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Old Shatterhand

Thanks for pictures and comments. I must say that the deluxe pre-war sling bases are really beautiful! And the standard ones are for sling hooks, aren't they? :) The most attractive would have been to mount original pieces, but they are hard to get. A second alternative is to get something that goes...

Old Shatterhand

As I am going to refurbish my tinkered M71 and put new swivel eyes on it, I would really be thankful if some kind person here could take a pair of close up pictures of the original swivel eyes of a M71 and add them in this thread.

Regards,

Pete

Old Shatterhand

The dishwasher trick may work, but the problem is that some previous tinkering owner has grinded half the wood away with rasp and rough sandpaper. He has grinded so much away, that the tang lies 1/16 over the wood. It's so bad done, that it disturbes me. Precision Gunworks are out of forearms for th...

Old Shatterhand

Here we have only canada and greylag geese. They drop fine for a 3" #4 or #2 lead through a modified choke, and #2 or BB steel will be as good.

P.

Old Shatterhand

Moodholler - thanks. You give me some ideas, and I'll tell about them if they will work.

Pete

Old Shatterhand

If you do restock, do you plan to hold on to your old stock? If not, I might be interested. It has a crack, whick I haven't manage to glue, as the stock is drenched with a mix of gun oil and linseed oil. I have tried both ammonia solution and acetone, but it doesn't grip well enough. I don't think ...

Old Shatterhand

Thanks for your inputs! I'll take a look at Precision Gunworks.

But please tell me the meaning of "NOS".

Pete

Old Shatterhand

The stock of my M71 does suffer from the tinkering of a varnishophobic previous owner. He has carefully sandpapered all varnish and a lot of the wood away. There is also a crack in the rear stock close to the action. I am seriuosly considering to restock it - the gun is no safe queen or collctor's i...

Old Shatterhand

Thanks for all adviceing and commentaries - there seem to be some good ideas here!

First of all I have to find a good accuracing nail...

I'll report back, when I have someting to tell.

Pete

Old Shatterhand

The last time I have had some accuracy issues with my Winchester 88, post -64 .308, detachably scoped with a Swarovski 6x42. Earlier it did shoot 1" @100 yds, but now it only does so with the first magazine's four rounds. When the barrel gets hot, it starts to climb downwards. Supposedly the ba...

Old Shatterhand

The organization PETA has been mentioned in European media for killing animals and other questionable praxises. May I say that I am not surprised at all? http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/tid-30470/29-000-giftspritzen-in-elf-jahren-tierrechtler-von-peta-toeten-tausende-gesunde-haustiere_aid_955172.h...

Old Shatterhand

It depends a lot on the fit of the rifle which recoil one can handle. Personally, I have had four rifles in .30-06 or the equivalent 8x60 Mauser. They have been soft to shoulder, except a Husqvarna 1640, which kicked like a wild donkey. That rifle had a very low comb and a high mounted scope. I chan...

Old Shatterhand

Here in Scandinavia there have been some problems with high pressures from S&B training ammo. Some rifles have been damaged and a lot of bolts have stuck that hard, that they have to be hit with a mallet to open again. In fact the brand has got a bad reputation for bad quality. Here is a forum t...

Old Shatterhand

Real shotguns have hammers - nice old DB with a lot of experience and beauty!

Pete

Old Shatterhand

Go with a german basset - a dachshound! Clever, loyal and with a lot of stamina, and also very useful as a hunting mate.

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As queen Victoria said: Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

Pete

Old Shatterhand

Police investigations say that it presumably was an accident. When cleaning the driver's cabin, the cleaning girl accidently touched the driving handle. The dead man's grip was blocked to prevent the brakes from freezing in the cold, and thus the train run. The poor girl is still in a coma. It is no...

Old Shatterhand

... if you don't know how to drive it. Bad as it is, but it could have ended up far worse if there had been another train on the track. http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.se%2Fsthlm%2Fursparning-pa-saltsjobanan--en-skadad http://www.dn.se/Images/...

Old Shatterhand

Boy I like that! :mrgreen: Where did you get that one or did it come with it? Mainehunter :wink: It was in the article. I once had one with it proprietary partridge sight. However, I wasn't able even to hit a barn from the inside with it and sold it away. (I am really bad at shooting peep sights.) ...

Old Shatterhand

Mainehunter wrote:Oh don't get me wrong, I love peep sights as well but it's too modern looking. If I'm going to keep it I'll try to find an older Lyman 48M or Redfield 70,80.

A Husqvarna factory peep sight. the "Jaktdiopter":

P.

Old Shatterhand

These two articles on Husqvarnas repeaters are readable with the help of Google Translate: http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jaktojagare.se%2Fhusqvarna-1640-bra-och-billig-bruksbossa http://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&...

Old Shatterhand

If you are asking me, I can't say I am in Az. the gun is in N.M. I think the reason it thumps me hard I think is because the stock is traditional european styling. Here in Sweden these guns were known as Modell 1600 Lätt, and they indeed have a reputation of being mean at the shooter. They came wit...

Old Shatterhand

I have got one, and I really lika the handling of itt. But I am facing some accuracy problems: the first shot hits som 3 or 4 inches lover than the following, and patterns are bad. I have been working and has done some work according to the shop manual. Previously it patterned 1" @ 100 yds with...

Old Shatterhand

Skin the merganser as soon as possible and carefulle scrape away fat and tallow. At home you cut it into parts and then lay them in a bowl. Cover up with milk and let stay so for three days. Change the milk and let stay som more days. Take an iron pot, melt 2 tablespoons of butter and heat until lig...

Old Shatterhand

Keep that gun as it is: it has history and character. If you refurnish and reblue it, you just have a fine gun but nothing more. Now it has beautiful scars and wrincles from unknown hunts and adventures, and if you had known the half of its history, you would have had stuff enough for a great novel....

Old Shatterhand

--- The Leuku is about a foot long with a blade of just over 7 inches. Thickness about 0.127". Yes, the sheath is sewn on the back. --- It is a Finnish or Lapponian knife. The longer models are called "huggare" by the Laplanders. It means "chopper" and in fact they use them...

Old Shatterhand

Some twenty or thirty years ago I made this knife from a Mora blade, original brass, curled birch and a piece of leather. It has followed me on hunts and trekkings, and has always been sharp and reliable. Note that the blade is not grinded close to the handle - the common Mora blades are grinded mos...

Old Shatterhand

DON'T use that blank powder for ANY sort of reloading. It have been some severe accidents here in Sweden with stupid people who reused it and got injuried. It is really fastly and unpredictably burning - any gun loaded with it will with a great certitude go into smithereens. The cases should be stan...

Old Shatterhand

Sven, Ole and Lena speak English in de seyme vay as did my 14-year pupils in de lower secondery school in de sveedish tovvn Örebro. Do de dree ones have de seyme singing tune in de accent too?

Pete

Old Shatterhand

That's a good life: sauerkraut and a nice dachshound. You don't need more - than perhaps a levergun too! Pete I will have to try that! Do you prefer with or without mustard? :lol: Well, I think it will be difficult to get the doxie into the bread. A wiener dog isn't that weeny. :wink: Not weeny'.jp...

Old Shatterhand

That's a good life: sauerkraut and a nice dachshound. You don't need more - than perhaps a levergun too!

Pete

Old Shatterhand

We have hunting magazines in our school library and give the pupils permissison for moose hunt in october if they want.

Pete

Old Shatterhand

Suomalainen Winnsu 88!

Nice gun. They didn't sell good on this side of the pond, albeit they have a reputation for good accuracy.

Pete

Old Shatterhand

Midway has Winchester brass just now.

Pete

Old Shatterhand

I use the same dies and had the same problem until I used plenty of lube inside the neck . Roll the bullets on the case lube pad before setting them. Then make a firm crimp. The same problem with crushed cases did I have with my .375 Wcf, 255 grs Barnes Original and Hornady tools. When I used the e...

Old Shatterhand

On my M71 I replaced the original rear sight to a Husqvarna sight with flat top and a u-notch. It has a much clearer vision and is easier to use than the original "Mickey-Mouse-style" with deep V-notch, where the front bead is difficult to distinguish, and is hard to use with 50+ eyes. The...

Old Shatterhand

You have hit on a key point particularly if someone had it out of the stock. The trigger block can also move. I put a small nail between the trigger block and the stock which significantly improved accuracy. It just slides in from the bottom. It was an experiment but I left it. Thanks for your inpu...

Old Shatterhand

On my M88 I'm going to check the recoil block and how the action rests in the stock. The way the barreled action is put into the stock can be the reason for climbing patterns. The rear of the action rests in the recoil block and the barrel is hold with the stock screw in the front part of the stock....

Old Shatterhand

I'm going to shoot this weekend...I'll know more next Sunday evening. These are all really good ideas to consider. How did your gun shoot? Mine was to the range on sunday, and shot good enough at the paper moose. But I had it to range today, and still have problems with vertical stringing. The barr...

Old Shatterhand

Great bear, great shot, great rifle, great photo - congrats!

Pete

Old Shatterhand

Today I had my M88 to the range. Three shots series were fine - appr. 1" - but the pattern opened up when more shots were fired and the the barrel became hot. Pete Today morning I checked my scope with a mirror, and it was prettily out of center. (I put the scope's objective closely against th...

Old Shatterhand

Today I had my M88 to the range. Three shots series were fine - appr. 1" - but the pattern opened up when more shots were fired and the the barrel became hot.

Pete

Old Shatterhand

Check the barrel if it has stock contact. The barrel should only bear in front on the reciever and at the fore end tip on about ½". The rest of it should be free-floated between the receiver rest point and the tip rest, according to the Winchester shop manual. (Service notes) It could be checke...

Old Shatterhand

SteveR wrote:Does it look like the one here?

http://www.allans-armory.com/aapictures ... d=060821SW

Steve

If so, it is a "Ume-säkring" - a safety made in the town Umeå.

Hopely your rifle isn't as butchered as that one in the pictures.

Pete

Old Shatterhand

Nice sidelevergun!

Pete

Old Shatterhand

"I just put a carry handle on dad's old Savage."

Old Shatterhand

When fitting front sights into the dovetail, I use a very little vice to press the sight to the proper place in the center of the ramp. The jaws are 1" and it also opens 1". I hold it the hand when fitting. A little filing vice kan also be used. http://www.tme.eu/html/gfx/ramka_2387.jpg Pete

Old Shatterhand

Yesterday I brought the M71 to the working bench where I dismantled fore end and magtube. First the bore was cleaned with solvents, but it was fairly good with only little residues and only slightly mantled. The crown was undamaged. However, the fore end seemed to have pressed to the barrel on the r...

Old Shatterhand

Thanks for all inputs! There are a lot of good advices, and I will try most of them. Thats means: dismounting of fore end and mag tube, cleaning of the bore, inspection of the crown and bore and some cartridges with Hornady 200 grs. Factory ammo in .348W is not available here - I doubt that there ar...

Old Shatterhand

My Winchester M71 now has been thrice to the range. First with the original sights, then with original rear and fiberoptical front, and last time with a Husqvarna rear sight and fiberoptical front. It has been an discouraging experience: the rifle scatters the bullets over the entire target. A typic...

Old Shatterhand

--- Anyway, I was able to do honest 2.5" - 2.75" groups at 100 yds with it using a front support. In truth, I think the rifle could do better but I'm not sure I can. When I moved to the 200 yd targets I guess I bared down a bit more as I was able to do a 4.5" - 4.9" group. Nothi...

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