I love my job

Things be startin' to warm up here , and business is picking up a little . Yesterday I remade a nut from a Chevy to fit a Ford Bronco front hub and cleaned up the threads on the hub . Today I drilled a Rem 760 receiver for a scope mount and started the machining on a barrel for a Russian SVD build *. Who knows what tomorrow will bring ? Apparently word is spreading that there's a small machine shop in the area now , and I'm diggin' it . Looks like I'll be getting a variety of small jobs , just the market I was looking for . And my just-planted strawberries are showing new growth ...

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Terry Coombs
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What an awesome feeling, money rolling in etc...

Congrats/...

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Ignoramus32753

I've built an RPD. let me know if you need prints or any advice.

Karl

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Karl Townsend

The guy I'm doing it for is an engineer , he's drawing up the lower and sending it to me as a pdf to see if it'll work - he's changing things a bit , like putting an AR pistol grip on it . Everything else is in a kit which includes drawings . But if I get stuck I'll fershure ping you .

This guy has programmed CNC , but has like zero experience in manual machining . We spent a couple of hours this morning with him watching . Had a bad moment or 3 when that barrel blank started singing even with the follow rest . Once I got past the skin it seems to have settled down . Changing over to brazed carbides helped too

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Terry Coombs

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Karl Townsend

Bookmarked , and thanks !

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Terry Coombs

Me and my eldest son shot a few drums in an RPD last year in Switzerland. The guy who owns is a gunsmith with his own range under his house! When I went over a couple of years ago, he let me try his MG34. Nice piece. He is currently rebuilding an MG42.

JB

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JB

I've never really lusted over a full-auto weapon , I'm more the hide-and-snipe kinda guy . Might be partly due to growing up out west where

100 yds was a short range shot ... the thing I miss the most here is that there aren't many 'chuck colonies . I have seen a couple of individuals on the highway , so maybe I just haven't looked hard enough . The interesting thing about Caleb's build is that he's redesigning the lower to utilize an AR buttstock/buffer tube and an AR type pistol grip . Thinks maybe we'll use 7075-T6 for it . I'm excited !
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Terry Coombs

I really envy you guys in the US. We'd be in jail long before we finished a homemade catapult these days. As it is, we still have to go to Europe to shoot now. Quite a few of our old gunclub 'donated'/exported their guns to a Belgian club before the post-Hungerford & Dunblane kneejerk bans came into force. Even our olympic shooting teams have to go abroad for practice. Poor show. And remind me just HTF taking our legally held firearms has reduced guncrime? Really poor show. JB

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JB

Have you been following the developments in Connecticut ? Apparently the bans aren't going too well there . I think this may be the beginning of a slow-rolling revolt against oppresive laws that have been passed in recent years . Time will tell .

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Terry Coombs

If you do use 7075-T6 you will really enjoy machining it. Being harder than 6061-T6 it doesn't machine as fast but the chips are nicer and getting a really nice finish is easy. Sorta like the way 4340 in the heat treated condition or 15-5 and 17-4 in the normalized condition sure look good when machining. Eric

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etpm

I've machined 7075 before , and you're right , it is sweet to work with .

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Terry Coombs

Its off topic, I suppose, but did gun crimes really change radically after the gun "ban"?

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John B.

What do you reckon happened? ;>)

It seems that the effect on gun crime was minimal if anything at all [don't quote me on this though, as I'm sure there are many 'official' statistics to prove that the ban was effective]. However, a lot of honest, law abiding

was at "market value". *Post ban* market value. ie; 2/10ths of sweet FA] I

years. I shot at my absolute best with that Colt. My ported S&W 686 with comp trigger job set me back a little less, but they still only gave me

blackpowder breechloaders, and battle reenactment. the *many* sets of dies and tons of spare brass went FOC to a Belgian gunclub. I'm just glad I made the most of the hobby while i had the chance. As I said, these days I have to go to mainland Europe now to use more than an air pistol.

JB

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JB

You mention "black powder" and "hand loading". Can one still own and shoot black powder cartridge weapons?

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John B.

Well a mate has said that black powder shooting has gone up considerably in the UK since the ban and he is licensed for it and shotguns which apparently covers upto a 2" cannon. UK gun law seems odd in that apparently my mate can have an old genuine Colt revolving pistol, black powder IIRC, which is deemed obsolete but still lethal with no problems but can't own a new Italian replica of the same. I know of other situations of obsolete guns being OK to own mainly due to obsolete ammunition, illegal to alter for current ammo of course. I think the reaction to Dunblane and the like was over the top but having lived in the US for a period and experienced gun use and while a buzz I see no particular need for it in the UK in my area as the sort of crime you might want to use a gun to prevent happening is very rare.

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David Billington

You can still own bolt action rifles here, and a number of my friends shoot .308, .223, 22/250, .270 etc. Most if not all are handloaders. The guy I gave my gear to uses it for 45/70 BP cartridges for an old rifle I think. He and his merry band have also several cannon too!

JB

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JB

Nah, ig, it's all about doing what you love to do and not have some pencil necked geek two cubicles over controlling your existence.

Steve

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SteveB

Exactly, especially when it is profitable.

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Ignoramus14365

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