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luckily I had a very grumpy grandfather who let me pal around in his cabinet shop with him - second career after retiring from farming. He taught me to never "learn by doing" alone as it's a sure way...

it's always something. The worst is that there is a record player that is on all the time, playing the same song in the background. They lyrics go something like "...but honey don't you want to hire...

Yeah. If the "patina" is the underlying oxidized colors, then it is certainly all still there. I need to take some followup pictures. My small shop (in the basement utility room) looks like a tornado...

Just came across this while internetting on a different project with a table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfcUwMWxJ2U

A question was brought up about how the "patina" may have been stripped away from the wood. Not wanting to hijack that thread, I think this is a good opportunity for an experiment - the color,...

I love shooting it. My son (11) loves shooting it because the recoil is so mild. his favorite to shoot before was a Mosin - I don't know why, probably because they are the most beat up looking things...

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What? There was wood on the grip all this time?
Tried to make the lighting the same for accurate comparison. Final color will mellow in the coming weeks as the raw...

finally got around to cleaning up the stock on this. Actually, I had a Winchester 1917 with stock in worse shape than this one to practice on. My main complaint was that 100+ years of grime had...

one of the issues I had shooting was guesstimating my sight adjustments. The velocities reported in the reloading manuals I used are good enough for printing holes in paper at 100yds, but without a...

good catch! The writing on the target was indeed supposed to say IMR4064, which is what is says in my shooter's notebook. Thankfully I toss the targets after I record the results. I removed the...

Many thanks for the very detailed information butlerangers and Jon. I will take a look at poyer along with your info to see if I can confirm that my feed parts are correct.
I loaded 180 SP with...

Bullets came in the mail yesterday...super fast and deserving of a shout out to https://www.bluecollarreloading.com in NC. First time I ordered from them, or even heard of them. Prices are low end of...

Jon - or anyone else - do you have a favored load for 220RN? I've got a good starting point of the original army load by inferring across the few manuals I have.

Jon - are you saying the feed angle at the joint needs to be lessened? If I hear you right - removing some material from where the side-plate and receiver mate would make the feed slot closer to...

I thought so too. The 180 SP's have a cannelure, and I have seated until the cannelure is completely covered up. I usually seat until I just barely still see the top of the cannelure. I didn't crimp,...

I don't think it's the spring (but would be happy if I'm wrong), my sidplate fits like a glove - ever so slight lip on the sidplate where it mates on the feed ramp in the receiver (e.g. side plate...

Brass finally came in the mail! I had plenty of Hornady 180gr SP's on hand and loaded up a bunch. I also drilled and tapped the back of a case for my Hornady OAL gauge to check max case base to ogive...

She's all put back together. I'll get to the stock work next weekend. I want to scrub with mineral spirits and a blue kitchen scrubby to lift the layer of grime. Light wipe with alcohol to even out...

Thanks for the pic of the side. My go to surface rust removal is 0000 steel wool and barricade or kroil.
I've spent all morning trying to reinstall the trigger. I only found one video that makes it...

Those look very good indeed. Mine wasn't as well preserved as yours.
The ladder was especially poor with mottles of surface rust. I put some birchwood Casey rust remover on a piece of paper towel...

Thanks for the design rcathey. Looks like you used a mill? I'm unfortunately not set up to make one...unless you just ground away until you had it, probably not. It looks too good.
I guess it's a...

Thanks, I used my cell phone for that chamber pic. I couldn't get the rifling to show in the pic from the chamber end, but I could see it with my eyes. looks the same as the muzzle end.
I have pics...

Thank you. Very encouraging info. A properly sized 30-06 case does not fit all the way in, with 0.775 hanging out. Nor does a 303 case. I noticed at pacific tool their 30-40 headspace gauges are...

Here is a picture of the chamber...it's wet and soaking at the moment, but the shoulder is visible. Other posts have got me worried that it may have been reamed out. Pic shows a second step, instead...

This was a VFW turn in that came through CMP in 2012.
My guess is it was refinished at some point. The bluing under the wood looks 100%, whereas the magazine door and side plate are more like 10%....