Good video Tom. For me, taking an old rifle or shotgun into the woods that once belonged to past hunters has some nostalgia that I like.

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard people say, "if only walls could talk" but I've always thought "if only rifles and shotguns could talk!" I'm guessing they would have a lot better stories to tell than walls?

Just like the way, ( hey we CAN DO IT) attitude!

Hope they both do well for you Tom, and you get your desired results. Looking forward to part 2.

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

3 жыл бұрын

We want really know until we get them free floated and to the range? It will be interesting to see what that does for accuracy and I can't wait to see how things go with the load testing when we get to it. And I'm editing part 2 now. I hope to have it up Thursday?

always enjoyable to watch.

I refinished my grandfather's rem 721 in .270 and put a linseed oil finish on the walnut ... I then bedded the action and and free floated the barrel channel ... she shoots .75 moa with a quick basic load 130gr hornady interlock and 60gr of 4831sc at 3.2 super basic load ... took it out and was banging steel @400 I think you will be happy 👍

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

3 жыл бұрын

I know you're proud of that one, as you should be! I just don't think most people realize how much accuracy potential a lot of these old rifles have? I know all of them don't and some have been shot out but most hunting rifles don't get that many rounds put thru them. Most quality hunting rifles from the past still have a lot of life left in them. Plus they have character. And I think I'm going to be happy with these as well.

In the drive for the latest and greatest it is easy to fail to appreciate just how far some things have advanced. Personal electronics are a great example with computers today having hard drives measured in terabytes, processors with multiple cores and clock speeds pushing 5 gigahertz, and RAM measured in gigabytes. It wasn't all that long ago when a fast processor was 20 megahertz and hard drives and RAM was measured in megabytes. That rapid change in electronics reminds me of how far firearms advanced from the flintlock to the machine gun in the 19th century. Hunting magazines will always push something as being the latest and greatest. Fads come and go, but certain things still stay the same. The Trapdoor Springfield will still kill any game on the North American continent just as well today as they did when they first came off the line. They are the complete opposite of being the latest and greatest in hunting rifle technology, but how many hunting firearms made today will still be going over a century from now? I don't know the answer to that question, but I do know that the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol in Greenland has had the opportunity to replace their main rifles (with cost being no object) from the U.S. Model of 1917 (aka the American Enfield) to whatever they want. Those guns are over a century old, but the Sled Patrol refuses to replace them because they have proven themselves to be extremely reliable against angry Polar Bears and Musk Ox in some of the worst conditions for a rifle to perform in the world. Anyways, barring something crazy happening in the rehabilitation process for your two "old" and "obsolete" hunting rifles I think they will hold their own against modern hunting rifles.

They had to pay royalties to the Mauser's while they produced 1903's even while WW1 was in progress. Because the bolt was pretty much a Mauser copy

nice !! looks like the metal was in excellent condition underneath the stock. two keepers for sure.

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

3 жыл бұрын

The metal was almost perfect under the stocks. The A3 has a few rough spots and some browning (patina) in places but other than that both are in really great shape even in the exposed areas. I just can't wait to see how this turns out.

bedding a mauser is pretty straight forward , tang and recoil lug ! good luck my friend!

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

3 жыл бұрын

It worked out, but I have to say it sure is simpler with the action screw behind the recoil lug and open.

my dad used to march the prisoners from the monkey house in San Diego Naval Base , where marching around w. /03's barrels full of lead , for exercise of coarse.

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

3 жыл бұрын

Well they would have certainly gotten some exercise and then some!

Tom, you need to get you some surgical tubing for these ocassions. and you'd save on tape. LOL Nice video!

@davidgendron1953

3 жыл бұрын

Bicycle inner tubes works really well too! I use lots of them, they are free at your local bike shop is you ask for the used ones like flat/punctured ones!!

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

3 жыл бұрын

Kent, you're going to create a conflict between my minimalist side and my savings side! LOL And thanks for sharing that David. That's something good to keep in mind.

@kentowens2179

3 жыл бұрын

@@TomRiverSimpleLiving My friends wife was a nurse and she used to keep me well supplied. What I have is the rubber band type material, 'bout 1" wide like the wrap around your arm when they draw blood. I made up some headless action screws to use when I pillar bedded actions. Got the pillars in place and bedding compound in and gently set the action with the headless studs in place to locate it. Used masking tape around the barrel to center it. The idea of the headless screws was not to induce any stress anywhere. May have been overkill, but I had good results always. What you've done should help those rifles, and definitely won't hurt. Sometimes bedding will improve the accuracy, and sometimes it'll stay 'bout the same, but be more consistent, which is a good thing. LOL And Tom, I was just ribbing you about the tape. I enjoy your videos, and I joke a lot.

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

3 жыл бұрын

@@kentowens2179 and I appreciate your sense of humor and your experience. I definitely still have a few things to learn when it comes to bedding.

@kentowens2179

3 жыл бұрын

@@TomRiverSimpleLiving Tom, as we both know, "bedding" ain't rocket surgery. LOL Providing a stress free platform for the action to set on is what we''re after, and making sure the action doesn't get locked into the stock. Attention to detail is essential.

Can't wait for part2

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

3 жыл бұрын

Working on the editing now!

I need help with a project that I have just started. I have an FN Mauser Modelo 1935 Peruvian 30-06. It's sporterized, but I want to have a scope on it, without drilling and tapping. I know about Bad Ace scope mounts, but the rear sight is still a mystery.

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

Жыл бұрын

Sean I'm guessing you're trying to get the rear sight off? I don't know about that particular rifle but try pressing the rear sight down between the hinges and then slide it back. I know that's how FN setup the rear sight on the FN49. I hope that helps. If that doesn't work find a schematic and check the forums. Good Luck!

@seanomeirs8362

Жыл бұрын

@@TomRiverSimpleLiving Thanks for the feedback and the video. I do need to find a schematic to see if the rear sight on my rifle, is the same as another more recognizable rifle that Bad Ace has a product for. After it's scoped, I will consider if I want to bed the action, and free float the barrel. It's a project. Are you familiar with the type?

I believe that at the factory they just squirt some compound in the stock , tighten the screws and ship it.

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

3 жыл бұрын

And suspect you are right!

Could you use KIWI saddle soap as a release agent?

Hi Tom. I'm supposedly your only subscriber from Greenland, been with you since about 1000 subscribers. Now that I see your vid about freefloating barrels, I can't help thinking of your vid on the Ruger M77 MARK II (cal. 223) with Zytel stock - which is not freefloated. I've had mine for soon 25 years, been hunting with it a lot, it's a very good hunting gun, never let me down - but would it - and is it possible - to freefloat the barrel, and would it make it even more precise? And is it Worth the efforts, because - as you said, it is a very capable hunting rifle as it is from factory. It's a Ruger ;) I'm not expecting a miracle, but you know... - even small things can do a lot.

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

3 жыл бұрын

That is so cool to have a subscriber in Greenland! I'm not much on traveling but that is one of the few places on this earth that I would really like to see one day, in the summer of course! And I'm so glad you asked about free floating that Ruger with the Zytel stock before doing it because that is one rifle you don't want to free float. I saw one a few months ago that had been free floated and didn't work out at all. The forend is as rigid as it can be against the barrel but on that rifle it was very flimsy and loose. I don't know if most of the rigidity is in the top and you loose that when you sand it down or if they just took to much off, but you just can't believe how easily that stock flexed on that rifle. It really surprised me. So definitely don't free float that one. And I'm not sure if you care much about the value as far as it being collectable (if you plan on keeping from now on it wouldn't really matter) but that really hurt the value of that particular rifle when they free floated it. And just out of curiosity do you reload for it? The reason I ask is because I've seen some really good groups from those rifles with reloads without the barrel being free floated. My friend Joey has one in .243 and it shoots under 1" (25.4mm) all day long. Mine is right at an inch and I haven't really even experimented with any loads for it yet so I'm sure there's some room for improvement. But that might be an option for you to bring the group size down if you haven't tried reloading for it? I hope that helps and I'm really glad you asked that question. And when I actually do the sanding to free float mine I'll make sure to mention not doing that to a Zytel stock or anything that's collectable. And not doing it to anything collectable is why I'm not doing it to my 1960 Featherweight. I have no doubt that free floating that rifle would really reduce the group sizes on it but it's more than accurate enough as is for hunting and it would be a shame to modify a rifle like that.

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@pizzafrenzyman

3 жыл бұрын

congrats!

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

3 жыл бұрын

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