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A day testing guns

Chuck — Wed, 01 May 2019 08:00:48 +0000

This Sunday we spent 6 hours testing a variety of weapons. A few more VG1-5 rifles were tested. The MG-34 had all the springs replaced and was tested as well as the mpi-69. This is a quick video of what was 6 hours of actual work and testing.

A 22lr EM-2

Chuck — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 08:00:17 +0000

A friend who has passed made this copy of an EM-2 in 22lr. It is amazing what people can come up with. Defiantly an interesting rifle.

Right and left side views of the rifle.

Look closely at the markings on the carrying handle base

Rear sight and carrying handle

Rear butt plate

Added ejection port cover

Magazine release and rear cover

cocking handle

Magazine housing

left side showing the cocking handle, grip and trigger

A couple of views of the front site and base

Front band

Front sling swivel

East German KK-MPI-69

Chuck — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 08:00:12 +0000

I came across this write at The Firearms Blog. I have always found the East German KK-MPI-69 to be an interesting rifle. I thought I would go into a little more depth on the parts of this fascinating trainer.

First the interesting write up at the firearm blob.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/12/13/east-german-kk-mpi-69-22-lr-trainers-wild/

Now for some additional pictures of the rifle and some of it’s components.

The rifle and 5 magazines. Note the differences in bottom plates on the magazines. I have found two different magazines over the years.

Rear trunion

Front upper and lower hand guard.

Front barrel band.

A complete bolt

This plate hold the 22 lr magazine in alignment and also hold the ejector.

The inside working of the rifle.

Top cover. Totally different them a normal rifle.

The recoil system.

A series of pictures on a cut front section. I bought some of these a few years back before I found a complete one.

An incomplete bolt.

The Winchester self loading rifle part 1

Chuck — Tue, 12 May 2015 08:00:14 +0000

I happen to enjoy all types of firearms. From single shot to machine gun. From civilian to military and caliber does not matter. Generally I like to chat about projects we are working on or building small arms, but this series of posts are going to be about the Winchester self loading rifle. The first post will deal with the Model 1903 self loader and its successors the Winchester model 63 and the Taurus copy of the model 63.

When the Winchester model 1903 first came out 22lr ammunition was not of the same quality as 22 ammo is today. In fact a large portion of it still used black powder as its propellant. Therefore to insure a rifle that would work properly and not gum up due to the residue that black powder leaves behind a new cartridge was developed. This cartridge was the 22 Winchester automatic. This round fired a 45 grain lubricated lead bullet with a muzzle velocity of 1055 fps and a muzzle energy of 111 ft-lbs.

The picture above shows the difference between the two cartridges.

This rifle used a tubular magazine. The clip as we know today was not developed unit 1919. Loading ammunition while shooting all three of the rifles was easily accomplished, but care had to be taken to insure that the round were dropped in properly.

The production of the model 1903 rifle ended in 1932 with Winchester making a little over 120,00 units.

The curve of the butt stock was more along the lines of a lever action and not a semi-auto rifle.

By 1932 22 ammunition improved in quality enough that the rifle was re-design for this caliber and the model designation was changer to model 63. All together approximately 175,000 were made and sold.

Still using the rear tubular magazine and not magazine fed.

The front nose cap remained the same.

However, now the butt stock was more into the design of a semi-auto rifle and checkered.

The third rifle is not a Winchester but a Taurus copy, also called the model 63.

You can see that changes were made to the feed slot for the tubular magazine. The slot is longer and at a much more gradual taper.

The same basic nose cap was kept.

The butt stock and plate were once again changed.