gunrunner32

If you go with something like that how would the "couch potato snipers" put their bipods on their bolt actions anymore? Guess they will have to learn how to shoot using the sling for stability or standing off-hand...I think they look good and give a clean look to the rifle.

Looks pretty good to me, what temp did you bake the frame at? I like the green as well, which one is it? I just did a 1911 in a blue titanium (frame) and a 3 parts graphite black to 1.5 parts blue titanium (slide and small parts) for a guy. The color combo looks great in pieces but the gun needs some TLC in the reassembly phase so I'll eventually get pics once he's done with it.

I'm going to have to give a third thumbs up to GunTroll.

I was at Middle TN Gunsmithing over the weekend getting a few pointers on how to properly lay out the threads on a barrel and cut the crown on a Mark 77. GunTroll is very good and with the time spent in set up alone the end product is nothing but quality. He runs a professional shop and his passion is bolt actions. Being in Springfield it's a bit closer than going down to Knoxville. Needless to say I've been working with GunTroll at Mid TN Gunsmithing for a while now and have seen the majority of his work and it's been nothing but quality. Check into him, I don't think you'll be dissapointed by the quality of the work.

I figured you wouldn't have waited long after I left before you put it back together. I'm glad you liked it, I know I enjoyed doing it. Its looks great now that it's all together.

I had a nice run in with the Highway Patrol in New Mexico, I got busted going 73 in a 50. I hadn't seen a sign in a while and I was out of the "town" if you could call it that, so I thought I was clear to run at highway speeds. Turns out when I stop I'm staring at the 65 mph sign about 100 yards in front of me. I told the cop that with the sign in front of me this is going to sound stupid but I thought I was in the 70 mph zone. He had a good laugh and informed me that it wasn't for a few more miles. After seeing that I was visiting he asked how much longer I was in town, I told him only 1 more day and he said as long as I don't get pulled over again all I was going to get was a written warning. The nice thing was the written warning was for doing 65 in a 50. It's good to get out easy. I was pulled over another time in North Carolina for going 79 in a 55, didn't see the speed changed on me. I paid a lawyer who used to be the DA in the city to get me off, it cost me $450 to keep my license.

Prize or not, both the wheel guns I have in the house I've never shot yet so hopefully I do decent with them. I'll be sure to email the pictures of my better attempts to the blog email for judging.

I've got presidents day off so I'll be at G&L sometime that day. I'm going to try my hand at both my new wheel guns. Uberti 1873 Cattleman .45 Colt and a FIE Little Ranger .22lr, both are single action only. We'll see which one I am good with. Since that's all I have to do that day I will be participating in this months no matter what.

Oh no it looks great. I was just saying that coating it the same color it already is makes it kind of difficult to see exactly where you started and stopped. I figured it out though, I had my light angled so I could see the sheen difference. I'll be asking for pictures once you get it put back together anyhow, I want to see it all done. Right now I'm holding the pieces up together and the contrast looks great but without anything going together it's hard to imagine it all done.

I think I'm going to get some of that TruOil and try that little thing out, it was a good thread on rimfire central and it looked like it had some great results. I need to get down to your place GT and give you back your shotgun. I should be ready to head to the Nashville area to buy/order me a new pistol anyhow by Friday. Oh and spraying Parker over a fresh parkerized gun is like coloring a blue piece of paper with a blue marker.

I was goofing around and looking up how much it would cost to get started plating and getting the chemicals from Brownells. The chemicals themselves would have been around $275 but then when you get into reading about the setup you need you're going to spend about $500 more in equipment and that's doing it cheap, but for $700 or $800 you can get a home plating kit which could potentially pay for itself over time. All you have to worry about is the chemicals...kinda harsh on skin and if you're worried about it, the environment. Good luck if you try, and if you do let me know how you did it because I wouldn't mind starting plating, that or case color hardening but that's about $2500 to get started with a kiln and some crucibles and all.

Thanks for the website bkelm18. I think I have it figured out now...to a point.

I second Mid-TN Gunsmithing, I work with him as well as pick his brain about building bolt actions. GunTroll is a great guy to deal with and does excellent work.

Can someone explain to me what geocacheing is? I'm very uninformed on this, all I know is you get coordinates and it's like a treasure hunt. Do you get what the last person put there and put something in it's place or am I just out there?

So I'm helping a friend at work refinish his Remington 870. He pulled it out before hunting season to find it had a lot of surface rust and the wood wasn't in the best of shape. He took the wood to refinish, I wook the metal to refinish after he tried with oil and steel wool. Needless to say his method left him with a shiny gun. I asked him what he wanted and he said just make it back so I said no problem, black is easy. Shortly before starting the project he said he wanted to have the word "BOOMSTICK" down the side in a tan, again not a problem. A vinyl cutter maked graphics easy, so I picked a font that I felt best reminded me of an "Evil Dead" theme since I couldn't get the exact font to load into the cutting program. I'm extremely bad about doing a before and after thing, it's always an after thought. Also with the wood he is looking to put a high shine on them, anyone have any suggestions for me to pass on to him? Here are the results, and let me know what you think.

It wasn't worth the drive to me. Admission was only 7 with the coupon so that was about the only good part of it. Nothing stood out as a deal to me at all.

Last time I was in TN Gun Country in Clarksville the DPMS was $114 for a Spikes Tactical, $120 for a Yankee Hill, $117 for a Del-Ton, $120 for a Stag, $125 for a DPMS and $150 for a Sun Devil. They stick it to you on the LPK though, I think it was around $80 and then you still have to get the buffer tube and buffer. Back in January 2009 I bent over and took it when I bought my DPMS stripped lower for $250.

Well I was going to do a before and after of this, but the before pictures are no longer around so all you get is the afters. This was in fairly decent shape but was definantly well worn and had a problem with the cylinder sticking, hopefully that problem was solved. I decided to Cerakote it in a two-tone Graphite Black and Sniper Grey. I still need to replace the grips on this one but they cost half as much as I paid for the pistol so I may just wait. Here are the results.

The only time you would really need to replace the gas tube roll pin would be if you damaged it in the removal process. I've never really had a problem removing one, but they can get a little sticky at times and as David said use heat sparingly. Keep at it if anything gas tubes are cheap. If you don't mind me asking what is the purpose of removing it?

Reg, what stock do you have on the Volquartsen 10/22?

I don't remember ever seeing it, interesting though

I've been in Mid South Institute of Self-Defense Shooting, not sure if they do anything other than Police, Government/Security Agencys or Military though and it's in northern Mississippi about 20 mins away from Memphis. A decent casino is near by too. I've never been but heard good things about a little place called Tier 1 Group and I wanna say it's in Arkansas.

If all you need is the 45 auto then I'll take your 44 mag.

I used to have a Roland STX-8 12" cut, but the software was so old it only would work with my old desktop computer. Well that computer crashed so I got rid of the Roland, I had only paid $100 for it to begin with. I am not working with a USCutter MH series 12" cutter (USCutter MH-series Vinyl Cutter) and I think I spent $245 or something after shipping. The damn thing is heavy for what it is, and it works with all my computers (XP, Vista, 7). The only thing that's time consuming is getting the images vectored to go into the cutter program. 20$ isn't bad, I get my vinyl from walmart just due to accessibility, it has worked very well so far and it's only 9$ for 2 12x18" sheets. I guess when the situation arises I'll be playing around with the camo patterns and see how I do, I like to think I have the Duracoat process down, still learning with the cera though.

Mine: Still not too sure about this one other than it's a "Royal Junior", but for free I couldn't pass up the price. This one isn't my exact Hamilton Model 27, mine is under my old bed at my parent's house in OH. Mine is considerably more rough.