What a week!
Finally, I manage to arrive at the weekend, and I’m busier on the weekend than I was in the week.
I have a 93 mauser I have had in the gun safe forever. I bought a barrel for it in 7.62 x 39, and I have done nothing with it since it arrived. I shot a friend’s version of the same deal, and decided I liked it enough, a small, handy,light rifle, that I would proceed with making my own. The conversion kit from Numrich was, at the time, $90 with free shipping. And the package languished in the gun cabinet until last fall.
I needed to get a finish reamer. I met the guys at Manson Reamers at the Shot Show, and purchased a reamer from them, which arrived Tuesday.
So friday evening, at $undisclosed location, I finish reamed the barrel and headspaced it properly (A tricky deal unless you have access to really high precision equipment, and i did) wrung the action on the receiver, and went to eat.
Saturday morning, we went to eat again, went to another undisclosed location to test fire the Mauser, put a couple rounds through it to confirm function, and staggered off to get a set of scope bases that fit, not an easy task for a 93. As it is I will have to modify them.
The mau is on it’s original stock, a fairly bubbaed original, but I like the shape and feel of it so I may decide to keep it. I do have a half decent trigger (timney) to put on it and more than a few places I can get a more modern stock if i like. I’ll need screws and probably a couple other pieces before I take it down garnet blast it and put it in the sauce to blue. I have a few other guns coming up I will need to do at the same time so it will be a bluing party.
We pulled service on all the equipment, a couple four wheelers, mower, golf cart, etc. and burned a few stubblefieldfs, stuck the truck nad had to unstick it, then went off to a fleamarket (Was supposed to be an auction) where I stumbled on a solid scythe, whcih I hope to be able to use in the backyard this summer, once most of the tree shit is out of the way.
A busy and fun weekend so far, and now I have to pay the piper and try to get some work done.
Sounds like a good kind of busy. With as much as you got done, I’m surprised you have time to work this weekend.
When r we gonna winch the wood up the hill?
I just started doing some of the small stuff. I will need your help on the big stuff as summer progresses. I hope to catch you at a time when you have a couple days on your hands when you’re not totally inundated. My hope is to be able to drag a few of the small or medium size branches up the hill over the next couple weeks; I have a small winch I can mount in the trailer hitch of the escape and i tested it for the first time today, it works OK on the small stuff. So if i do a couple pieces now and then by mid to late May I will be ready to haul off the big shit.
You need to come get my dragging tongs then. Call me or text.
Most of this is almost at the “brush” level, but when the time comes, indeed.
You humble me. I shot a six stage IDPA match then mowed about an acre with a 22″ push mower and I was beat after that.
Took it easy on Sunday and double checked quality on my ammo for the 12 stage Alabama state IDPA next weekend.
Any issues cycling the stubby little rounds in the long action?
Actually, no. The kit comes with a little spacer and a short mag insert. Pictures etc will eventually follow. It cycles nicely, so far, but that was just ten rounds.