The long-winded back story on the LaRue OBR 7.62.
I have been told that on occasion the gunsmith needs to quit turning wrenches and get out on the range.
SFC Edward Homeyer’s Personal Account Using Horus
November 29, 2010
A personal account of the 2010 International Sniper Competition from SFC...
Installed a Law Tactical Gen3 folding stock adapter on 16" LaRue OBR 7.6 ( the platform that won the 2010 International Sniper Competition with U.S. Army Service Members Gianelli & Homeyer (spotter using the 16" with a NightForce H58 reticle, consistent hits on 12" plates @ 800 meters). Their...
I have used EGW's dovetail mounts for dot optics and can recommend them.
https://egwguns.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=holsun
If the dove tail width is not in the product description , email them for which one has a 3/8" dovetail.
Yesterday compared and contrasted gunsmith size screw head slotting, hand (Swiss files) v. milling machine (first timer) and turning down screw head diameters on the lathe. Using Brownells blank screws. Any tips would be appreciated.
The mill seemed plenty accurate and quicker, the sq. end...
Road testing the small fixture plate with fabricated V-block for small parts tinkering.
A Brownells #4 blank screw cross-drilled with short machine screw length #55 bit (0.052" dia). The v-block atop the fixture plate is really rigid and allows nice access to get at the small parts with...
One of my favorite uses of the modified clamp is to remove and especially re-install non-captured guide rod springs which always
want to wiggle and bend until they spring out of control upon attempts at insertion. With its use, I am able to install a spring with fingertip compression and take...
Many years ago now, I originally used the fabricated hammer retention pin "Special Factory tool" suggested in the High-Power Field Service Manual. It seemed clumsy and risked marring the finish of the hammer and the underside of the beaver tail.
My alternative procedure to liberate the sear...
It has been my observation of comments on gun forums that most firearm owners are cheap SOB's...first complaining about the co$t of a high quality part e.g. sight replacement , then since the majority have no mechanical aptitude, complain out loud about what it might cost for a "gunsmith" to...
So I have had this rotating screw holder jig I patched together with thin zinc plates with hardwood end blocks to mount to the drill press
bed. It has been workable but I have really hated looking at it; looks like a Fred Flintstone fabrication but more importantly it limits awkward access to...
^this.
On the Bridgeport for small carbon steel I run the dove tail cutter faster ~1200 and micro carbide drills ~2000 rpm for the stainless components.
I did this NAA Black Widow project which was combination of hardened red dot sight mount modification and drilling tapping stainless frame for...
Tinkering in the shop today.
Fabricated from 6061 T6 aluminum 3" round stock a "mini-me" lathe tail stock round die holder for some of the Brownells small diameter blank screws. First time knurling on the lathe so I practiced on some tool steel rod before I applied the scissor knurler to my...
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