speaking about magazines)   "We need to spread the wealth around!"   "Unemployment insurance... is one of the biggest ways to stimulate the economy... it's a job creator"   "I've been to fifty-seven states, with one left to go."   "Navy Corpse-man (sic)... corpse-man....corpse-man.."   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww    

Yep.  He is just a stone's throw from Vonore. 

  You should give him a call.  Like Prag said, Andrew is a great guy.

He wasn't the greatest pres ever, but certainly not the worst.  I have plenty of problems with plenty of things that he did, but...  As mentioned above, I do believe that he loved his country.  And that is more than can be said for the current occupier.  

With a .32 acp-like load, it won't cycle the action.     Myself, I was just looking for a plinking/light game load.  One that would be light and quiet enough to make the SKS a bolt action.     Maybe I'll get to do some more experimenting this weekend.  If I stumble on a good load, I'll post it.   Will

I'm pretty sure I've never seen anything except the chamber inserts.  Plus, if I had to make a guess, I'd bet that after passing less than 16" of barrel, the .32 auto will have peaked and started to lose velocity.  And it ain't exactly smokin' to begin with.   But if you're looking for a quiet, unsuppressed, round.  That would be a prime candidate.  Just be careful that you don't get a bullet stuck in the barrel.   BUT, if you're going to handload, have you considered loading a cast .32 bullet in a 7.62x39 case with a light charge of fast-burning pistol powder?  I've played around with that a bit in an SKS.  Never nailed down an optimum load, but I'm sure there is one out there.

Well, profiling would be a necessity, I think.  Probably too much trouble and risk, though.  Oh well...

Thinking about starting another thread.  A thread with a list of people who may be willing to DONATE 50 rounds of .22 lr to any youngster in the local area who needs some for practice or hunting.  Maybe it would keep some people from buying from the scalpers.  Good idea?  Bad idea?     Will

I'll back up what Stumpy posted.  Even if you invest the money in a reamer or a gunsmith to ream it and a new set of dies, you're not going to come anywhere near the much-more-common .223 Remington.     I do have a .22 Hornet, but I have not done the conversion in question.  I have had a .30-30 reamed to a .30-30 Ackley Improved.  If I had it to do over again, I would not bother.  There is negligible performance gain.     Just enjoy it for what it is.  A fairly quiet, light-recoiling, somewhat nostalgic (for me) round.  What would you gain?  50-100 fps?     Of course, as I get older, I become more of a purist.  My grandfather gave me that .22 Hornet just before he passed.  So I would never modify it.  I have also been wanting a new one that I can take out in the woods.  I wouldn't rechamber it either.   As already said, good luck with your decision.   Will   Edit:  If you do decide to ream the chamber, you'll probably want to sell your Hornet dies, right?  I may be interested...  I've been wanting to drag out my Papaw's old Savage for some time now...

At the risk of alienating a lot of folks, let me pose a couple realistic scenarios.   The first hypothetical:   I'm a brand new owner of a Modern Sporting Rifle.  I haven't paid attention to our country's path until the last few weeks and now I realize that I may have to defend my family from zombies in the near future.  Well, fortunately, there are plenty of black rifles at the moment at decent prices.  I pick up a Colt 6920 for 1100 bucks.  It came with ONE thirty-round mag.  Awesome!     But, I soon learn from reading online forums that I should have more than one magazine.  No problem.  Back online I go.  Whoa!  Brownell's has them for 12.95 apiece!  Oops... sold out.  What to do?  I look at several other websites and they're all sold out too.  Finally I stumble across some site called "Cheaper Than Dirt".  They have magazines in stock!  Wait, whaaa....  SIXTY DOLLARS APIECE!?     Now, do I say "Eff these guys for gouging like that.  I'd rather let zombies eat my children's brains"?  Or do I say "Whew.  I'm glad they still have mags in stock.  I can spare $120 for two reloads."?   Here's another.  And it was actually a possible scenario just a few years ago right here in Knoxville.  I saw it.:   I live in Nashville.  I have to travel on business to Knoxville.  One-day trip, no big deal.  I leave Nashville with three quarters of a tank of fuel.  Since I travel so much, I have a small fuel-efficient car.  I can travel about 300 miles on a tank of gas.  So 3/4 is plenty to get me to Knox.  I'll gas up there after my meeting.     Halfway through the meeting we take a break.  I hear on the radio that there has been an oil pipeline rupture in the Gulf of Mexico.  Uh oh.  Better refuel now.  I start driving to the nearest gas station.  Oh, there's a Food City that sells fuel!  And the price is the same as it was this morning!  Even better, there's no line of cars.  So I pull in and... WTF?  They're out of fuel?  How did that happen?     Oh well.  I drive on down Chapman Highway to the Shell.  Oh no, there's a line of 5 cars waiting to fuel up.  And OMG, FIVE DOLLARS A GALLON?  Now, do I say...   "Eff this.  I'll stay in Knoxville until gas prices come back down"?  Or do I say "Whew!  I'll get enough fuel to get back home where I have quite a bit stored away. Just in case..."?   The second scenario could well have been reality just a few years ago.  TRUE STORY FOLLOWS...  The news reported a burst oil pipeline or something like that.  I wasn't concerned.  I keep a couple extra jugs of fuel.  Just in case.  Every gas station I passed was backed up AND had jacked up their prices.  But as I was going into Lowe's on Chapman Highway, I noticed across the parking lot that Food City still had normal prices.  Cool.  Even though I didn't need to, I decided I'd top off.  Why not?     I came out of Lowe's and drove over to the Food City.  It was closed.  They were out of fuel.  That's why there was no line and the prices hadn't changed.   The preceding is just food for thought.  Here's my disclaimer.  I have never camped out at walmart to buy ammo to resell.  I haven't bought anything from CTD in the last few years either.  But if they happened to have a screaming deal, or something I can't find elsewhere, I probably would.     I am a libertarian and believe that I can ask any price for anything that I own.  If it's too high, no one will buy it.  If it's too low, I won't be able to keep up with demand.     I think that CTD's business practices are pretty stupid.  I think it will eventually put them out of business because people will quit buying.  Either the prices will drive customers away, or people will hold a grudge.   Just my thoughts...   Will