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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2178885" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>And I still get to enjoy the hunt thanks to you guys . A couple of months ago a friend called me and ask me to look at his old double barreled shot gun . He said that one side worked but one side wouldn't shoot . This gun was his dad's when he was young so it's well over a hundred years old and not made any more , parts aren't available you can find them on the internet but cost an arm and two legs . He had taken it to a couple of guy's that told him they didn't work on shot guns and the one guy that did in this area retired a few years ago . I told him I would but wouldn't make any promises and sent him home with the barrels as I only needed the action . I got my tools out and took it apart finding that not only was one of the flat firing pin springs broken they both were . To get one pair made would be over two hundred dollars . Out in my garage I had some 5160 spring steel that I use to make knives with ( it's also used to make leaf springs for trucks and cars . So I set about making a piece the right thickness I annealed it so I could work it cut it to the right thickness and length heated it and shaped it filed the notches ect. into it and had two springs shaped and fitted to the gun in a couple of hours . I heated it and got a good quench then heated them to 800F and held them for 20 minutes to draw them back and be springs that would spring instead of break . I put it all back together took it to him and we tried it . He and I were pleased with it . He ask what do I owe you just a hand shake , a thank you and a diet coke some day I tell him I've already been paid by the look on your face to see your dad's gun working again , and having some thing to do for awhile .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2178885, member: 91783"] And I still get to enjoy the hunt thanks to you guys . A couple of months ago a friend called me and ask me to look at his old double barreled shot gun . He said that one side worked but one side wouldn't shoot . This gun was his dad's when he was young so it's well over a hundred years old and not made any more , parts aren't available you can find them on the internet but cost an arm and two legs . He had taken it to a couple of guy's that told him they didn't work on shot guns and the one guy that did in this area retired a few years ago . I told him I would but wouldn't make any promises and sent him home with the barrels as I only needed the action . I got my tools out and took it apart finding that not only was one of the flat firing pin springs broken they both were . To get one pair made would be over two hundred dollars . Out in my garage I had some 5160 spring steel that I use to make knives with ( it's also used to make leaf springs for trucks and cars . So I set about making a piece the right thickness I annealed it so I could work it cut it to the right thickness and length heated it and shaped it filed the notches ect. into it and had two springs shaped and fitted to the gun in a couple of hours . I heated it and got a good quench then heated them to 800F and held them for 20 minutes to draw them back and be springs that would spring instead of break . I put it all back together took it to him and we tried it . He and I were pleased with it . He ask what do I owe you just a hand shake , a thank you and a diet coke some day I tell him I've already been paid by the look on your face to see your dad's gun working again , and having some thing to do for awhile . [/QUOTE]
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