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A little cool this morning. 25 deg and snowing with a light breeze. Rifle is Bula XM21 211 with Saturn/Liberty Heavy Stainless barrel in 1-10. Tweaked the JAE barrel tensioner an additional 1/4 turn and the group improved from a 1" average at 100 yds for 10 rnds to less than a .6 for 10. This is shot from the mag and off a bipod. Ammo is 115 Berger fb over 45 gn of Norma N-201 set off with Tula berdan primers. Whatta Hobby!
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Art you have a lot of great rifles how about some 2 to 3 hundred yard groups ?
kurt
Don't see the necessity Kurt. My range does go out to 300 here, but what would be the purpose. I figure if I need any of my rifles for property protection I would not be using them past 100 for identification anyway.
I do use a 500 - 1200 range for some of my bolt rifles, but that's a whole other lifeform.
Art, did you know a gunsmith named Harry Height in New Preston, he worked on a parker for me early 60's ?
kurt
Art, did you know a gunsmith named Harry Height in New Preston, he worked on a parker for me early 60's ?
kurt
I knew him, Kurt . . . .
He did a few jobs for me and I would go up to visit him at least once a week.
When he decided to close up shop here to move to Ohio to be with his son, I helped him clean up his basement of some of his ?treasures.?
(For instance, there was a carton of new, surplus, .30 cal. Browning machine gun barrels that he would re-work to mount on various bolt action receivers. They went to Ohio with him.)
Believe it or not, I also BURNED some military stocks just outside the doorway to his shop/basement. He was of the era when sporterizing military weapons was in its? hey-day.
Harry had a dog that roamed the shop . . . . .EATING spent primers that were scattered around!
For some unknown reason, he always called me ?George? . . . .while my name is Jim! (never did find out why!)
Did you know he was the brother-in-law of the gun writer (and handloader) Ken Waters?
I may be a little confused, but I thought he was in Woodbury or Kent. Didn't know he had a shop in New Preston.
that was judson darrel.
That was Judson Darrow . . . .not Darrel.
I was not a fan of his, but he knew his stuff!
Didn't Harry Height have his shop on rt 7 in Kent? Seems to me it was in a log cabin type building.
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That's the guy. Only met him once. He bought a pile of Krag and 03 parts that I had acquired and had no use for.
There was the Armory on 301 or 302 little before litchfield , i think that was a log style building, don't know about kent.
Very familiar with the Armoury in Woodville, part of Washington on what used to be 25 and now 202. Been closed quite some time now. Used to shoot with a bunch of the guys that hung out there. Was owned and operated by Bill Ohara a real Colt guy.
Didn't Harry Height have his shop on rt 7 in Kent? Seems to me it was in a log cabin type building.
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That's the guy. Only met him once. He bought a pile of Krag and 03 parts that I had acquired and had no use for.
I believe you are thinking of Bob Harris.
He had a shop on Rt. 7, north of Kent, in a log cabin-styled building with absolutely NO WINDOWS! (He was later murdered!)
That's the guy. As my wife says , memory is such a small thing. Never have been worth a darn with names.
How about Dennis Flayton, Chris Marino and Gary Curtiss? Dennis is gone now but the other two are active in the trade.
Yeah, I knew Dennis and Chris . . . .and maybe Gary . . . .
was Gary one of the partners at the armory after Bill O’Hara?
No, Gary has had his own Class III business in Warren.
You are thinking of Gary Fitch that was partnered up with another guy after Bill sold the place. Didn't last too long.
speaking of stocks, and a bit of a drift,
years ago, when I was a wee lad, (well, not quite a teenager) Dad was in the USAR, and also worked for them as a full time Civilian, doing weapons repair etc,
he also serviced a handful of Military schools and J\ROTC units in high schools, etc
once in a while he would have to replace the stocks on all the Garands and 1903's that the cadets etc managed to break,
so he would toss them in the back of his pickup (he refused to drive a Gov't Vehicle, because the mileage pay was better, and he knew the mechanics that worked on the Gov't vehicles,,)
we (brother and I ) would then help him unload them at home, and finish breaking them up for firewood,
nothing would get a good fire going in the fireplace like an oil soaked piece of walnut, ,,
now, of course, I wish we had a place to store them , even repaired they would be worth a small fortune today
Yep, we all have those woulda , coulda and shoulda moments. I get tired of hearing that hind sight is 20/20 even if it's true.
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