Thanks for the response Bruce. I have some general knowledge of the evolution in military bullets from about the time of the Minie ball design, but not as specific as you recounted.
My last...
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Thanks for the response Bruce. I have some general knowledge of the evolution in military bullets from about the time of the Minie ball design, but not as specific as you recounted.
My last...
I'm still curious exactly what they did at the end of the barrel manufacturing process. From what I've seen in my short time in the business of manufacturing button/cut rifling barrels, the barrel...
Nah... Fast Firearms LLC is just a few miles away at The Hajji Armory Formerly Known As Bagram Air Base.
Possibly worse, the investor group that was the final owners of MRC as an operating entity never showed any indication they were actually motivated by profit and growing the business. I wasn't there...
I was in the 'senior citizen pensioner' category when I first saw them "hand lapping" like that with steel wool; I'd been reloading and competitive rifle shooting since the early 1970's. Everything I...
I'm not historically minded; mostly shooty-minded, although I appreciate the history after 30 years of being one of The Queen's Uniformed Lawn Darts at the back end behind a pointy bayonet. If my...
The comment about Savage automatically lapping their barrels in a thread about 15 years ago leads me to mention this while wondering how they did it. Also curious if Long Branch did anything to the...
Somewhat adrift from the OP's question, I once had the very bad idea of measuring the movement per click (and between scribed range lines) on issue No. 4 sights.
The brief version is that I...
Whether you prefer (or have some version of) cramps to push the front sight, or opt for a drift and some version of a dead blow hammer, getting a vernier caliper involved to measure the amount you've...
I used to use a bit of Lee's liquid alox for .455 Webley, despite the annoyance of how messy it is. Tumble lubes start running out of usefulness the higher the velocity gets - or the more you go...
It isn't that "it is popular" to slag Lee moulds (and equipment), because there's apparently nothing else for the buyers of those moulds to do with their time. LEE gets slagged so much because,...
Air Force???? That lot of slovenly dressed, undisciplined civilians?
You need to decontaminate your collection immediately!
Aside from your original question that appears settled, there's probably more of us here eyeballing the long dirt nap with a lot more time behind us than in front of us than not. Meaning a lot of...
Sooooo..... you're telling us a guy named Geographer moved to a place called Magma? Hmmmm....
Anyone who's upset by your project should go asking for spare change and see if they can get a life....
Not a bad thing; it gives you an opportunity (time) to not only read, but to start eyeballing Lee Enfields at gunshows and wherever you might find them, while you start squirreling away the money to...
Depends on how big the gongs are... a 5+" grouping load in either jacketed or cast is going to be sketchy with an 8" gong, I think, unless you can reliably hold 2 MOA offhand shooting a Lee Enfield...
I generally shoot standing, kneeling, sitting, prone at 100 yards using various reduced targets. Best bang for my buck and time at the range, and with a good cast load, you can get that. Why shoot...
It sounds like Joe Brennan is still around and still hard at work; he must be at least 80 years old now, going on memory. My copy is an original edition, one volume circa 2003, from when Joe first...
You may not be overthinking it enough! But you're off to the right start in my opinion and experience when you slugged and measured your barrel.
There's a lot at play here. For example, if you...
The Red Dot (and Ed Harris's previous "the load" that used 2400 instead) loads mentioned have a pretty good probability of being a powder/charge combination that will deliver within your rifle's...
No, nothing at all like the corporate mergers, acquisitions, etc you're describing. It's a long story; but I'll give it a shot, perhaps as a cautionary tale in the firearms manufacturing business or...
Pretty much: the buttoning rod is pulled through the drilled and reamed blank, coated inside with a slippery soap. More or less self centering.
I found no documentation while searching for...
Again, eyeballing the striations running in the bottom of the grooves of this five groove rifle, thinking that at least the cutters were getting worn seems to make sense. Still, sharpening of...
Thanks Jim. About all I can take from that is the answers suggested the rifling was broach cut. Given the horrendous looking (through a borescope, mind you) striations running the length of the...
I stopped when almost done lapping (because I was getting bored after six hours of repetition), went outside and shot a group, but the scope in the S&K mount was off by then, and it was back to the...