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Mike Hunter

Maybe I’m missing something here, but you want to go from 4o cal to 50 cal correct? Why even mess around with a liner, just have the barrel rebored & rerifled.

No messing with liners, epoxies, seams…simple & easy.
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Mike

Mike Hunter
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Mike Hunter

If I were you, I would have someone who is experienced in drilling scope mounting holes. Lots of things to consider : How do you plan on centering the holes on top of the barrel? Normally this done in a mill, using a .0005 (that’s half a thousands) Dial Test Indicator (DTI) , picking up each edge of...

Mike Hunter

My concern with doing it freehand would be can you get the muzzle square and the front sight DT straight and level. Generally when recrowning the muzzle, the barrel is put in a lathe, the bore is dialed in and the muzzle is recrowned, concentric with the bore When doing dovetails in round barrels I ...

Mike Hunter

Taking notes for my Web Mistress. Issue with pics is that they were taken off the old site, they are a fixed size, and I've been told that they will become "pixilated" if blown up.... She has told me "pixilated" is a baaaad thing. So as more work goes out... more new pics will be...

Mike Hunter

Bruce, For complete restorations...I'm pretty much sticking to Winchesters, mostly because of the parts situation. If I've got to spend a day or two hunting down parts or making new parts it becomes cost prohibitive. Winchester parts are still available from folks like Bob Knapp, the barrels & m...

Mike Hunter

Joe

Thanks, Good feedback

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Mike

Mike Hunter

Just finished having the website redesigned, would like to get some feedback from the fine folks here.
http://www.hunterrestorations.com/

Thanks

Mike

Mike Hunter

Politician Poly Meaning many, tician derived from the French word tete meaning Head or Faces

Politician = Two Faced Person...I kid you not

Mike Hunter

Are you sure it's 45-82 and not 40-82, dont knwo of the 86 being chambered in 45-82

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mike

Mike Hunter

I find it hard to believe that Turnbull is actually manufacturing (ie.. machining from flat stock) those rifles in house. I would take a lot of machining assets. More than likely he is buying the parts from a manufacturing source... import or othewise, and doing the final fitting & finishing in ...

Mike Hunter

Joe Trying to get a handle on your problem. Is the cylinder wobbling on the bushing, is the bushing wobbling on the cylinder pin or is the cylinder wobbling while in the frame? You can tighten the cylinder bushing to the pin by tapping/peening the outside of the bushing and rotating the bushing…make...

Mike Hunter

I don’t think the French or anybody is still using the MAS 49 and 49/56, or the Ljungmann AG42, think that design was pretty much obsolete by the time the M16 was being developed. I think John Garand’s basic design has probably been serving longer than any other battle rifle. Adopted in what? 1936, ...

Mike Hunter

Military doctrine is to "wound" not kill” Where the heck do you guys come up with that??? Show me the doctrinal manual that came out of. Military doctrine & training is designed to defeat the enemy…not to just make him hurt. That’s why all military marksmanship training teaches aim for...

Mike Hunter

Stefan

John's a very good friend of mine.... but he's not a big computer guy, he's more of an analog guy living in a digital world. Its best to call, but I see youre in Sweden...so might be pricey.

Drop me an E-mail at MDHunter@centurytel.net lets see if I can get you two linked up.

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Mike

Mike Hunter

Simply put, carding is the brushing or scratching off the rust between coats in the rust bluing process. I use the very fine wire brushes that Brownells sells and/or 0000 steel wool. Key to carding is to remove the soft surface rust without burning thu to bare metal. I've found that boiling greatly ...

Mike Hunter

Wayne Not sure why you would use Uberti parts, it would seem that they would be the same price or more than decent repoductions. Both Bob Knapp and I make the magazine tubes... think I charge $30 for a standard one... Bob Sells his Mag tube ring & plug $18 ea. Pretty cheap for parts made to Winc...

Mike Hunter

Wayne On the bright side, all the parts that you need are easily found, give Bob Knapp a call (aka Winchest Bob), he makes all those parts...bet repo's around. I would have the barrel made & fitted before fitting the wood, that way you are fitting the wood to the barrel that will be on the gun. ...

Mike Hunter

Wayne

Full service restoration shop, so Yes.

Drop me an e-mail or PM and we can discuss off-line

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Mike

Mike Hunter

If the rifle is legit, the price is possibly worth it. The condition of the gun and it's configuration is quite desirable, DLX, PG, TD. The gun did not leave the factroy as a 2 barrel set (won't letter as 2 BBl set), the seller dosen't state if the R&R is for the 2nd barrel (he seems to want you...

Mike Hunter

Don't know what Dale Woody charges these days (havn't used him in years), but I might be able to save you a few dollars on the markings; roll marking them instead of engraving.

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Mike

Mike Hunter

Afternoon all, sorry it’s taken me so long to get back…. Had some minor leg surgery…then once I was back up…had to get a few guns knocked out for the Tulsa show. Short answer on the Browning 86s is that I will no longer weld up the tang safeties …too much liability in my mind. But I can still roll m...

Mike Hunter

Malamute

Not clear on what you want to do...send me a PM

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Mike

Mike Hunter

My 2cents Mag tube, follower spring...all easy, lots of repo parts, I've even been known to make them here in the shop. I'm against relining, first, you dont even know how the rifle shoots, minor pitting in the bore may not affect the accuracy of the 73. Second; once you reline...you can never go ba...

Mike Hunter

I’ve seen fewer ½ round 92s than any other model. Ok Transition point is 11-11 1/8 , Size of barrel at transition : Octagon - .761, Round - .730. Barrel length is up to you, Winchester’s standard barrel taper was .006 per inch. With that you can determine the barrel dia at 20, 24 etc, dia muzzle. V/...

Mike Hunter

What 1892 barrel dimensions are you looking for ?

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Mike Hunter

Mike Hunter

Case hardening using Sodium cyanide has been around a long time. It is a true case hardening and actually produces a harder finish that pack hardening. The biggest benifit to cyanide hardening is that it's quicker than pack hardening (Carburizing), parts are generally heated then swabbed with or dip...

Mike Hunter

In true Case hardening, the part should be hard, in most cases File hard; where a file will not cut the surface. Use a small file in a hidden area. I do this quite often when trying to determine hardened parts. A lot of companies are using cyanide to give the parts that CCH look, and cyanide will pr...

Mike Hunter

Lots of myths/inaccuracies surrounding true Case hardening and Color Case Hardening, hopefully I can dispel some of them. Case Hardening has been around for a long time; several hundred years. It’s a way to make soft, low carbon Iron and steel a little more durable by adding carbon to the outer laye...

Mike Hunter

I'm going to agree with the OP, Primo beer in Hawaii... pretty bad. Also one I remember from my youth... Olympia Gold (Light). Tastes like water that was sitting in a can too long.

Mike Hunter

Michael is doing some serious study on the 1892s, which in my opinion is severely lacking. I have talked with him, and provided data on 92s that I have/know about. I like his approach, and think once he publishes it will be very informative. Highly recommend if you have a Winchester 1892, you might ...

Mike Hunter

Good information; The data for the first 353,999 is really not all that new, it’s a copy and paste from the Armax: Journal of the Cody Firearms Museum, which came out in the mid 90s (10-15 years ago). The polishing room records, are somewhat interesting, but they only date when the gun was in the th...

Mike Hunter

Dennis

Looks like you're in the "Know". So where is Colt's MFG Plant/Assembly line located?

Thanks

Mike

Mike Hunter

If it’s a Non factory pattern, the one piece of guidance I generally provide my customers is: “engraving is like art, buy what you like”. No matter how much someone else likes the engraving, if you don’t like it you won’t be happy. And like art, everyone has different tastes, some folks are very hap...

Mike Hunter

Shooter Decent engraving is going to cost decent money. Now you can have engraving done cheaply… but it will be cheap engraving, something you may or may not be proud of. I’m assuming that since you want something engraved, you want to be proud of the final outcome… something you would want to show ...

Mike Hunter

I heard a rumor from a former Colt employee that Colt no longer manufactures firearms. The job all the production out, and basically only have a HQ & marketing staff.
Does anyone here know more? And if they are manufacturing firearms, where is the manufacturing facility?

Mike

Mike Hunter

I’m sure she can engrave a 95 Winchester. Since Pauline was a Winchester “in house” Custom Shop engraver, not only does she have most if not all the original Winchester patterns, she is also the last Winchester engraver still engraving. She was there the day Winchester closed down the Custom Shop…

Mike Hunter

Friend of mine just decided to join the 21century and got her web site up and running: www.paulinemuerrle.com

Pauline was the last “in house “ factory engraver employed by Winchester, take a look, and if you don’t have a copy of her book, it’s a neat read.

Mike

Mike Hunter

The rifle won’t letter, outside the Cody letterable range. My guess is that’s what the seller is counting on…cannot be proven to be fake. The “A” suffix denotes a factory change to the series. In this case the “A” stands for the screw in magazine tube; earlier 1886s (pre 1903) magazine tubes did not...

Mike Hunter

I knew Robert Howard, he was one of my instructors when I went thru Special Forces training back in 81. The man taught me lessons that I used throughout my 22 year military military career. He was a legend to us SF types.

COL (R) Robert Howard...Godspeed Sir.....

Mike Hunter

Couple of engravers I use/recommend
For Colts: Ken Hurst (Former Master Engraver Colt Custom Shop)
For Winchesters: Pauline Murelle (Former Winchester Custom Shop Engraver)

If you want/need contact info let me know

Mike

Mike Hunter

I have the first one, hopefully he does a better job on his second. I has serious issues with some of the guns in his first.

Mike

Mike Hunter

The magazine hanger (ring) fits into a rotary dovetail cut in the barrel. It’s a true circle cut with a 60 deg dovetail cutter. Only three ways that I know of to properly cut the dovetail, a mill with a rotary table, a CNC Mill, or a Volostro Rotary Milling Head. I use a Volostro Rotary Milling head...

Mike Hunter

The only benefits to using straight BLO is that its cheap, easy to apply and almost impossible to screw up, besides that it has a lot of drawbacks for stock use: Never really dries, the finish is not very hard, keeps darkening with age, slow to fill pores and provides very little moisture protection...

Mike Hunter

Shawn

Yes unfortunately I don't do 1895s, biggest reason is that I don't have any parts for them screws etc, nor any of the roll markings.
Now if it was a 66,73,76,85, 86, 92 or 1894 or Colt SAA I could help you out

Mike

Mike Hunter

Hey now don’t get me wrong I think it’s a good thing that you want to do your own stock. I’ve fitted a bunch of stocks, and exactly one L C Smith. … on a scale of inletting difficulty an Elsie is right up around 8 or 9. Having dug into a few L C Smiths I’ve come to the conclusion that all the parts ...

Mike Hunter

As stated many times before, go with the Brownells set. And they do stand behind their product.

Inletting a stock for a Elsie, pretty difficult project, have fun.

Mike

Mike Hunter

FYI

I'me made a couple of 86 barrels for the 40-70 WCF

Mike

Mike Hunter

Send me an e-mail or give me a call

Mike

Mike Hunter

Kirk
May want to post your question over on the DoubleGun Forum, lots of good folks there that know and shoot fine old doubles, to include Damascus.

Mike

Mike Hunter

Keep in mind that the “Flaming Bomb” was not just used on guns; it was stamped on a lot of items put into service by the Ordinance Department. I’ve got an Old Sheldon lathe with a flaming bomb stamped on its bed. As to real stamps vs. fakes, lots of luck, if the “fake” stamp is made correctly you wo...

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