Mausingfield Actions?

[X Count]

On one of the videos the did a destruction test Bry firing it with a cleaning rod down the barrel. Blew the extractor out but the lugs held in the action. That's pretty impressive so they must be doing something rite with the heat treat!

 

[LVLAaron]

Confirmed - They wont disclose.

 

[xr650rRider]

On one of the videos the did a destruction test Bry firing it with a cleaning rod down the barrel. Blew the extractor out but the lugs held in the action. That's pretty impressive so they must be doing something rite with the heat treat!

Had a buddy that did same thing with a cheap muzzleloader when he first started hunting with one. All he knew was it broke his glasses and kicked like a mule. Took 3 beers to decide if muzzle loader hunting was for him. He got courage up to fire another round and then figured out his ramrod was missing. Never did find that ramrod but he's still shooting same muzzleloader several years later and says it doesn't kick near as bad when you pull the ramrod out of the barrel.

 

[jackieschmidt]

I just emailed them asking to settle a debate. If they share I'll post it up.

Confirmed - They wont disclose.

Really?
I can’t imagine what would be proprietary about it. There is no witchcraft involved in alloy steels or heat treating.

Years ago, I built a cylinder for an N frame Smith & Wesson to make what amounted to a 45 magnum. This was back in the “post Dirty Harry Days”.

I wanted to know what Smith machined their cylinders from, but was told to go take a hike when I inquired to their manufacturing department.

So, I took the Model 29 cylinder that I was going to replace over to Southwest Labs and had a complete chemical and mechanic left properties evaluation performed. Keep in mind, this was considered destructive testing.

it turned out to be within the chemical if 4140 with a RC hardness of 34.

I decided on a piece of premium aircraft quality 4340, normalized, annealed, rough machined, then hardenned and tempered to the same 34 RC.

I did the same thing to a barrel back in 2004. A new barrel maker was touting his “special” stainless. He would not disclose what was so special about it. So I bought one and sent the drop over to the Lab had a complete work up done. It turned out to be the same 416R that everybody else used. In fact, by doing a material trace through one of our suppliers, I even found out where he was getting his bars from.

He wrote me a really nasty letter telling me to cease. I Didn’t.

so when someone tells me something that perhaps makes me raise an eyebrow, I am just crazy enough to say, “Ok, I will find out for myself”.

by the way, here is a picture of my “45 S&W Magnum”

 

[JSH]

Aww now Jackie ya put porn like that up, you should be ashamed, lol.
Probably derail the whole thread ;-). That has cool written all over it.
Details man, details.

 

[SKWERLZ]

Confirmed - They wont disclose.

Not surprised.
Ted is pretty secretive, no pictures in the shop.
Can’t say I fault him.

 

[Hal]

Really?
I can’t imagine what would be proprietary about it. There is no witchcraft involved in alloy steels or heat treating.

Years ago, I built a cylinder for an N frame Smith & Wesson to make what amounted to a 45 magnum. This was back in the “post Dirty Harry Days”.

I wanted to know what Smith machined their cylinders from, but was told to go take a hike when I inquired to their manufacturing department.

So, I took the Model 29 cylinder that I was going to replace over to Southwest Labs and had a complete chemical and mechanic left properties evaluation performed. Keep in mind, this was considered destructive testing.

it turned out to be within the chemical if 4140 with a RC hardness of 34.

I decided on a piece of premium aircraft quality 4340, normalized, annealed, rough machined, then hardenned and tempered to the same 34 RC.

I did the same thing to a barrel back in 2004. A new barrel maker was touting his “special” stainless. He would not disclose what was so special about it. So I bought one and sent the drop over to the Lab had a complete work up done. It turned out to be the same 416R that everybody else used. In fact, by doing a material trace through one of our suppliers, I even found out where he was getting his bars from.

He wrote me a really nasty letter telling me to cease. I Didn’t.

so when someone tells me something that perhaps makes me raise an eyebrow, I am just crazy enough to say, “Ok, I will find out for myself”.

by the way, here is a picture of my “45 S&W Magnum”View attachment 1350540View attachment 1350541View attachment 1350542

 

[Hal]

Jackie, Well how did it shoot?
How Did you locate the chambers in the cylinder.

Hal

 

[jackieschmidt]

Jackie, Well how did it shoot?
How Did you locate the chambers in the cylinder.

Hal

I should not hyJack this discussion. I will say it shoots as good as good as looks.

As for locating the chambers and locking detents is really simple. All you need to know is the center distance of the crane and the barrel. The detents on a Smith are located dead center on the chambers.

The spider is off of the original Model 29 cylinder.

I won’t lie. There is a lot of machinist stuff in a project like this.

 

[DLT]

I think 90% of the ugly is that horrendous bolt knob, which luckily can be replaced with something sane.

Yep it is ugly

 

[LVLAaron]

Yep it is ugly

It's very functional though.

 

[Fuj]

Pricey......