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Flaco You give me encouragement--nice work and narrative. I really like your selection of sights.

Correct me if I'm wrong but assuming you did deal with the oil seepage problem by steaming out all oil/grease prior to bluing and, if one did not seal the barrel/receiver joint such as BobVZ mentioned, and then rust blued the entire assembly, would it not tend to rust weld the barrel to the receiver?

I thought about EVERYTHING you guys mentioned while I was talking to him. Since he belongs to the same club I do I will likely see him again and didn't want to come on to strong during our first meeting I did get his card and he told me to give him a call if I ever needed anything, but he added "I don't know how much I can do". He probably gets hit on all the time for favors as he was reluctant to even tell me who he worked for at first and it required several 'probing' type questions before he did tell me. He was a nice guy and I told him I would not bug him for favors. Hope I can resist Yeah, it must be tough having that kind of job...

I spent some time at the range today with Lothar Walther's USA operations manager. Very interesting and nice fellow. He had brought out a custom sniper type rifle in 338 Laupa to test the function and accuracy, using some loads not made up for that specific rifle. The range maintenance crews were cutting grass on the 200 yd range and he did not have time to go through the hoops to use the 400-600 range so he came over to the 100 yard range I use quite a bit. He said he had just got through screwing the barrel on and wanted to test it for function and since he and I were the only ones there I voluntered to call shots for him. The rifle was VERY accurate--he put down several 5 shot groups that measured between .2 & .4" We talked for a couple of hours and he told me about some of their machinery and equipment they use but said a lot of it was proprietary and ' trade secret' processes and technology was used in their plant. I told him their barrels were highly regarded by several of the forum members I participated in--he was not surprised. FWIW, he said the reason people are not allowed in their plant here is to keep prying eyes away. They do use floating chamber reamers but said the ones they use are about $850 each and they will cut a perfect chamber with the barrel in a 3 jaw. He did not offer to give me any barrels but, other than that, he was a great guy and fun to talk and shoot with. BTW--the 338 Laupa is one hoss of a cartridge!!

z1r & all Your points are well taken but I have found, through reading government produced codes pertaining to business issues, that some things that seem logical and straight forward to me are not always viewed with the same 'clarity' or perspective as a government agency might interpret a particular issue. I am putting my guess on that it is OK to add scopes etc if the resulting issue is kept in one's own possesion and, since that is what I am personally doing, I feel comfortable with my changing a few old Turks into scoped sporting rifles. If I were selling them I would definately want a thorough and written oppinion from an ATF representative

Nice mosey How does it shoot? I like my mosins but don't care much for the safety system. I mostly just punch paper these days so the clumsy safety is really a non-issue noise wise but I still don't like 'em.