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Archive Photo’s 3-12

I shot these pictures while at Woolwick at the Rotunda. It was an absolutely great museum. It has since been closed down and replaced with a typical diorama walk through everything behind glass museum. In its day it was a place where you could study some small arms, but mostly artillery up close. I spent […]

Fun at Gun Lab Week end of 3-8-15

Not everything is as much fun as this was.

My old back hoe started leaking oil on two of the cylinders. So the project for Sunday was to remove the cylinders to take them down to the hydraulic repair shop. As with all plans things just do not go as easy as they sound. […]

VG1-5 update

It has been a while since we have chatted about the VG1-5 so I thought an update was in order. All the individual parts have been made and the first non-firing copy was made. This last weekend we finished a testing example to try and determine if any problems exist. We looked at everything from […]

Sunday Answer 3-8-15

The part on Saturdays what is it.

Is the striker from a Chinese Norinco T-97 bullpup rifle.

You can read more about it here.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013/11/24/norinco-t97-bullpup-returns-canada/

I have a complete set of pictures for this rifle coming from a friend in Canada and will post them soon.

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New area at Gun Lab

Part of what was accomplished this last weekend was going through old photo’s that I have taken over the last 40 years and started converting them to digital format. These are pictures of cannons, tanks, aircraft and of course small arms. Some are just a basic picture and some are very detailed photo’s of individual […]

Cut away rifle L1A1

This is a cut away of the L1A1 rifle.

A close up of the receiver area.This is one I would like to have in my collection.

Weekend update part 2 3-1-15

With the weather being bad all weekend it takes all the fun out of working outside. It was also impossible to bring in material of the project in the wood shop. To wet to go shooting. So what to do, that is the question. I continued working on improving my digital photography. I also went […]

weekend road trip first stop

My wife and I started a weekend trip to pick up a new piece of equipment for the machine shop and on the way there we did a quick stop at Reata Pass Auctions to look at the new items they had for the up coming auction.

This is not a normal type of […]

Important topic dealing with BATFE

This site is not political as it manly deals with designing building and discussing firearms. However, my friend John D. has asked me to post this letter concerning the current BATFE attempt to limit our rights. This is an important issue and something everyone needs to stand up and fight. So PLEASE read and help. […]

Part Two on the Bushmaster Pistol

This is part two on the Bushmaster Pistol with John D. It is not often you have the opportunity to chat with someone as knowledgeable as John is on a topic. Enjoy the video.

 

Here are a few of the pictures to go along with the video.

Right side view.

Left side […]