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Give me a buzz in the week Mick.

Depends on what you want. The mods I did to my own....you wouldn't want to pay for....they took days. Give me a buzz in the week Del.

Course it is....but that's half the fun Terry...😂 Only tryout its had, was a six inch gong at 200 yards, and anyone who had a go, was clanging it, every shot. It was shooting 3" at 100 yards with Chinese milsurp, I hope it will do an inch with a good handload.

Decided I wasn't having the standard safety on the AK....they rips lumps off you. I set to making an AR style one, which meant I needed to make all the internal mechanism, as well as the paddle itself. It took hours. The guts are made from a large piece of stainless bar, turned and milled down to quite a small part. The paddle, the same, involving the dividing head, and then upended to double as a rotary table. These things look simple, until you realise they are not. I then set a spring and ball bearing in the back, and drilled two detent dimples in the action side. It works perfectly, and is out of the way now. That was the last job before paint. Stripped it all back down and painted it in Armour black, and burnt bronze [my gun, my favourite combo ] Tuned the trigger to give a definite 2 stage release, which is very nice, and rebuilt it all. Very pleased with it. Be nice to shoot it now........

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You let her pick on a saturday ? You're spoiling that woman......

I think all the ASE mods are available in the SGC thread.

Stop it Derek.......🤣

I've built a bolt gun in Valkyrie, and its ongoing load development, and its pretty good. The AR works nicely too. I did a 20" barrel in Nosler, and that was phenomenally accurate, but the velocities were well down on the valkyrie. The nosler needs a 26" barrel to make the silly velocities its meant to achieve, much like a 22-250, but certainly one i'll be revisiting at some stage.

Must stop getting pissed in the Diggle hotel....the other idiots usually come up with a dare... Someone said, "bet you cant make an AK competitive".... Foxy had a very nice Saiga, which belonged to a friend of mine, who passed away recently. A bog std gun with the laminate woodwork, and basically , a stock rifle. I'm gonna hell for this one..... 😄 First thing we did with it, was bolt a Dragunov scope on its side mount to it, and feed it some of the Chinese Norinco corona shite. It really is shite.....when it goes bang. The little six power scope actually zeroed, and the gun was shooting 3" at 100 with the crap. I didn't want the scope, it sat to one side. It proved it worked however, and I thought with handholds, if I could get it to 1", it would be competitive. Load is vhit 120 with a 123 lap spizter [fmj] bullet. Sold my last remaining kidney, and Brownells got a battering. First job was to fit a side charger to it, no problems there. Then the brake was annoying me, so out came mr Blowtorch. That came off, revealing an M24 threaded boss, that was blind pinned onto the barrel. It should have an M14 x 1 l/h thread, but this was made for export, so they fitted that monstrosity, to it. The barrels are pressed in, through 2 points, and i really didn't want to take the barrel out, just to re thread the muzzle. So I made a brake in the fat M24 thread. It looks big, but its actually no bigger than the std one, but this one will actually work. Next job was to bin the plastic club, the russkies believe resembles a stock. Its a folder, and there were no conversion kits available, i could find/get shipped. Took some aluminium, and spent a day on the lathe, and the mill, just for one sodding part. It works, it folds, and it takes an AR15 buffer tube. Then the Brownells box landed, with a very nice Midwest Industries side mount, in Q/D flavour, which actually puts the scope over the bore, and not off to the left. Also one of their very nice fore ends to replace the firewood with. Finished off with a Magpul rubbery MOE grip. I ordered a couple of AK mags, a steel one, and a P-mag, knowing they wouldn't work. The saiga's have their own mags, due to the Yank law, forbidding std mags fitting their guns. Dropped on four saiga mags from the chap at Riflemags, so no bother, but I really wanted to make it work with ALL mags. Again, not available, is a small metal shim, which comes from the states. Its basically a feed ramp to work with std mags, as the saiga mag has the feed ramp built into the mag. Devil of a job, as you can't get into the gun properly, to take measurements. I gave it a go, thinking it would take at least three attempts, but got the sizes correct first time. The sliver, actually slides under the barrel, and is a nice, tap fit. Drilled and tapped the receiver, and bolted it on. The screw is actually countersunk flush, but its irrelevant, as the round goes nowhere near it. With a few file strokes on the mags, it now accepts, and feeds from any mag. Going to shoot it tomorrow, and see how it goes. If all is fine, its coming apart again, for a paint job. Love these guns, there is just so much fun about them.

I'm having some more spacers made this next week. Steve got his from me.

I've had a good look over these actions Edi, and there did appear to be issues with mag heights and feeding, on the ones I bolted up into various stocks..caused by the large diameter bolt. The cocking dog on the underside of the bolt also catches on a lot of chassis stocks. No issues on mcmillans, or yours obviously.

As I understood it, the FCSA were going to honour any memberships paid for, for the remainder of their period of membership ?

Check your "Facts"

Paddy Dane has a number of the VUDU actions and mags in stock. He's also got some of the Bighorns inbound. I'm looking forwards to trying the bighorn myself.

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As I said Matt, its news to me. I dont believe a damn thing on F/B....😂 And will wait until the Police tell me what to do. I suspect RFD's will be a long way down a naughty list, when it is quite obvious that no manufacturer, either here or European is actually complying with this "Law".... I take it the RFD has to strip a gun down , to find all the numbered parts.....and enter them on his register....... Sorry....😂😂

It shouldn't look Stressed Terry. They only look like that, when they have been assembled wrongly.

I've had these British made conversions up and running for almost two years. I won't be bothering with any other model.

Border ballistic technologies. Dr Geoffrey Kolbe. I us nothing but his reamers these days, they are excellent quality. He won't sell to non RFD's though.

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I'm going to ask My licensing Dept, and also the proof house. I've had no correspondence from either on the subject. It is not reasonable to expect RFD's to scrutinise European law to look for stuff like this. Much less to expect laymen to understand it. What is even more unacceptable is to have to have every part engraved [ i would imagine it will be pressure bearing parts ] by either the proof house [ and I would guess they will refuse, as they do not like, or want to have to strip guns down ] or expect gunsmiths to shell out for an engraving machine. If it happens, the proof fees will treble. I would love one, but the costs are horrendous. Tikka's and the like have aways had the last 3 digits of the serial number on bolts. Simply helped keep them together. Given the current state of UK/EU relations, I seriously doubt the UK will enforce it. Negotiations may still be underway, but we are categorically NOT european members anymore.

I find it strange that no RFD I know has ever been made aware of this "Law' Its also a European law. We are not in Europe. Point 5 at the top of the page states that , as I read it. I have not seen any of this "required" info, being stamped on ANY new rifle, from Europe either.

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