It’s Like Nelson, But For Adults
I like listening to opera music while working on my guns. My favorite opera composer is Giacomo Puccini, but today I chose a German opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber. This opera has everything we love – guns, shooting, hunting, marksmanship competitions and even bullet casting! My choice of the music was based […]
Repairing Breech Face on Hammerli 208S
This is a guest post by Derrick Martin. If you have a similar problem with your Hammerli, feel free to contact Derrick at ask_derrick@aol.com. BREECH FACE CUTTER The Counterbore had a large radius around the Pilot Hole. I had to reface counterbore back to remove radius and then regrind cutting reliefs with die grinder, back […]
All Quiet on the Beretta Front Sight
A club member asked me to work on her Beretta. Among other things, I’ve installed an adjustable Bomar-style rear sight, which required a much taller front sight than the original factory one. A quick search for readily available product revealed nothing, so I decided to make one. I got a small piece of mild steel […]
Rebarreling my Pardini
This was an interesting experiment. I’ve been trying to make my Pardini .32ACP accurate at 50 yards for quite some time, but without any luck. Finally I’ve decided to make a custom barrel for it and see if the results will improve. The 5″ length of a rifle .308 blank was a perfect candidate. I […]
Marvel Cut
A fellow club member asked me to tune up his gun. It was not cycling properly and hanging up on disconnector every now and then, and after a brief inspection we decided that a Marvel disconnector cut will help. For those of you who have never heard this term before, it’s the angle cut on […]
This Is The End
Of my large primers stash, the end…Of things that do go BANG!, the end… Someone should come up with .45 caliber semi-auto air gun, seriously. Maybe that someone is me…
Rhapsody in Stainless Steel
This build was a mix of carbon steel frame and stainless steel slide. We discussed some finish options, including IonBond, cold blue, etc. and finally chose to do Cerakote, not because it’s easy…oh wait, actually because it’s easy…well, sort of. I had to do a lot of preparations. Aside from the Cerakote starter kit, I […]
In With The Old…
Two pistols followed me home yesterday. One is the CMP 1911 which I ordered more than a year ago. I requested field grade because I hoped to get something more original (i.e. original finish, markings, etc), so here it is – a beautiful old Remington Rand / Ithaca gun, the trigger is very heavy but […]
TargetPI – Part I
Warning – this post is full of geek technical terms, abbreviations and computer commands which, if read backwards, can open the gates of hell! Proceed at your own risk! My brand new RaspberryPI is here! What a cute little computer it is! I’m very impressed! And excited 🙂 I ordered a model 4 with 8Gb […]
Electronic Airgun Target – Intro
One of the most enjoyable experiences of Camp Perry for me is shooting the air pistol matches at the Gary Anderson CMP Competition Center. It’s a state-of-the-art facility, equipped with not only the air conditioning, showers and free wifi (super important!), but also with the electronic targets. Yeah, I know, we are all old school […]