Posted on 02/03/2011 8:21:23 PM PST by Free Vulcan
Sons of Guns showcases one of America's most skilled and creative gun works, Red Jacket Firearms, and its founder, Will Hayden. While pursuing its bread-and-butter work with customizing and improving AK-47's, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana team delves into the world of historic and classic weapons. See how this amazing group of eclectic gunsmiths build one-of-a-kind custom firearms and other weapons every Wednesday at 9 p.m. E/P starting January 26.
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Why did they need to do that? I thought the .50 cal could go from semi to auto with a simple twist of a knob underneath the butterfly trigger.
I was scratching my head during that episode. I didn't know they even made a semi-auto ma deuce. I still don't know why.
I LOVE this show.
Actually they built the MA Deuce from an original WWII parts kit.
I remember reading that Carlos Hathcock used an M2 occasionally for sniping. A quick google came up with this:
"Hathcock generally used the standard sniper rifle: the Winchester Model 70 .30-06 caliber rifle with the standard 8-power Unertl scope. On some occasions, however, he used a different weapon: the .50-caliber M2 Browning Machine Gun, on which he mounted the Unertl scope, using a bracket of his own design.[9] This weapon had a Traversing and Elevating (T& E) mount that enabled precise aiming: it was accurate to 2500 yards when fired one round at a time."
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It all makes sense now. Thanks.
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And I am developing a school crush on Stephanie.
I can’t decide if she’s actually attractive or if I’m just attracted to women shooting large caliber guns as a general principle.
Back around 1975 I knew a gunsmith in Ashford, Alabama. One day he showed me a barreled action in the white. It was in .22 Mag. He said he originally intended it for .222 Remington but decided the really light action might be taking a chance with that cartridge.
It had two rear locking luggs and the action was very slick. The lugs looked plenty strong to me but I guess he just wasn’t going to take the chance.
If I owned a manufacturing company I would have bought the design as it was really smooth operating
Loved the suppressed shotgun by Saiga.
Rebuilt a WWII Flame Thrower for a Medal of Honor Marine.
Too cool.
I be happy if she would come over and shoot my M-16 or any thing else my collection..
That marine took out 6 pillboxes with seven flamethrowers, he would use one up and had to crawl back for a fresh one every time, nobody else was bringing them to him.
If we ever have a brass shortage I am digging his grave up after he passes away because I know I will find the biggest set of brass balls on earth.
And they let him take out a pillbox one last time, it was a tear jerker.
Overall the show is improving, at first I was dismayed at their apparently abundant use of large grinders on firearms, their “masterkeye” episode left me confused because I have several decades of machining, fabrication and also a hobbyist gunsmith and I would have done something different.
But starting with episode 3 they are doing the “Don’t do this at home” spiel and they also created a scene about the NFA waiting period to obtain a silenced shotgun. I guess that disappointed a ton of Saiga blingers!
The episode of the ma deuce was a bit corny, the additional strategic drama reeks of the overdone cartoonish explanations of what might happen in Ice Road Truckers.
Using a pneumatic air hammer so casually like that shows total amateurism, either that or a revival of Confederate ingenuity. I like the girl, the dad reminds me of my own who was a Marine Corp Demolitions expert.
I hope the show does good and doesn’t have the stench of manufactured drama like they did with other reality shows.
Did that smithie live way off the road and you had to drive over a ‘plate’ in the driveway about twoo hundred yards from the shop? ... If it’s the same gunsmith, that was where I fired my first suppressed Beretta.
Thanks for the tip. I just set my DVR to record them.
“Overall the show is improving, at first I was dismayed at their apparently abundant use of large grinders on firearms”
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What kind of grinder? i dind’t see the episode? I’m going to set mu DVR to recoed the next one.
Are you talking about a hand grinder you see welders use in fab shops to knock the rough edges of plate or something?
or a machine tool type of grinder?
I’m talking about what looks like a 4 or 4 1/2” surface grinders making a ton of sparks with a camera angle to make it dramatic.
Of course they are not going to make it an educational documentary showing how to restore a welded side plate on a de-milled M-2, they very briefly mentioned that though.
The most radical I have ever gotten was a Dremel to a feed ramp on my 1911 barrel.
Ya. I got radical and used a Dremel to put a 11* recessed target crown on my Mini barrel. I dressed a grind stone to
match the profile and it worked out real nice.
Before that I had it cut and threaded 12-28 for AR compensators. That was done by a gunsmith. he silver soldered an M14 style sight on and a machinist friend made me a long M14 style flash hider, so now it looks much like a real M14.
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