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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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Your looking at it all wrong Ken, the perfect opportunity for a custom shotgun
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Your looking at it all wrong Ken, the perfect opportunity for a custom shotgun Steve, I won't deny that one. Perhaps not the best choice for your first "custom shotgun" project is my real point. One thing is for certain, whatever you do to it will be an improvement..I'm not saying it's not a candidate for restoration, I would have bought it at the right price, but who knows how long I'd sit on it before doing anything...It would certainly give me a reason to bug the "parts guys" at Gunshows.. Regards Ken
Last edited by Ken61; 05/27/15 10:53 AM.
I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.
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First thing I wonder is how are the barrels? If good wall thickness and no pitting then it is doable. This is a project gun which will require a lot of effort to make it into a basic shooter status. I would wait until I found a working forend. I have seen two AE for ends on eBay in the last six months. Maybe a lucky gunshow find. If you just want to try a project this one is as good as any other. Worse case you give up and part the gun out.
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I have no idea if the rest of it is okay, but there are easy to find pictures of the forend iron. Maybe a way to go would be try to fab up a simple extractor only iron. Could be some basic welding would make the machining a bit simpler. Might be able to package it more compact than original and then try to bed it to your new stock to take up any slop. I dunno, could work.
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if you pull this project off with less than 200 hours sunk in it, it would be a miracle. just something to think about.
and i am assuming you are a very good machinist who cannot only drive everything in the shop, but has it there to work with any time you need a certain machine.
Last edited by Marc Stokeld; 05/27/15 03:15 PM.
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The one thread this board is missing, (I think, because I've never seen one) is a documented process on how to copy or create Forend Iron. I would like to see one, although it would probably serve as much to dissuade as to attempt the project.
Regards Ken
I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.
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It is a big job.....I have some pictures but not a step by step. I would not recommend it unless you have lots of spare time.
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200 hours? That seems on the low side to me. New Iron, New ejector mechanism? fabricated fitted hardened timed and finished, and that's just the for end.
Then again CNC and modern machines can do a weeks work in a day i may eat my words.
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Even if you traced someone else's, There're so many parts, and so much fitting involved, I'd find a used one. Just the ejector springs are hard enough to make.
But I would salute you and sing your praises if you ever put a photo up here with a finished product. Save the tapes of course, as yours isn't the only one extant sans forend.
Out there doing it best I can.
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Yes they ar ordnance steel barrels.
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