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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Mericet on May 02, 2013, 10:44:17 PM
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One of the projects I am working on at school is to chamber and regulate a double rifle in .450 Nitro Express (3.25in) on a shotgun action. I continued work that was started by a previous graduate who prepped the barrels and monoblock. I chambered the barrels last week and spent today tinning the barrels and monoblock and joining everything together. One of my classmates commented that this was the messiest they have ever seen my work bench!
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Very cool Mega Thumper. Sounds like something Michael Bane would want......with a suppressor.
Couldn't shoehorn in a 500? ;)
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very neat.
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The rifle is being built for someone from Friends of NRA, so all the caliber choices were out of my hands. Glad I have a lead sled for the regulation part and I am hoping to get that done without too much trouble.
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They don't have a "green with envy" emoticon .
If they did I'd be using it . ;D
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What a great course.
I don't have any idea what the usual work for a gunsmith entails, but it seems to me that you could do 90% of it left handed after what you are learning.
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Quick follow up: Barrels are now fitted to the breech face, headspace checked and the forend lug soldered on. Tomorrow we will fit the forend iron and if all goes well do a test fire to confirm everything works!
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Solus, good thing I am left handed then!
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Test fired the rifle today. No problems, it did great. Good primer strikes, no stuck cases and everything held together well. Will edit and post some video later. At $5.00 a round, I am just glad I did not have pay for the ammo!
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$5.00 a round? I'd hate to have to pay to regulate that sucker!
Would love to watch though. 8)
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I guess you just don't want to track down and follow a blood trail.....Seems whether a .450 or as this vid shows a .470 Nitro, just seems to drop the meat right off the bat. I like that. Keep it simple and bring enough gun... ::)
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What action are you using Mericet? That looks (in your pic.) to be a Westley Richards top lever...but the safety button would be wrong for that.
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Bic, the action is an AYA 12ga with a Greener cross bolt.
I got the extractor cut done today. Next step is to make a new extractor. I am busy getting ready for my last board of trustees meeting as SGA president, putting out my graduation clothes and rehearsing my keynote speech for tonight. I will post pictures later this week.
The cartridge is 3.25 inches long. The advantage of a double is a quick follow up shot and as they have been around a long time (well set up?) there is very little chances something will go wrong for the second shot.
I also learned that I got all A's this semester. Did not think I was going to make it.
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You seem to be to "into" the course not to get all A's.
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Bic, the action is an AYA 12ga with a Greener cross bolt.
I got the extractor cut done today. Next step is to make a new extractor. I am busy getting ready for my last board of trustees meeting as SGA president, putting out my graduation clothes and rehearsing my keynote speech for tonight. I will post pictures later this week.
The cartridge is 3.25 inches long. The advantage of a double is a quick follow up shot and as they have been around a long time (well set up?) there is very little chances something will go wrong for the second shot.
I also learned that I got all A's this semester. Did not think I was going to make it.
Well done with the 'A' - so it was originally a 3"12ga?.....it does have double triggers right?
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You seem to be to "into" the course not to get all A's.
I actually got two B's last semester. But it was also the semester I separated from my wife and moved right in the middle of the semester. Just did not get as much work done as I needed to. But, you know, life sucks sometimes.
Well done with the 'A' - so it was originally a 3"12ga?.....it does have double triggers right?
I believe it was a 3" but not sure. I am continueing work where another student (since graduated) left of. That did not matter anyway as the barrels were chopped of and used to create the monoblock. And yes, double triggers.