The Gunsmith Thread

Well then , that's a wonderful outcome!
 
Wow, has it actually been 3 months of no posts on this thread??

May 31, 2023 is right around the corner. My AR pistol, which has been perfectly legal for several years, will suddenly not be legal be due to a stroke-of-the-pen. While I detest the ruling, I can think of one possible positive...

If I get the required free ATF stamp to allow the govt to define my now current perfectly legal pistol as an SBR, can I then switch the brace to a stock afterwards? When I first did this build, I wanted an SBR with a silencer, but I had no desire to pay for two tax stamps at the time for one single firearm. If I can turn my pistol into a true SBR without dishing out $200, it would make this ruling less aggravating.
 
Yes. Once it is registered as a SBR, you can add an adjustable stock on it. You can also put a vertical fore grip on it. Both of these things would have been illegal when classified as a pistol.

There is currently more than one injunction on the ATF&E's new rule, however.
Pistol braces may not be made illegal after all - or if the rule does pass - won't be in force very long.

Feel free to take advantage of the free $200 tax stamp, however. It's a good deal, but also owning a NFA firearm puts restrictions on it of which you must be aware. Selling it in the future will still incur that $200 extra tax on the purchaser, as well.
 
Also, be careful of state-level laws about them and travel restrictions.
That said, if you were going to SBR it anyway, getting a free stamp is making lemonade from the ATFs lemons.
 
At the range last weekend I decided to shoot some jacketed hollowpoint ammo (LE Ammo) instead of my usual full metal jacketed round nose 'range' ammo in my Gen 2 Glock 19. My New York State approved Glock 10 round magazines continually produced a fail-to-feed malfunction on the last round with the slide locking open & the FTF bullet rolling out of the ejection port. This occurred with several mags. According to the interweb, Glock mags with follower 2183-2 (which mine are) is the culprit & to call Glock who will replace them.
I did call & Glock Customer Service & they mailed out replacement followers to me today.

PS: Waiting for the Smithsonian to call & ask me to donate my gen2 to their museum ;)

Glock 10 Round Magazine Followers - Calguns.net

Glock 10 Round Magazine Followers California handguns
www.calguns.net
 
Well I replaced the followers and now the last round feeds, fires, & ejects however, the slide will not remain open after the last round is fired. either using low power (range) ammo or high power (LE) ammo. Took the mags apart & stretched the springs to no avail. This was a temporary move anyway. My next move is to replace the mag springs with Wolff springs. These are Glock 10-round mags 3 years old with approx. 2K rounds thru them. They're only used for matches, practice, etc.

My four 15 round everyday carry mags have no issues. 2 are original issue (1995) with springs replaced in 2015; the other 2 are 3 years old.
 
No luck with the mag springs replacements; on to a new slide stop lever....as per the tech at Brownells.
Probably where I should've started...
Nice to know I'm consistent...;)
 
I overheard a funny conversation from two clowns in the gun shop the other day. We'll call them "JimBob" and "Darryl".

JimBob: "I don't think these guns are for sale. They look like rental guns" (Big sign on the wall here with 8" tall letters which reads "Rental Guns")

Darryl (asks an employee): "is that an American Ay Kay?"

Employee: "well, that's a WASR-10 imported by Century Arms, with a lot of parts made in the United States, so I guess you could say that it's American"

JimBob: "That's a stamped receiver. You want a milled receiver. Stamped receivers are junk. You only get 3,000 rounds out of them and they're wore out"

Darryl: "Yeah, I want a milled receiver. Those stamped ones are junk."

JimBob (asks the employee): "How many rounds have been through that?"

Employee asks me if I know...

To wit, I reply: "Well, that gun was used when we put it on the rental wall in 2015. We have never replaced any parts since then and it gets shot more than any other gun here, except the Glock 19, which has had every part replaced at least once. I would say that conservatively speaking, the WASR gets shot nearly every day for an average of 100 rounds. Let's say that's over 2,000 rental days, so about 200,000 rounds and I only clean it about once a year when it stops working because of all the carbon buildup."

You could hear a pin drop.
 
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THParent said:
I overheard a funny conversation from two clowns in the gun shop the other day. We'll call them "JimBob" and "Darryl".

JimBob: "I don't think these guns are for sale. They look like rental guns" (Big sign on the wall here with 8" tall letters which reads "Rental Guns")

Darryl (asks an employee): "is that an American Ay Kay?"

Employee: "well, that's a WASR-10 imported by Century Arms, with a lot of parts made in the United States, so I guess you could say that it's American"

JimBob: "That's a stamped receiver. You want a milled receiver. Stamped receivers are junk. You only get 3,000 rounds out of them and they're wore out"

Darryl: "Yeah, I want a milled receiver. Those stamped ones are junk."

JimBob (asks the employee): "How many rounds have been through that?"

Employee asks me if I know...

To wit, I reply: "Well, that gun was used when we put it on the rental wall in 2015. We have never replaced any parts since then and it gets shot more than any other gun here, except the Glock 19, which has had every part replaced at least once. I would say that conservatively speaking, the WASR gets shot nearly every day for an average of 100 rounds. Let's say that's over 2,000 rental days, so about 200,000 rounds and I only clean it about once a year when it stops working because of all the carbon buildup."

You could hear a pin drop.
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I shudder to think if they had made uninformed comments about bacon. They probably would have self-immolated.

As always, I break out the popcorn when we get a technical post here, feeling vaguely as if I was having one of those anxiety dreams where you are in a classroom, there is a test, and you have no earthly idea how you got there.

A fine story. I bet their cousins Clem and Rafe have equally good ones.
 
Wishful said:
At the range last weekend I decided to shoot some jacketed hollowpoint ammo (LE Ammo) instead of my usual full metal jacketed round nose 'range' ammo in my Gen 2 Glock 19. My New York State approved Glock 10 round magazines continually produced a fail-to-feed malfunction on the last round with the slide locking open & the FTF bullet rolling out of the ejection port. This occurred with several mags. According to the interweb, Glock mags with follower 2183-2 (which mine are) is the culprit & to call Glock who will replace them.
I did call & Glock Customer Service & they mailed out replacement followers to me today.

PS: Waiting for the Smithsonian to call & ask me to donate my gen2 to their museum ;)

Glock 10 Round Magazine Followers - Calguns.net

Glock 10 Round Magazine Followers California handguns
www.calguns.net
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Wishful said:
Well I replaced the followers and now the last round feeds, fires, & ejects however, the slide will not remain open after the last round is fired. either using low power (range) ammo or high power (LE) ammo. Took the mags apart & stretched the springs to no avail. This was a temporary move anyway. My next move is to replace the mag springs with Wolff springs. These are Glock 10-round mags 3 years old with approx. 2K rounds thru them. They're only used for matches, practice, etc.

My four 15 round everyday carry mags have no issues. 2 are original issue (1995) with springs replaced in 2015; the other 2 are 3 years old.
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Wishful said:
No luck with the mag springs replacements; on to a new slide stop lever....as per the tech at Brownells.
Probably where I should've started...
Nice to know I'm consistent...;)
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Ok so I figured it out. New Slide Stop Lever + new Wolff Magazine Springs, + old 2183-2 Followers! Now all 10 mags feed, & stay open after the last round is fired. I'm thinking a weak Slide Stop Lever spring (was original) with weak mag springs although I can't figure out why the replacement followers from Glock wouldn't keep the slide open on an empty mag.
 
Below is from the Glock Armorer's Course Powerpoint listing the steps to perform a function test, a test which should be done after every reassembly. Ensure the firearm is UNLOADED.

GLOCK FUNCTION TESTING

  1. Pull trigger - hold your finger outside of the trigger guard - cycle slide quickly - check if trigger is in forward position.
  2. Pull trigger-then apply pressure to it - cycle slide quickly, release trigger slowly and check trigger safety - it should engage correctly.
  3. Pull trigger-pull the slide to the rear and then hold the pistol with the muzzle end pointing in a 45° angle up. Let the slide go forward slowly (by hand) - check if the slide and barrel go easily into battery.
  4. Insert an empty magazine - check that it is held in place by the magazine catch.
  5. Cycle the slide quickly - it should lock open ensuring that the magazine follower has pushed the slide stop lever completely up into the notch on the slide.
  6. Press the magazine catch button the magazine should drop freely from the pistol.
  7. Pull the slide to the rear and release-the slide stop lever should disengage allowing. the slide to travel forward and lock into battery.
  8. With the slide in the forward or locked position, attempt to pull the slide lock down. It should not move. Then, lock the slide in the open position. Attempt to pull the slide lock down. It should move down and snap up with sufficient force.
 
Cross-posting from The Bacon Thread:

 
THParent said:
Cross-posting from The Bacon Thread:

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I've made these before and was pretty disappointed. There is a good chance it was error on my part but the manicotti shell was very tough in the places that it was not covered by bacon. If I were to make this again, I would either parboil the shell before stuffing or do a better job of ensuring complete bacon coverage.
 
I watched the part of the video where he says something about the shell being chewy where it isn't covered by bacon and thought to myself, "well that's easy, just use two slices of bacon per shell".

It's not like we're trying to conserve bacon here, right?
 
Had a guy drop off a rifle chambered in .357 magnum, who wanted me to sight in the crappy scope he put on it at 150 yards.
I told the guy that this is the outside limit of this round and that it won't be effective on game at that distance, but I did it.

I almost had to lob it in to get it in the bull's eye. 14-3/4" drop at that distance and I'll bet it only had about 80 lbf of energy when it got there.

Bang.....

...

...

Ding!


I zeroed it at 25 yards and told him that it now only requires THREE FULL REVOLUTIONS of the elevation turret to get it to hit the same at 150 yards.
It's a good thing it was only 3 turns, because that particular scope only has 3-1/2 turns either way (up or down).
 
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Poorly maintained pistol. Not that it matters anymore. I had to use a hammer (like I was driving railroad spikes) to get the slide off.

The guy apparently fired a squib round which stopped in the barrel. He then decided to shoot another one. The second shot made both projectiles exit the barrel, but only after bulging and splitting the barrel so much that it cannot be removed from the slide.
 
Also from yesterday, I pick up a gun checked in because it "...was purchased new in the shop and will not chamber or fire any ammunition".
I loaded it up with six (6) rounds and took it out to the range and fired them all. Easy peasy.

So I call this moron.

Me: "What type of ammunition were you loading in this pistol"
Moron: "Oh, just some 9mm I had at home"
Me: "Well then, I found the problem"
Moron: "Really? What was it?"
Me: "Your pistol is chambered in .380 Auto"
Moron: "Okay. I'll come and pick it up"

I'll bet we sell him some ammo! :p
 
THParent said:
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Poorly maintained pistol. Not that it matters anymore. I had to use a hammer (like I was driving railroad spikes) to get the slide off.

The guy apparently fired a squib round which stopped in the barrel. He then decided to shoot another one. The second shot made both projectiles exit the barrel, but only after bulging and splitting the barrel so much that it cannot be removed from the slide.
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They live among us...
 
They do. It's scary.

I have fashioned a "backward round removal tool" at the shop for morons who load their rounds into magazines (you guessed it) backward.
They then chamber a round and it jams that case head right into the chamber. The only way to remove it is to insert the "backward round removal tool" into the barrel and tap it out with a small hammer. The tool fits the barrel diameter, but is hollow in the middle so as not to contact the primer.

It is still quite an experience I guess one could say - tapping on the end of a live round that makes it go bang - to extract it from the chamber.
Hoo boy.
 
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