Recent content by tkendrick

I need the screw that holds the bolt stop/ejector into the action, as well as some other odd parts for an unconverted turkish mauser. Does any one have any idea where to find these parts, and if any other makers will exchange with them.

Keep the M1 in '06 and buy an M1A for .308. That way you have two rifles and both in the correct calibers. Just thinking out loud.

I'm not snob or anything, you understand. But there's Krags, and then theres all that other junk. I have two, one which I have had since the early 70's is an old Bannerman conversion. Take a 220 grain round nose in front of 30 grains of IMR 4895, and it will print 1.5 inch groups all day...

Does anybody know off the top of your head what a cast bullet for a Japanese reproduction 1895 Winchester should be sized to? I thought it was .411 but Lymans dies jump from .410 to .413. My initial thought was to go with the .413, but now I've thought about it, and I'm second guessing myself.

Habits can be a hard thing to break. I had a freind who was a commited flintlock shooter for years. His procedure was to shoot the gun, reverse it and blow down the barrel to clear the vent and then reload. Then one day at the range I handed him my M1. Nothing happened, but it could...

(big sigh) Gentlemen,gentlemen, gentlemen. When it comes to milsurps.....There are Krags and then there's all the rest of that junk!:neener:

I inherited this gun a few years back, and until a week or so ago it side in a box in my closet. Last week I took it out to see how it worked and I now have a question. Should it be possible to manually cock the hammer? If you chamber a round and lower the hammer, it is then not...

I've also heard, but never seen, that a lot of these were also converted to .300 Savage.

I had one of those for a while. It was the most accurate milsurp I ever owned. Often wished I had kept it.

Few years back I bought a new angle eject 94 Winchester. Never jammed Never misfired Never hit what it was aimed at. This thing didn't shoot groups, hell, it didn't even shoot patterns. I once got an 18in group....at 25 yards....and was so frustrated at the time that I thought it...

What RC said. Trust me, you DO NOT want to be on the trigger of a 1911 when it goes rock and roll!!!

It was common practice toward the end of the war. I saw more than one soldier draw punishments from Extra-duty article 15's to general courts over firing without authorization. Watched from an OP one afternoon while charlie sat up several mortars in a field below us, couldn't get authorization...

Hamburger meat and D-con rat poison. It's not as satisfying, but it works every time.

I used to own 2 of those. I let myself get talked out of both of them. I have ALWAYS regretted it. Hang on to it, they are a truely neat gun to own and to shoot.

Don't know that I can answer your question about what makes a difference, but I can tell you this. Somebody shoots artillery at you, whether canon or howitzer, and you generally can hear it coming. Mortars, you generally don't know they're coming 'til the rounds start blowing up in your...