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I'm home for a few weeks with Covid 19 so I decided to let my old Ruger Mark 1 from 1953 go into the afterlife instead of me. Not that he's shooting the bucket per se but he's going to get transformed into a Vietnam era tunnel clearer. Ive got a few Ruger pistols but nothing as short as that one.
Went out this morning and cut , knurled and threaded the front cap from 4140 steel. I rebuilt my old southbend 9" and its cutting straight and true.
Threads are cut 15/16-28 UN
Getting a little fevery so I'll head n for a bit. I MIGHT get the nerve up to cut the barrel today. Ive had this gun for around 25 years . Paid $75 for it at a garage sale and it had somebodies SSN engraved in the side with one of those buzzing things. Looked like shit. Anyhoo I surface ground off the side of the lower and send the whole mess into Ruger soon after for a rebuild and reblue. They did a great job even putting new grips on for free. I'm just not a standard model guy.
I'm home for a few weeks with Covid 19 so I decided to let my old Ruger Mark 1 from 1953 go into the afterlife instead of me. Not that he's shooting the bucket per se but he's going to get transformed into a Vietnam era tunnel clearer. Ive got a few Ruger pistols but nothing as short as that one.
Went out this morning and cut , knurled and threaded the front cap from 4140 steel. I rebuilt my old southbend 9" and its cutting straight and true.
Threads are cut 15/16-28 UN
Getting a little fevery so I'll head n for a bit. I MIGHT get the nerve up to cut the barrel today. Ive had this gun for around 25 years . Paid $75 for it at a garage sale and it had somebodies SSN engraved in the side with one of those buzzing things. Looked like shit. Anyhoo I surface ground off the side of the lower and send the whole mess into Ruger soon after for a rebuild and reblue. They did a great job even putting new grips on for free. I'm just not a standard model guy.