Recent content by Clark

I have chambered on (4) lathes.... I chambered Tokarevs for 9x23mmWin on a mini lathe. I chambered rifles on a 12x36 Atlas that I can pick up..... takes twice as long a with a big heavy 3 hp lathe.

I fell down while dove hunting in 1964. The next time I fired it split 6" of muzzle on the shotgun. My father drove to a gas station where he borrowed a hack saw. I now deer hunt with a guy who puts electrical tape on his rifle muzzle, and carries a cleaning rod in the truck.

I never thought of mounting the barrel vise on the mill bed. I am on the welding bench

My brother has lived in a small Montana town for 10 years and this is a first.

I made a vertical coffin from cardboard with a door. On the bottom is a baffle so the paint cannot drip onto the hot plate. On top is a hole to insert a temperature probe. Brownells Aluma-hyde II spray paint [one part epoxy] works better at 100 degrees F. I drape blankets over the box to get the...

1) Go to the range with a loose barrel. Shoot a group. Tighten the barrel, shoot another group. Continue until groups get no smaller. The minimum torque for minimum group size was about 10 foot pound for me. 2) Maximum torque for a 1-14 grade 8 bolt is 995 foot pounds. This is similar to a...

If you calculate the max torque on barrel threads it is something like 1000 ft lb. If you measure group size vs tightening torque, the corner is low, something like 10 ft lb. I put barrels on with 100 foot pounds, but almost anything would work. I took off one rusty barrel with 560 foot pounds...

I was working on the Tornado jet fighter radar warning power supply converters in 1988 with a Lotus 123 spreadsheet on an IBM 486. Then the powers that brought me the computer ruled I must use Excel. With 123, I already had long formulas for power and heat in every cell on 3000 electronic...

When my wife saw this picture [she designed calibrators with piecewise linearization of polynomials to characterize thermocouples] she said that my weight scale and my ruler were my references. There are guys here who know more about what I am talking about than I do:(

I used my homemade barrel vise today... no big deal putting on new barrels with 100 foot pounds of torque. But getting off rusty military barrels with 560 foot pounds takes a long cheater bar and a big beer belly.

I have only built one rifle with a Trigger Tech and only shot one deer with it. And that was 2020. I have had no problems, and I like their patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160377363A1/en The next Rem700 I build will probably get another Trigger Tech. Not because I can tell the...

I have the SAAMI reamer, the SAAMI headspace gauge, and Nosler 280AI brass. My trouble was with the neck diameter of the Lee and Redding sizer dies, but I just use new Nosler brass. We generally like the neck to be honed to 0.002" smaller than the loaded ammo, to allow for the elastic...

I used a HSS insert https://www.arwarnerco.com/Kit-17R-3-8-inch-Threader-NV-p/kit-17r.htm

I had to open up the carbon fiber stock for a magpul bipod mount

The biggest bull elk I have ever seen was shot by a tiny woman with a 243. She said she shot him a 200 yards, he staggered and fell down.