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The Hobbit Hole XXXVIII - There and Back Again!

Posted on 09/23/2009 6:19:16 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

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To: hiredhand
Where’s the recoil spring on that beastie?

Just like anything else based on the G3 design, in the smaller tube above the barrel. The funny rear cap has the recoil buffer in it, which slows and stops the rearward movement of the bolt carrier. This design also makes a telescoping or folding stock, and long stay at a federal motel, possible if you do it on this pistol.

Planned mods include a much longer four-prong flash hider, a piece of Picatinny rail that attaches just in front of the rear sight, and some kind of added insulation on the forend, rather than clutter it up with devices hung on the rails. Expecting the possibility of heavy recoil, I'd rather not get knocked on the knuckles by stuff up front.

4,121 posted on 09/17/2013 9:39:39 AM PDT by 300winmag (Whatever CAN go wrong has already happened. We just don't know about it yet.)
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To: 300winmag

Sorry... I’m sure I used the wrong terminology now. I “think” I was talking about the recoil buffer (spring) that usually runs from the back of the bolt carrier back into the stock. I know that on the one I have that when I knock the two keeper pins out of the rear buttstock and pull it out, there’s a LONG spring that comes out with it. I’m guessing the one on that pistol model in your photo is shorter and stouter? :-)


4,122 posted on 09/17/2013 10:06:32 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: hiredhand
I’m guessing the one on that pistol model in your photo is shorter and stouter? :-)

The operating spring guide rod (the long spring and rod in the top tube) is about 3" shorter than on other H&K rifles, because the barrel is much shorter, so the rod has to be much shorter so it can be affixed to the reset of the receiver. Other than that, everything is identical with the regular rifle.

Except a weapon built as a handgun, then the recoil rod assembly, including the rear cap, must be designed so that attaching a rifle-type stock is physically impossible. A vertical foregrip could be added by anyone, but that makes you guilty a the BATFE-defined crime of "presumptive construction". BATFE said that a person possessing certain weapons, and parts needed to convert it to something that they have declared unlawful was already de facto a crime, even if you never bring the parts within a thousand miles of the weapon.

People should also be careful about possession of certain parts unique to the select-fire M16. At one time, the only forbidden piece was the full-auto bolt carrier, although a couple of smaller items needed a couple of surfaces ground down in order to guarantee they functioned identically to the semi-only parts.

Last I heard, BATFE declared possession of even a single unmodified full-auto component such as the main sear was considered the legal equivalent of possession of an entire select-fire weapon, even if that's the only piece of the rifle you've ever seen.

Stuff like that is mainly used as a crowbar to get a suspect to "cooperate" by becoming a snitch, or infiltrating some nasty, violet group, for other federal alphabet agencies, instead. The biggest "product" of the BATFE is providing warm bodies eager to cooperate with other agencies, rather than putting them in jail because of what they possess.

4,123 posted on 09/17/2013 3:55:20 PM PDT by 300winmag (Whatever CAN go wrong has already happened. We just don't know about it yet.)
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To: 300winmag; g'nad; Squantos; Ramius

Nice shot gun you have there, perfect for those states or areas that limit deer hunters to a shotgun. ‘Course it does have the ‘evil’ pistol grip.

Home improvement aka redoing what we did 30 plus years ago seems to take longer than it did ‘way back then’. Guess there is something to moving every decade or so.

At the Pin-Shoot last week, thunderstorm knocked out the power at the range. Although we could have continued using our flashlights, which would have been cool, the vent system went down with the lights. We waited out the worst of it and headed home. Ah well, next week. Club gun show tomorrow, show the flag and visit session mostly.

What’s your recommendation for a red-dot type sight for Ruger Mark II with B-Square mount. Not willing to drill and tap so opted for the removable rail. Inquiring minds and all that.


4,124 posted on 09/21/2013 3:06:51 PM PDT by osagebowman
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To: osagebowman

Docter ..... Or Burris fast fire II worked well for my Mk I , also used a 2X Leupold LER scope on one for a long time.

I would seriously look into the “Docter” as a first choice.

http://www.docterusa.com/_mgxroot/page_10767.html

Hope yer well !

Stay safe !


4,125 posted on 09/21/2013 8:54:44 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Ramius; g'nad; osagebowman; Lost Dutchman; Squantos; Corin Stormhands; JenB; TalonDJ; ExGeeEye; ...
A short dispatch for Saturday Night Gun Pron, since I am finally finishing up all those little tasks, and I hope I don't encounter a big one until my backlog is done.

I finished my work on the S&W M&P45, and here's my best effort so far from both of them.

I would judge both to be about equally accurate in my hands, but I've seen one of the guys at the shop do even better with both. Of course, he gets his ammo at cost. Still, the S&W now has the silky, weightless trigger takeup, and the crisp two-pound final squeeze. No more unwanted shakes, rattles, or boings in its functioning.

The CZ97 is still box stock, except for a Nanolube treatment. Not only is it a champion the day they put it in the box, I learned that the 97 is made only for the American market, due to the irrational reverence Americans give to the .45ACP round, drop-free tactical magazine changes, and other quirks. May St Barbara continue to shower blessings on CZ Brno, CZ USA, and the CZ Skunk Works.

Over the past few weeks, a decent amount of CZ items have been trickling in, filling up a CZ "box of chocolates". A little bit of everything, a lot of a few things, and some real surprises, too. More on that in future "news breaks".

Another "quickie" that involved a couple hours of Nano-lube fitting into my otherwise box-stock FNX40 (No "tuner" parts available), brought these results with about 50 rounds of break-in.

I've gotten into the habit of always checking to see if my first shot will be the "brag shot", but in this case it occurred a bit further down the line. I think I'm beginning to separate out my shooting skills from my gunsmithing skills, because my first shots out of the box were nowhere near this good. This FN has earned my trust for it to go to a "special undisclosed location" somewhere on the property.

More quick reports as I download more pictures.

4,126 posted on 09/28/2013 2:32:59 AM PDT by 300winmag (Whatever CAN go wrong has already happened. We just don't know about it yet.)
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To: 300winmag; g'nad; Squantos

Evening Win-Mag - nice targets, that’s keeping them in the black. Nice work on the .45s.

On the red-dot scene, found a tasco pro-point. Put it on the B-Square mount. Just six clicks up and I was good to go. Finally broke five seconds at the pin-shoot. Guess my next goal will to beat 4.5 seconds - not likely but that’s what it is, a goal.


4,127 posted on 09/28/2013 3:38:31 PM PDT by osagebowman
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Nice work on the .45s.

What is starting to amaze me is that I can get good results from at least some brands just with just a couple hours of Nano-lube work-in. I also caught one tuning trick from the CZ Skunk Works that I can apply on every CZ. Of course, I have to tear each one down far enough to get out the hammer strut and spring. I don't know how much it will buy me, but Angus Hodell puts it on each one that passes through his talented hands.

In other things CZ, a number of demo rifles came in, also. One that caught my eye was the CZ 527 "micro carbine", which is equipped for an action only long enough to handle 5.56mm NATO and 7.62x39. As usual, deluxe all the way.

This stock photo has what I would consider AAAA fancy walnut. The one in the store I rated at AA only. I have absolutely no use for one, but being a walnut-monger, I was sorely tempted. If the wood was any fancier, I would have fallen off the wagon. The thing just reeks of elegance and precision. For giggles, I'd replace the mid sight with a three-leaf folding "dangerous game" safari sight. :)

The CZ that did come home with me was the CZ85, shown to the left of my dad's original CZ75.

Having lots of CZ spare parts now, I put the hard plastic grips on the 75, and the fancy wood ones on the 85. The original plastic grips on the 75 were just pathetic, something common when you were behind the Iron Curtain. The most noticeable difference is the 85 is fully ambidextrous, has target sights, and the round hammer, rather than the original spur. They have both been upgraded with drop-free magazine brakes, lanyard loops, and rubber bump pads. Can't stop the march of progress. Both will have a shoot-off shortly.

More news as it happens.

4,128 posted on 09/28/2013 4:38:00 PM PDT by 300winmag (Whatever CAN go wrong has already happened. We just don't know about it yet.)
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To: 300winmag

That’s a purty rifle. Wish we had a rifle range near us. We’re going to have to find one soon; Little Girl is 4 and is going to need rifle lessons for her next birthday, I think...


4,129 posted on 09/28/2013 4:42:12 PM PDT by JenB
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To: 300winmag

Been reading this thread tonight and I feel right at home.
I would love to be on your ping list, if you don’t mind.

Cheers


4,130 posted on 09/28/2013 5:12:43 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (CALGON, Take me away !)
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To: 300winmag; osagebowman; Tijeras_Slim

Working rifle nut here.... But as you state a walnut addict of the nth degree.

My primary favorites are M40A1 Clones made for me by Texas Brigae Armory with a McMillian stock.. A few senderos with H&S precision stocks and a Dakota Longbow with the H&S stocks. All of my H&S stocks are pre (to my knowledge) Lon Horuchi employment at H&S . H&S employs the aluminum bedding blocks made famous by Mitch Matcheko (sp?)..... Awesome stocks, live by em yet no new dollars to H&S knowingly after they used Horuchi as the company poster boy.

My walnut addiction comes from a Texas boy being replanted in your state as a teen due my fathers work as we have discussed before. Walnut used in my own woodworking projects and furniture still is a thing of beauty to this day in my own office and home.

My first project to stock a Model 98 Mauser I had rebuilt is 5A fancy Sporter that I have taken many mule deer and elk with later in life. A Winchester Mod 92 takedown in 44wcf that is still perfect condition with a 5A walnut stock made for me by a old guy in Cedar Crest NM when I was stationed in NM.

Slabs on my nickel plated Colt 38 super El Presidente are made from walnut I had kept, from trees off our property in Paw Paw down on 94 with a polished and tumbled Petosky stone medallion on each side. To remind me of my high school years in Michigan as well as being stationed at Kincheloe AFB near Sault St Marie.

Still have a crap load of Paw Paw harvested black walnut I plan to work that as projects in my retirement. Walnut that has followed me from harvest in Michigan to assignments in Arizona, Kansas, New. Mexico, and finally back home to Texas. Quiet the aging / cure route yet blanks cut ling ago with a chain saw are calling out to be worked.

Walnut is for my classics and composite is for my working tools.

Hope yer well folks.

Stay safe !


4,131 posted on 09/28/2013 9:00:09 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: TheConservativeParty; JenB
Been reading this thread tonight and I feel right at home. I would love to be on your ping list, if you don’t mind.

Done. We try to establish a welcoming, nurturing, homey place here. Other folks have their favorite topics that appear from time to time. Things pick up substantially when a movie comes out, or an entmoot, or dwarf-vs-elf trash talk.

One of my hobbies is gunsmithing, something I learned from my father, a craftsman and engineer. The one thing he lacked, which I have in abundance, is patience for both people and inert objects. Although in my job as computer tech support, I have been tempted to take up an offer for a hitman for one particular client that I found both creepy and evil. Otherwise, I quietly hum, or sing Motown when alone and things go well, or mutter quiet curses when they don't. The School of Hard Knocks is a rough teacher, but teaches the best lessons. I try to pass on things I've learned without having someone else having to pay such a high tuition. Of course, that can lead to a long post on how and why some simple pin needs a special tool to drive out. I try to let my enthusiasm show through. It's a labor of love, and perfect relaxation for me. That's why I've done stuff like this for friends for free, because nobody in their right mind would do it at $50/hour, or pay it.

Jen, you may have swerved onto something for a "kiddy's starter rifle" in today's world. There is still a plethora of "kiddie rifles" in .22, but .22 rimfire ammo is the next rarest round to the FN 5.7x28 round, which seems to have vanished into a government black hole. Ammo is a lot more expensive, harder to find, and quantities more limited than about nine months ago, but decent deals, and quantities, can be found with a bit of legwork. Except for .22 rimfire, which is not considered a "defensive" round. I can buy gobs of some sort of 5.56mm NATO much easier than generic chicom .22 RF.

Still, the rifle is adult-size and weight, has a MSRP of $700 less scope, and is worth every cent of it. It's just not girl-size.

But desperate times call for desperate measures. Sure, CZ makes kiddie-size .22s, but ammo may be a problem for years. A compromise may be to buy that CZ with fancy walnut, and get a laminated or synthetic "kiddie stock" to use on it until she's big enough for the original one, which would still be pristine. Nothing will be any cheaper in the future.

If it wasn't for this shortage of .22rf, I normally wouldn't consider it, but these are semi-desperate times.

4,132 posted on 09/28/2013 9:21:06 PM PDT by 300winmag (Whatever CAN go wrong has already happened. We just don't know about it yet.)
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To: Squantos
Working rifle nut here.... But as you state a walnut addict of the nth degree.

Working fancy walnut is like panning for gold. You know there will be some "color" in the pan, but until you wet it down the first time, you have no idea how much. With walnut, it's the combination of what's hidden inside the slab, and what the first coat of finish will reveal when the final product is wet down. Some of it has literally taken my breath away. God was under no obligation to create something so beautiful that so few people will ever appreciate.

One of the few high points of our miserable humanity was the invention of the internal combustion engine, which turned most horses into pets, and given them a bit of ease after being our prime movers for so many thousands of years. Ugly synthetics have saved billions of walnut trees and other hardwoods, although I'm being generous with beech.

There's still a lot of walnut in Michigan, but most of it is in bottomland or inaccessible creek banks. Still worth rustling, if you can get away with it. Do not cut down ancient walnut trees on state-owned rights-of-way along semi-busy country roads. :)

Michigan walnut generally grows in temperate climate with enough water and nutrients to produce medium-density dark wood with more useable volume, perfect for the everyday use of walnut (including fence posts, barn beams, and rifle stocks) in those days. I wonder what it was like to be a government inspector, and reject some wood because it was too fancy and too hard to work. Except for some "private stock" laid up for VIP projects?

4,133 posted on 09/28/2013 11:14:31 PM PDT by 300winmag (Whatever CAN go wrong has already happened. We just don't know about it yet.)
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To: 300winmag

Best piece my Dad and I ever acquired was a walnut 40ft 2 x 1 ft beam from an old farm house we bought to reclaim said materials. Same farmhouse we discovered a civil war era saber hidden in the wall.....

Dad sold that walnut beam for an enormous amount of money. I think we bought two new trucks and a few chain saws with the cash off that beam.

Chess board aka my first wood shop high school project is on my shelf as I type this with walnut and maple game board in a oak frame. Pieces are made from brass and iron hardware I oxidized or let patena over the years... Thinking of making a custom case for the pieces out of mesquite in the near future.....:o)

Oh well it bed time here so will sign off, enjoyed the talk as usual .....stay safe !


4,134 posted on 09/29/2013 12:12:17 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: 300winmag

Morning Win-Mag. I actually saw and fondled one of the CZ rifles like the CZ 527 at a lgs in another town. Nice little carbine. This wasn’t a deluxe one with nice wood still it was a Purdy little thing. For me, the box magazine spoils the lines though I see the practicality of having more than three shots in the internal magazine. Still...

Trade fare at the BP club yesterday. Saw my first Indian made Brown Bess. Reasonably good looking and acceptable inletting. Touch hole hadn’t been drilled yet. The guns made in India come to our shores with a touch hole. Until the touch hole is drilled, it’s not a firearm so eminently producible there and easily imported here.


4,135 posted on 09/29/2013 8:10:08 AM PDT by osagebowman
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To: osagebowman; 300winmag; g'nad; Squantos

ahem, make that “WITHOUT a touch hole”. Sip. Need more coffee STAT.


4,136 posted on 09/29/2013 8:30:45 AM PDT by osagebowman
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To: 300winmag

Thanks for adding me to the ping list!

: )


4,137 posted on 09/29/2013 2:35:29 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (CALGON, Take me away !)
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To: osagebowman; Squantos; JenB
I actually saw and fondled one of the CZ rifles like the CZ 527 at a lgs in another town. Nice little carbine. This wasn’t a deluxe one with nice wood still it was a Purdy little thing.

That's what I'm telling myself about the one at the store. If it had been any fancier, it would be a vault princess at home right now. But I'm dealing with Michigan's largest CZ dealer, and they have to live off table scraps (some scraps) from CZ, just more of them, and they get first dibs on a lot of leet warez.

This one is from the CZ-USA corporate demo fleet, and has been well-cared-for. But it is technically a used gun, and priced accordingly. I've made out well with two of their "used" handguns, and I think this could be the same. After all, respect goes both ways, and why should CZ screw their biggest dealer in the state, especially one that always pays cash, and on time?

It may be easier to talk myself into this than I first realized. I'd love for it to have walnut several grades fancier, but there's plenty of other things to recommend this.

4,138 posted on 09/30/2013 3:05:36 AM PDT by 300winmag (Whatever CAN go wrong has already happened. We just don't know about it yet.)
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To: TheConservativeParty; osagebowman; Squantos; g'nad; JenB; ExGeeEye
It may be easier to talk myself into this than I first realized. I'd love for it to have walnut several grades fancier, but there's plenty of other things to recommend this.

Yep, it was easier for me to talk myself into it than I ever dreamed. Aside from being unfired (not a trace of brass one the bolt face, every surface was dry and tight), the wood was far fancier than my first quick look showed.

The walnut is very dark, but has a very subtle and dark fiddleback to it. You need a lot of light, and a lot of movement to catch it with your eye, something I did today. I rate one side as AAA, the other as AAAA. And you have to know where to look to spot it.

Initial photos will have to wait until I get some sheets of foam plastic in varying shades of blue. I want to see if a blue background enhances the look of the wood.

All is not perfect, however. The rifle comes with a hugh, tall middle sight, and a front sight (available in various heights, thank goodness), with a tiny silver bead. Even with my glasses on, I could barely find the sight picture. It's definitely not a target sight, and I have no idea what someone was thinking. Much thought will be required.

My best guess is a rifle of this type is a high-grade "barn gun" for country estates where even the vermin are high-class. I look on it as "Downton Abbey meets 21st century weaponry". One must absolutely take care of pests properly, including those two-legged proles that throw those nasty round, black bombs with the sparkly fuzes.

The 1-in-12 rifling puts an upper limit of about 50-55gr on bullets before they start yawing every which way. This is a genuine ".223 Remington" rifle, and 5.56mm military ammo won't be very great in it. However, I bought a couple of boxes of Winchester .223 40gr varmint ammo that definitely would not pass technical approval by The Hague Convention. Fast, accurate, and destructive enough to vaporize just about anything smaller than a timber wolf.

My 7.62x51 PDW project is moving slowly but surely. One little known fact is that H&K designed the weapon to the same size as the old HK MP5. While the PTR machined aluminum forend is solid, I have my doubts about insulation, and lots of spiny stuff mounted on it. So I put on the last "navy-type" forend from H&K, and the current "long finger" flash hider for the PDW.

The blue Glock is just there to give an idea of sizes involved. Since it's a handgun, it can be carried concealed. This would go good with some cyberpunk cosplay with an ankle-length duster.

4,139 posted on 10/01/2013 1:54:06 AM PDT by 300winmag (Whatever CAN go wrong has already happened. We just don't know about it yet.)
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To: 300winmag

A short sling, pushed away tight from the body on that will make your shots at range very solid. I carry a AR pistola in just such a manner and hits are very fast and the sling keeps the rig slung to my side where muzzle is about as far below my belt / waistline as a 6 inch revolver would fall if holstered.

Baggy shirt / jacket makes such almost perfect concealed carry w a 20 round mag.

Give it a try. Sling adjustment should be no loser than say lenght of pull of that weapon, if a stock was installed.

Hope yer well... Stay safe !


4,140 posted on 10/01/2013 3:27:41 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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