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More on the Beretta model 57

A friend of gun Lab dropped me a line looking for some information of the magazines that the Beretta model 57 30carbine used.

Here are a set of pictures that I took of the issue magazine.

I hope this helps.

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December 15th, 2016 | Category: Beretta model 57, Friends of Gun Lab, magazine design | Leave a comment

Beretta AR-70 magazine modifications

A couple of years ago I bought a Beretta AR-70 rifle for the reference collection. This was before the availability of replacement magazines for the rifle. Because of the total lack of spare magazines in this country people came up with ingenious ideas to modify existing magazines to allow them to shoot there rifles. I […]

May 31st, 2016 | Category: AR-70, magazine design, Magazine manfacturing | 12 comments

Older gun making video part2

Today’s post is another of the video’s out there dealing with making the weapons of war in the U.S. This video deals with making the BAR and it.s magazine.

What is interesting is the pressing dies and method used to make the BAR magazine. I find the fixture design to answer question that I […]

August 28th, 2015 | Category: Historic weapons, machining, magazine design, Magazine manfacturing, Parts fabrication, video | 3 comments

FN-FAL in 7.92×33

In my list of want to do build projects building an original FAL is on the top. The very first FAL ever built was in 7.92×33 and was slightly different then the current FAL that we know today.

 

This rifle is missing and all that is left of it are the pictures you see […]

August 3rd, 2015 | Category: 7.92x33 kurtz, FN-FAL, Gun Lab, Historic weapons, magazine design, Uncategorized, Weapons Design | 5 comments

Gun Lab update

Not a big post for today, just an update on the projects we are working on.

First and most important is the VG1-5 project. I received a call this afternoon late that the firing pins can be picked up from the heat treating firm. With this last piece we can send the second rifle to […]

May 13th, 2015 | Category: 7.92x33 kurtz, AR-16, Bushmaster pistol, equipment, firing pins, Gun Lab, Historic weapons, Japanese type 99 magazine, machining, magazine design, Magazine manfacturing, MP-44, Parts fabrication, solid modeling, stamping dies, VG1-5 | 10 comments

Magazine manufacturing

In this post we are going to look at making a magazine. In this case a 22lr pistol magazine. This magazine was stamped out on a progressive stamping die. In a machine that would look like this.

Not for the home shop.

So lets take a look at the steps that would be required to […]

May 5th, 2015 | Category: Gun Lab, magazine design, Magazine manfacturing, Parts, Parts fabrication, Sheet metal pressings, stamping dies, Uncategorized | 7 comments

Sunday answer 3-1-15

The pictures from Saturday.

This is a bolt carrier for a Farquhar-Hill rifle. This bolt is from a drum type rifle. Here are a few pictures of it.

Rear sight

Gas system

Front of the drum

Top of the drum. Notice no feed lips. That was […]

March 1st, 2015 | Category: British weapons., engineering design, Farquhar-Hill, Gun Lab, Historic weapons, magazine design, sunday answer | Leave a comment

Interesting Spanish pistol

On my trip through the mid-west I had a great opportunity to look at a number of great gun collections. At one of the stops I had a chance to come across a unique Spanish pistol. The pistol is not the unique part but the magazine is. It is a double column magazine that was […]

January 14th, 2015 | Category: 32 acp, Historic weapons, magazine design, Ruby Plus Ultra, Uncategorized | 4 comments