Think I now have a Jap Arisaka!
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JWFilips
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Got a set of Dies today for $25 they are an older Chrome set of Pacific's..... They look brand new ( even got the blue box)!
I have been hording 35 Rem brass over the past few years....May just borrow 20 from that stash and convert them to 6.5mm x 50 Jap
Only got tomorrow left until wrist/ hand surgery so need to make the best out of it! Don'yt think I will rebuild the firing pin by then! But Doc say it will only be a few days recoup!
I have been hording 35 Rem brass over the past few years....May just borrow 20 from that stash and convert them to 6.5mm x 50 Jap
Only got tomorrow left until wrist/ hand surgery so need to make the best out of it! Don'yt think I will rebuild the firing pin by then! But Doc say it will only be a few days recoup!
JWFilips
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Actually I don't think I'm worried about the surgery! They are telling me my Doc is the best we have here.
But If I look at things a different way then My right hand has been responsible for my career , livelihood and my art! So I'm Shzt scared!
But I have to give it to modern medicine!
Jim
But If I look at things a different way then My right hand has been responsible for my career , livelihood and my art! So I'm Shzt scared!
But I have to give it to modern medicine!
Jim
I gotta go tomorrow for some,what I call "pin cushion" testing.
It's an insurance co-pay thing.... since I already met the deductible with heart surgery this year. Everyone thought ..... well heck man,you might as well let them stick a cattle prod in your ear.
So going to get some dye shot in my brain.... can't eat or drink anything after supper tonight. I think they're looking for stroke related "stuff". I'm like,y'all took the KFC away.... took my cheap beer.... can't eat this,can't eat that.... go ahead,stick the cattle prod up my nose.
Rather be shooting my CB rigs.
It's an insurance co-pay thing.... since I already met the deductible with heart surgery this year. Everyone thought ..... well heck man,you might as well let them stick a cattle prod in your ear.
So going to get some dye shot in my brain.... can't eat or drink anything after supper tonight. I think they're looking for stroke related "stuff". I'm like,y'all took the KFC away.... took my cheap beer.... can't eat this,can't eat that.... go ahead,stick the cattle prod up my nose.
Rather be shooting my CB rigs.
JWFilips
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Trying to keep myself busy today with things I know I will not be able to do for awhile.
Was able to make 16 pieces of 6.5 x 50 brass ( from my precious 35 Rem cache) Older range found brass and odd balls. Not having a .308 sizing die........
I use ingenuity to get the 35 Rem brass necked down in stages. First I annealed it Lubed the necks with Lanolin then ran it up into a Lee .358 push through size die. Then the same in a Lee .326 die...Then more neck lube and again into .310" lee sizer.....
Then I cleaned the lube off the outside of the necks and Lubed the body well and into my New to me, Vintage Pacific 6.5 Jap sizing die!
Amazingly this last step was the easiest! Cleaned off the lube and now I got them in the walnut hulls. Figure I would like them Perty before I load them!
Was able to make 16 pieces of 6.5 x 50 brass ( from my precious 35 Rem cache) Older range found brass and odd balls. Not having a .308 sizing die........
I use ingenuity to get the 35 Rem brass necked down in stages. First I annealed it Lubed the necks with Lanolin then ran it up into a Lee .358 push through size die. Then the same in a Lee .326 die...Then more neck lube and again into .310" lee sizer.....
Then I cleaned the lube off the outside of the necks and Lubed the body well and into my New to me, Vintage Pacific 6.5 Jap sizing die!
Amazingly this last step was the easiest! Cleaned off the lube and now I got them in the walnut hulls. Figure I would like them Perty before I load them!
Bruce Drake
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they should fireform just nicely with a mild cast load.
Pistolero
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An uncle told me that he brought one back from the Pacific theater and that it shot
very well, an accurate rifle. My 7.7 is accurate, hope you find the same thing with
yours.
Good luck with the hand. Had another eye done in October, pretty much a piece of cake.
Beats that alternative of going blind, for certain.
Bill
very well, an accurate rifle. My 7.7 is accurate, hope you find the same thing with
yours.
Good luck with the hand. Had another eye done in October, pretty much a piece of cake.
Beats that alternative of going blind, for certain.
Bill
Ian
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Thanks for the update Jim, and best wishes for a swift recovery. I'm climbing the walls a little myself due to dilated eye exam this morning. Good news is the pars planitis is still quiet and the epiretinal membrane in my left eye has thinned to the point that it is barely detectable with the digital OCT scan. I read 20/15 in both eyes, which is better than I have been able to see since my early 20s, and dramatically better than 20/25 of last year.
JWFilips
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Well I actually got to play today! My wife switched me to a lighter dressing on my hand since the swelling finally went down. I was able then to put on nitrile gloves and tackle that broken firing pin!
Way easier then any I have done in the past because the way they are machined I was able to chuck up the chamber end of the pin in my drill press and lower it into my press vise seating the flanged end flush with the top of it. Once the jaws were tight I tightened everything down with the vise bolts being last then I opened the chuck and inserted a #48 drill bit. gave it a light drop on the piece and Man it was dead center!
had to take small cuts because my pulleys were set up a bit too fast for this type drilling but I knew I could not do that with my hand as yet so I just did a 32nd at a time stoping to clean chips and re oil. I went down about about 1/4" and my drill rod stock fit it relatively tight and straight.
Cleaned everything up set it back up in the vise with a piece of drill rod in place at applied pencil tourch and Force 44 solder. Shapped the solder ooze & eyeball trimmed the pin and rounded & polished. Put everything together and fired some primed cases ! Success
The only issue was I guess I got too careless with the use of my hand at the end and really hurt it feeding in the cases ( another cock on bolt close rifle! ) Well at least iI did something today!
Some pics below:
Way easier then any I have done in the past because the way they are machined I was able to chuck up the chamber end of the pin in my drill press and lower it into my press vise seating the flanged end flush with the top of it. Once the jaws were tight I tightened everything down with the vise bolts being last then I opened the chuck and inserted a #48 drill bit. gave it a light drop on the piece and Man it was dead center!
had to take small cuts because my pulleys were set up a bit too fast for this type drilling but I knew I could not do that with my hand as yet so I just did a 32nd at a time stoping to clean chips and re oil. I went down about about 1/4" and my drill rod stock fit it relatively tight and straight.
Cleaned everything up set it back up in the vise with a piece of drill rod in place at applied pencil tourch and Force 44 solder. Shapped the solder ooze & eyeball trimmed the pin and rounded & polished. Put everything together and fired some primed cases ! Success
The only issue was I guess I got too careless with the use of my hand at the end and really hurt it feeding in the cases ( another cock on bolt close rifle! ) Well at least iI did something today!
Some pics below:
JWFilips
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OK ,
I'm ready to shoot it! at least to blow out my brass! 20 rounds loaded ....All I have here is some Lyman 266469 and Noe 269-145 bullets that were gifted to me from across the street. They were already sized GC and lubed....however I need fatter so I boilded them with some Dawn liquid 2x and a good hot rinse and then Lacqure thinner wash. One coat of Clear PC got me to about .270" I actually did a second coat of the clear and got to .274-5"
This was at least a place where the bullet is in the case at the proper COL!!! Light load of 7.3 Gr Unique to start!
If these actually somewhat shoot I think I'm going to get one of those .270 Win Lee moulds for $19 before I jump in whole hog on a NOE mould
PC is a godsend for the need for oversize bullets!
Based on the throat on this rifle It there were a .277" FN fat ogive Ranch Dog bullet about 150 grains I would be golden!
I'm ready to shoot it! at least to blow out my brass! 20 rounds loaded ....All I have here is some Lyman 266469 and Noe 269-145 bullets that were gifted to me from across the street. They were already sized GC and lubed....however I need fatter so I boilded them with some Dawn liquid 2x and a good hot rinse and then Lacqure thinner wash. One coat of Clear PC got me to about .270" I actually did a second coat of the clear and got to .274-5"
This was at least a place where the bullet is in the case at the proper COL!!! Light load of 7.3 Gr Unique to start!
If these actually somewhat shoot I think I'm going to get one of those .270 Win Lee moulds for $19 before I jump in whole hog on a NOE mould
PC is a godsend for the need for oversize bullets!
Based on the throat on this rifle It there were a .277" FN fat ogive Ranch Dog bullet about 150 grains I would be golden!
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Ian
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Absolutely. There are a few undersized Lyman moulds I wish I hadn't gotten rid of that would have been perfect for powder coating to get normal size.
I think you'll find that with the coating you can fudge a little on filling the throat. The coating adds enough strength and "slipperiness" to the surface of the bullets that often they can tolerate some rattling around during the launch and end up relatively un-damaged and centered in the barrel.