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    1. toolness1

      Restored sporterized Carcano

      I bought this Finnish marked M38 Short Rifle a couple years ago with the intent to restore it. I am a big fan of Finnish stuff, although I don't think they did anything to these rifles but stamp them, let alone use them. I got a replacement stock from Sarco. It was pretty nice, except it...
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      Spanish Mauser stock repair

      This was my first major crack repair. There was an old arsenal repair, you can see the dowel that was added. It appears that they didn't use any kind of glue or epoxy, just the dowel. The repair completely broke loose during shipping so I decided to repair it vs try to return it since the...
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      Milsurp Pet Loads

      I just went through about 5 years of range reports and made lists of all my best loads. I've tried a pretty good variety of jacketed as well as lead cast loads in many different milsurp rifles/calibers. I thought I would share my list of what has worked best for me so far. I hope someone...
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      6.5 Japanese

      Does anyone out there load for this caliber? I recently got a Type 38 with a decent bore (although it slugs pretty fat). I am about to place a Grafs order for everything I need to load for it, but looks like this one can be a bit of a challenge. How do you guys handle the bulging...
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      Turk K Kale short rifle handguard

      Does anyone know if any other Mauser handguard will interchange with a K Kale short rifle? I have a nice example but the handguard was replaced with one that doesn't fit (nor match the wood). It's bad enough to where I cannot get the barrel band back far enough to "latch" because the cuts in...
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      Suggested Reading: The War On Guns

      This book, by John R. Lott Jr. Ph.D., is a useful tool to educate yourself and to help you back up your case when having a conversation about gun control, or just defending your pro-gun beliefs. This guy has taken all the talking points the anti-gunners use and studied the facts and...
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      .40 S&W chambering issue

      I have a Glock 22 and bought a Lone Wolf barrel for it. I was loading up some initial test rounds and was putting them all thru the "plunk test" after loading them (using the Lone Wolf barrel). I had 3 out of 50 that had some resistance and didn't want to fall back out freely. It was very...
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      Leaky Lee Auto Drum Powder Measure

      Has anyone had experience with one of these leaking really bad? I got one a couple months ago. When I first used it I was incredibly impressed. I was using 4064 and it really did well....until it broke a gear the second time I used it. Lee quickly sent me a new part and I put it back...
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      Happy Hornady customer

      I wanted to share my recent experience with Hornady because a lot of companies don't have the best customer service these days... I bought one of the auto powder measures about 15 months ago. Last time I went to use it, the motor sounded funny and I noticed a burnt plastic smell. I called...
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      Funny story: U.S. Mosin production

      In this year's Military Surplus magazine, there's a funny story about WWI U.S. production of Mosins for Russia. The Russians approached Remington for a contract of 1 million M91 rifles just as Remington were finishing up a contract of British 1914 rifles. The Russians sent a bunch (1,500)...
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      Finn M39 Peep Sights

      I finally got around to installing my set of aftermarket sights on one of my M39s and got it out to the range to sight it in. I'm good, they were almost dead on just by eyeballing it. I love these things. I am much better with peep sights, I can duplicate my sight picture for each shot...
    12. toolness1

      Restoring a carcano M38 sporter

      I have a Finn marked Carcano M38 Short Rifle that has had the stock cut down and front hardware is gone. They also chucked the buttplate and put a rubber recoil pad on. This isn't my rifle but mine was cut down exactly like this picture. I like this rifle and it's a good shooter so I am...
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      7.35x51 Carcano loads

      Today I tried a few different handloads in my Carcano, as well as some PCI 128gr factory ammo. My rifle is a Finn marked sporter, someone cut the stock down and added a recoil pad. Bummer since it's a matching stock. I plan to restore it to stock configuration eventually, luckily they...
    14. toolness1

      Yugo M48 Firing Pin repair

      I posted a pic of my messed up firing pin a while back but can't find it anywhere now. Here's the story: Purchased a Yugo M48 off Gunbroker for $175 a month or two ago. Everything was in great shape except the firing pin. The tip of it was missing some material. It was very strange...
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      Help me with Enfield stock repair

      I was shooting my No.1 Mk III a few weeks ago and this chunk broke off the stock. I tried degreasing the wood and using JB Weld wood glue, but it broke off after a few shots. I am guessing I'm gonna have to use some brass rod or wood dowels, but I am new to stock repair and don't know the...
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      Steyr M95 Front Sight question

      Has anyone ever seen one of these front sight protectors or know where to get one? This is the first time I've ever seen one on one of these rifles. I have 4 of them and have looked at many online. This is the first I've seen. I would like to get one, they help my crappy eyes duplicate...
    17. toolness1

      Mosin Trigger Improvement (Non Intrusive!)

      Please forgive my crappy formatting of this post, I worked a 12 hour night shift and have been up for 17 hours. REMEMBER TO BUMP TEST THE RIFLE WHEN DONE, BE SAFE! I know this will probably be elementary for some or most of you, but I thought I would share this if there are some new...
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      Finnish Rifle Porn Thread

      Let's do it..... I'll start. SAKO M39
    19. toolness1

      Want to get REALLY mad? Read this!

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11828132/For-too-many-Americans-guns-are-the-solution-to-every-problem.html This made me furious.
    20. toolness1

      Help identify Finn M27 markings please

      Do you think this "S on the stock is a Civil guard marking, or a SAKO marking? doesn't appear to have a "K" next to it. It doesn't perfectly match any of the "S" markings in either of my books, The Mosin Nagant Rifle by Lapin or Rifles of the White Death by Bowser (highly...
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