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- Mon Apr 11, 2022 7:27 pm
- Forum: Shotguns
- Topic: Remington 870 the world record holder
- Replies: 5
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Both the 870 and 500 are great guns...
I won a Mossberg 500 in a pistol match about 1993, and I found it to be so homely, it sat in a closet for years. One day I pulled it out to shoot Skeet with, and I found I shot it better than any other shotgun I had. It also has all sorts of different attachments, including rifled slug barrels, and ...
- Tue Apr 14, 2020 7:30 pm
- Forum: Classic British Firearms
- Topic: L1A1 SLR (FAL)
- Replies: 63
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Re: L1A1 SLR (FAL)
Arrived today.......... :GBR: :GBR: Those magazines appear to be Metric pattern, not inch pattern. The positioning beak on the front of the magazine is metric. That said, I have a FAL rifle that is all-inch pattern, except for the cut for the positioning beak in the magazine well, which is metric p...
- Tue Jan 21, 2020 9:19 pm
- Forum: Classic British Firearms
- Topic: L1A1 SLR (FAL)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 29515
Re: L1A1 SLR (FAL)
I've had a terrible problem with FAL extraction of empty cases bending the rim of cases. I never have this problem with M1 or M14-type rifles, but I've had it a lot with most FAL-type rifles. I did a bunch of things to try an lessen the effect, using a smaller piston, using stronger piston springs, ...
- Wed Jul 04, 2018 3:07 pm
- Forum: Shotguns
- Topic: Mossberg....
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6210
Get a rifled barrel and scope to go on the rail
I won a Mossberg 500 in a pistol match some 30 years ago. Homely as a mud fence, so it sat in the box, in my closet for several years. One day I pulled it out and took it Skeet shooting, and it shot really well. I seemingly could get away with much less lead on the full deflection #4 station. I shot...
- Wed Jul 04, 2018 9:00 am
- Forum: C&R Handguns
- Topic: 8000 Surplus military 1911 45. pistols to CMP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4881
Re: 8000 Surplus military 1911 45. pistols to CMP
I could sell any of the rifles I have bought from CMP for a good bit more than I paid for them. Some of that is because a lot of them were bought at the CMP North Store, and I could see what I was buying. Still, I expect some people to be willing to pay more for these pistols than CMP sells them for.
- Wed Jul 04, 2018 6:04 am
- Forum: C&R Handguns
- Topic: P38 and TT33
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8079
I love both the P38 and TT33
I have shot the P38 a lot, and the Tokarev some. The recoil springs on your P38 may be needing replacement, causing the jam you experienced at the beginning of a magazine. The only pistol I had for many years was a post-war P38, and surplus ammo was cheap when I was a boy. With all that shooting, I ...
- Wed Jul 04, 2018 5:50 am
- Forum: US Military Rifles
- Topic: Gibbs 03A4
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7702
I have one put together by Rock Ridge Machine
I have one that I am told was put together by Rock Ridge Machine of Pennsylvania, and sold to me by Creedmoor. Cosmetically, it is a beautiful rifle, but it has an appallingly bad trigger.
- Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:50 pm
- Forum: Classic British Firearms
- Topic: POF ammo
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7563
Re: POF ammo
It should be corrosive primed, and have cordite as the powder.
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 5:55 pm
- Forum: Black Powder Firearms
- Topic: BUILDING THE CANNON ..............
- Replies: 64
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It looks like....
...a duck's eye view of a shotgun!
- Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:58 am
- Forum: Black Powder Firearms
- Topic: BUILDING THE CANNON ..............
- Replies: 64
- Views: 48192
Need twice the powder to get the same report with blanks
I've visited Fort Mackinac here in Michigan, and watched them fire the canon there. The gunners there use a small charge of powder for the noon gun. They tell visitors that when firing blanks, they would have to use twice as much powder to get the same report as a normal charge of powder and ball. I...