Your definition of “building” a rifle

[USMCDOC]

 

[Lone Hunter]

I think I'll go out back dig a hole BUILD a Shit House and throw this thread in it.

 

[USMCDOC]

I think I'll go out back dig a hole BUILD a Shit House and throw this thread in it.

Have some humor once in a while..

 

[Lone Hunter]

Have some humor once in a while..

I am...lol

 

[hogpatrol]

How I build a rifle:

1) Ride horseback to Minnesota, dig up rocks and ride back home.
2) Get back on the horse and ride to West Virginia, dig more rocks and again ride back home.
3) Separate iron from the Minnesota rocks.
4) Separate coal from the West Virginia rocks.
5) Using the coal I stoke a fire in my smelter (took a while to build that thing).
6) Smelt the iron and add other minerals to create steel. I won't go into where I get those minerals at this juncture.
7) A few other things happen and Presto! A rifle.

I dunno how the rest of you wimps do it.

** next week: How to build a rifle stock. Stay tuned.

UH OH, Now you need a manufacturer's license.

 

[USMCDOC]

I am...lol

 

[hogpatrol]

I think I'll go out back dig a hole BUILD a Shit House and throw this thread in it.

This is good entertainment for Saturday night. Nothing much on but Perry Como and 50s music, that goofy Svengoolie's movie and women's lacrosse.

 

[Rdlningcltchdmpr]

I don't think us men have changed much since the caveman days, on Friday night's we still go out clubing !

 

[Lone Hunter]

I don't think us men have changed much since the caveman days, on Friday night's we still go out clubing !

Been married 31 years. Don't think my wife would like it too much if I went out clubbing. Did enough of that in my younger days. Besides, tonight is Saturday. LOL..
Now I have to go find something to build or ASSemble. Watching old westerns waiting on college football for now.

 

[fyrewall]

A build for me. - Paying somebody lots of money to produce and install a first rate stainless barrel exactly to my specs, on my rifle action including use of some massive, expensive CNC controlled tools that I have no interest in acquiring, to me this is an skilled industrial process. Then buy a stock produced by a duplicating machine run by more skilled workers. The rest of it involves my simple files, wood rasps, punches, chisels, DeWalt orbital sander, cordless drill, screw drivers, on-line parts access and old inherited vise. I don't do checkering but have started to "stipple" stocks. No drill press - no need to drill & tap yet. Pulling apart semantics doesn't build anything. I built some real nice sheds that 120 VAC would heat and cool perfectly in sub zero or over 100 temps for my cats and to perform messy gun work in. Butches' Bore Shine smells real bad.

 

[Shoebox]

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This may take awhile !
Did you custom build that popcorn machine for this thread

 

[Dave Way]

I'm sure my definition of building a rifle is different than many others. I think about things like pillar bedding and or glue ins, trigger timing, action timing, testing the ignition for maximum energy, machining barrel tenons and chambers so accurately that barrels can be interchanged with no measurable difference in head-space. None of these things are within my ability so I have no problem paying talented professionals to do the job right. What matters to me is that the rifle ends up shooting tiny groups. Even when it does, I'm sure some would still look at my fiberglass stocked bench guns and think that rifle wasn't really "built" because it doesn't have a walnut stock.

With that being said, should someone else consider "building" a rifle assembling AR parts on the kitchen table, I'm fine with that even though I have no interest in doing so. Everyone has different desires as far as functionality, accuracy etc. Just because they may put function and fire power ahead of precision accuracy when they "build" a rifle, is no reason for me or anyone else to question or put them down. It may not be my thing, and sometimes I start to get annoyed when I'm trying to do some precision testing at the range, only to have a guy show up with his AR and start blasting but hey, he is still a shooter...even though his brass kept hitting me in the legs as it ejected. I didn't get mad, instead I helped him adjust his scope so he wouldn't waste ammo needlessly.

Time to quit questioning silly semantics. As shooters, we are all in this together and together is the only way we will continue to be able to do what we love.

Dave.

 

[JFrank]

with all these modular parts systems and garages fully equipped with vices and big hand tool assortments, we may need to revisit what actually building a rifle is. Assembling an AR from a parts kit is not building it- not even if you have to dremel a part to fit. Neither is putting a pre-fit barrel on an action and slapping it into a stock straight from amazon. Just sayin.

Personally
I forge my Barrels over an open fire and carve my stock from old tree out back

 

[Evan]

My first thought reading this was all the clowns running around saying their engine (and action) is blueprinted. Ask them for the sheet and they have no clue. What they mean to say is assembled. Their engine was carefully assembled, and their action was trued. no dimensions were put to paper for future use.

 

[TAJ45]

On a much different note:
Gunshop owner near a SC boarder where I shot weekly. Of the stripe = ain't much else to learn cause I knows most everything, being owner and all...
Well one late afternoon a group of young 20s from nearby college were in. Gals and guys and of course a smidge of testosterone....oozing from 50 something (at least) shop owner. He was showing them a rifle, saying "I built it." After the group had shot and left, I inquired what all he had done to it.
After screwing on the bases, mounted the scope and sighted it in at his indoor range was his answer. Had a real tight 25 yd group too.

I didnt know I had "built" so many guns over the years.

 

[Just Say Moe]

When I told a guy at work I "built" my AR from a parts kit, he seemed impressed, but I cut him off and told him if you can build one of these....

.... you can "build" and AR.

 

[USMCDOC]

Been married 31 years. Don't think my wife would like it too much if I went out clubbing. Did enough of that in my younger days. Besides, tonight is Saturday. LOL..
Now I have to go find something to build or ASSemble. Watching old westerns waiting on college football for now.

 

[MClark]

I have a friend who is a black powder muzzle loader Hunter, the kind who wears buckskins when he hunts. Real world he is an accountant. I went with him to carry heavy stuff when he dug galena (lead sulfide ore) to make round balls. Refining process was fairly simple just don't stand downwind. Since I helped I got to shoot one. Actually pretty cool.

I work for a gunsmith and have rifles I have drilled and rifled (and all the other steps) the barrel, one I designed the cartridge and stock, a straight grip Remington 700!

M

 

[USMCDOC]

This may take awhile !
Did you custom build that popcorn machine for this thread

i had a lil help..

 

[fyrewall]

I did not imply my cat family was present while I did messy gun work like fitting recoil pads, sanding stocks, using bore cleaning chemicals, and stripping off old stock finishes with toxic chemicals - the cats were transported to the big house where Grandma fussed over them and fed them treats. The 200 ft**2 was easily aired out and heated or cooled again.

A real gun builder guy, as mentioned would smelt his lead from galena, and use bog iron (colonial Saugus iron works) to make those elegant steel parts like barrels, hammers, and locks. Permissible exceptions would be use of out source spring steel.