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  1. Hardening and tempering a blade properly is not that hard at all. If a moron like me can do it, anyone can. In all honesty the edge holding ability of a buck or schrade is not all that good compared to a properly done blade. They are commercial knives and made for the ease of sharpening, not for the best preformance. I sent a few things to commerical heat treaters before and was not all that impressed with there results either. If it's stainless it gets sent out, but anything carbon i can do at home with similar or far better results then they can. There are some smaller guys that do a much better job then the big name guys. Doing things yourself also gives you some other options that commerical heat treaters wont. None will do a edge quench or differental hardening. Those are two things that will greatly increase the quality of the completed blade. Not every blade needs to be mirror polished, if you look at the really expenisve custom makers almost none make mirror polished blades. Some also feel that a alot of buffing smears the grain of the steel and makes it look unnatural. Sanding or polishing with stones can get a similar finish. I try to use the buffer on blades as little as possible. Even a very expirenced person has somthing thrown by the buffer every once in awhile. A sharp blade is not somthing you want thrown around your shop. I cought one point first to the thigh and many other custom makers and hobbyists have done the same.
  2. I have made quite a few knives before and one thing i will warn you about is the buffer. Personaly i try to stay away from it as much as possible, it will be the most dangerous tool in the shop. Planer blades will work but the steel would have to be anealed first. Then shape the blade and grind the bevels, normalize, harden, and finally temper. 440 stainless is decent steel but heat treatment cannot be done at home without a oven. I would start out with 1080, 1095, or 01. 1080 and 1095 are very cheap so if you mess up pitching the blade is no big deal. The heat treatment is fairly easy, and can be accomplished with miminal tools. 01 is probably the easist steel to work with as it comes normalized, heat treatment is very easy and forgiving. There is no need to go to a knife store or order from a catalog with there high prices to get steel. The local steel yard or wedling supply shop should have or can get what you need. You can get several feet for the same price as you would for one from the catalogs.
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    Yee Ha!

    I second that, what happend to the old days. When they would take the head of a son of a like that, put it on a stick and parade it around the city.
  4. The guy in that video is not the owner of the gun, just some moron that wanted to shoot it. Here is the vid of the owner shooting it, at least he can manage to hold on to the gun. Pics http://home.comcast.net/~kudoo1/600_Nitro.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~kudoo1/600_Nitro_Stamping.JPG Video Right click and "save target as" http://home.comcast.net/~kudoo2/600_Nitro_lite_load_1040.MOV
  5. There are blanks for less then $50 if your so hard up for cash. Midway does have the barrels in 300 win from time to time or get one direct. Numrich also has them for $120 right now in stock. And as don said why not take any large ring barrel in .308 or 30/06 and ream it out. They are in stock from midway and are cheap. But why would you even consider half assing somthing that could possibly mame or kill you? And why ask the question if you are insistent on doing it anyway and igone others warnings?
  6. The A&B barrels are cheap enough from midway so why even bother? They are only $90, so i dont see what is so expensive about them. You can get them for less when they go on sale, which happens quite regularly. If you got access to the tools you can just get a cheap blank and chamber it yourself. Think about it this way, is risking your life worth it to save less then $40?
  7. That is some damn fine work, love the stock.
  8. Those harbor freight stones are complete crap. My brother bought me 2 of them after he dropped one of my 8x3 norton bench stones. One that was marked hard was so soft when sharpening, the stone shaved off in strips like a block of soap. The other one ended up crumbleing after 2 or so months and i never even used it, it fell apart like sand. And like z1r said neither were any where near flat. Harbor freight sells nothing of quality, only cheap chinese tools. Home depot does sell some cheap norton stones that are not that bad. They are less then $8, and seem to be pretty flat.
  9. If you have a woodcraft near you they have lots of stones. The one by me has 2 isles of them, lots of norton and some other cheap brands to some really expensive japanese water stones.
  10. I know they have it at autozone, at least the one in my town does.
  11. Wonder wads work great over the powder charge. They work better though if you lube them first. Soak them in a pan of melted crisco or bore butter.
  12. You might have gotten a bad battery or installed it upside down. If that isnt the problem i would try reseting the cmos by using the jumper on the board. Also make sure any cards or memory didnt get bumped while you were in there, reseating everything might be a good idea.
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    Stock Question

    Most rifle stocks are like that for handling. They also look alot better, that stock pictured below looks like ass. A standard stock is much eaiser to throw up to the sholder and shoot in awkard positions when hunting. A stock with a full pistol grip will stab you in the back when carried on a sling in the standard postition. That is why most military gun with pistol grips have the slings on the side. The full pistol grip was to help with muzzle climb on fully automatic weapons, not somthing you deal with on a hunting rifle. A ak style grip just stuck on a standard stock looks like you wirst would be taking quite a beating on heavy recoling rifles. There are high powered bolt actions that have pistol grips. They are designed much different then just slapping on a ak style grip, copying a stock such as that would be the way to go.
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    Borat

    It is one strange movie, pretty funny. I dont know about the fight part though. It was very funny but the big fat naked guy was kinda creepy.
  15. The bushings are to hold the barrel. You can make them from hardwood or AL. If you look at how a vise is made you will see the reason for them. Kind of hard to hold a round thing with just 2 flat pieces or a hole of the wrong size.
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