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Timberline Hawk survival rifle

Chuck — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:00:28 +0000

Not much is known about the company Timer Line Hawk. So this is as much of a history as I could gather. The registered agent of the company was John A. Mc Gerty and the filing date was March 29,1983. It was a company formed initially by four men to take over the assets of the old Armalite company when they closed their doors. Initially they did the warranty work for Armalite on the AR-180 and 18. What is not generally known is that they also design and built guns other than the AR180 series rifles. This article is about such a rifle. This is the 2 shot rotating barrel 22lr survival rifle.

There are a few draw backs to this rifle. The first is that the point of aim is different for the two barrels. The second is that you have to be careful when loading as it is easy to get the cartridge not properly placed to allow the action to close.

The side of the rear barrel support. You can see the pins that pinned in the barrels to the support.

The barrel release latch on the bottom of the frame.

Looking at the end you can see the machined area for the extractor.

The barrels are actually AR-7 barrel liners.

The retaining notch is cut in behind the made in USA. Looking at the machining of this notch you can see that these were prototype weapons only.

An interesting logo used by Timberline Hawk.

The storage tube that was also the stock. To be used to store survival items.

The rubber cap that acted as a butt plate

The rifle taken apart and next to it’s storage bag.

As it would be stored in the back pack.

This is a limited prototype weapon that I don’t think ever went into serious production. The number on this rifle is 42 and it is the only one that I have ever seen or heard about. There were a few spare barrels assemblies made, I have one in my collection.

This rifle came out during a time period when small light weight survival rifles were all the rage.

I want to thank Pete, a friend of Gun Lab, for letting me photograph his very rare rifle.

Weapons man has an interesting write up on the original derringer that was the initial idea for this rifle here.

http://weaponsman.com/?p=34197

3d printer and the Remington Hepburn

Chuck — Tue, 24 May 2016 08:00:30 +0000

A couple of years ago I bought a Remington Hepburn rifle That was in very poor condition. I happen to like this style of action and wanted to reverse engineer it and make a new rifle. Orin, a friend of gun lab, also has an interest in this rifle and making one. I bought a set of prints from ASSRA as a starting point and started making a solid model of the rifle in solid works. When I finished my part I sent the drawings and all the components to Orin where he finished the drawings. The project has set as we still needed a few critical dimensions. Well then I get the word from Orin that he has bought a 3d printer and he has printed out the receiver and a cut away of it as well. This is that story.

This is the printer that he bought.

After 3 hours of printing

After 5 hours and 20 minutes

After 9hours and 15 minutes the receiver is complete.

Three views of the receiver after printing is complete.

The computer solid model as it looks prior to printing.

The cut away model and some of the internal parts to allow testing of the model.

This is a video of the process and progress of this project.

Looking at the Stevens Little Krag rifle

Chuck — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 08:00:53 +0000

The little Krag rifle made by Stevens gun company is a 22 caliber boys rifle. The Krag name was chosen because the Spanish American war was still in the recent memory of most Americans. It is a simply design single shot rifle that came out in March of 1904. The rifle came with a standard 20″ round barrel and oil walnut stock. For a short time there was a scope that was available, it however was dropped after being made for only one year. By 191o the rifle has run it’s course and was discontinued.

Close up of the receiver in the stock.

Out of the stock.

The barrel is a slip fit that is held in with a screw on the bottom of the receiver with a screw.

As you can see from the pictures this is a very basic receiver.

Even the trigger and extractor are of a very simple design.

The bolt as well is very simple in design and function. The bolt handle is what keeps the action closed when the rifle is fired.

There is an interesting design with this rifle. It is the design of the extractor. It is a spring loaded design. Here are a few pictures of the spring and extractor set up.

As you extract the cartridge out of the chamber the extractor springs forward to all another cartridge to be fed into the rifle.

This is a video of its operation.

Quite often I am e-mailed about I am interested in making my own rifle but I don’t have the experience or the tools. This rifle can be made with a very little experience and tooling. There is no or minimal heat treating involved with this design and steel selection could be basic scrap steel.

22 caliber boy’s rifle

Chuck — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:00:39 +0000

I dropped by a friends house today between jobs and he had a pie of boy’s rifles that he was going through. The majority of them were single shot dropping blocks or rolling block rifles and I find those interesting, however there was one that had been gone over by someone to make what I would call a custom rifle for a child. Here are a few pictures of the rifle in question. It is a J.C.Higgins model 103,18 in 22 cal. The rifle itself has no great vale and even after being worked over it now has less value, but still interesting.

You can see that a new stock has been made for it and a new trigger guard has been fashioned for it.

A close up of the stock. Not even sure what type of wood was used.

But the fit is correct so someone took the time to make it correctly

The interesting part is the trigger guard. An old spoon or fork handle was used to make it. To make it fancy.

As I looked at it all that crossed my mind is that someone went to some trouble to make this. To me it is interesting, I just think of some guy or gal doing this for his or her daughter.