The firearm thread

[Indiana_Jones]

Off sick today

oh 'sure'

Just regarding the site, are the numbers engraved? just use some chalk to fill them in to see.

-Indy

[Mr Merde]

oh 'sure'

Just regarding the site, are the numbers engraved? just use some chalk to fill them in to see.

-Indy

Nasty chest infection. Been awake all night,

yes markings are engraved Chalk idea a good one. was thinking of something semi permament.

[Indiana_Jones]

Some sort of paint? let it run in the numbers and then wipe off the excess?

Thinking out loud here lol

-Indy

[ManDownUnder]

Nasty chest infection. Been awake all night,

yes markings are engraved Chalk idea a good one. was thinking of something semi permament.

Oil based paint - wait till it's tacky then wipe off the excess with a turps rag? The old Engineers marking out blue is good for that kind of stuff too if you want a more subtle and non "filling" solution. IIt should just scrub out with a bit of turps and a toothbruch but it's been a long time since I used it and given how precious your baby is... I'd be double checking it first

Bugger about the chest infection - there's something going around at the mo... that (with the lingering cough from hell - I've had it for... 45 days?) and there's also a 12 hour vomiting bug that just comes from nowhere - you lose your lunch violently 3 or 4 times ovr the space of 3 hours... feel like crap - sleep for 12 hours and wake up feeling all spaced out... next day you'd never know it happened!

[Mr Merde]

I was thinking of engineers blue myself. Would like it to really stand out so a vibrant colour would be best.

For a moment I actually thought about re blueing the staff and filling in the engraving marks with white but as the sight itself is relatively rare I dumped that idea.

Took me ages to identify the sight. It looked like a Lyman but all the tang sights I got from Google were of the #1a and the #2. Neither of which fitted. finally found an old Lyman catalogue form 1906 online and identified it as a #1. These were first made in 1878. From there I went searching for information on a #1. Not a lot came back. Eventualy I found an auction house in the US with one for sale. $150US for it.

Apparently they were better than the later sights although it doesnt have adjustment for windage as the #1a and the #2 do.

Now I have freed it up I can raise the post about 2". The calibre is supposed to be a good deer round out to about 200 yards and is one of the favourite calibres for the sport of shutzen (spelling wrong). Apparently a very accurate round.

Since I'm off ill I will spend the day just going over the rifle and give it a really good clean. Balistol is a wonderous liquid.

The bore is great but I am still getting a little bit of colour on the patches so I will continue until they come out clean.

I would like to remove the bolt from the receiver but am just a little nervous as I have neve done this to a Marlin. Similar procedure to your modern Marlin Scott.

Chris

[Swoop]

There is such a thing for making the engravings show up as white. A mate had a marking pen of some sort, that he used on his rifles. I seem to think it was more like a felt-tipped pen.
Perhaps Reloader's Supplies or a gunsmith may shed some light on the matter?

[Mr Merde]

Still getting leading. Bronze brush down the barrel soaked in Balistol. 10-15 passes with this. Brush swapped for a patch. Comming out dirty as hell. Looks like I need to go and get some chemical lead remover. Or possibly a Lewis lead remover.

Barrel still looks like a mirror.

Once I hace it clean I'll treat it with something like Mil 7 metal conditioner. Dont want to use a petrocarbon as I will be using black powder for this and they dont like each other.

I'll get a good stock wax to treat the woodwork. Thought about getting some walnut blanks and carving a new stock and forearm for it but somehow that feels sacriligous.

Been playing around with the rifle today. Only seen it in dusk or under artificial light. The rifle pulls to my shoulder as though it were made for me. The tang sight is great and naturally centres the front sight. I can hold the rifle steady for a reasonable time. Very easy to work the action while shouldering the rifle. Sight picture a doddle to pick up. I think I'm going to enjoy learning how this rifle shoots

WHat I need to do is to zero the rifle for about 150 yards. From the balistics I have found it looks like that is the optimum. Bullet drop at 300 is about 11". I can live with that. Long range lever rifle calibre competition in CAS is usually shot at either 100 or 200 metres..

Chris

[jono035]

Great. Just heard from Central Shooters and they're banning 44 magnum and 357 magnum chambered pistols from being used there, effective immediately. Given that I haven't been going there unless I've got ammo made up for the .44, this is a pretty major disappointment.

Chris: Any updates on the progress of the other range?

[The Pastor]

Great. Just heard from Central Shooters and they're banning 44 magnum and 357 magnum chambered pistols from being used there, effective immediately. Given that I haven't been going there unless I've got ammo made up for the .44, this is a pretty major disappointment.

Chris: Any updates on the progress of the other range?

why ?

[Mr Merde]

We are now in talks with the local Iwi as there are old kumera pits on the property so we have to get their permission to use the land.

Private property and we have to pay someone else to give us permission to use such.

No wonder this country is so fucked up

[jono035]

why ?

Apparently there is a new manager at Youthtown (the building that CSI inhabits) who has a real bee in his bonnet about the noise. One of the guys who shoots a .44 magnum desert eagle there was telling me at the arms fair that he had the guy come charging down and having a go at him about it. I suspect that with its shorter barrel, cylinder gap and porting that my revolver will probably be a fair bit louder than that, too.

Edit: Sent an e-mail to the secretary asking if there was any possibility of having a designated time frame for those calibers and what the timeframe was on the planned extra soundproofing that is going in and got pretty solidly blown off. My guess is that the more powerful calibers probably don't have a whole lot of support from the committee. He mentioned that he was glad that they didn't have to ban all centerfire calibers... I think we got thrown to the wolves as a diversion.

[Mr Merde]

.....I think we got thrown to the wolves as a diversion.

Divide and conquor, clasic tactics. The smaller centrefire shooters will not argue as they arent affected, just you big bore shooters. You are all banned. Give it a while and everything will settle down and then there will be talk of banning .38 spl as it is too loud. Then .32 and that very noisy 9mm.

Eventually all centrefire will be gone and only .22 allowed and then only Olympic style shooters.

Seen it before, always happens like this.

Always results in the demise of shooting at the place where it all started.

Chris

[jono035]

Divide and conquor, clasic tactics. The smaller centrefire shooters will not argue as they arent affected, just you big bore shooters. You are all banned. Give it a while and everything will settle down and then there will be talk of banning .38 spl as it is too loud. Then .32 and that very noisy 9mm.

Eventually all centrefire will be gone and only .22 allowed and then only Olympic style shooters.

Seen it before, always happens like this.

Always results in the demise of shooting at the place where it all started.

Chris

Yeah. For the moment, though, it leaves me pretty much screwed unless I want to dick around with with APC range which just seems like a joke to someone who isn't all that interested in IPSC.

[The Pastor]

when the rules dont work, break em

[jono035]

when the rules dont work, break em

This guy who is complaining has actually been coming down and bashing on the door. If he complains with a timestamp then they'll just check the cameras or cardax and see it was me. If they then terminate my club membership I'll have to either start shooting at another club (APC is the only other option and they use a really fucked up timetable and are ages away) or lose my B endorsement...

That isn't really an option right now.