Many years ago, when I purchased my first Dillon 1050, I fabricated a support arm extension to stop the sagging of my Acrobin. It was tedious and required the drilling of holes through the original Dillon 1050 support to mount the extension. Hence I never made or installed one on my second 1050. Fast forward…
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If you love to assemble guns, this is the gun for you! I just picked the gun up today from my local FFL. You guys/gals know the magical moment when the FFL puts your new gun on the counter… Yeah, the one that you waited a whole 5 days for, thanks to SMGA’s fast shipping.…
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I picked up this little abused rifle at a gun show in Missouri. I had never seen a rifle like this and I heard that antique air rifles can be fairly expensive. Knowing nothing about it asked the seller to educate me. He said that he had one as a kid, that it shot great…
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For all of you that have a lathe handy with some 1/4″ stainless steel, here are the dimensions to turn a SKS firing pin that uses a s&w revolver return spring. This design was jot my idea, but I did figure out the dimensions on my own through trial an error…
Fortunately, this was such a quick job, I forgot to take pictures of the process itself. I started with a extra SDM S&W sight I had laying around. The S&W sight had a square mount and then I overlaid the Taurus sight and scribed the radius onto it. With a belt sander I reshaped the…
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I’m just starting to appreciate the art of benchrest rifle loading. So I figured I’d share my conversion of my hand powered RCBS Trimmer to a motorized version.
Sorry, I’ve been neglecting the the blog lately. Work, Family and USPSA has been keeping me very busy. Most of the video’s from the matches have been posted on my Youtube channel, but here are a couple of playlists for the year so far: Rob W: Craig B: Aaron K: Roy N: Paul T:
Cheap is relative term when you look at a 1911. If you’re considering buying a 1911 you can pick one up brand new for about 500 dollars, but if you want a decent quality 1911 you are in the $800+ price range. If you are looking for a 2011 handgun your new price is approximately…
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Since I’m building a open gun, I’ve had to weigh a lot of options. For the optics I was tempted to go with the same old stuff everyone else is shooting. You know what I’m talking about, the C-More with a mount from Dawson or Cheely. However, the C-More just rides so high above the…
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Just a quick update on my previous Sarco Inc blog post. After testing the parts on my Colt Gold Cup I decided to make it into an entire gun. I picked up a Caspian frame from Great Lakes Firearms and Ammunition. Here are some details around the build: Polished and blued all kit parts Polished…
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