mon-goose Posted February 24, 2020 Share agree with you. this is probably close to the best the scope will allow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnson Posted February 25, 2020 Share Long Wheel Base, Wannabe and DJR 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon-goose Posted February 26, 2020 Share Question: I’d like to purchase a barrel action and seat it into a chassis. Do I license the barrel action in the same manner as a normal rifle? Or is it easier to purchase a second hand complete rifle and then just change the chassis DJR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted February 26, 2020 Share Question: I’d like to purchase a barrel action and seat it into a chassis. Do I license the barrel action in the same manner as a normal rifle? Or is it easier to purchase a second hand complete rifle and then just change the chassisBasically it is the same as applying for a ready built rifle. You find the barrel and the action, pay for it or pay a deposit, apply for the license using the numbers on the parts. When it is approved, you can get the action and barrel from the seller / shop and put it together yourself or get a gunsmith to do it for you. If it is a matching chassis and action / barrel is already married, then it is a pretty simple process. If the barrel and action still need to be put together, then definitely get a VERY competent gunsmith to do it. It must be done perfectly. If chamber must still be cut and headspacing done, then get a VERY VERY competent gunsmith to do it, and sommer interrogate him about how many times he's done it in that particular calibre and whether he has the right reamers. Sometimes there are little things to do that can be pretty complicated, like drilling and threading for the right scope bases. In that case, or if in any doubt, I would get a gunsmith to do it. The advantage if you get a barrel or action without a number, is that you can choose whatever you want to stamp on it: Your date of birth, initials, "masterblaster", whatever you feel like. Let's not get started on having a custom rifle built, completely from scratch, or I might just start of a story that took 20 years from start to finish........much worse than any custom bike I've ever built Edited February 26, 2020 by DJR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon-goose Posted February 26, 2020 Share Let's not get started on having a custom rifle built, completely from scratch, or I might just start of a story that took 20 years from start to finish - do tell:) I'd like to the buy the barrel and action already assembled and just drop it into a chassis that I know it'll fit into DJR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon-goose Posted February 27, 2020 Share any comments or thoughts on optisan scopes? there's a nice looking one for sale but haven't really seen them before. And is a good price Looking at this one: https://www.optisanoptics.com/evx/evx-6-24x56/ Edited February 27, 2020 by mon-goose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted March 4, 2020 Share A while back I posted elsewhere about the shotgun ammo bags I made for my sons. It was fun to do, and although I had done many a leather project over the years, it was the first time I did this. Is was a pretty hard lot of work and the first one took me about 2 weeks of evenings to complete. The second one only a week. Lots of slow hand stitching.........takes hours and hours.........but the end result will give them a lifetime of use. Wannabe, Long Wheel Base, Kalahari Vegmot and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted March 4, 2020 Share Then, this afternoon D wanted me to make a friend of his an ammo bag for his birthday.........I said, hell that's a moerse lot of work, how good a friend is he? How big a birthday is it? When must it be finished? Why don't you rather buy him some beer? Trying my best to wiggle out of a project I didn't feel like doing...........he said, it must be done tomorrow! Hau, hold your horses! Impossible I said, not enough time! Until he explained that it was an ammo bag for pellets! Challenge on..........one and a half hours later........voila! Slides onto a belt! Pint sized ammo bag! Now I get the beers! Edited March 4, 2020 by DJR johnson, geomark, Wannabe and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon-goose Posted March 4, 2020 Share like your work DJR I just bought one of these: https://karoooutdoor.com/products/rudolph-varmint-v1-5-25x50-riflescope-30mm-tube-with-t3-illuminated-reticle not from these guys or at this prices but this cope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamS2 Posted March 4, 2020 Share Then, this afternoon D wanted me to make a friend of his an ammo bag for his birthday.........I said, hell that's a moerse lot of work, how good a friend is he? How big a birthday is it? When must it be finished? Why don't you rather buy him some beer? Trying my best to wiggle out of a project I didn't feel like doing...........he said, it must be done tomorrow! Hau, hold your horses! Impossible I said, not enough time! Until he explained that it was an ammo bag for pellets! Challenge on..........one and a half hours later........voila! Slides onto a belt! Pint sized ammo bag! Now I get the beers!Amazing work! How do you get the leather to form like that, on the pellet pouch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted March 5, 2020 Share Amazing work! How do you get the leather to form like that, on the pellet pouch?I wet the leather and stretch / shape it in a wooden template / clamp. If I am going to stain the leather, then I use the stain to wet & soften the leather rather than water. The stain is alcohol based so it dries nice and quickly. It stiffens the leather nicely for a pouch like that. If I want to stiffen the leather a lot, then I use water with a bit of wood glue mixed in. The picture if of a template I made for a Leatherman pouch. GrahamS2 and Long Wheel Base 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodbadugly Posted March 5, 2020 Share Then, this afternoon D wanted me to make a friend of his an ammo bag for his birthday.........I said, hell that's a moerse lot of work, how good a friend is he? How big a birthday is it? When must it be finished? Why don't you rather buy him some beer? Trying my best to wiggle out of a project I didn't feel like doing...........he said, it must be done tomorrow! Hau, hold your horses! Impossible I said, not enough time! Until he explained that it was an ammo bag for pellets! Challenge on..........one and a half hours later........voila! Slides onto a belt! Pint sized ammo bag! Now I get the beers!NiceIt beats carrying them around in your mouth. And then sometimes they end up swallowed. ???? BSG and Long Wheel Base 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon-goose Posted March 6, 2020 Share so I've just bought a Rudolph scope that comes with electronic ear muffs as part of the package. I don't particularly need the ear muff so I'm putting them up for sale as soon as it arrives next week. They seem to go for between 900 and just over R1000 new. Will take R800 for them. Anyone interested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted March 6, 2020 Share so I've just bought a Rudolph scope that comes with electronic ear muffs as part of the package. I don't particularly need the ear muff so I'm putting them up for sale as soon as it arrives next week. They seem to go for between 900 and just over R1000 new. Will take R800 for them. Anyone interested?Those electronic earmuffs are great. I only really understood the value of them when I started teaching my sons. Being able to communicate easily without having to take earmuffs off and putting them back on was such an improvement over what I had before. B.t.w. I'd be keen to see how much your groups shrink just with the 25x scope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon-goose Posted March 6, 2020 Share if there's no interest in the ear muffs I'll probably just keep them I'm also quite keen to see if I can get better groupings at further distances. Hoping to load a bit this week end and then next week go out to targets at 250m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Wheel Base Posted March 9, 2020 Share NiceIt beats carrying them around in your mouth. And then sometimes they end up swallowed. Do you fire shots to get them out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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