Preparation for Bedding Action Veterans Palma Raffle Rifle

Preparation for Bedding Action 1 Veterans 09

Preparation for Bedding Action 2 Veterans 09

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Making a Pillar for Veterans Palma Raffle RIfle

Making a Pillar Veterans 09

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Inletting – Veterans Palma Raffle Rifle

Inletting Veterans 09

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Indicating Centerline of Stock – Veterans Palma Raffle Rifle

Indicating Centerline of Stock Veterans 09

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Finding Centerline of Stock for Inletting Veterans Palma Raffle Rifle

Finding Centerline of Stock for Inletting Veterans 09

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Checking Shoulders with Bluing on Veterans Palma Raffle Rifle

Checking the shoulders on barrel, the recoil lug and receiver to see that they all meet squarly.

 

Checking Shoulders with Bluing Veterans 09

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Cutting Barrel Stub for Veterans Palma Raffle Rifle

Cutting Barrel Stub 1 Veterans 09

Roughing out the barrel stub and getting ready for threading.

Cutting Barrel Stub 2 Veterans 09

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Checking to Make Sure Barrel is on Center

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Beginning Threading and Chambering Veterans Rifle

This is the barrel that Krieger donated for the Raffle Rifle. The end is cut off the barrel, the center is located (see next picture) and the outside is turned to center.

Truing for Center of Barrel 1 Veterans 09

Truing for Center of Barrel 2 Veterans 09

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Modifying a Composite Stock

This is a H&H Ian Robertson stock that I modified the pistol grip on to match the owner’s wooden stocks that I have done in the past that were Culbertson patterns with a slightly larger pistol grip.  I modified the grip to make it larger, matched the color and the silver pattern, installed butt plates, removeable cheek piece, bedding for a Barnard action, and made the trigger guard.  The stock is a composite stock – from time to time I do work on composite stocks, although most of my stock work is with wood.  Working with composite materials stems from when I spent years building custom motorcycles – show bikes.

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Stiller Action for Veteran’s Raffle Rifle Arrives!

Stiller Action for Veteran’s Raffle Rifle arrived yesterday.

This unique serial number signifies the USA Veterans Palma Raffle Rifle

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Crowning Veteran’s Rifle Barrel

Crowning a Barrel for Veteran’s Rifle for US Palma Veteran’s Raffle Rifle

Crowning and using a Q Tip to check for burrs on the crown.  This is a long forgotten old fashioned technique, but works well to make sure the crown has a clean cut.

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Prone Palma Walnut Stock

This is a stock I just finished. It’s for a big BAT action for a 223 Palma gun.
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Take Back our Country!

I’ve been at the match in Raton all week.  Sue shot this at the Tea Party Express Rally when it came to Albuquerque while I was gone.

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Making a Bloop Tube – Sight Extender

Bloob Tube Machining

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Inletting for Rear Sight Block – Palma Rifle

This is a Palma rifle stock that is a beautiful light colored wood.  Using a  bedding block with the bedding material reinfores the bedding so that the bearing points do not wear on the bedding block.  The action uses a Warner Recoil Lug which I have customized to fit.

Inletting for rear sight block 2

Inletting for rear sight block 3

Inletting for rear sight block

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Pillar Bedding on 22 Rimfire Smallbore Anschutz

Pillar Bedding on 22 Rimfire Smallbore Anschutz.

Bedding Anschutz

The inletting is complete……. the rifle fits in the stock with pillars.

Bedding Anschutz 2

Bedding compound has been added.  The action is ready to be put in the stock.

Bedding Anschutz 3

Bedding Anschutz 4

Bedding Anschutz 5

Ready to put action in bedding compound.

Bedding Anschutz 6

Bedding Anschutz 7

Inletting complete on rifle

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Preparing an Eliseo S 1 for TR F Class

Preparing Eliseo stock for F Class

Preparing Eliseo stock for F Class 2

Preparing Eliseo stock for F Class 3

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Making a T Nut to go in a rail for F Class Rifle

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Attaching Cheekpiece

The cheekpiece is held on with rare earth magnet.

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Testing Palma Gun at Del Norte Range

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Update on Status of Donations for Palma Veterans Team Rifle

Here’s a current update on the status of the donations for the Palma Veterans Team RIfle …

Krieger Barrels has donated a barrel.  http://www.kriegerbarrels.com/

Scott Riles has offered to donate a front sight and trigger.

Richards Microfit and Doan Trevor have  donated the stock http://www.richardsmicrofitstocks.com/

It looks like we’ll be getting an action from Jerry Stiller http://www.viperactions.com/

For any donations and or contributions, please leave a comment or contact Mike Sinclair at estclai1@san.rr.com

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Building Offset Sight

Here’s a picture of an offset sight which I made for Mike Dunia with the help of Scott Riles.  The globe is Scott’s, and I adapted it to the offset sight. This is for a Remington but could be adapted / customized for other actions.

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We The People Stimulus Package

This guy’s video on youtube has been so popular that Obama called him personally. He said that he was very disturbed with the video and invited him to the White House. Obama also said he wanted the White House to Handle the Press and not to talk about the video or the White House visit.  That’s interesting.

Watch it now. This may be the best six minutes invested in Your future You may have to turn your Sound Control up some.

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Milling Slot for Thumbwheel

Milling Slot for ThumbwheelFinally – we’re settled in Albuquerque!  The shop is set up and I’m back to work.

I’ve started on the US Palma Team Veteran’s Rifle for the raffle – again for the third year.  Updates tomorrow on the progress of the rifle – they will now apear on the tab “Veterans Rifle”.

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