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Agreed, great info.

Tinker, This is the exact barrel: http://www.e-gunparts.com/DisplayAd.asp?chrProductSKU=957250&chrSuperSKU=&MC=&CatID=6886&mySort=1 Being still, very much a newbie, I kinda bought it on impulse with a specific goal in mind, but upon recieving it then occured to me, "wow that looks smaller than the picture". I know, I know, shoulda pulled the barrel on a carcano beforehand, got my dimensions of the action/barrel and then bought a blank that would work, but another lessoned learned. What I really had in mind was a true scout, LER scoped, light weight, brush gun, but with a twist... whaaaa... In any casee it needs to be run through a lathe one way or the other to get rid of the collar. It is still an interesting barrel and for price it is in excellent condition and is begging to be used to create another unique, one of a kind gun. I am just going about bassackwards, again. I am just not versed enough in all the rifles out there to know if there may be a commercial bolt action that I can rebarrel using this blank. (Sounds like a good idea, but may not be????) Or like you suggested, use on a pistol or maybe even take a pistol and turn in a rifle? Hey laugh if you like, just tossing out ideas here. If such a thing be possible which I am sure it is. Legal, however, maybe a different matter. Which by the way is a stupid concept. Whole other matter. A government trying to control the flow of technologies and ideas/creativity is like them hearding cats. Just ask the music industry trying to control Information Technology and telling the IT communtiy and the consumer public to not develope new and different way to using the technology to share/copy information, including music and movies...but, I digress.

Ordered one for future "what if" project. I was going to mate this one to a Carcano action for a .357 mag bolt action, but it looks too small at .795 inch OD. I did not spend a great deal on it, but kinda scrathing my head here. Looking for ideas. Thread and sleeve, then thread the sleeve for chosen action? Weld on a ring too barrel and then thread? Find a small caliber bolt action rifle to cusomize? .22 bolt??? I guess I could order a .38 special barrel blank, and I guess this could be reamed for .357 mag. Gun Part Corp. sells one for 77 bucks.

Great job! Excellent shooting guys! Nothing better than hunting with your kids/and grandkids in my book. I don't have any grandkids yet, but I am looking forward to it.

I promptly forwarded this on to some of my friends and family. Doesn't hurt to spread the word.

Very nicely done. I hope to be gettin mine done here shortly, and hope it looks as good as yours.

Not sure of the proper terminology here, but here is my question. Is there a jig, store bought or home made, that can be used to increase the inside diameter of a bolt face rim(?) to fit a larger cartridge? For example: Let's say I wanted to convert a K31 Schmidt-Rubin bolt whose 7.5 cartricdge has a Rim diameter of 12.65 mm (0.498 in)and rebarrel for lets say .454 Casull which cartidge has a Rim diameter .512 in (13.0 mm). I do realize one is a rimless cartridge while the other is rimmed. The bolt rim would need material removed (roughly .35mm) to fit the larger cartridge. This will increase the sufacee area of the bolt face and in doing so need to be done without comprimising the bolt face thickness nor any possible heat treating of the bolt. I do not know if a bolt is heat treated to begin with. It would sound logical to assume it is since it is in contact with the case of the cartridge that contains the stuff that goes boom. I was thinking of some kinda brass nail looking contraption which I would insert into the firing pin hole of the bolt and using a Felt wheel affixed (somehow to the nail) and using some kind of lapping compund to gently remove material from the inside diameter of the bolt/face rim... Okay you can laugh now. What do you guys think? Do you know of something already out there so I don't go re-inventing the wheel here?

LMAO! Merry Christams!

Amen!

Slight nerve touch alert! Every deer is a trophy in my book regardless of how it was killed. (Even though I may not call it a trophy) We eat what we kill not because we have to but because we want to. You get a sense of relationship with your prey and nature that I think alot of us in our "I want it now, and I don't care where it came from, consumer humgry society" have lost. We don't prepare venison, eat half of it and then throw it out, cause you don't want it anymore. Not after what you had to do to get it. No sir. The other reason we hunt is to control the deer population around the farm to keep crop damage to a minimum. That is a real problem here in the corn belt. Just for the record, last I took all three of my deer with bow. This year I wanted to break it up using rifle, muzzie and me bow. I don't bother with my shotgun anymore as I don't really like to shoot it all that much. Big bang, lotsa uncessary recoil, and the slugs tear up too much meat. Now having said all that I do like a challenge and I have seen the kits to build your own "old fashion" muzzleloader and would like to try that one day. It would be rewarding for a very different reasons, but there is an appeal. Now for a real challenge. I would also like to try spearing to go all "caveman" on a deer to, but that is illegal. They say it is not humane. Whaaaa??? Isn't the idea to kill it one way or another??? In the end the object is to become proficient with your weapon of choice. rocks, spear, bow, crossbow, rifle, cannon, c4, or even a small tactical nuke, and make a quick claen kill on your chosen prey whatever that may be.

I did not see any decent bucks Saturday, but had a very nice doe come in with three other deer in tow. Shot her at 25 yrds bradside through lungs. She was an old doe. Even had more of a grayish look to her under belly fur. She probably weighed around 160 to 165 lbs before field dressing and at check in was recorded at 131 lbs. Between me and my sons, one which is still hunting hard for his antlers, we have a fully loaded freezer and then some.

I traded this action to Brenden for his Williams scope jig and some taps. In fact I am shipping it off today. I hope he makes good use of it. I would have loved to put a sweede barrel on it, but I have three other running projects now in various stages and needed a scope jig more than another action. It would have taken me a year or two (more likely at the rate I am working) to get back to this one.

40 yrd shot muzzleloader with open sights and he nailed it with a perfect double lung shot. Gotta love youth and still being able to see that well in the dawn light! We celebrated by taking out the tenderloins and cooking them in white wine and butter with some big baked potatoes slavered in butter, sour cream and chives. Yummm, Yummm. Topped it off with a toast of mead. Doesn't get much better than that folks.

Yaeahhh, it has started to get busy again. Good sign and thankful for it too. Oh well.

Ahhhh, I work in the IT field so whenever someone mentions tape that is the first thing that comes to mind. Surpised they don't have DVDs out instead of VHS tapes...

AGI tapes? Not sure what that is. Are you talking about some type of backup tape???

It is not uncommon for a cat to live 20+ years. We had an orange tabby that lived 21 years when I was kid. We got her as a kitten in 1976 and she died in 1997, and my Aunt has a currently living 22 year old cat. Granted they are pretty much too old do much at that age other than just lay there, but it is entirely possible.

Great little deer rifle for around here. That little button only went 10 yrds with a double lung shot. I get a lot of comments from others wondering what it is. They can't believe it is an old milsurp. I had my chance opening morning, but missed a buck with it. No fault of the rifle. It is dead on out to 150 + yards. Just me being jumpy. We have this upcoming weekend left for me to put one in freezer with the rifle.

Great job! Pork Chops anyone! It is great to see a young lady picking up the sport. I hope to get to do some pig hunting at some point. One of these days maybe.

My son shot a button buck Sunday morning. He ain't in the pic, but used a custom built rifle in 44 Rem Mag to do the trick. Should make some nice brats, sancksticks or summer sausage.

When you get someone to do the machining on the barrel blank let me know. I am planning my next carcano in .357 magnum as a Indiana legal deer rifle for the 2010 season. I already picked up another cheap carcano off GB and will be yanking the barrel along with a another mauser barrel (another project) when done with this project. I also have another barrel blank in claro walnut I may use, but surprisingly this other Carcano actually came with a Boyds stock.

I probably have close to 60 hours work so far in this stock. It is coming along sloooowly, but I am learning alot. Still using just hand tools. Hammer and chisel, rasp, sand paper and sockets for barrel channel work. I have cheated a little by using a battery powered drill and circular rasp for some of the inletting work. I plan on epoxy bedding everything to "crisp" up my inletting and barrel channel. I am also not happy with the scope as it is too high. I am going to rework that after I get the stock done. I have given up on the flash hider for now. I plan on gunkote in a matte black as a finish once all the stock work is complete. Pointers welcome. At this rate I may have it finished by March of 2010.

Great Job. Great to see the youths involved in the tradition. I hope to just see a moose one day let alone get a chance to hunt on.

Great hunting guys. That is awsome. Hope we have similar success. Our firearms season opens this upcoming weekend. I'll have two of my three sons out with me. Hope to finish stocking the freezer for this upcoming year.

I did not think of the sawmill down in Frankfort. Forgot that was there. They probably have local hardwoods like walnut, maple, and even some cherry. Those all make nice looking stocks from what I have seen. Do they kiln dry any of there stock? Anything that changes color on the stock and creates contrast would be cool. I am still banging away at the semi-shaped blank for the Carcano. It is looking good, but I am scaling the woodworking back a little, cause it is goig veerrry slowly. Inletting this by hand is one royal pain in the butt. May just use a maple or birch for the end caps instead of going all out like a I planned.