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    Here is my first ever rifle - an air rifle I got as a a birthday present about 36 years ago.
    My brother took it out after some rabbits and reckoned he dropped it barrel first into soft ground, but somehow this shattered the stock. He taped it up with packaging tape, and 30 or so years later it's still going strong - with the original tape! As they say, "if it ain't broke don't fix it", or should that be "if it's only a little bit broke don't fix it"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cigar View Post
    Here is my first ever rifle - an air rifle I got as a a birthday present about 36 years ago.
    My brother took it out after some rabbits and reckoned he dropped it barrel first into soft ground, but somehow this shattered the stock. He taped it up with packaging tape, and 30 or so years later it's still going strong - with the original tape! As they say, "if it ain't broke don't fix it", or should that be "if it's only a little bit broke don't fix it"?
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    He heh. Far be it from me to diss the good tape, but if you DO want to fix it, put some epoxy into the cracks. Then drill holes across cracks and put in a long coarse-thread brass wood screws with some more epoxy on the threads. Tighten then cut head off screw and file flat. Super strong repair and does not look bad having a wee spot of brass showing here and there.

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    Bubba be messin' with the bullets as well.

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    @Max Headroom this is a more precise method of the same thing. One of several different types apparently.

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    jeeez Max......even I do a betterer job of it than bubba does.....if you are going to doctor a .22lr projectile (or a subsonic .30 cal one ) at least do it properly.
    they work very very well when done right. we were making power points for 10 years before winchester put them out....simple quick twirl with sharp end of 4" nail opened up cavity nicely.

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    Not my proudest moment. But luckily I got rid of it before I felt too guilty. Was a gecado single shot. Had a bulge in the barrel from a "mate" not realizing he had a squib load. Shortened and suppressed it and had to ghetto a scope into the side as it had no sights.

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    Quote Originally Posted by baronPolarbear View Post
    Not my proudest moment. But luckily I got rid of it before I felt too guilty. Was a gecado single shot. Had a bulge in the barrel from a "mate" not realizing he had a squib load. Shortened and suppressed it and had to ghetto a scope into the side as it had no sights.

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    Oh that is a shame was my very first rifle one of those! Shoots so well, even with a wiggly screw as a fore sight.... 2" steel plate @70m every day.... just have to aim over to the left or the right depending which way its been wiggling! Nice trigger too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by baronPolarbear View Post
    Not my proudest moment. But luckily I got rid of it before I felt too guilty. Was a gecado single shot. Had a bulge in the barrel from a "mate" not realizing he had a squib load. Shortened and suppressed it and had to ghetto a scope into the side as it had no sights.
    in that situation I cant really see the problem.
    kept it working and people shorten the hell out of everything nowadays.
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    these are what I've been looking for

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    And just because there were a bunch of them at the start of the thread for inspiration, I was at GC in chch yesterday and lo and behold there were a dozen or more mosin's.
    have at it people.

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    Are said Mosins being sold at Bubba prices??. Caint wreck 'em if I caint afford 'em.

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    P14 all matching numbers
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    Rear sight cut in half

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    It must have been too heavy for the poor chap so the butt was hollowed out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Max Headroom View Post
    Are said Mosins being sold at Bubba prices??. Caint wreck 'em if I caint afford 'em.
    @Max Headroom I don't know what is cheap for them but I would suggest not. Minimum 600ish @john m so they milled the rear sight ears off and then decided to shorten the flip up sight as they obviously needed that half an ounce removed more than the ability to lob rounds to 1800yrds or so lol. Just leave the thing
    they cored the crap out of the stock.
    I have a couple of bsa E model p14s plus an old stripped action that was almost finished as a net gun. Don't ask me now I got that

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    Quote Originally Posted by john m View Post
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    Rear sight cut in half

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    It must have been too heavy for the poor chap so the butt was hollowed out.

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    That's for the emergency rounds plus a bit of car tube for starting a fire on the wet night out.
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    https://www.trademe.co.nz/sports/hun...02373d45016f9f

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    Use enough gun

 

 

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