Been a tinkerin fool. What you working on?

Discuss work on firearms; whether that is making yours from the ground up, milling an 80%, putting together a kit, or fine tuning a trigger job.
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Been a tinkerin fool. What you working on?

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Got it in my head to take my Sig 229 from DA/SA to DAO. I have mentioned before .. my first love is revolver and as recently as 2 weeks ago am still able to fairly rapidly ding a 6" round at 50-60 yds in DA unsupported. Was actually shooting at targets at at different distances and spread apart and while standing in one spot cleared 6 zombies pretty hastily.

Was out with a buddy and he set up some timed close quarter drills. Ran through it with the revolver pretty well, short stroked the sig looking for the reset and flubbed it.

So .. nice thing about the Sigs is they are built of big chunky parts so easy to work on. She is now a DAO and I havent done anything but shoot it since at an indoor range ... Im digging it. Only cost me about $25 bucks and 3 brain cells.

Next up was the M&P 2.0 40C. Love the gun. Rigid frame low recoil fits in the hand like a glove. For plastic .. up there as one of my favorites .. except for the hinged trigger. The trigger action on the 2.0 is actually pretty good but .. hated the hinged trigger.

Pretty much no trigger shoe available for them so I went ahead and installed the APEX Duty enhanced trigger package yesterday. OOoooooooo ... ok .. its much better than the stock trigger action and while it cost a small fortune ... I got the gun at a bargain price when there were still bargains to be had so I think its worth it. Another gun that is pretty simple to mess with. Yes I tested it .. it works.

So 2 guns now "personallized" in the last week.


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No gun survives around me very long without being personalized , just the way it is.
I use to be fine buying project guns to mess with but they have become unobtainium .
Now I look with evil intent at guns I own that are working just fine. :think:
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LOL sounds like a fun sickness
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Started on the GST-9 that FINALLY arrived.
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XJThrottle wrote: April 23rd, 2021, 6:14 pm Started on the GST-9 that FINALLY arrived.
I didn't know what that was so did a search. That looks like fun!

The jig ALMOST makes it hard to mess up. Did you go basic black or ???
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Black.

Took almost a year to get it.. Another reason to hate the 'vid.
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Polishing up a cheap Winchester 1904 .22 long/short rifle. Bit by bit.
Got the bore passable and the rust off. Now to see if I can salvage the stock or order a replacement.
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792mauser wrote: April 30th, 2021, 8:27 pm Polishing up a cheap Winchester 1904 .22 long/short rifle. Bit by bit.
Got the bore passable and the rust off. Now to see if I can salvage the stock or order a replacement.
How are you attacking the rusty bits? Vinegar, flitz, just oil and a brush ??
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Brass brush and copious amounts of oil for the barrel/action.
Got it down to the brown bluing and used the wire wheel for the internal workings.

Took a tack hammer to the dings and divots to peen them back a bit last week. Then took a dremel wire wheel to the bolt. Flitz after that. The bolt looks OK now.

Later I'll use my brass screw and re-crown and blue the muzzle. Its got a few dings.
Now to decide on the stock.
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Trigger job on PA63. Went from "Commie garbage" to "okay." I forgot how the sear and hammer interacted when the parts were out lol.
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This weekends project was a good deal less exciting. Swapped out my computers CPU for bigger faster more which is easy mechanically but .. trying to get the bios and operating system to accept and recognize its new body part was a bit more challenging.

Think this weekend I will start building a knife kit! The CPU thing broke my head.

I will say .. adding this to the M&P ... Ooooooo so nice
https://www.ebay.com/itm/233001579874
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Got the stock on the 1904 sanded pegged and glued back together.
Now to find some wood putty and fill in the cracks and holes.

Then sand and stain the whole thing again.

An interesting little project
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trying my hand at doing an age old stock repair,like the did back in the day, got a decent match on the wood and grain, so not to pin so it lasts a life time. time will tell, but only if i move it out so its gets some use, lol, instead of setting and only being fondled occassionaly
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It seems I'm always tinkerin. I have an old SW model 39 that I have grown fond of that is in need of refinishing. So I thought what the hell, lets try some basic pistol smithing stuff.
I blended some machined surfaces, undercut the trigger guard a little. Did the same on the beaver tail a little. And then I tried my hand at checkering the front and back strap. Bought some new grips and now its off for cerakote.
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9x19mm - that looks like a fun project for sure, good job.
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