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It is together and now to the range for testing
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Well after significant delay due to weather, buying a new turret lathe and getting it up and running, and finally another bout with the COVID disease, I managed to shoot my rifle this morning. With 3 goals: 1. Did and does is fire without blowing up smile 2. Does it feed cartridges well (remember it was a 6.5x53 and is now a 7x57) and finally 3. Do the sights both elevation on windage work well. (This includes the Peep and the leaf rear sights.
1. Yes it works and did not blow up. The set triggers are very functional and work good.
2. For the most part this went well also. I did have a few frustrating time for awhile until I discovered the en bloc clip I was using had a bend in it. Changed the clip and things improved.
3. Sights. When I made these sights I did a fair amount of calculations to determine the height of the front sight, express sights (3 different leaf's) and the rear peep sight ( I wanted to have this sight, when in its lowest position and given the front sight height, be on at 100 yards. This I achieved very nicely. However not so much for the leafs. I only tried the first 200yd leaf. I was shooting at the same 100 yd target. It shot very high as in 18" or so. Not what I expected so I determined to stop and go back to the spreadsheet and see where I made an error. I did expect the bullets to print high at 100 yards but not that high. The good news is it did shoot high and there is room the cut the sight notch lower.

Guess I am not quite finished with the project. LOL smile

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I have really enjoyed your reporting on your project

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Nicely done. A very classy & attractive rifle in all respects.

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Is it going to be case hardened and rust blued?

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Originally Posted by mc
Is it going to be case hardened and rust blued?
rust blued

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Originally Posted by LRF
.....and the rear peep sight ( I wanted to have this sight, when in its lowest position and given the front sight height, be on at 100 yards. This I achieved very nicely.....

By way of sure luck I may add!
Let me explain. The overall issue with the sights, root cause (sounds a bit like Kamala LOL) is that the front sight is not as high as I thought I had made it. And also the sight best sight picture for me when I align the leaf and front is some what different then I had first thought way back in the initial design stages.
The reason the peep and the F sight did work at 100 yds is because the peep was also lower an equal amount. That is not a problem as the sight is suppose to have a sight stop which I had not yet installed as I didn't want to make it until I did shoot the rifle. This inherently will hold the peep in a slightly high position when installed. ( If you look at the peep sight, its left side you will see a screw hole and that is where the sight stop gets attached)

So I will make a new front sight and go back to the range for testing.

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I ran across one of these rifles in its military form in one of my searches. It reminded me of this thread. After reading this post again, I’m just as impressed with this project and thankful for LRF for sharing it with us.

Looking forward to another update!

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Have you gotten your front sight built, and back to the range yet Lynn?

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Hi Val,
Sorry no to your questions. Lots of reasons and most probably not that good, however they are what they are.
Winters are long and brutal here so I should get to it soon.
Thanks for asking

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