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An ammonia odor on firing but not from the canistered powder is a characteristic of some triple-based powders using nitroguanidine. This chemical is used to suppress muzzle flash and reduce gas...

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I've gotten into the habit of storing the rifle with the hammer down and the TG unlocked after doing a major stripdown/cleaning. With the TG unlocked I can return to the rifle at any time and apply...

Another Boyd's Stocks for Dummies Request

Posted By Gus Fisher
Date: Sunday, 16 March 2003, at 6:23 p.m.


Area 1. I prefer to clear on all of them so they will fit milled trigger guards. This...

Second the motion!

Four rifles, two with problems:

1. 1945 Field Grade SA with the op rod lug worn down to where it wouldn't stay in the receiver race and an op rod spring that measured less...

What John said! Proper trigger control includes follow-through. Squeeze the trigger with a mental image of pulling the hook all the way to the rear each time. Don't "search" for the sear release. ...

Be careful with Brasso. It has ammonia in it. Attacks the zinc in brass and weakens it.

I dump corroded cartridges in white vinegar and water. Let soak for ten minutes or so, then dry and wipe...

Goldenwestbrass is a small potatoes outfit in South El Monte, California. My dealings with them have been universally positive, so no fears there. My last batch of 168 gr FMJBT had a weight range of...

This gas cylinder issue is a little more complex than just making it tight. Most gas locks I've seen won't snug at the necessary five o'clock position so we're stuck with pulling the cylinder up to...

Assuming .30-06, I Googled "Lake City Winchester .30-06 case capacity" and found several references that stated the Winchester cases have significantly more capacity than Lake City. One post stated...

Reason I asked was that there are different uses one can put this rifle to: wallhanger, safe queen, JCG match rifle*, plinker, hunter etc..etc. If it's going outdoors extensively I'd use (and have...

How are you going to use the rifle? Is it mostly a collector or a shooter?

Tried BLO but out here in the desert heat it tends to get gooey if there's any grease or cosmo in the stock. Also it doesn't fare well in humidity or warm ocean air (don't ask me how I know this).
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I've used a screwdriver, an M10 tool both in the chamber and by hand, and an M14 tool I ordered by mistake. By far the M14 tool is the best, and it only cost five bux. Advantage of the M14 tool is...

Plastilube!

https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2009/04/65f80c8e-1.jpg

Just watched "We Were Soldiers" on TV this weekend. Ed Freeman and his C.O. Major Bruce Crandall were in every measure the truest of heroes. Ed Freeman passed last August. He's interred at Idaho...

Here's a little block that allows dry firing, doesn't require the bolt to go back all the way to recock (half inch), keeps the hammerfall to less than a half inch, can be recocked by the shooter...

Pith Helmet.

oops! nevermind...

I've put two stocks through the dishwasher. One of 'em a correct grade. :yikes: Simple fact was that the correct stock was so saturated with grease that the endgrain wood and cartouches were peeling...

http://www.odcmp.com/Services/Rifles/wood_cleaning_article.htm

Does it bind hard enough to cause a stoppage?
Does it fail the tilt test with the stock off?

I have an HRA SG that won't return the bolt to forward during the tilt test. It only takes a light...

Ah HAH! Suspected as such. The ding on the rim has a straight line at the bend. If it were from the extractor during chambering, it would not be linear since the extractor claw has a radius. First...

Unless 7383 was obtained at 24 bux a jug, it probably isn't worth the effort to try to get it to work.

Nevertheless, as relics said, there is information on this powder but not reloading manual...