Ted

My favorite is my un-issued Polish M44 dated 1952. After doing a bit of work on the trigger it has a very light smooth pull and now a match 11 Degree crown. I love the plum colored barrel bands, a Polish signature if you will.

I owned a yugo that I bought as a new un-issued 8mm rifle and one of the main complaints with these was poor feeding. These rifles are probably the poorest quality mauser type rifle made. The machining was very rough and extracting a spent cartridge was allmost impossible without a wrench. What I did to smooth up the feeding problems was to remove the magazine well assembly from the reciever and using a dremel tool I polished up and smoothed the feed lip portion of the reciever. Just remeber not to remove too much metal as it cannot be put back on. Just polish and smooth the sharp edges. this will greatly help with the feeding. As you have a new barrel with a good chamber you should not have any extraction problems. Those were due mainly to rough chambers in the original barrel. With a bit of work you should be able to make a great shooter. You might also want to lap the bolt lug surfaces slightly to make extraction more smooth, they were usually pretty rough.

I have been wanting an H&K psp since I was about 12 years old! I passed up on one this summer that I should have purchased. I see that CDNN has them but there is no price listed. Anyone here with any experience with these fine works of mechanical art?? Any one here have one they wish to sell????

Very nice workmanship Ted.

So what's next?

Next project for this winter is a major modification of a yugo sks. My buddy wants it cut down and barrel threaded for a flash hider. I'll probably be putting it in a Tapco stock and replacing the rear sight with a pic rail for red-dot optics. Should look sweet when done.

If there's too much spring tension under the promag follower, why not shorten the spring and take some of the tension off?

Well, it's a leaf type spring and I'm afraid I might take off too much steel. I am going to leave it fully loaded for a few months and see if that will sufficiently weaken the spring.

always figured you could cut it down and cut the spring but that would permanently modify it. or just place a block in the inside and shorten the spring. I'd like to get one and make the mag flush with the gun. Maybe its just me but i can't stand a mag hanging out, it always hits on the window of my car

brenden

LOL! I thought you weren't supposed to shoot from you car:) Anyway, the five rounder I bought does hang out a little but not much. I might just try putting a block of wood in the bottom of the mag if I can. I allready had to put lower rings on the gun, the scope sat too high.

What is the best way to limit a 10 round magazine to five rounds without permanently altering it? I bought a promag 5 rounder but it is soo tight that it is very hard to cycle to action when loaded. There is way too much spring tension. By the way, here is a pic of the completed project.

Ya, I know the butt and forend are mis-matched, but it was a lot cheaper than getting one of those crappy plastic stocks.

Will it affect the operation of the rifle to cut the barrel down to 16". I'm not sure if the gas system would work properly. I have allready done some major modifications to this rifle before I sold it to a friend and now he wants it shorter and threaded for a flash hider. I know I'll have to re-mount the front sight but it's all work that I can do in-house. Anyone ever try this?

Ok, here are some good closeups of the metal work. Looks much better than the rough machining that was there. This was two coats of the cold blue. It works like any other cold blue but is much darker and dosn't dull or rust when handling like other cold blues can do. Enjoy....

I purchased my Enfield from a local dealer because I allways wanted a #4 and this one looked ok but wouldn't win any beauty contests. It was a BSA made for Canadian service. After ordering some ammo for it I took it out to test it's accuracy. It shot ok but needed work. I decided I wanted to start hunting deer with my friend but I was unable to buy a new deer rifle so I opted to build one out of my beater Enfield as a project. Now mind you, this enfield was a factory thurough repaired rifle that had a bad crack on the upper rear handguard and a large repair patch on the buttstock right behind the bolt. Normally I'm a collector of old rifles and would cringe at the thought of mollesting an original piece. But temptation got the best of me and I really wanted to go hunting. The muzzle of the rifle was in rough shape and the crown was bad. That probably explained the poor accuracy. The bore however was very nice and shiny yet so I knew this gun had potential. I cut about 5" off of the barrel and recrowned with a Brownells 11 degree crowning tool. I then spent days polishing the reciever to make it look nice and shiny. I then chucked it in my lathe and polished the barrel to a 800 grit finish. I ordered a new buttstock from Numrich arms and just finished all the stock work today. I blued the entire gun with Brownells Oxpho Blue with amazing results. The fore-stock I cut down just past the barrel band and rounded nicely. I polished up the original brass buttplate and re-installed it to fit the new stock. I think it will make an awesome hunting rifle now. I still need to put my scope on it, but I'm waiting on an S&K mount. The scope I'm using is a Millet 3x-9x 44mm Buck Gold. Should do the trick nicely! All in all I have about $330 into it and a lot of time.