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  1. I've got 3 reamers in the coop. I see the 280 but don't see the 358 and to be honest I don't remember what the other was
  2. I used a 8 x 57 1 year. If your going to try to use the 150's and push them, don't they come apart on impact and make a mess. The 170s and the barnes 160 ( I couldn't get them to shoot) are a better bullet
  3. I have a few "good rifles Sakos) that my mauser builds will never be as smooth and only about 50% of them will shoot as accurate but there is something about "I made it that that pleases me
  4. fyi midway has 7 x 57 in stock, sort of pricey but they at least aren't tomato stakes
  5. I did a few builds (20 or so) back when mausers were cheap. Biggest asset I had was I wasn't afraid to make mistakes as long as I learned from them. And yep made a few. Now I just have to decide what to do with the other action
  6. So this has started out to be how cheap can I put a decent shooting gun together, Now I'm not counting the scope mount (would had to buy that for anything, same with the scope and rings) I guess back when I was messing with mausers I bought 2 of the short 6.5 x 55 carbine barrels and I still had one laying around. So a $100 93 action from sarco and I started. I bought a military stock from numrch for $45 and as stated I had the barrel. I have a cheat where I drill the bolt and use a 1/4 =20 bolt for the turn down handle, but a brand new bit wouldn't even scratch it so having the bending jig, (never having any success making a turn down bolt I figured I'd give it another go. Ended up getting a torch set that uses yellow MAP/ and red ox. I managed to get one done and it's almost really decent. 1 red bottle per bolt at 11 bucks a bottle. the stock was worked a bit and bedded. The barrel was a hair long (by 2 layers of maskiing tape) so I bought lapping compoud and put a bit between the action and barrel and worked it back and forth for 2-3 hours, chamber is now tight. Went to the range today and at 50 (max for the range) both the last 2 groups were under .5 with 2 touching and the other off a bit.
  7. there are a few on ebay, I bought 2 of the b square for 17 apiece, these are no holes doesn't take much to drill them out. I sort of thought I was done with all this silly stuff, but sarco has 93 actions for 100 bucks and I had a 6.5 sweede just wanting a home so I bought 2, I'm not sure what the 2nd one is for, maybe a 257
  8. Any one here know how to get a hold of Rod Or who ever now is in charge of the reamer coop Thanks
  9. Decided to build another on a turk K.Kale mauser so ordered a barrel set up from Rhineland Arms I ordered a barrel and it came in all messed up (chamber cut wrong and a couple of other things). I emailed them Saturday afternoon and explained the problem. He emailed me back early Mon (not bad seeing closed on the weekends) and they have done everything in there power to make it right. He figured it was a set up barrel that got put in the wrong pile. I have received the new barrel and fit and finish on this is really good. I always figure mistakes can happen, and when someone just makes it right (especially quickly) they deserve to be acknowledged for great CS. I will do more business with these folks. They done good Now if it shoots as good as the one i put on a savage axis
  10. I 'm concerned that welding that close to the lugs would be a bad deal, could be wrong. I've used JB a lot for bedding and when it sticks (my fault of course) it really sticks so I thought I'd try. If it doesn't hold up I'm out a little time and a drop of JB. The 223 head that I sent to Brian should be opened up and headed back to me next week. Besides this gives me something to play with. I guess if it doesn't hold up I could always take a shim from a cut down steel case and use jb to glue it in place.
  11. Well I have put one together using a savage axis and a barrel from rhineland. The brass wasn't extracting (which I had figured and have a bolt head being modified to help that out. The thing shoots very well (< than .5 at 50) and as I have extra bolt heads around from making muzzleloaders I decided to take one, and JB the extra space on the back side of the extractor, seems to work great, but I have a question does anyone have any idea how long I can expect jb weld to hold up
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