The firearm thread

[deanohit]

Japanese-made Browning Lever Action in .243cal - fucking work of art. The action was like glass, super smooth, a great little shooter.

I agree with the Scatological One - they are more than weapons, they're artforms (admittedly, some are "art with a capital F").

Ah, ok then, mine is a .22LR, 15 in the mag, and light as, but it's STEEL!
Same thing with the action, smooth as, never had a jam, but the trigger is quite heavy.
Mmmmm, that wee rifle could do with a tidy up as well.

[Mr Merde]

No photos at this time but I thought I would just give a brief update as to the progress of this project of mine.

The photos I posted up were of the stock work when it was at the stage of sealing the pores of the wood with rawlinseed oil and turps.

I have diligently rubbed this mixture in until after 12 hours it wasnt absorbing any more. Next I rubbed the surface of the woodwork until the sticky mixture was forced into the pores of the wood I then left it for a further 12 hours to dry. Once the was done I have started with the boiled linseed oil.. Started with quite a bit of this oil and rubbed it into the wood. Every 12 hours I habve rubbed a little bit less in.

I am now up to the stage of only just rubbing in a very little of the boiled linseed each time, just dipping my finger tips into the oil and rubbing this all over the woodwork

As a result I am building up a deep shine to the wood.

It seems to go into the depths of the stock.

Looking at the wood you could almost swear there is a coating of varnish or plastic over it.

Apparently the more I do the deeper and deeper the shine goes.

I figure I have another couple of weeks of this then I have to allow the coating to harden for a day or two.

These old time methods are brilliant.

[sAsLEX]

Pick up the new/first(well first legal) Rifle this afternoon!

A Remington 308 as alluded to earlier in the thread.


Now for a cheeky request. I am heading down to the family bach/crib for a bit of a test run in about a months time, but would like to throw a few rounds through the thing and get it sighted in before I go so I don't have to waste much time doing it down there.

Any one with access to a suitable bit of dirt to do this? Still haven't exhausted getting access to Whangaparoa..........

[sAsLEX]

I have one generous offer for a bit of land to sight up and that now opens up another point for discussion, which covered a few pages on a hunting forum I peruse.

Breaking in barrels and initial cleaning routines.

The suggested techniques varied from one shot, clean, one shot, clean etc for the first 20 odd rounds through the barrel to just clean it as you normally would.

And that brings up another topic of how often/ after how many rounds do you clean the rifle ? This again varies considerably in opinion so will be interesting to see those on here.

[Mr Merde]

I have one generous offer for a bit of land to sight up and that now opens up another point for discussion, which covered a few pages on a hunting forum I peruse.

Breaking in barrels and initial cleaning routines.

The suggested techniques varied from one shot, clean, one shot, clean etc for the first 20 odd rounds through the barrel to just clean it as you normally would.

And that brings up another topic of how often/ after how many rounds do you clean the rifle ? This again varies considerably in opinion so will be interesting to see those on here.

It has been a very rare event for me to be faced with this dilema.

My .223 being the last rifle I have bought new was sighted in on the 1 shot , clean princilpe.

My new BP rifle is not yet up to the stage of actually pulling the trigger on a live round yet but BP has rules all of its own as rregards to breaking in and cleaning.

I've been thinking about this Miltec metal treatment lately. Anyoner here had any experience with this product?


Chris

[Indiana_Jones]

I have one generous offer for a bit of land to sight up and that now opens up another point for discussion, which covered a few pages on a hunting forum I peruse.

dude, hook a guy up!!

Please!!

I've been trying to fins some land in the auckland area to do some shooting!

-Indy

[sAsLEX]

What more does a bloke need?





Well other than a garage.........

[Mr Merde]

What more does a bloke need?





Well other than a garage.........

Possibly a "squeeze" as well??

[sAsLEX]

Possibly a "squeeze" as well??

For some reason they seem to "suck" up all the toy funds, all of a sudden on being single I have a new bike, a new rifle and money???

[Indiana_Jones]

What more does a bloke need?





Well other than a garage.........

Niiiiiiice

Man I seriously think we need a KB gun day aye.

-Indy

[Wolf]

What more does a bloke need?

Curtains that go with your bike and rifle?

[Swoop]

What more does a bloke need?

Nice work!

What scope???

[ManDownUnder]

so - harold says is was probably a .22 cal air rifle that shot and killed one officer, and injured another???

"One resident heard what she said sounded like a "car blowing up". Others were woken by gunshots followed by the screeching of car tyres."

• Witnesses heard gun shots (with an air rifle???)
• One dead and one seriously injured (with an air rifle???)

I know - it's possible, but I think it's hellishly unlikely... and my fear is a knee jerk reaction, "look what the most gutless ones can do" followed by a equally naive clamp down/ban/confiscation of anything that spits lead out the front.

It's an interesting one for me - I have no problems with reasonable controls being put on guns - licenses needed, safe storage etc... but I smell a rat on this one.

... An AIR RIFLE???

[Mr Merde]

so - harold says is was probably a .22 cal air rifle that shot and killed one officer, and injured another???

"One resident heard what she said sounded like a "car blowing up". Others were woken by gunshots followed by the screeching of car tyres."

• Witnesses heard gun shots (with an air rifle???)
• One dead and one seriously injured (with an air rifle???)

I know - it's possible, but I think it'd hellishly unlikely... and my fear is a knee jerk reaction, "look what the most gutless ones can do" followed by a equally naive clamp down/ban/confiscation of anything that spits lead out the front.

It's an interesting one for me - I have no problems with reasonable controls being put on guns - licenses needed, safe storage etc... but I smell a rat on this one.

... An AIR RIFLE???

This morning on the box they were calling it a 5.5mm firearm

sounds bigger and nastier than a .22 air rifle.

Yes I found it dubious that people would have been woken to the sound of an air rifle being fired. Also must have been a repeating air rifle as two officers were shot and apparently more than once each.

Yes a .22 air rifle can kill, ask a lot of bunny huters, but range is a factor here.

The hype has started.

I'm not trying in anyway to run down those officers that were killed and hurt.

This smacks of the mass hysteria that alweays ensues when there has been some sort of firearms incident.

In 1965 in the UK, Shepards Bush. 4 Officers were shot to death by armed bank robbers.

The government in its widom, after the event, brought in licences for shotguns. This was despite the fact that the killings were done with handguns.

In 1984 (approx), Hungerford. Michael Ryan ran amok and killed 20 people. The government baned a lot of firearms over that one including pump action rifles. Once again despite there never having any incident on record of a pump action rifle being used in any crime anywhere in the UK.

I make these points because it shows a mentality of those who would be our masters to seize any tragic event and through the manipulation of facts and public shock, they pervert such events towards the furthering of their own personal agendas.

One thing that has given me pause to think after this tragic incident and watching the coverage on the news programs is the following;

Yes there was a shooting
Yes an officer was killed and another wounded
Yes it was a tradgedy
yes we are all offended by the event

but why after the event do the police have to make a showing of weiding firearms around the area.

Surely the perpetrators had fled the area. The AOS would have secured the area, road blocks would have been put in place and there would have been a very prominant police prescence.

Why then did officers have to patrol the area with their M16 clone rifles prominantly on display. Surely they could had stored them somewhere convienient where if needed they could be retrieved quickly. They could have also carried pistols which would have been less obvious.

[Wolf]

Sergeant Don Wilkinson, 46, is believed to have been shot dead by a powerful, gas operated, rifle which shoots a pellet similar in size to a conventional .22 calibre rifle round.

Believed? By whom?

First I heard about it, they were saying a shotgun. Now it's a gas-operated air rifle?

It'll be enough for us to get Philip Alpers piping up from across the pond with his usual anti-gun gay whining.