The Gunsmith Thread

Look at the machining involved in just that small part! Don't think make'm like that anymore..

The Super X Model 1 is all blued steel and walnut and all machined parts. It was not commercially successful because it was too expensive to build. It could not compete with the Remington 1100. But it has a cult following. It was the last no-compromise high quality firearm made by Winchester in the USA. It is sometimes called an automatic version of the Model 12
 
The buffer detent...A 21" video...

 
What is everyone’s favorite CLP? I enjoy cleaning firearms and the aroma that comes with it but have gone to REM oil and other non-smelling products lately. I tried Frog Lube a few years ago but got over that fad quickly.

Breakfree CLP has been my go to for years. Sometime Hoppes 9 to clean the barrel (love the smell of freedom !). Just recently bought a can of Ballistol and kind of like that as well.

Funny you mention Frog Lube being a fad -- I see this question on various gun groups, and for awhile everyone was loving it, but haven't even heard it mentioned. Ballistol may be the newest fad -- I think its because Hickok45 talks it up on Youtube.
 
I'd like to visit the compound. Just once. My life would then be complete.

I 'd like to make my own compound ! Just the other day, I was riding some gravel roads on my Fat Bike out in the country, and couldn't help but look at some of the properties and think how perfect they would be for a shooting range.

Totally off topic, but the discussion about Plebe Summer/Heat exhaustion reminds me ... Midshipman should be thankful that Plebe Summer isn't in Corn Country. I always remember Annapolis as being hot and miserable, but there is one thing worse - Corn Sweat (Google it!). When the sun beats down on a cornfield, and there is not cooling wind...it is absolutely brutal. I actually turned back early on my ride the other day -- I got about 10 miles out , and realized that if I kept on my planned route, I wasn't going to make it back !
 
I 'd like to make my own compound ! Just the other day, I was riding some gravel roads on my Fat Bike out in the country, and couldn't help but look at some of the properties and think how perfect they would be for a shooting range.

Totally off topic, but the discussion about Plebe Summer/Heat exhaustion reminds me ... Midshipman should be thankful that Plebe Summer isn't in Corn Country. I always remember Annapolis as being hot and miserable, but there is one thing worse - Corn Sweat (Google it!). When the sun beats down on a cornfield, and there is not cooling wind...it is absolutely brutal. I actually turned back early on my ride the other day -- I got about 10 miles out , and realized that if I kept on my planned route, I wasn't going to make it back !

Corn sweat sounds bad. But, try living on the Gulf Coast. EVERYTHING sweats. And, in my neck of the woods it rains every afternoon so the next morning all that moisture goes back up into the atmosphere. If my DS is ever fortunate enough to be admitted to USNA, he will complain about the cold, not the heat. He doesn’t like to run if the temperature is below 60° !!! Wimp!
 
Hmm....yeah, all the humidity...I would imagine it'd be better here.

It's 1430 and the temp is only 112F. Of course, outsiders will say "but it's a dry heat" to which we'll say "so's your oven when you cook turkey...does it work?"

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Ever wonder why ASU, UA, and the Cardinals don't play day games?


Steve
 
Please, back on topic, I want more gunsmith content. This is like Khan Academy for me.

🍓🍓🍓 Today’s snack, direct from Watsonville, CA in the height of summer.
 
Went to visit the grandsons today and after running around for an hour and a half I thought my daughter and wife had them occupied for a few minutes. I kicked back in a recliner for a late nooner and all of a sudden was attacked from two fronts by a four and six year old with water guns. After I squawked at them while they ran off laughing I realized the water felt good.

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Hmm...

Okay....comments....my shooting partner (retired after 42 years of federal service: army and VA) has taken up gunsmithing. Lately it's been his hobby to build AR platform rifles in...different calibers. And then...well he calls is "making them tactical."

Okay...the only weapons I've carried into a combat zone was an M9 and an M61 Vulcan in the wingroot...no camo was needed.

Here's his submission from this morning, actually.

I'm thinking he's experimenting.

Thoughts?

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Steve
 
Not my cup of tea, but it looks like a quality job. I like the Magpul furniture. Those pseudo-triangular handguards feel nice and Sig Sauer's Romeo is a solid optic.
 
I built three uppers for a guy today. He brought them to me after he completely destroyed the barrel nuts so bad, that I couldn't use them. I asked him why he didn't quit after mangling the first one. He didn't offer an explanation, but rather just handed over three new barrel nuts. It's funny how if you use the right tools, everything works out okay. $150 D.A. tax collected.

Another guy brought in a Glock 42 (.380 Auto) with a 9mm cartridge jammed in it. This is the second time that I have extracted a 9mm cartridge out of the same gun, for the same guy. He's a slow learner. $50 D.A. tax collected, this time.

And the last one was someone on the range loaded all their 9mm cartridges backward in the magazine, so when they chambered the first round it jammed that first one in the chamber (pointy end toward shooter) really nicely. I have engineered a specific tool just for this situation. I get to use it every week, without fail. There are that many morons.
 
... I get to use it every week, without fail. There are that many morons.

30 or so years ago, I bought my Dad a bumper sticker of his favorite expression...
"God must love stupid people, he made so many of them"
 
I built three uppers for a guy today. He brought them to me after he completely destroyed the barrel nuts so bad, that I couldn't use them. I asked him why he didn't quit after mangling the first one. He didn't offer an explanation, but rather just handed over three new barrel nuts. It's funny how if you use the right tools, everything works out okay. $150 D.A. tax collected.

Another guy brought in a Glock 42 (.380 Auto) with a 9mm cartridge jammed in it. This is the second time that I have extracted a 9mm cartridge out of the same gun, for the same guy. He's a slow learner. $50 D.A. tax collected, this time.

And the last one was someone on the range loaded all their 9mm cartridges backward in the magazine, so when they chambered the first round it jammed that first one in the chamber (pointy end toward shooter) really nicely. I have engineered a specific tool just for this situation. I get to use it every week, without fail. There are that many morons.
"Loaded all their 9mm cartridges backward in the magazine..."

Okay...I'm still trying to figure out how you do that. I even grabbed my M9 and tried. It was SO wrong...just...WRONG. I then grabbed my M1911...same thing: WRONG!! And then I said...grab the Russian rifle!! So out came the 1952 SKS...grabbed some 7.62x39...thumbed them...NOPE. It was just...Я был совершенно неправ!

Then I decided an adult beverage was in order.

Keep collecting that money!

Steve
 
Given there is ample evidence of modern-era boneheadedness when it comes to mistakes with weapons, what would be equivalent boneheaded errors in Natty Bumppo’s time, with firearms of that era? Presumably equivalent mistakes could be made, likely with more fatal outcomes.

Remember my DH says my mind is like a lint trap, all kinds of stuff gets stuck in there.
 
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