Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933

I HATE those tabs! Real PITA when trying to load an electric primer loader. Want to have real fun "find" a primer with the vacuum after cleaning up a little spilled black powder.

Ought to. Trapdoors and Flintlocks both use V springs.

You need a trapdoor spring compressor. Do an on-line search.

I have not gotten anything from SASS for 25 years. I looked around and look what I found!

Great collection Scout! I am in wind down mode so I threw away most of the name tags last year. The only ones I kept were from Railhead as I thought it was kind of neat that each year was a train car and you could build a train with them. The ones on the bottom were from Railhead when it was at Buckskinner Park. When the City of Williams closed the park to shooting it was a few years before we could restart in a gravel pit a few miles north of Williams, Arizona.

Sue is it to late to book my haircut?

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I started shooting SASS in 95 but did not join until 2000. Look how much SASS grew in the four years from 96 to 2000. #13621 to 32933. I won a free SASS membership at Railhead in 95. Wish I had sent that in. 😃

Here is my latest project. Converting an original Colt Lightning to .32 Mag.

When I wanted to mark BP rounds I just drug a sharpy down the rows of rounds. Simple and free.

The thread is here. There were things I thought could be done easier and better and I had a new carbine on-hand so I decided to convert it. I did not photograph everything but a partial list from memory of what was involved would include: 1. Drill out the barrel and install a .32 barrel liner. I found a company with .32 liners already chambered for .32 Mag so that saved some time. 2. Install a liner in the magazine tube to reduce its diameter and make a new follower. 3. Make an adapter to go from the mag tube into the carrier well. (To reduce diameter to .32 Mag.) 4. Modify a new carrier to accommodate the shorter .32 rounds. 5. Modify the bolt to lower the extractor (and install a coil spring under the extractor tail to push the extractor lower) and make a new higher bottom tab to fit the smaller .32 Mag OD. (The bolt was one that had a replaceable bottom tab.) 6. I did not reduce the bolt head diameter like I did on the first one so I would not have to do so much work adapting the carrier.

Correct. That is why I suggested you try to find a complete splinter fore end. Wood and iron.

The 100 splinter and the 200 beaver tail are entirely different. I thought it would be an east swap but it was quite involved. The beaver tail is considerable larger than the splinter and the iron is completely differnt. Here is a shot of the one I converted. The arrow is pointing to where the beaver rubbed the barrels. As you can see it is quite a bit longer. Here is the 200 beaver tail iron in the splinter forend. It required shortening the plunger tube and plunger. Left arrow. It also required milling off a raised boss on the backside of the iron (not visible) and drilling a second screw hole for attaching the wood. Right arrow. It is far more involved than you would think. If you are going to do the conversion try like hell to get the splinter forend AND the matching iron. The barrel hanger is in the same place so that is not an issue.

Check to make sure you are logged in. If you are not the screen looks different.

Looks the same to me. Check your computer settings.

NO!!!!!!!!

After market.

About three months ago I converted this 16" carbine to .32 H&R Mag. I have shot it in ten matches and it has run flawlessly. I have not cleaned it because I wanted to see how reliable and durable it would be even when shot dirty. It actually has remained surprisingly clean as my load has little if any blowby. At yesterday's match on the first stage it shot eight rounds and then got very ratchtety and one round jacked out and the tenth ultimately fired. Did a quick visual check and everything looked OK. Probably me. On stage two same thing. Eight shots fired jacked one out and after fiddling got off the tenth round. Packed up and headed home to see what the problem was. Completely stripped the gun down, removed the bolt etc. All the modified parts looked fine. Then i pushed the follower in from the inside of the carrier well. It moved in very easy but came back out very SLOWWWLY. Dirt in the mag tube? Pulled the mag end cap and the spring only came out about a 1/2 coil, just enough to be able to pull it out. Dirt? Nope tube liner and follower were clean and the follower slid back and forth in the liner with no problem. Turns out the mag spring had collapsed. Replaced it and it cycled dummies just fine. In over 30 years of messing with toggle links I have never had this happen. Mag tubes need to be cleaned periodically and I will also be checking the spring frequently for the next few matches.

All the prep I need.

After receiving complaints about a PIF (Public Improvement Fund) charge at local stores a Colorado TV station investigated and found this is spreading throughout the state. The libs cannot find enough ways to screw people out of their money.

Some work. Some don't. Some shooters can shoot them. Some shooters cannot.

At the distances they are planning to shoot it does not make much difference. But a 16" circle has less surface area than a 16" square.

Then your issue is not with the chambers. There is something interfering with the casings on their way out of the chambers. They are likely rubbing on the loading gate or the frame cut out. Close clearances and problems ejecting was why Ruger put the little plunger in where the racthet teeth go in the frame. Is the plunger present? Is it working?

Probably about like other Turkish side by sides.