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Post by Horsie on Jun 9, 2016 7:58:50 GMT
It looks like the brake on an M48 Patton; He's taken a pipe and slotted it out like the bayonet so it slides on an twists around the front sight, that pipe is threaded into a T joint with a rough hole drilled in it opposite the muzzle. What style of brake are you looking at making? Just something simple with a bunch of ports to reduce recoil?
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 9, 2016 10:27:52 GMT
Yeah, I was just thinking of something simple. Something that slips over the end and has holes in the sides.
I do have a cheap brake coming in the mail, but it's a clamp on style that locks onto the sight. I'm going to be cutting the sight off so I don't know if it will work. I'm not cutting the barrel down to 16 inches anymore though. Once I cut the stock down and put the barrel on for fitting I kinda liked how it looked with the long barrel. So I'm probably only cutting enough to get back to the rifling. Around 4 or 5 inches at the most. The cheap brake might still work if I weld it on and providing the bore is centered in the barrel (with a Mosin, probably not).
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Post by Horsie on Jun 9, 2016 15:13:28 GMT
Is that really a problem with them? Christ.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 10, 2016 9:59:46 GMT
I think that's pretty much the norm with a lot of Russian rifles. It's just less pronounced with shorter barreled rifles. Not to mention people rarely cut down SKSs, AKs, and SVT-40s to notice.
A little research found that in order for a brake to work properly the bullet needs to act as a valve as it exits the brake. So the hole needs to be approximately the same size as the muzzle. A muzzle brake is not something easily made without a lathe.
What I could make fairly easily is a muzzle shroud, which doesn't reduce recoil but does force the energy of the muzzle blast away from the shooter to reduce noise and felt concussive energy.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 10, 2016 15:34:37 GMT
Got the Bersa grips. There's a scratch on the top of the right side, but otherwise they're good. I could probably polish that scratch out but the gun isn't in perfect shape so it's okay if the grip has some mar on it. At first I thought maybe I had been duped and was sold poly grips because there is no visible grain, but it's obviously horn when you see the unpolished inside of them. They might be a little too shiny for the gun, but I could always knock down the shine with some emery cloth.
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Post by Horsie on Jun 10, 2016 16:31:24 GMT
That would probably be a good idea, I'd like to get my friend a shroud that fits over the comp on his AR15, it's impossible to shoot next to him when he's using that rifle.
The grips look nice, I always prefer horn and wood to synthetic.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 10, 2016 17:28:14 GMT
I've shot next to guys with a brakes on ARs at indoor ranges before. It's incredibly uncomfortable. Even with earplugs and muffs the pressure just shoots through your head. It's worse if you're on the side of a shooter than if you're the shooter.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 10, 2016 18:37:23 GMT
To further risk everyone getting sick of me talking about the Mosin build...
Got the firing pin spring and the trigger spring kit in the mail. The "improved high load" spring greatly improved the cycling, eliminating the need to slap it occasionally. Also made it easier to engage the safety. The trigger kit didn't really lighten the pull (didn't expect it to) but it did take all the slop out of the trigger. For less than 4 bucks that was money well spent.
Broke off one of the ring retainers on the stock. Instead of fixing it I just broke the other one off and filled the slots. The rings will just have to stay on by themselves. They're tight enough so it shouldn't be an issue.
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Post by Horsie on Jun 10, 2016 18:47:18 GMT
It's bad enough that I sometimes stand behind him (not that it helps much) or step outside.
I might have to look up getting one of those springs for the firing pin on my Mosin, if it makes it easier to cycle.
Doing a trigger job on a Mosin is really easy, I went a little overboard with mine and gave it a hair trigger (although the sear engagement is still good, I can thump the stock on the ground and it won't fire).
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 10, 2016 19:38:57 GMT
Yeah, the Mosin trigger group is super simple. I might do a little more work on it, but like I said, I'm okay with the trigger pull as is.
The firing pin spring I got is a little longer than the original spring, but not as stout, so you don't have to fight it to cycle the action. There's a possibility that it might have trouble with hard primers on super cheap ammunition, but I could always extend the firing pin to overcome that.
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Post by Horsie on Jun 10, 2016 20:24:10 GMT
That's one nice thing about the Mosin, you can easily adjust the firing pin.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 11, 2016 6:50:33 GMT
It's often hard to come up with something nice to say about the Mosin, but that's one of em. Something neat I came across at the gun store today. A Ruger Mark I. They had a Mark II and a Mark III Lite right next to it so it was three generations on the same shelf. The Mark I was $199. I was very interested but I'm trying to avoid buying everything I want.
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Post by Horsie on Jun 11, 2016 12:49:26 GMT
I know the feeling, I'd put myself in the poorhouse otherwise.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 11, 2016 13:31:03 GMT
It also doesn't help that the guys at the gun stores are starting to figure out what I'm likely to be interested in. I go into the store and he doesn't even wait for me to ask to see it he just pulls it out of the case and hands it to me to check out. Pretty soon they'll be calling me every time they get something in that they know I'll like.
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Post by Horsie on Jun 11, 2016 22:34:20 GMT
It hasn't gotten to that point with me yet, thankfully.
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