Recent content by MattMaier

Hopefully the images below prove I am assembling the bolt in the correct order. In the last photo you can see how I can lift up the bolt handle with the safety engaged. This is after completely field stripping and reassembling the rifle. There are no hang-ups or burrs or otherwise anything which...

So, disassemble, reassemble, and see what happens?

Yes I did, I was also cleaning rust spots off of the barrel and receiver. I feel it prudent to mention that the bolt still goes fully into battery. I don't feel it bind up when I cycle it. If that is the case, what might be a potential remedy?

I recently picked up an Arisaka type 38, and I have been familiarizing myself with its individual components. After disassembling and reassembling the bolt as per the procedure outlined in the Arms and Militaria Press handbook, I have noticed that the safety does not fully engage. When I turn...

Should've thought to look there, thanks :)

I've been looking into the possibility of building a replica of a pinfire double barreled shotgun. Where could I find smoothbore barrel blanks? Or being that a pinfire round uses black powder, could I co something like cut the octagon ends off of a ready made barrel? Are there any bp barrel...

I have a 1777 AnIX Charleville, not contemporary to the revolution, but operates on the same principle. I make my own paper cartridges. For that you have to use a ball that is, at minimum, .020 undersize, but the paper in the cartridge takes up a lot of the windage. Of course a smoothbore musket...

I am planning a Sharps rifle project that I want to chamber in .45-110. I have read that these big bore black powder cartridges tend to have a very heavily arcing trajectory. With this in mind, what is the shortest practical range I can use a .45-110 at and how do I take the trajectory into...

The .45/110 is basically like a .45/70 with a lengthened case. As far as I can tell, .45/110 is no longer manufactured commercially but you can buy empty brass for it. Since you could, theoretically, chamber a .45/70 in a gun chambered for .45/110, thats where my concern is, even though it is...

Ok, so another question. I know that a paper cartridge Sharps or a replica thereof is considered an antique and, for instance, can be purchased and shipped to your door without being sent through an FFL dealer. Would a metallic cartridge sharps in a chambering such as .45/110 be considered an...

What are the differences between the 1859 Sharps infantry rifles and the metallic cartridge Sharps rifles, other than the ammunition used?

A friend of mine and I are coming up with an idea for a business manufacturing replicas of firearms dating from the late medieval up through the civil war periods. Being that the Civil war does include the use of early repeating rifle designs, I want to make sure that all legal bases are...

Well that's just what I plan to do. I intend to categorize and measure the parts and make drawings as I go along. For Romano Rifles, if I ask, may I name drop so they might know who directed me to them?

Likely so. Before anything else I actually have to get my hands on a rifle. Then I can copy it, machine a mock-up, then machine the real deal.

My idea is to make dies for recreating the original rimfire ammunition. I intend to use a modern barrel, as for the action parts, heat treated 4140 which will then be color case hardened for cosmetic purposes. Proof testing will be done with a lanyard at a fair distance away.