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    Hard to release hammer in Winchester 62

    I do agree that without a part that is known to work, it is hard to figure out if this one isn't. I will look for replacement parts (if just so I can compare and assuming they too, if used, have not been bubbafied) and see if we can solve this mystery.
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    Hard to release hammer in Winchester 62

    How to know if the notch is boink? Here are the hammer and trigger from the only time I took the rifle that much apart: Kp321, best way I can describe the trigger travel is this: At the hammer down position (fired), trigger has no freeplay. Right now trigger is some 2.5mm ahead of rear...
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    Hard to release hammer in Winchester 62

    Quick measurement but I must warn it is in mm: I measured the distance between the front of the trigger closest to the rear when hammer is cocked and then when I pull it as far back as I can (as if to release the hammer, which is not in the mood to do so). Both against the same vertical position...
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    Hard to release hammer in Winchester 62

    Kp321, I will tear it apart again to clean and let you know. With that said, how do you lock the hammer spring in the hammer rod to remove it? I know the rod has a hole like a M92 lever action, but while in the lever action rifle I can cock the hammer to slide the rod such the hole is in the...
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    Hard to release hammer in Winchester 62

    If you cock the hammer in a model 62, how much rear travel can the trigger have when you then pull it? Mine seems to barely have enough room to move back, which causes releasing the hammer to be a bit of a challenge. If I fiddle with the trigger I am able to free the hammer, but that does not...
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    FAL 80% build

    Also check weaponsguild. There are quite a few people there who built FAL receivers, one of which using nothing but files, caliper, and blueprint. And maybe a complete receiver as reference
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    Looking for fun in .32cal

    Sometimes they can be fixed. I would give it a try if you had not threw it away
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    Mosin Nagant accuracy trouble.

    You have a point there. It took this Finn peasant boy, Simo something-or-another, to use it to kill a few Russian. And then there was this Georgian farm boy, Vasili, who pestered the Germans with another. Maybe a peasant built rifle is only good on the hands of peasants? Garands and M14s used...
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    IDPA, one eyed shooting...

    I was taught in kitty school the thing about shooting with one eye was not loss of peripheral vision, but the muscles of the closed eye affecting the other. Something like the open eye wanting to close to match the other one since they like to do things together. But that was a long time ago
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    Why Has No One Else Used the AR DI System?

    Well, the first DI French rifle I know of was made in 1898, and the system used in the MAS 44, 49, and 49/56 is pretty much took off from another one they made a bit later, either the Rossignol 1900 or the Belthier 1903. So we have to say DI has been with us for quite a while. Terminology...
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    Why Has No One Else Used the AR DI System?

    About this Johnson bolt design, I could swear I have seen it somewhere...
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    22LR Tube Fed Lever Action

    You are aware of grouping all zinc alloys into the pot metal bin (there are different ZAMAK combinations. I think hi-point uses ZAMAK7) is like putting all steel alloys under the the "impure iron" bin.
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    why no bolt action reciever using AR components?

    JSH1 beat me to it: AFAIK they make those for UK and OZ
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    Can't get mags shipped from Europe any longer?

    According to a French company I was talking to, a new EU law enacted Dec 15th said they cannot ship magazines to the US anymore. I do not know if that means shipping to an individual or complete export ban, but that does not sound like good news.
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    Shooting Revolvers -- Some Advice Sought

    I have to say on my P64 I get better results if I have the trigger at the crease under the first knuckle. I tried the pad and it just seem to be a bit of a fight. Could be related to its 18lb trigger pull. Maybe not.
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