Good Morning All,

A small group of T-Gewehr shooters from Miami, Maryland, Upstate NY, and Canadaicon have been working with me in a discussion about extending our firing pins. In 1918, the T-Gewehr came with a 60/1000ths protrusion mimicking the GEW98 of the day. The primers on the original T-Gewehr cases are smaller than our 50BMG primers and seem to have been softer too. Often, it takes a second and sometimes a third trigger pull to setoff our 50BMG primers. Understanding that we are trying to headspace our rounds in a rifle that was rimmed, we do have to deal with several variables.

When we consulted USGI standards, we saw a call for about 80/1000ths pin protrusion for the 50BMG. I contacted Nathaniel at Myers Arms and he agreed to reverse engineer a test pin with an additional 20/1000ths. Nathaniel and his team did an outstanding job as you can see below. At the range today, I had 16/16 first pull ignitions. I am not sure if this is related, but I also nailed 6/6 at 100 yards!

Randy