What's on your bench? 08-29-2013

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I've got a MS362 on the bench, but I took off yesterday to spend some time with Anna. We headed up to the Bill Goodman Gun & Knife show for a few hours. She loves the old school look, and ended up with a .22 revolver nearly identical to the .44 Magnum I bought last week. This is a Ruger Single-Ten .22 LR. The action got polished before it was ever fired:)

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Got an old JC Higgins .22 rifle a guy gave me to fix his Ryobi tiller, think he got the better end of the deal as his little 2 stroke tiller appears to have been fed a steady diet of topsoil and has less compression than an angry overweight house cat. Might have to cobble something together in terms of a short block from my junk pile.
 
I've got a MS362 on the bench, but I took off yesterday to spend some time with Anna. We headed up to the Bill Goodman Gun & Knife show for a few hours. She loves the old school look, and ended up with a .22 revolver nearly identical to the .44 Magnum I bought last week. This is a Ruger Single-Ten .22 LR. The action got polished before it was ever fired:)

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Mmhmm, that's a nice set to hang onto.... The guns...

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I've had a bunch of different guns over the years. Never kept any pistols much. If I had one I should have kept, it was a SS S&W model 19 in .44 mag.....

Very nice Brad.....:cheers:

The M19 is a carbon steel, blue or nickel finish, K frame with adjustable sights in .357 magnum. In stainless, it's a M66. If it was a stainless 44 mag, it was a 629. Before model numbers were assigned in 1957, the M19 was simply the ".357 Combat Magnum".

Here is one of the first run of M66's, although not one of the earliest, evident from the lack of a stainless steel rear sight. IIRC, I traded a Franchi LAW-12 for this.
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And here's my dirty from a range trip 6.5" M29-2. I had a 6" but gave it to my dad after I bought this one.
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I haven't bought any guns in a while. :(

Nice gun Brad.

Just for giggles....pics of some cast bullets.

Elmer Keith's 429421 and 358429 in hollowpoint form.
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And a hp version of the rcbs 454424. They're nasty(on both ends) at the 1220 fps my chrono says they're running.
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Just did a trigger job on the Ruger. I haven't yet received the Wolff reduced power trigger spring. I was still able to drop 12 oz by setting the hook height and polishing the hammer and sear. Trigger pull is now 4# even. If I drop one side of the trigger spring, it drops to 2# 6 oz, too light for my liking on this gun. I'd like to end up at about 3 1/2#. Most importantly, the trigger break now feels like a glass rod. I do love me a nice trigger:rock:

You might clip a coil or two off the mainspring or replace it with a Wolff version that's a couple of pounds lighter. :msp_smile: I think the Ruger's typically have more spring than they need(exception being the rimfires) I like my SA triggers at around 4 lbs and DA around 9 or 10.
 
I installed the 30 oz reduced power Wolff trigger spring in the .44 last night. Trigger pull was only 2# 2 0z! That was too light for my liking. I tweaked the factory spring a little more, re-installed it, and it's now about 3#. I think I'll put a little back in it, settling for something between 3 and 3 1/2#. BTW, that's all with the factory strength hammer spring. Have you set the hammer hooks and polished the action on yours?
 
I've got a MS362 on the bench, but I took off yesterday to spend some time with Anna. We headed up to the Bill Goodman Gun & Knife show for a few hours. She loves the old school look, and ended up with a .22 revolver nearly identical to the .44 Magnum I bought last week. This is a Ruger Single-Ten .22 LR. The action got polished before it was ever fired:)

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You are really showing your attention to details when you photo your most prized things... without proper hearing and sight protection...
 
Now, now, now. Speaking of details, there was no shooting going on.

And a casual reader knows that they are unloaded by the hammer being cocked and the barrel is aimed?? Looks like shooting to me. So irresponsible.
 
I don't alter geometry unless something is wrong. If there are burrs/roughness/casting flaws I will remove them and polish with a surgical grade xx hard arkansas stone. I have shortened engagement surfaces, but I try to avoid that since I prefer a little extra insurance against an unintentional hammer fall. I spend more time on everything else in the action than I generally do on the engagement. In all honesty, I'm not especially picky about pull weight. Having a "clean" action seems to work a lot better for me than a specific pull weight.

I'm not sure if Ruger has the same problem with the .44 revolvers that they do with .45's, but you might check the cylinder throats for size. The throats on my .45 Colt were undersize, which has been the norm for Ruger for a long time. I honed mine on a sunnen honing machine, but brownells has reamers that supposedly accomplish the same thing.
 
Well, the Apache got some work, and did a little diagnosing of the green machine trimmer.

It started fine cold, and was quitting when it got hot. I put a carb kit and new lines as they were getting hard when I had it to begin with, and tested it. Was running fine, so back into service it went.

Came back later with a hot stalling/no start issue.

I was thinking coil, so immediately took the plug off to check for spark. Had spark so I tried adjusting the carb a little bit. Got it hot again and checked compression and it was at 115psi hot, little low, but figured it should do okay with that.

Tried it out for a longer time and it ran fine, even found some tall grass to cut and it ran fine.

Was even idling okay. So I let it idle for a min or so, then it started to idle high. Was set at around 2750, but after that minute or so, it crept up to 3300......

So guess it time for a vac/pressure test...


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I've got a MS362 on the bench, but I took off yesterday to spend some time with Anna. We headed up to the Bill Goodman Gun & Knife show for a few hours. She loves the old school look, and ended up with a .22 revolver nearly identical to the .44 Magnum I bought last week. This is a Ruger Single-Ten .22 LR. The action got polished before it was ever fired:)

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Them little Rugers are sweet. I have the single six my Dad bought new back in 1959 and it still shots great!
 
Still on the bench until I figure out why the oiler isn't pumping.

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I need to get back to my hp molds and see about working up some loads. 170 gr .357" and 400 gr .475"

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