I've got this old gun More corona boredom

[jonbearman]

Try CCI standard velocity. It has shot well for cheaper ammo. Wait a minute nothing is cheap anymore. The gun looks super now.

 

[300_whisper]

Anymore updates? This was a really cool project thanks for sharing.

 

[scasa]

I'm going to topeka today and will get some different ammo to try and see if i get better results

 

[epc308]

So when the LGS closed up I bought all the old junk guns they had prob close to 30 in all. The last day they were open this norinco JW-15 showed up on the used gun rack for 78.00 .I grabbed it up since I'd been looking for one for quite a while for study purpose. It's nothing special other than the action is like brand new and that's the part I wanted. I thought I'd see if it shot decent and maybe make a beater to haul around in the golf cart . Well it was pretty pitiful, best was an inch at 50 yds. So after looking with the borescope Looks like mud dobbers had a nest in the end of the barrel So I thought I'll just lap it then shorten the barrel to about 20 inches. I cast a lap at the muzzle pushed it about halfway down and it was really loose, the last 4 inches at the breech you couldn't hammer it through. Band saw time, Cut off the old barrel pulled the cross pin and pushed out the old barrel stub. I had a .17 cal blank so were going to have a .17 machII. I decided to thread the receiver for the barrel instead of pinning it , so i turned a mandrel as close a fit as I could to the inside of the receiver, locked it in place with a machine screw and with the help of my threading app figured out the threads and threaded it .788x16 It's not perfect but It's real close.Had to go real slow cause it stuck out so far.
The new barrel will be 18 inches so I cut off 18.5 inches of blank and profiled it .950 at the breech to .850 at the muzzle. I hate profiling barrels seems to take all day. It wasn't as bad as that .223 barrel I took a quarter inch off that one.
Now I'm going to have to figure out something for that ugly stock It looks like it was broke then fixed then varnished with a wall paper brush. View attachment 1178396 View attachment 1178392 View attachment 1178393 View attachment 1178394 View attachment 1178395

Ooooo, look at that cheap gun. I can get it shooting quickly, and for sooo little money. Hahahahahaha.
Dang. I'm so glad I'm not the only person that travels down that rabbit hole.
What a neat project. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Shawnba67]

There is a round called the 17pmc/aguila
it is slightly shorter than 17hm2.But is fine in the mach 2 chamber.
It comes with a open tip bullet just for hunting small game without exploding it. Ive been really threatening to build one, but only 1 source of ammo worries me, with rf notorious pickiness.
You how ever would only be out $5 to try it!
Cool build

 

[scasa]

There is a round called the 17pmc/aguila

I've heard of those but I've never seen them. If I ever see any I'll get some.
My trip to topeka was a bust as far as ammo is concerned the ammo asle at accadamy was bare 6.5 cm 3006 and 12 ga was all that was left so I ordered 3 different kinds online to try. Well see how that goes. I'm kinda bummed out the brick of eley didn't shoot very well. I had high hopes for that.

 

[epc308]

I've heard of those but I've never seen them. If I ever see any I'll get some.
My trip to topeka was a bust as far as ammo is concerned the ammo asle at accadamy was bare 6.5 cm 3006 and 12 ga was all that was left so I ordered 3 different kinds online to try. Well see how that goes. I'm kinda bummed out the brick of eley didn't shoot very well. I had high hopes for that.

Topeka? You’re just a long hour down the road from me.

 

[scasa]

Probably about two hours as I am an hour south of Topeka. (Emporia) and then another 10 miles south I'm just east of the slot where the sun goes down