A Dance With Dragons Part I
Ever since I learned about the Ed Masaki Dragon gun, I was sort of obsessed with it. I was lucky enough to buy one, but some questions still remained unanswered – why is it not available anymore? Why no one else tries to make one? And can I be the one? After a years of […]
Turning Tugnsten Tuesday
It is Tuesday and I’m back in my shop, turning tungsten….wait, what? I recently upgraded my .22 pistol to the famous Pardini SP22. The gun is absolutely fantastic, the trigger, balance, feel and accuracy is superb, no wonder pretty much all Olympic shooters choose it. However, there’s still room for improvement and this time it […]
The Rite of Springs
Bullseye shooters often develop their own loads and tune their gun to the load they like the most. Which for the most part means finding a proper recoil spring that allows the gun to cycle reliably. Unfortunately there’s no exact formula that would help calculate the spring rate, one pretty much has to try different […]
Low Voltage Rock’n’Roll
A customer needed a scope mount for his Bullseye gun. It’s not a particularly difficult part to make, I’ve done it before many times but I always just spray painted the parts with Cerakote or even a regular Rust-Oleum matte black paint. This time, however, I decided to go big or go home and instead […]
Twins for Bowling Pins
It was a long and tedious build. I hate to admit it but I’ve never fitted a compensator on a 1911 before. So while there wasn’t anything special about it, it still took a bit of time for preparations and studies. Other than that, these are, well, just a pair of 1911s that a friend […]
Winchester ’73
This is the story of the Winchester Rifle Model 1873, “The gun that won the West.” To cowman, outlaw, peace officer or soldier, the Winchester ’73 was a treasured possession. An Indian would sell his soul to own one… Boy, oh boy, a Winchester ’73! What I’d give to have that gun. One of 1000? […]
I Built Me A Gun And My Gun Pleased Me
This project started as, well, a huge slab of a nice fiddleback maple. It spent several Arizona summers in my garage and got bone dry, and finally I decided it’s time to make something out of it. Hmm, what should I make? Tough choice… After the stock was initially profiled and inletted, the hard work […]
I’ve Been Working on the Rail
A friend of mine recently got a nice Smith & Wesson Model 52 and started looking for options to mount an Ultradot on it. One of the best possible options was the BME slide mount, but unfortunately BME is out of stock at the moment. Well, said I, challenge accepted, if I cannot buy it, […]
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 […]