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I made this for family so I knew it was going to be a PITA before I ever started. As of this moment I'll probably never make another. It's 3/16" thick 1095 carbon steel with a 6" blade. The finger guard and pommel are SS and they are silver soldered to the tang. The handle is black mesquite and Chakta Viga with red and black G10 spacers.

This is a big camp/hunter blade as requested by the customer. It's double acid etched 3/16" thick 1095 Carbon steel with IPE scales and what I call TGO mosaic pins. It has a false edge and jimping on the spine.

I've got an idea forming up for another shirt design later. Maybe we can do these quarterly or something. Do two runs of t-shirts in the warmer weather, long sleeve T's for the cooler weather and hoodies / sweat shirts for the cold weather.

I sure would like to see that adapter of yours! It would have saved me a bunch of machine work on the pictured AK mag-ed SKS in my user name icon. Yeah, a picture of it would go a long way to understand just what it is.

Another must read thread for those that think Democrats are the same as Republicans.

Not yet. And if I did, I wouldn't tell you until mine is paid or otherwise has my name on it. A guy on czfirearms forum recently got his in FDE. Not an early dealer model but fresh from factory, so yeah, they are starting to ship. They started showing up on gunbroker too. (Edit: Whoops, threads mixed up. They started to appear in April, including some stores. The recent post of the lucky chap was the first FDE from factory) I will be visiting a couple LGS's either tomorrow or Friday. I'll post here if I see one. (I mean, if I see one left for you. )

Something about these little 100 plus year old wheel guns that is intriguing. With a working one in my hand, I often think it may well have been assembled by an old Civil War vet. Well anyway, I picked this up on GB about a year ago for about a hundred bucks. Last month I did a similar rebuild on a little 22 short called a Captain Jack. The Ranger is a good choice for a rebuild since it uses coil springs for the cylinder latch lever and cylinder locking lug. Also the hand is sprung very nicely with a strong spring arm pined into the hammer. Many of these early mouse guns used tiny leaf springs that would be a real pain to fab up since they are usually shot. As with a lot of these, I had to beat the cylinder pin out of the gun. The cylinder had about .016" end shake so the picture shows the building up of weld that will extend the length of the cylinder and I will turn the weld into a thicker bushing face. The original diameter over the cylinder pin was very thin allowing the hammer to beat the cylinder forward over the many firings. Heres the turned cylinder with a new pin made from oil hardened drill rod. Once the cylinder is fit into the frame with virtually no forward to back play, The barrel face is turned back and drilled out to .250". Then a new 22 sleeve is turned to fit and epoxied into the barrel. most any of these early guns will have the hammer and or the trigger sear wiped out as seen here. The fix is once again a build up of weld and recutting the hammer sear notches. Reshaped and the trigger spring was trimmed to lighten it up to a far more comfortable let off. After the trigger is re-timed with the action, I simply hardened it with Kasenite. The front sight was missing so I soldered in a new blade and trimmed it down to POA. The target is a 7 round cylinder string fired off hand at 6 feet. The only rounds that I would say is safe to fire in a well functioning BP mouse gun are CCI #0026 22 SHORT CB rounds. These round have no powder in them. only a primer charge. I'm always on the look out for those CCI #0026 rounds. I use them in an old Belgian Flobert type rolling block I have. You gotta love putting life back into these grand old guns! I sure do

You asked for it... HERE IT IS!! Just in time for Summer, we are making available for order for the next 21 days these high-quality T-Shirts with the TGO logo on the left-front breast area and a variation on our popular "Shall Not Be Infringed" decal design on the back, with words from the Tennessee State Constitution reaffirming the citizen's right to be armed for their common defense. These are available via Teespring and come in Black, Grey, Olive Drab and even Pink (for the ladies). >>> ORDER YOURS HERE <<<

Yeah sides and back are pretty weak in these types. One would probably just go into your garage and get an axe or sawzall to open it up.

Saw this post earlier on The Firearm Blog... http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/05/17/movie-magic-magpul-moe-handguard-muzzle-device/ The thing that really cracked me up, though, was this brilliant comment but one of the peanut gallery:

Does anyone around nashville have the tools to build ak? Or are there any build parties or classes going on that anyone knows of?

Ah, I feel ya. I find most logo shirts never come in a tall. I've got a 3x coming and will post how it fits when I get it. Never had this brand but will let you know how they fit. Gildan is one I know has a great big guy fit and I'm hoping the AA brand is the same.

That looks like Hunter S. Thompson in your profile picture. If you are a Hunter S. fan, check out this old video from the 60's.

beltman is the way to go. but,,,if you can find one the 5.11 dress gun belt are good. the have a plastic incert that makes the belt work. not as thick as the beltman, but close. the plastic incert that is between the two pieces of leather that makes it work. you can not bend them. comes in black and brown.

Seems to work better on my phone then the older site.

I have a Turkish, and it doesn't look like that. The stamping in mine is pretty deep, so they would have had to remove a lot of metal before they tapped.

I want to see this crappy movie just because of the modified weaver 360 kneeling comment AND the hand guard.

I went and did some Internet research. Here is an article that I thought were good: http://www.tactical-life.com/combat-handguns/dropped-gun-inertia-discharge/ I interpret the article to say that it can happen, though is unlikely with a modern quality firearm. There are things to be aware of, such as the example above with older holsters.

Watching this thread, have friend ready to drive rivets in his.

I have a number of Grizzly tools and they are not bad. Heres the 3 compound vises they carry http://www.grizzly.com/search?q=(category:Vises)+AND+(category:%22Cross+Sliding+Vises%22)&rankBy=price:ascending Personaly I would consider a compound table as a better way to go because you can bolt down a huge variety of vises and Griz has them from small to tall, and numerous angle pivot types. Check them out under vises. Put "compound slide table" in their search they have 3 that may work out for you.

Guys and Girls, i will just tell you all now, Dave has been teasing me with the Protype of the upcoming TGO Strider and you all are going to want one, in this shipment I have 4 Kniurled Stone washed blades ones coming, these are exceptional carry knives and of all my knives I carry the Protech Striders the most

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These belt threads usually go the same way the pump shotgun threads go; the answers are Beltman and Remington 870. It just doesn’t get any better.

Yep, Beltman Bullhide 1.5 incher for maybe 8 years now. - OS

Beltman

My wife built one

I'm not impressed. According to the article it was done after being called out for it online.

Or you could bring it out and we will square the upper up on my lathe.

BTW Fred, I'm with Fitty on lapping the upper receiver and bedding the barrel. I have done that on several rifles. All indications is that it improves accuracy. I just use Blue Loctite for the bedding compound.,

Someone here actually COMPLAINING about a USA made gun. Yep, it's the end of the world. Everything is backwards.

No problem bud...I like sharing knowledge and making videos. I have a 20" fluted Lilja 6.5cm barrel that will be here this Thursday and Im going to build another upper and compare it to the Christensen Arms carbon fiber barrel.

Personally, while I like the looks of the new server version on a computer, I miss Tapatalk. I am sure that the mobile version performs decently well, but in my opinion that overlooks where Tapatalk excels. Tapatalk on my phone manages all of the forums I participate in. It keeps up with all participated threads in all of my forums. It makes private messaging people extremely easy and optimized for a mobile device. Notifications are great and reduce email clutter. The "unread" function of the app makes it very easy to keep up with new threads and replies to all threads, pushing active threads to the top constantly. Now, being an IT person myself, I completely understand technical issues and bugs during upgrading. As such, I completely understand if it is just best that Tapatalk isn't immediately or ever installed again. However, if that is the case I forsee that my usage will drop dramatically. Maybe that is a good thing, it's beautiful weather and maybe less forums altogether would be great. But this is honestly the first time I've "checked in" since whenever Tapatalk stopped working. I guess I already missed the potentially fake "Muslim beats Western girl for wardrobe". Merely mentioning that while the new software may generate a decently useable mobile version, I don't see it as fulfilling everything Tapatalk can be used for. Hopefully at a later date everything can be smoother and work together as it has in the past.

Fitty I just finished watching your Precision Rifle series. Seriously incredible work man. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

This is the playlist for my 6.5 creedmoor AR10 variant I just built.

I'm keeping my eyes peeled for a place that will do embroidery on demand and complete order fulfillment. If you know of one, let me know.

Done....now I just need a cool ball cap.

Guys, I promise I am not casually dismissing your preference for Tapatalk, but I really have no desire or intent to go back to using it on TGO. The software is very problematic from a server-side perspective, and it is very limiting to the user even though you guys may not realize it yet. You only see what Tapatalk wants you to see, and can only experience the features that Tapatalk wants you to experience. The minimalist presentation of TGO on a mobile device is currently bone stock. We haven't even started to explore how it can be customized, improved upon, etc. Remnants of Tapatalk being installed very nearly wrecked the forum database Thursday night during our upgrade. I seriously don't think anyone really believes that the conveniences of Tapatalk are worth obliterating nine years worth of TGO.... do they??? We came really close to that happening.

Okay, I'm still having major TT withdrawal. Unless you guys are using a different mobile version than me, I'm not seeing anyway someone can say it's better than TT. Maybe you were using a very old TT version because the current version gives you a ton of viewing and navigation options that the mobile version doesn't seem to offer.

Whew! I thought I was going to need therapy when I heard TGO would be down for hours... Glad it's back online.

Why would you move out of TN?   Unfortunately, I'm too old for $200 even to be a good deal. Should give a reduced price for those over the hill folkes.    Jim...

Got by to meet Mike357 last weekend. Picked up some nice wines and some Purity vodka to try. Every body should stop by when in Knoxville. Great selection and prices. Plus he's a nice guy.