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    Daezee

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    Friend called. He’d gotten his MP40 SMG back from having been worked on and wanted to test fire it and about 5 types of 9mm. Come on over…got a pile of logs we can shoot into. Had so much fun, I forgot to take pics, but here’s what we were shooting into. It even fed flat nose bullets. Mainly shots went under and into the bottom log, but it was neat seeing wood chunks flying. Log pile is higher than shown.

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    Jester896

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    And you post it all, and then counter that action with the ASSertion that you are not gonna talk about it.

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    I posted the clean target so you didn't have to see how I hacked it all up.
    Dang fine laugh...I didn't want to see y'all spit your drink or bust a gut laughing :cool:

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    I didn't even shoot at 3 of them
     
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    Snake-Eyes

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    B52

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    Friend called. He’d gotten his MP40 SMG back from having been worked on and wanted to test fire it and about 5 types of 9mm. Come on over…got a pile of logs we can shoot into. Had so much fun, I forgot to take pics, but here’s what we were shooting into. It even fed flat nose bullets. Mainly shots went under and into the bottom log, but it was neat seeing wood chunks flying. Log pile is higher than shown.

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    You beat me to it. I'm not as good a shot as DAEZEE but really enjoyed shooting.


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    Recondo 101

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    Got the final coat, I hope, on of the sanded in oil finish on the Special grade English walnut stock for the M-96 1943 Husky action to a 358 Win conversion. Did this early while the shop was still cool. Hope the humidity does not mess up the finish. Pictures are cel phone so excuse the light or focus . This is not anything but a hunting grade 358 rifle.
    If the finish is good, I will still need to scrape down the metal to wood fit areas to set the metal back in the finished wood. I use a broken hack saw blade, ground to a tapered point as a scraper for this job.
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    Jester896

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    I will still need to scrape down the metal to wood fit areas to set the metal back in the finished wood. I use a broken hack saw blade, ground to a tapered point as a scraper for this job.
    I was in Harbor Freight the other day and started to pick up a set of small wood chisels that looked like they would be great for that. I am having some fitment issues on a Hawken that I thought about using them on.

     
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    Recondo 101

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    I took a broken hack saw blade, wrapped one end with about six layers of black electrical tape, then cut the other end to a 60 dergree then ground the edges square. The sharp end with corners ground square and edge real sharp then gets in and around the bottom metal glass bedding when the oil and sanding dust, paste runs over into the top edge. It is easy to scrape the inside of the inletting to just take off any finish over flow, which is usually a small amount. However even a thin coat on two sides is enough to prevent the bottom metal from an easy fit back into a stock that has been glass bedded. With the end angled to a point I can also go around the inside of the rounded corners, without making the bottom any deeper.
     
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    capt.joe

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    I took a broken hack saw blade, wrapped one end with about six layers of black electrical tape, then cut the other end to a 60 dergree then ground the edges square. The sharp end with corners ground square and edge real sharp then gets in and around the bottom metal glass bedding when the oil and sanding dust, paste runs over into the top edge. It is easy to scrape the inside of the inletting to just take off any finish over flow, which is usually a small amount. However even a thin coat on two sides is enough to prevent the bottom metal from an easy fit back into a stock that has been glass bedded. With the end angled to a point I can also go around the inside of the rounded corners, without making the bottom any deeper.
    I love your posts. All I wanted to be when I was a teenager was a gunsmith. Life had other plans for me lol.
     
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