Guns, Gear, Accessories, Etc: What did you buy today?

[Sunky Heribeck]

Browning 725 Field O/U 12 Gauge.
Going to try it out tomorrow morning at Ben Avery on the Roadrunner or Coyote sporting clay course.

 

[nvshooter]

Aug 26: A large, zip-up softcase for my Ruger American with a huge 10-40X scope on it.

Aug 27: 100 cleaned and polished, once-fired .30-06 cases, which will be formed-down into 6.5mm-06 cases. Scored them from Capital Cartridge; just $45 delivered. The cost of the gasoline to go find these in Reno is about the same as is the shipping cost, so I placed the order toot-sweet. Will be delivered right to my door-- no frustration in running all over Reno and still not finding them. This internet is a wonderful thing!

 

[EasyTargetRN]

Picked up another plinker...

 

[nvshooter]

Aug 27; 1902 pdt: A trigger spring by MCARBO for the Ruger American that reduces the trigger weight from around 3.5 pounds to around 1.5 - 2.0 pounds. Just a few cents under $20, delivered. The shipping was $6.95, which will buy 1.8 gallons of gas 'round here. Takes three gallons for me to go from my little town, to Reno and back home... so I "made a little money" on this one.

 

[nvshooter]

... ... Rossi coach gun ... ...

Mine's a Stoeger, 12-gauge, SxS in electroless nickel finish. I've had it for years (maybe five or more); ain't never fired it. I just wanted it because it looked like it could "send a message" without me saying a word...

 

[cabinguy]

Thanks. You bird hunt?

I used to bird hunt when I was back in Vermont, the 60's. Never got to be any good at it, they wait till your almost on them, then fly creating all kinds of noise, by the time I'd come to my senses, they are long gone!! Followed a couple to trees they flew into, shot them out of the tree!

 

[EasyTargetRN]

Browning 725 Field O/U 12 Gauge.
Going to try it out tomorrow morning at Ben Avery on the Roadrunner or Coyote sporting clay course.

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Always loved OU shotguns, never had the chance to own one of quality

 

[Sunky Heribeck]

@EasyTargetRN I have always had pump and semi-auto shotguns but got heavy into sporting clays a few years back and picked up a CZ Drake O/U 12 gauge. Nice gun but the Browning is a few steps above that, which is good enough for my clay and bird hunting outings.

 

[OwenP]

 

[nvshooter]

A .26" trimmer pilot for my Lyman trimmer. $13; no shipping charges. My 6.5mm Creedmoor and 6.5mm-06 brass need it. Not so much the Creedmoor (ain't fired any yet), but the 6.5-06 needs a bit of a trim after having been run through the resizing die. The mouth of the case is inside- & outside-chamfered after that.

I have seen several reviews of the trimmer pilot; seems that Lyman did not include a .26 in the nine-piece set they supply with the trimer. Maybe 6.5mm rifles ain't as popular as we might think. Delivery is estimated to be about thirty days; let's hope it's a little sooner than that. Will still have to scare-up around $700 for a barrel.

I looked-up the case capacities of 6.5 Creedmoor versus 6.5-06 A-Square. Creedmoor is 52.5 grains o' water. The A-Square is 64.7, which is 23% greater. Now I'm wondering just how far that extra propellant will hurl the same bullet. I want to get 3000 fps, so we may have to go to bullets of less than 143 grains.

 

[nvshooter]

Aug 26: A large, zip-up softcase for my Ruger American with a huge 10-40X scope on it.

Took possession of this today (Aug 30); rifle fits with plenty of room for the monstrous scope. My one complaint is that the zipper is covered with a "cloth extension" like we see on men's trousers to cover the zipper. This protection of the zipper causes the fobs to get hung-up when the desire is to open the case to its maximum possible so that the rifle can be strapped-down or released from the interior Velcro straps. This zipper is at the very forward tip of the case, so you'd have to use two hands to get the fob around the curvature of the nose of the case. Fortunately, very few people will ever have to do this multiple times per day. I paid seventy-some bucks for this case, but had no other choices in finding a case of sufficient size to contain the large scope...

 

[nvshooter]

I found a collapsible stock for the 6.5mm Creedmoor I've been building for over four years. My S2Delta chassis requires a mil-spec buffer tube for a carbine because the maker of the chassis did not make the buttstock end of it instantaneously-compatible with the fixed A2 stock from an AR-type rifle. The stock I found fits the mil-spec buffer tube and has a dozen little doo-dads inside to put an end to any rattling or wobbling of the stock when it has been extended and locked into the desired position.

I found this stock before I went overnight from Reno to City of Industry in SoCal on Saturday, August 31. I didn't have time to order it that day, but promised myself I'd get it ordered upon my return. I went to the website today to order the thing, and I see that it's no longer in stock. There was one available three days ago, but it's gone now. Every different color of the thing is also sold-out.

The chassis uses the mil-spec carbine buffer tube. Once screwed-in, the tube is held in place by a tiny screw that mates-up with the groove on the underside of the buffer tube. I will add a carbine endplate between the chassis and the tube nut such that the nut doesn't chew-up the mating surface of the chassis. The tiny screw is seen at the bottom of the buttstock threads. My plan is to use blue threadlocker on the carbine tube, a UTG endplate and then securing it all down with more blue threadlocker on the buffer tube nut. That's all that can be done.

I saw a nice buffer tube stock with a cheekpiece attached to the top and the butt end of it having adjustments for cant and length-of-pull. I've looked for it on the 'net, but can't find my way back to it. Such a drag...

 

[nvshooter]

Behold the product of the 6.5-06 forming die and the resizing die, which is used after the primary forming of the '06 case. Notice how there is essentially zero ripples in the shoulders of the cases. I was able to get these so smooth by running the case into the forming die four or five times and rotating the case about one-quarter turn between each run. I had the die set to one-quarter turn of "cam-over," which makes dam-ned sure the case is all the way up & in the die. The resizing die was set the same way, and the cases were also slammed up & into the resizing die just like were the semi-formed cases. I got 99 useable cases of the 100 ordered. One had a split neck, and one was a .308Win that had somehow sneaked into the bag of tall dogs.

The brass came from Capital Cartridge in Texas. $33 for the brass and $11.58 to ship to the Reno area-- less than $0.45 per case. Nice brass, too: Norma, S & B, GFL, PPU, Winchester, R-P, Hornady and a few others I can't remember. None of it is military, so the primers came out easily. I now have about 125 cases ready to be loaded for a rifle that's many months into the future. I have a lefty Tikka T3 in '06 that I've had for seven or eight years. Have fired it less than twenty times. Too much recoil for a girly-man like me, so we'll rebarrel it in this 6.5-06 thang and go for targets 1500 yards out there. The extra powder capacity over the 6.5 Creed should allow me to reach that far.

I found a video on youztoob of a man shooting 3000 yards with a .30-06 Springsteen. He's shooting at a 24" x 24" steel plate. One MOA is 1/3600th of any distance. One MOA at 9000 feet is 30 inches. He's hitting the plate, so he's shooting 0.8 MOA at 9000 feet! I'm massively impressed. I didn't think an '06 would go that far. Must be aimin' over the target with words our mothers never taught us...

 

[nvshooter]

I found a collapsible stock for the 6.5mm Creedmoor I've been building for over four years. My S2Delta chassis requires a mil-spec buffer tube for a carbine because the maker of the chassis did not make the buttstock end of it instantaneously-compatible with the fixed A2 stock from an AR-type rifle. The stock I found fits the mil-spec buffer tube and has a dozen little doo-dads inside to put an end to any rattling or wobbling of the stock when it has been extended and locked into the desired position.

I found this stock before I went overnight from Reno to City of Industry in SoCal on Saturday, August 31. I didn't have time to order it that day, but promised myself I'd get it ordered upon my return. I went to the website today to order the thing, and I see that it's no longer in stock. There was one available three days ago, but it's gone now. Every different color of the thing is also sold-out.

Just for crazies, I looked again at the website for the stock. Shazam! It's back in-stock and is the black one I really wanted. Needless to say, I ordered it toot-sweet! It wasn't cheap, but its shape is more of what I want than what S2Delta is offering in their stock for their RS-C chassis. The stock was for me, the hardest thing to pin down. I wanted something that would ride a bunny bag really well, but none of the spacey-looking stocks had much going for them in that department. Then I found the one in the attached image. Didn't have the time to order it, 'cause I had to go to Los Angeles that morning. Was out-of-stock by the time I got back; that was two or three days ago. Then God smiled upon me, it's now ordered and will be here in a week or so. Nothing to buy now except a good trigger and a good barrel. Then comes the $4000 Nightforce scope...

 

[nvshooter]

A mil-spec carbine buffer tube, castle nut and endplate to be used in the assembly of my S2Delta "chassis rifle." I don't need the buffer spring, but it came in the kit. I think the buffer did, too. These extraneous parts will go into the parts box for my next AR-type of rifle, its assembly date being known only to God at this time.

I looked at my TL3 short action receiver from a different angle yesterday, and asked myself if the ejection port could handle a fired .30-06 case. Turns out it can, meaning I can just buy a barrel for the 6.5-06 A-Square and use it with the chassis instead of having a barrel made to fit my lefty Tikka T3 in '06. I can just leave the Tikka as an '06 and suffer the brutality of its recoil...

 

[kdgbuggz]

I understand the parts thing. I found a detent the other day and thought hey another build

 

[nvshooter]

I understand the parts thing. I found a detent the other day and thought hey another build

I have a bunch of little AR parts that cost less than the shipping charges. If you'd like to send to me your email address, we can see if I have something you might need.

 

[nvshooter]

I was fooling-around on the web and somehow found a place in Reno that offers mil-spec buffer tubes in the standard length, as well as two that are longer than the standard length. One is a mid-length (SKU 00MBFT), at 9.950 inches long; the second is even longer (SKU 00BFKDC) at 11.7 inches. If you have really long arms, these things would be a great help for shouldering your AR-type carbine. I'll have to buy one of the mid-lengths once they're back in-stock. Seems like everything we AR owners want to buy is always sold-out...

The UPC for the 11.7-inch one is 081526502. There is no UPC given for the mid-length one.

Mid-Length 7 Position Carbine Buffer Tube

7 Position Buffer Tube made exclusively by SMF Tactical. Mid-Length

www.smftactical.com

 

[NM-Username]

I was fooling-around on the web and somehow found a place in Reno that offers mil-spec buffer tubes in the standard length, as well as two that are longer than the standard length. One is a mid-length (SKU 00MBFT), at 9.950 inches long; the second is even longer (SKU 00BFKDC) at 11.7 inches. If you have really long arms, these things would be a great help for shouldering your AR-type carbine. I'll have to buy one of the mid-lengths once they're back in-stock. Seems like everything we AR owners want to buy is always sold-out...

The UPC for the 11.7-inch one is 081526502. There is no UPC given for the mid-length one.

Mid-Length 7 Position Carbine Buffer Tube

7 Position Buffer Tube made exclusively by SMF Tactical. Mid-Length

www.smftactical.com

That's a good find! Do you think a standard buffer spring would still work?

 

[nvshooter]

That's a good find! Do you think a standard buffer spring would still work?

I don't know; the website would have more information. Let's assume the recoil spring for the fixed A2 stock is a little short when employing the 11.7-inch tube. I can see crafting a "filler piece" from a hardwood dowel of the same diameter as the guiderings on the buffer itself. The length of the filler piece would have to be twice the inside diameter of the buffer tube, to keep the filler from becoming horizontal when the wheppin is fired. Then you'd cut one of the carbine springs to such a length that you'd get the same "power of return" energy from the two springs as you would from the original spring in an original stock.

Another way would be to determine the length of an uncompressed & original carbine spring, and then divide that length by the depth of the carbine buffer tube. Let's say you get a fraction of 1.5 times. So you take your 11.7-inch buffer tube and cobble together two springs and the filler piece to a total length of 17.5 inches. Instead of a hardwood dowel, you could use a piece of thin-wall PVC tubing so there's a place for the pointy end of the buffer to go if the spring compression is that great.

I'm no mechanical engineer, so the above is just one or two ways I'd attempt to create the same recoil power in the extra-long tubes as we find in the original-design tubes.