Thread: Hello from canterbury

My name is Mike and am a past competition shooter in centrefire, rimfire and 12g. Don't do any now but still enjoy playing with accurate firearms and get to do a bit of testing from time to time. Main hobby area these days is sporting rimfires and like to buy/restore/mod new and old rifles.

Always learning new stuff playing with rifles e.g. a few minutes ago cobber walked in and said he'd just bead blasted the receiver clean on an old 22 he's doing up, and had also bead blasted the stock!! perfectly clean of heavy varnish in just few minutes - and wood good! Didn't know that could happen - save 2-3 hours of polystripping each job!

Cheers Mike

Good stuff Mike, I enjoy your informative reviews & enthusiasm for rim fires

Hi Mike, good to see you on here as well

Thanks guys - seem to do mostly rimfire shooting these days and its enjoyable finding inexpensive worker .22s which you won't mind bumping round the truck some, but are capable of top end accuracy. There are a few out there.

And regarding fine bead blasting of stocks, friend just showed me the old Marlin he did today and it was stripped clean ready for sanding/finishing within 3 minutes. That'll be the last stock I hand strip. I think you'd need to be careful with softer woods but you can then blast slower from further away. Wish I'd known this years ago....!

Hi Mike and welcome.
That little DLX model 60 you sold me is great source of fun.4 bricks through it now and running sweet.
Cheers
Chris

They are beautiful wee rifles aren't they. Run them clean and near dry and they perform so well. I love the accuracy of my 98 DL - such a wee sniper out to 100.