{"id":7252,"date":"2015-04-13T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T01:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=7252"},"modified":"2015-04-13T20:57:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T01:57:23","slug":"more-progress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=7252","title":{"rendered":"More progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that i know the Mau will not self destruct when I pull the trigger, I can move forward with other issues. <\/p>\n

I have a Timney for it, that will get fitted and set aside till after bluing. The stock two stage trigger isn’t actually that bad, other than having, apparently, a 14″ length of pull. <\/p>\n

Today I did scope bases; not a lot of options for a 93 because of the distance behind the receiver, so I bought the reccomended Weaver pair (and still had to do some machining to get them right) <\/p>\n

Here’s the reveivber in the mill, being drilled. I began the threads in the mill by spinning the chuck out of gear, just so the threads would start straight, but I finished them by hand. The conventional wisdom is that the 93’s were soft, but this is an Oviedo Mauser, and I’m here to tell you this bastard was glass hard. I would move the tap maybe an eighth of a turn, then back off, lube with some tapmagic, and go back another eighth of a turn, lather, rinse, repeat. <\/p>\n

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I got them drilled and tapped, and the bases went on perfectly. I will most likely have to shave some off the rear base because as standard it’s about .020″ too high, but that’s a few minutes work. <\/p>\n

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The bloody taps are tiny and brittle. I am quite impressed wiht myself that I didn’t break one. Next is mount a scope, shoot it a bit, see how it does. Then the trigger, spend a little time on the stock, and blue. <\/p>\n

This will be a plinker, and with the new laws in Indiana may end up being a meat gun. I wouldn’t feel undergunned at all with a box of Nosler Partitions in this. And it should shoot nicely out to 100 yards, which gives me a bit more than the levergun does. The receiver is rusty, and I am loathe to remove the rust, lest i take the casehardening with it, so I will do a coarse garnet blast which is the firearm equivalent of texture paint. <\/p>\n

The stock is a standard 93 carbine, bubbaed but not too horribly, and it’s a very nice piece of walnut so I may very well leave it just as is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that i know the Mau will not self destruct when I pull the trigger, I can move forward with other issues. I have a Timney for it, that will get fitted and set aside till after bluing. The stock two stage trigger isn’t actually that bad, other than having, apparently, a 14″ length of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}