RIFLE

[mon-goose]

agree with you. this is probably close to the best the scope will allow

[johnson]

   

[mon-goose]

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]

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

Basically 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

[mon-goose]

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

[mon-goose]

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

[DJR]

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. 

[DJR]

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

[mon-goose]

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

[GrahamS2]

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?

[DJR]

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.

[Goodbadugly]

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!

Nice

It beats carrying them around in your mouth. And then sometimes they end up swallowed. ????

[mon-goose]

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?

[DJR]

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. 

[mon-goose]

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

[Long Wheel Base]

Nice

It beats carrying them around in your mouth. And then sometimes they end up swallowed.

Do you fire shots to get them out?