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Cut away L1A1.

It was brought to my attention,by one of my favorite blogs, that I was a little lacking on my cut away post of the FAL. I am sorry as I knew that some where I had a few more photos. It took a while to locate them but here they are to help anyone with […]

Sunday Answer 2-22-15 a day late

The bolt goes to a Cei-Rigotti rifle

I had the opportunity to study one close up.

And I got some great measurements. Never enough pictures or measurements.

Here are pictures of the rifle.

bolt removed.

Trigger mechanism

Left side view

Bottom view

Right side view.

A great view of the gas […]

Sunday answer 2-15-15

This is a bolt to the Brondby rifle in 7.62×25.

It was another trials rifle that was made in limited numbers.

The rifle fired from an open bolt ,which unfortunately means that I can not made one here. It is a gas operated rifle that uses a […]

Converted Rifles

In this segment we are going to discuss rifles that were converted from one caliber to another to allow them to be used by the country that captured them or to convert them for training. I first got interested in this after reading about the Cuban revolution and the weapons that they used.This first segment […]

Another 22 single shot pistol

This post is about another interesting pistol that I had an opportunity to look at while on my trip through the mid-west. This pistol is the S&M single shot pistol, called the SM Sporter 22 lr. It is a single shot pistol with an automatic opening bolt, much like a semi-auto pistol, but it stays […]

M-1 Garand receiver

In keeping with the M-1 Garand posts here and at The firearms Blog, http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/12/16/making-m1-garand/. I though I would provide a couple of pictures of what the receiver looked like after it was forged and with the flashing cut off.

First the side views.

Now the top view.

Finally the bottom view. The amount of […]

Sunday Answer 12-14

This is a bolt and bolt carrier from a Chinese bull pup assault rifle. qbz-95

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Part One of the Bushmaster Pistol

In this video I had the opportunity to chat with John D about his collection of Bushmaster pistols. This is part one of the multi part review of this interesting weapon.

Here are a few still pictures of this interesting first model sheet metal stamped upper pistol.

Close up of parts of […]

Making the Gardner gun Part 1

I enjoy making things, specifically guns and any thing associated with making guns. I also enjoy chatting with people who make guns or any thing dealing with that. I also love mechanical machine guns. That leads us to today’s topic.

A friend of mine really wanted a miniature Gardner gun and with none available took […]

HEAT TREATING

During our recent trip through the mid-west I had an opportunity to stop in and chat with John D.,a metallurgist, and Joe P.,a heat treating professional. I ended up taking a number of pictures and John was nice enough to do a write up for me concerning what we looked at, what it does […]

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