Making a 366 Rigby

[troy fairweather]

Brass clips work much smoother the steal will get smoother but take time. Every time I see a bandolelier I think of all the city hunters coming up state with there semi auto assault deer guns. Seen a guy with 3 leather 742 mag pouch.

 

[Ryden]

Yeah, I usually go hunting with 5 rounds in the magazine. Never needed more before it's time to either go home or take care of the quarry, so I really don't know why I'm hoarding clips.

Ten clips was more than enough, I thought that they could be useful for carrying different loads or for loading at the range.
Forty clips is ridiculous, I think I'm getting cabin fever.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

But why is he menacing a female tin-man with a hair drier? I definitely have to Google video rangers!

That's the Cosmic Ray Vibrator, probable precursor to the Dymo labelmaker.

Republic/Columbia got quite a bit of use out of those androgynous androids (metal top hats plus skirts -- perhaps robotic Scotsmen) I think they show up in at least one other serial.

I suspect Cap's dump pouch started life as a gas mask carrier -- his regular roscoe is an even bulkier thing:



BTW, Captain Video is easily the stupidest, total waste of time serial ever produced -- love it!

 

[Ryden]

Sounds like fun, I actually enjoyed Plan 9 from Outer Space so I'll see if I can find an episode or two

 

[troy fairweather]

The worst they were the better lol.

 

[Ryden]

How do you aim that thing?
Or is I it simply guided by narrative necessity?

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Sounds like fun, I actually enjoyed Plan 9 from Outer Space so I'll see if I can find an episode or two

Anther true classic! I love it when a member of a more advanced race yells, "Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!"

How do you aim that thing?
Or is I it simply guided by narrative necessity?

You just point -- evidently whatever it shoots is self-guided. Unlike the atomic pistol from Radar Men from the Moon -- a single shot that takes about 4 D-Cell batteries and slower between shots than a muzzleloaded dueling pistol.

 

[Ryden]

I browsed our bookshelf last night and found my dad's old copy of Have space-suite, will travel.
Seemed to fit the current theme

I once read about an old sci-fi tv series where the aliens spoke Swedish as a suitably incomprehensible language, I don't think it ever went beyond the pilot but I'd love to see it.
Can't find any trace of it now when googling.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

I browsed our bookshelf last night and found my dad's old copy of Have space-suite, will travel.
Seemed to fit the current theme

A classic Robert A. Heinlein book. His writing often included firearms in the stories.
And, as many of us know, he coined the phrase,"An armed society is a Polite society."

And I am enjoying your build along very much.

 

[Ryden]

Thank you!

Yes he was a staunch supporter of civilian gun rights, If you haven't read it I recommend Red Planet (at least i think that's the name, I have the Swe edition), but in all likelihood you've already read it.
The core of it is that carrying guns is not only a right but also a responsibility and comes with the concept of adulthood

 

[troy fairweather]

I would like some old sifi books, the only one I have is a old twilight zone stories book. I may have to dig that out to read.

I fun thread would be what books they have and book shelves, I always wanted a small library where the books went to the ceiling.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

I browsed our bookshelf last night and found my dad's old copy of Have space-suite, will travel.

Unless this is an unfamiliar musical parody (space suite = Holst's Planets?), this one's a particularly good read that still holds up well today. I've a copy in audiobook as well as hardback.

And, as many of us know, he coined the phrase,"An armed society is a Polite society."

From his first published novel Beyond this Horizon, 1942.

A fun thread would be what books they have and book shelves, I always wanted a small library where the books went to the ceiling.

One of the first things I did upon retirement in 2011 was to build an exclusive, one-room gentleman's club in my back yard. It is almost entirely lined with bookshelves, to the point where they practically amount to secondary insulation. The expensive gun books are to the right of my chair and the SciFi section (the Heinleins are in the upper right corner) is on the wall behind it. There are also small collections on art, military history, philosophy, theology, literature, etc., but about every other book has a gun of some kind on the cover. The place is a bit cluttered today due to a week's Covid19 nesting. The Lee Enfield came out for a new sling yesterday and hasn't made it back into the safe.



I did a posting last year about some of the decor: https://thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/rifle-based-decor.851243/

 

[troy fairweather]

I'd live in that lol.

 

[Ryden]

#metoo

 

[Ryden]

Glued the leather tonight.
I'm following the Midway video although I use liquisole instead of contact cement.

 

[Ryden]

Unless this is an unfamiliar musical parody (space suite = Holst's Planets?), this one's a particularly good read that still holds up well today.

Parts of it definitely are, all the things about Oscar for instance.
He almost nailed it there, the only thing he missed was not making it a rebreather system, otherwise its an exceptionally accurate description of the real spacesuites for the moon expeditions that was to follow some years later.

The parts about bug eyed monsters with ray guns? Well, they're fun and it is one of the juveniles so ok, I'll go with the flow and enjoy it.

 

[Ryden]

I've posted this before, but here's a book by a very good Sci-Fi author, only this one is who-dunnit about the murder of a gun collector

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17866

Download in your preferred flavour and read it, you will enjoy it!

 

[Ryden]

And I'd really like to visit your club and discuss the finer points of guns, sci-fi and life Dave.
I'm a bit envious since all I have is cluttered garage

 

[Ryden]

This if from a Swedish forum, there's a guy experimenting with doing jacketed bullets from empty brass.
This is .40 made from 9mm brass for a .404 Jeffreys





More interesting for me and those who've bought an old Husqvarna is bullets in .366 made from 223 brass
They are .375 before calibrating and weigh 234 gr

 

[Ryden]

New post today
These are 366 bullets made from 9mm, it involves annealing, calibrating, inserting lead core, forming the nose and calibrating again

 

[troy fairweather]

I've made them before, mostly .458 from 45 acp with 44 mag lead core. I'd like to make more but I really need a bigger press. They shot very well.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

I've posted this before, but here's a book by a very good Sci-Fi author, only this one is who-dunnit about the murder of a gun collector

It's also available on Librivox as a free audiobook: https://librivox.org/murder-in-the-gunroom-by-h-beam-piper/

Piper wrote a couple more Jeff Rand mystery novels that never reached publication and are now lost.

Here's the Piper section in my clubhouse, right next to Heinlein. It's lean because I have all of his works on audiobook and/or PDF, along with a copy of John F. Carr's excellent biography of Piper.

And I'd really like to visit your club and discuss the finer points of guns, sci-fi and life Dave. I'm a bit envious since all I have is cluttered garage

Feel free to PM me for my email address, for an extend e-chat if things ever get boring at your end -- sounds like you stay busy, though!

He almost nailed it there, the only thing he missed was not making it a rebreather system, otherwise its an exceptionally accurate description of the real spacesuites for the moon expeditions that was to follow some years later.

Yeah, Heinlein's idea was to cool the suit's wearer using oxygen expansion and venting, something International Latex found a better, more efficient way to do by circulating cool water through underwear. He used compressed oxygen expansion again for cooling a bomb shelter in Farnham's Freehold.

Another reason I particularly like Have Spacesuit is that I have a small slide rule collection. I'm crap at math, but I love the old-school instruments.

If you haven't already seen this, check out this episode of Moon Machines (outstanding Science Channel series!) on the design of the lunar EVA suit:



For a truly prescient novel of the future, Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress has at least three correct predictions: lunar ice, low gravity physiological adaptation (he overestimates the effect), and computer generated graphics.

 

[troy fairweather]

Great video.

 

[Ryden]

Dave, that's an invitation that I will accept for sure!
At the moment I keep myself busy, sometimes with the most bizarre things

In January we had dinner at my sister in law and apparently it was the International Irish Coffee day so we all had one or five, it was definitely more than one.
As were sat around drinking coffee, talking and watching the kids play some stupid game I was browsing on eBay and came upon something with the name Safari and had the bright idea that it could work well with the rifle so I made a bid.

The next morning I found out that I'd won.




Three empty bottles of Ralph Lauren Safari after shave

Well, bought is bought.

So I now have cut crystal bottles of Ed's Red solvent, Ballistol and my secret recipe slacum to use when cleaning the gun.


Classy, very classy

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

At the moment I keep myself busy, sometimes with the most bizarre things

I keep trolling Gunbroker, gun mfg sites, etc. fantasizing about what to buy once the LGS'es reopen, assuming the distributors have restocked and the local used market has recovered by then. The day before the local shops were ordered closed the only gats I could find around here were mismatched Mosin Nagants and a few severely overpriced US milsurps.

So I now have cut crystal bottles of Ed's Red solvent, Ballistol and my secret recipe slacum to use when cleaning the gun. Classy, very classy

A considerable improvement over the leaky metal Soviet SKS oil bottles I use (though I store my Ballistol moose milk solution in those needle squeeze bottle things.) BTW, I maintain three complete gun cleaning kits because I'm too lazy to move just one around between my workshop, clubhouse and home office.

Hey, another C.E. 'Ed' Harris fan! I still follow his occasional posts at:
https://www.grantcunningham.com/tag/ed-harris/