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    A Good Begining, Hawks Ridge Gun Club

    Check mark for greg and the others responsible. Greg it is great to see you focus your efforts in such a positive direction. I hope it turns out well. Maybe you will give me some 1000yd shooting lessons now. Nat lambeth
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    Using a Throating Reamer

    Using a throating reamer... Here are some tips: Make a bushing/stop with set screw to control depth of cut. Throating reamers remove rifling like a hot knife in soft butter. Don't just trust your hand wheel. you can be reaming and not know it. Very little felt resistence. Make sure the case...
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    Trying to Locate Richie Hart, Snow Hill, NC

    Does anyone here have a valid phone number or e-mail address for Richie Hart, from Snow Hill, North Carolina. If you do please have him e-mail nlambeth@customgunsandammunition.com or call me at 919 662-6848. The phone number I have for him must have changed. Thanks Nat Lambeth
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    Bolt fixture

    Mike: I had my doubts about alignment with the LaBounty fixture. I did mine your way. !. Last year while at TSJC teaching a class I had the opertunity to see and use a Labounty jig. I was amazed at how well it worked. 2. I made a jig that incorporates two catheads for truing bolts and it also...
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    Cut off tooling??

    lathe tie down Ian: How are things in New Zeland? Reading your post about the concrete. I have a concrete floor. I made a base for my lathe with 6" X 2" square 1/4" wall tubing frame 36" X 96". I then welded a a piece of 1" steel plate to it. Underneath I put 4 steel caster wheels and 4...
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    Cut off tooling??

    Parting off stock.. Parting requires patients and tooling properly aligned both vertically and horizontally run at the correct feed and speed for the tooling and material being parted. Coolant and swarf removal are crutial to tool life. In looking at this post and knowing it is on a Gunsmith...
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    .308 Tompkins reamer

    308 Reamers PT&G sells dozens of different 308 reamers. There are 4 listed in their Chamber Print Book. The first is a SAAMI .308 Winchester. The big biggest difference is a .310 throat. The second is a Boots obermyer .308. The third is a 95 palma believe Alan Warner developed this reamer. The...
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    rebushing a firing pin hole?

    "Re Bush a firing pin" You have presented a job that is not the same as "bushing a firing pin". There are several methods of rebushing a firing pin and going back a removing the "rebushed firing pin" could br relatively simple or quite complex. Do you know if the first rebush job was a...
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    F-class scope choice?

    All the scopes mentioned are good.. I have about 20 target scopes of varried manufactures. Due to ecconomics several years ago I switched to Leupold. Then I switched to Nightforce, then to Sightron. None of the scopes are inexpensive. No puns intended I beleive you get more bang for your...
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    Phase converter for a nardini 14x40

    Vfd The modern VFD is the most cost effective method of of pruducing true 3 phase from single phase. It converts single phase 240 AC to DC and back 3 phase of a specified voltage based on the unit purchased. The cost goes up with the increase in horsepower. Older VFD lost torq with the...
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    Definition of coaxial

    Co Axial and Concentric Both of these terms begin with "CO" the prefix meaning "with". Concentric is synonomous with centered. Co = with centric = centered. CoAxial is two centers aligned making a centered aligned cylinder. Concentric to each other on each end. The OD walls of the cylinder...
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    Hawkeye borescope angled eyepiece. Worth it?

    Bore Scope and attachments I have a 7" and 22" bore scope w/ both straight and 90 degree adapter. (Bore scope looks forward and has mirrored sleeve) The 90 degree ocular adapter is a seperate device and a great asset as well. (I hooks on to the eye piece on the scope tube) I bought mine right...
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    Who makes this..

    Looks like Lyman 55 There are some Lyman 55 with "Culver Conversions". Today they are considered a rare find. Nat Lambeth
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    Rifle shipping

    Shipping advantages and disadvantages... The USPS is a Government supported agency. Congress is the final oversite. For shipping any items valued less than $2,500 and not handguns they are more reliable. A correction to another post Both UPS and Fedex have written policies expecially as they...
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    Loading model 7 7mm-08

    Are you still shooting it out of the Remington Tupperware stock? I have a Model 7 in .243 and a second in .308. Both have been rebarreled. The .243 is #3, 20", 1:8 5C, the 308is #3, 20', 1:12, 5C. Both are shooting 5 shots sub .5" at 100 yards. I am shooting Swift Scirocco in both. Also had...
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    head space gauge ?

    Kiff, Manson, Clymer, JGS and others will all grind you a AI gauge in any given caliber. I have 223AI, 22-250AI, 243AI, 6mmAI, 280AI go and no go gauges and the coresponnding reamers. I would never consider using standard guages in place of AI gauges. Nat Lambeth
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    PT&G tool, Barrel centering bar??

    Spring loaded pointed center or pump center.. This tool was designed when barrel work was mostly done center to center. Brownells and MSC has sold this tool for 50 plus years. Works great for what it was designed for. This tool has been replaces by the piloted rods and deltronic pins. I'll bet...
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    GPS Navigation

    3 feet, 3 meters, 30 feet, 30 meters (all accademic) does not make any difference when you are throwing 500-2000 pounders. They did not call them block busters without reason. There are several layers of GPS signals. The real accuracy is found with Differential GPS. It is used by both the...
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    Bolt Repair

    Remington puts on more out of timing than anyone... It is not just putting the handle on... It is putting it on right. that means both the cocking piece needs to be in the right position and the primary extraction has to be correct. There also needs to be bilateral contact with the internal...
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    Bolt Repair

    Accu Tigg Dan Armstrong P.O. Box 81021 Fairbanks, AK, 99708 dans40xc@hotmail.com 907 457-4259
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