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I finished Puzzle 6 today (numbered in order of receiver acquisition, 5 & 7 are incomplete and 8 is coming in from Canada someday).
I built this one at my brother's request as a gun to carry on his 4 wheeler (while I was looking for the receiver, I found 7 & 8!). It has a larger diameter barrel like a big bore, but is chambered in.30-30 and uses a standard receiver. Nearly all the parts in this one are seventies era post-64. The stock is a synthetic (fit was marginal) and I glassed the buttstock and had to enlarge the barrel channel for the "bull" barrel.
I think it's going to be just what he asked for and a dandy at that!
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I honestly wish I could get a Ramline polymer stock for my 92 for use during Hunting Season (rain/slush/swamp). I playes with the 94 version, but it just wasn't going to work.
I especially like the utility of the hollow butt as a place to store "survival" stuff.
I would still love to see a .308 BLR modded to take a longer mag...
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
OI, if your 92 is a Winchester/Browning, the 94 uses the same stock. It might be something a little accraglass/gel could help with. (perhaps even for a clone).
OI, if your 92 is a Winchester/Browning, the 94 uses the same stock. It might be something a little accraglass/gel could help with. (perhaps even for a clone).
I played with it for quite a bit. Maybe somebody with better woodworking skills/tools than I could reshape the inletting, but not me. The Rossi is too different.
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
My brother took it for a spin Friday and we discovered it needed a little tweeking. I had used just a couple of fired Winchester cases to test headspace and extraction and all looked good. He was shooting Federal cases and they were a might tight. The bolt didn't consistently go all the way up if cycled slowly and it was pretty stiff to open.
I surmised it was headspace and took it to the shop that evening and swapped the locking bolt for another. Problem solved!
In researching this issue I discovered some facets of the puzzling nature of assembling guns from various part sources. I discovered there are two versions of the post-64 locking bolt. The angle-eject version has a bevel on the sides not found in the top-eject model. By comparing fit with my brother's top-eject to the that of an anlge-eject receiver, I was surprised to discover both will function in the top-eject receiver, but the older version will not fit an angle-eject receiver as its groove matches the bevel.
