Both the 85gr Sierra’s have the same jacket thickness. I cut the bases off both, melted the lead out and checked. The SPT has a slightly bigger hollow point behind the lead, hence I think they will...
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And so after 89 1/4 hours of planing, chiselling, scraping, sanding and much thinking and looking, here is what I have. This is after the first ‘base coat’ of oil, which now needs to dry a couple of...
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I like cant as well as cast when building my own stocks https://i.imgur.com/NG5wwknl.jpg This was a superb blank I bought in from the US and with so much burl and grain changes was done primarily...
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Another bucket of 100+ year old war horse parts turned into a 1940s 45acp Delisle Commando carbine. This replica is pretty close to the real deal and took many hours of work. There was a couple of...
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Yes this project is still on going. Not finished yet though.... Still need to make it heavier. 181053
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Bought a silly cheap .270 Browning Xbolt from way down south with help from Tentman. You know that when it seems to be too good to be true, often it is exactly that. Anyhoo, got my hands on it made...
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Although the Sten and the Patchett/Sterling guns have the same operating principle they are as different as chalk and cheese. Whilst the stamped-out Sten was a clever product of dire emergency and...
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Might be a bit old school for here so Admin can delete if ya want to, anyway here is an old Yeomanry carbine I bought back from a sorry state. Lucky a mate had a good one I could copy the missing...
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Well guys this bloody lock down bit is a bugger wearing out my shoes walking the dog , getting wood to keep the fire going. My lathe has packed a sad, broken gear in gear box so using it by hand. Yep...
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