Tennon fitting and chambering:

How's this for muzzle flush?

Sweet......Blake

Chambered up. Now to verify the H/S with the barrel torqued up on the receiver. As a std practice, I don't use N/GO gauges. Instead I prefer to use the GO gauge in conjunction with a little sliver of solder. The solder gets squished between the bolt face and the gauge when its all clammed up. This way I have a qualified dimension to document. Saves my bacon if a gun ever comes back with goofy headspace. It'll tell us if the cst had an oops at the reloading bench and gassed up a round too hot. On some cartridges like the big stuff for Africa the lugs will peen back over time. We saw this often at Dakota Arms. 20 year old guns with lots of notches under the belt that had actually set back the lugs. Not a deal breaker as it just takes fitting a new stick to it. Just nice to have the documentation from day one so a guy knows what's going on.

So you measure the thickness of the squished solder for your reference?

Yep. Goes something like this.

A GO and NO GO gauge typically has a range of about .006" for most cartridges.

With the solder I have "invented" a value system we use in the shop. Say the bolt drops on the GO and sticks on the NO GO. That's great, but where is it at inside that .006" window? The solder tells us exactly. A value of .0025" for instance would be documented as "GO +.0025" ". Meaning it's good on the GO with an additional .0025" of clearance.

If the rifle came back a week, month, year, etc later with a headspace of "GO+.007" we now have a true dimension to reference from. If it was GO+.0025 the headspace increased by .0045". Obviously something changed. Hot load, soft bolt/receiver, a barrel that came off and wasn't torqued back on to the original assembled level, etc.

Solder has virtually zero tensile strength. Meaning in its wire form if squished, it'll stay squished. This makes it a cheap/useful tool for gauging things like this. I do the same thing with breech clearance. leave the calculators and all the fancy math alone as this gives a "real world" value instead of a mathematical one.

Hope this helps.

C.

Just like Plastigage on an engine build.

Thought that we might like to see it by itself

Thanks Blake, here's the stock for starters! thinking about ordering a McMillan TAC-50 stock in GAP camo later this year!

No problem, can't wait to see the whole thing....Blake

Me too! and shooting it...grin

you buiding a goat shooter?




can't wait to see it in action...

Only if I can find one from the beach, not a packing rifle!....lol...will be looking for some long pokes tho in PWS this spring on black bears!

It's a giggles rifle, always wanted one just from fun, my youngest son really wants one too, figured someday it will be his!....grin

should leave an impression on both ends...

goats from the porch....

It'd be the consumate Icicle Rifle....................

We finished up the barreled action Saturday. 20lbs of ass kickin!

I spent the weekend building my bullet trap. 16"x48" piece of well casing stitched up to a frame on casters. Filled it up with sand and woo hoo. We can shoot inside now. Tested so far with a 300 Win Mag. Rattles the fillings out your teeth! Were gonna wheel it outside later and test fire the 50 through it.

Should be fun!

Here's the pics of the boomer going together. I don't have my press/dies yet. They are on the way. I decided to take a stab at making a turned bullet. Downloaded a pic of the Hornady Amax, washed it through the software, typed out some code, and gave it a try using annealed brass. My first piece was .0012" undersize and came in -13.5 grains from the targeted 750. I think when I bump the tool offset the .0012" it'll be much closer to the correct weight.

Perty cool. Were gonna shoot it with these and save the expensive ones for the range on Shawn's rifle.

Here's the pics:

The interupted fluting is very cool.....Blake

Nice......looks better than I figured!......I weighted the stock, just under 6 lbs, with a 16x mark 4 the total package should weight in at around 28 lbs......

Hopefully we may be shooting it this weekend!

Thanks, Chad

Test fire went well! My bullet trap survived! The tube is 48" long. Bullet penetrated 36+ of sand before coming to rest. We dug it out just to see what it looked like.

Boxing her up now killer.

She'll leave in the am.

C.

Here's the bullet:

Invoice and tracking just sent.

She leaves in the AM!

Ramhunter's .50 Limpdicker

Should mount that thing on a boat.

Dang! Definitely takes the title of baddest ass bolt action I've ever seen.

Why would you mount a bullet trap on a boat? Just shoot it into the water if your on a boat.

He probably was thinking the .50 barrel was 48"?......the barrel is 30" + brake!

Looks good, did you run this build through Stick for his approval? OOOH you are going to be in trouble. Remember, KISS, Pressure and Rock on, any more than that and you are a fucking idiot....................hehe

Bronzed cat turd!

Here ya go Pappy!......Mommy says she loves it!...it showed up today,I won't see it for two weeks!

Wow, must say that stock looks much better mated up with the B/A.

Lookin' good RH.

That is good stuff there, I can like that alot. That barrel looks good, mine might look a little anemic, tell that kid to light it up. Now to clean the snow off the deck all you have to do is stick the barrel out the kitchen window and comence firing.

That is sick......Blake

That flamin' fiddy makes your beautiful bride look slender.... *grin*

Damn....bet that takes up a little space in the gun safe.

not really, I have a big gun safe!....grin

you have got to post some video of the first trigger pulling.

Micro Bean should have the barrel good and heated up,by the time you get home.

Is he driving yet?...................

I think the boyz were going to shoot it this week end, if they are not to spooked of it!.....grin

He's driving a little bit.

Saw Baby Bean in passing,as I headed to the bus,but never had a chance to talk to him.

The Great One just called and he just got his new Lilja 243Win spout outta the Mail, for his big Gas Gun back from Old Reliable,who fluted the shit outta it to reduce weight. He was screaming over the phone,it is so fucking good and I'm not doubting it.

Loading shovels in my crummy now,charging the FoxPro and flinging rifles and ammo into the back seat. Flying home just an hour ago,there looked to be a little snow,but doable to the auxillary Pet Shop.

Here's an idea(shot the pic a few minutes ago) and it was yet another 100+ ambient temp swing,betwixt my porch and work yesterday. Fucking breeze yesterday was brutal! Hope you enjoy it.(grin)





I'll tie a Booner to a tree and you bring that Giant CockaDoodleDoo down for a Cheerio Poke....................

Come Wednesday I will have a pretty good ambient temp swing too! Momma and I are headed for the Island, Big Island of Hawaii that is for 9 days....thinking Febuary won't suck....grin

Hmmmmm, yea I should come down this spring with the boomer, bet it would be good!.....We have the Situk trip first part of May!

Fairly certain Wednesday will putcha' into March.

Kick the Giant CockaDoodleDoo out the door as you fly over and I'll run it through the paces and tell you how you did...................(grin)

Laffin'....thinking March won't suck!...it's been a long f'n day!.....

Nice thing about Paradise...there ain't a month that CAN suck,let alone do..............(grin)

Wooflicious................

Sorry to hear you are having so much trouble getting your 50 to shoot Humper. Mine seems to be a tack driver.

Be curious to hear how it do Downtown...............

My crap never did shoot!....laffin'...First group out of the gate with hornady factory loads.....it only got better with my handloads.......scary f'n better!....wouldn't want to be a thing...grin

Had some boyz at the range going "holy-F-wow!



Top it MPU bitches.......grin

Can't, wondered how long it was going to take you to get on here. Everything I have recieved from Chad shot like shit as well, I think I have shot at least half a dozen rifles of his and non have sucked.

laffin'....I've been busy!....grin

Pappy never had a chance.................(grin)

Double long cocked

I'll have to get Humper on the phone tomorrow and listen to his shit.

Again...................

It's lonely at the top.

As per always,the beeg question is,"what wouldja do different on the next one?".

That's where the Toldjaso's kick in.................(grin)

Not a whole lot!.....grin....maybe a repeater/tac-50 stock over the single shot, but that's really no biggie to me....but knew you needed to get in your "toldja so"....grin

A jewel trigger is next tho...the remmy trigger in it now super sucks......

If this is what second place feels like, I can like that.

Next one will be a heavy barrel like humpers.

I need to order a Brux .338 barrel today...heavy and skip-flutted too!

McMillan called and said my "Game Scout" stock is ready to ship!.....will bolt it on my 300 RUM

I talked to Kyle at Brux yesterday, sounds like my 458 barrel was ready to be fluted, I should have tried the skip flute on that one. I bet it will still shoot.

I can see the future.(grin)


You don't want a Jewell on it..............

Snared a 1-9" #3 Brux 6mm spout today,that was setting on a shelf and it'll be chambered 6-284 at 23.5".............

Good snare!....6-284 thinking might be a good one...

I have that 22-250 AI with a Brux 1-8 #2 flutted in a classic mcm stock, didn't shoot real good at first but after about 25 rounds down it, it's shooting right at .5 moa now!

Bennysahn loves his Bruxeses. The 6-284 might come together quicker than I thought,as I was able to sniff out lotsa parts that were ready to roll. The stock(Urban Camo Sako Hunter) will be the longest wait,but it isn't like I don't have a few extra McMillans laying around.

Had a good chat with a Gun Plumber yesterday and it was music to my ears,that once he gets a new reamer,he cuts a chamber into a barrel stub and goes to madly making dummies that kiss it's throat,with every boolit he can get his hands on,so he can pinpoint a COAL kiss. Why in the fuck everyone doesn't do that,blows me the fuck away. He typically throats separate in regards to most things,but do have some reamers wearing a throat that is short.

Nice to be able to fire a dummy round off at a given COAL and have someone knock it outta the park. I'm thinking 2.925" COAL to a 105A-Max kiss in the 6-284,which will grant a .060" cushion to chase lands in the magazines(DBM) and even more wiggle room with Hornie's new 105HPBT,which actually has an even better BC(.530).

You'll want one....................(grin)

Ole, I'm all ears!....grin

Would be nice to have the barreled action at the house,by end of the coming R&R.

We'll see how the Mail treats me..................