Reader Gun Porn..

Here is the first, of what I hope will be many...

A couple pics where graciously sent in to me when I did the last Gun Porn Post. I was amazed by the quality of the craftsmanship so I asked the gentleman in question to send me some information and anything else that would be on topic. So here it is, all put together for your viewing pleasure ;-)

I think this could be very interesting, and as I mentioned before, I am fairly new to the world of guns, so learning about these "beauties" is particularly fascinating for me.

If anyone else is interested in having their "goodies" displayed... please feel free to email. Whatever you feel like sharing is fine. But we are talking about guns here, so no monkey business... ;-)

-MissK

From Reader RLS (Robert)

I was a certified armorer (1911's as well as M-16, AR-15, M-4's thanks to the old Black Water Group)

"I just called it Baby"

It's a Rock River upper and lower, hand honed single stage match trigger (3.5 lbs pull). RRA Free Float Hand Guard shortened 1". 16" Wilson Combat stainless bull barrel, hand lapped with a Smith Vortex flash hider. High polished chrome bolt carrier. Sling swivel added for Bi-pod. 3/4" group at 100. The scope is a Leupold 1X3 CQT. Lauer Duracoat paint. All parts bought separately and assembled, honed and polished by hand. Painted in a home made paint booth.

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The rifle was a post war Mauser 98. 

Replaced the barrel with a Hart barrel and re calibered in .270, lapped the lugs and trued the action. Filed down the charger hump, bent the bolt handle and replaced it with one similar in shape to the Mannlicher Schoenauer spoon from the early 50's. Jeweled the bolt and release. The stock was replaced and painted in a generic forest camo. Added scope mounts and a Zeiss scope. Cost was still more the the gun was worth.

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The 1911 started life as a Colt Mccormick Factory Racer. It was owned by a typical uninformed gun owner and hadn't been clean once in 10 years. The guy brought it to me complaining of how it failed to feed, stove piped and failed to eject. 

He didn't want to deal with it anymore and so traded it to me in exchange for a Webley MkIII .38 special I'd picked up for 185.00. After an over night solvent soak and a good cleaning all was well once again. Most parts had some signs of either excessive wear or corrosion from never being cleaned. All springs and internal parts were replace with Wilson Combat parts. The original night sights were dead and I milled in Wilson Combat low profile nights sights. The original chrome was heavily scratched so with a good polish followed by bead blasting I was able to get a good enough base for the Lauer Duracoat paint. Took it to the range to test and sold it for 2200.00 before I even got a shot off.

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Thank you for Sharing, Robert. I hope I did them justice ;-)