troy fairweather
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Great to have around and I've got to bed a few rifles this weekend, un opened can are going for over hundred bucks on eBay.Excellent! Hard to beat!
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Great to have around and I've got to bed a few rifles this weekend, un opened can are going for over hundred bucks on eBay.Excellent! Hard to beat!
When I last epoxy-bedded something (back in the 90s) I had a can of paste turtle wax I'd had around since the early 80s. Is the new production stuff not suitable?Great to have around and I've got to bed a few rifles this weekend, un opened can are going for over hundred bucks on eBay.
New stuff probably is just fine, just familiar with the jpw. I like kiwi shoe polish but that's getting expensive and harder to find the natural stuff. The johnsons wax has a lot of uses, good on the whole gun for bad weather or just to protect when being stored.When I last epoxy-bedded something (back in the 90s) I had a can of paste turtle wax I'd had around since the early 80s. Is the new production stuff not suitable?
I came across a wax that was called gunstock wax, and I don’t recall who it was they even made it. I did think to test it, and did discover that it did not work well for a release agent. But for waterproofing, etc. it was spectacular! When I couldn’t find naturals kiwicom, I used the brown color. It worked… I also robbed some Play-Doh out of my daughters toybox…New stuff probably is just fine, just familiar with the jpw. I like kiwi shoe polish but that's getting expensive and harder to find the natural stuff. The johnsons wax has a lot of uses, good on the whole gun for bad weather or just to protect when being stored.
Continued smoothing up things today— replaced the tiny thumb safety with an OEM extended safety I got on sale at Midway. Dropped in with a little polishing where it rubbed the frame near the detent. The longer lever sure is easier to manipulate!Just some maintenance:
Cleaned up the head of the trigger pin on my BHP and blued it with oxpho. Hope it’s a long time before I need to remove that one again!
Also, the measured trigger pull on the BHP is just barely over 4lbs.
Reset has an audible “click” if you listen for it. You can feel it if you are careful, but would be unlikely to notice if focused on the target. All of this to say I think the Apex trigger is a little smoother than the stock trigger. You just can’t feel any grit or drag at all. No creep, just take up, wall, break, reset, repeat.
The wider trigger face makes it feel like less than 4lbs!
I’ll be shooting the BHP with various loads on upcoming range trips. It will probably edge out my 1911s for a while
That thing looks fuzzy! I love cleaning one up and it's back to squeaky clean.I tore down a filthy old Springfield 22 of my dads. More cleaning than smithing… but… it involves torque wrench to put it together right
I had a beautiful swede in 257R, gave it to my dad but he had to sell it for some money after he broke his neck.miss that gun. Nice save of your buddy, have a cases of beer dropped off for him. I have a boyds lam thumb hole stock but it's been a bit butchered to fit a type 99, bunch of wood was removed to clear the bolt shroud since there comb is pretty much with the bore line. One day I was going to cut out the wood and patch new wood in and coat it with something but haven't come across and small rings lately for a project.Nothing today since I don't have some of the parts to complete the next build. Which is a stock and a barrel for another Small Ring Mauser and it will be chambered for .257 Roberts.
A friend of mine who lives in Co. has shipped me a 7 pound box of large ring parts that was given to him to give to me. His gunsmith was just going to throw it all in the trash.Thankfully my friend was in the right place at the right time and was thoughtful enough to remember that I am a Mauser nut. In the box are 7 trigger guards and a couple of complete bolts with some other loose parts. Talk about hitting the gun parts lottery. I'm stoked about it.
So in the future there will be some large ring Muasers that I'll build on orphaned receivers just like I have been with the small ring receivers that I have. So effective immediately I'm on the hunt for an orphan looking for home and I already have a barrel to marry it to. The barrel is already chambered for .338 Gibbs it just needs to be threaded for the Mauser instead of the Arasaka. I had planned on putting that barrel on one of my Type 99 Arasaka orphans. It will be a lot less work to make sporters with Mauser's than Arasaka's and there are far more parts available for them and I can chamber them for just about anything.
Jeremy
Nice you still keep up with guys you served with, I know my dad says he wished he kept in contact with guys he was in with when at Polk. So you just need a stock and barrel, had Midway been doing any small ring barrels lately Green mountain used to keep stock but there often to buy filling there orders to do much for in stock stuff. Catch shaw at the right time or if you can get dealer discounts there pretty reasonable wish they had some small ring barrel in there store but haven't seen any in years from them. To bad they didn't keep making the Adam and Bennett barrels after they bought them out, dad use them slot buying 10 at a time they were like $35 each and shot pretty good most time.I zelled him some shekels last night for the purpose of getting a couple of cases of beer or taking his old lady to dinner. I know he'll take his Smith to lunch with the money just to keep the network open for me. He and I served in the Army together so he's my brother from another mother. We go back a long time.
Jeremy