199,
No problem on duplicating the comments, happens to the best of us.
Just so you know, I reside in Northern Virginia so I don't get down to Richmond very often. I have heard that Iron Brigade armory sets up there. I had no idea Carlos Hathcock used to be there with a donation box in front of him. What a terrible thing for a man who was the
greatest Marine Corps Sniper ever.
The Blackwater course sounds great. I'm considering a similar course at Storm Mountain Training Center. No time soon, but one day.
FNC80,
Nice Rifle. Looks extremely well built and from what you say, looks like it held up through a very tough school. I applaud you on your parts selection. Well done.
The reason I mentioned Chandler as well as Texas Brigade Armory is that in JarHead94's original post it sounded to me like he wanted to know who he could send his PSS to to make it into an M40 replica. Well, customer service issues aside, Mike Lau specializes in building just that, a USMC M40A1 replica. While I have heard of Gardner and I know that he is good, I don't think he's known for his M40A1 replicas. If the post said "who can build me my dream tactical rifle?", alot more names would have been thrown into the fold. Gardners included.
Can anyone tell me how to post a pic of my rifle?
Acheron,
"The M40A1 have been built using McMillan, H&S, Hart and Schneider barrels (In that order, I think), depending on the vintage of the rifle."
So you're saying that McMillan supplied the very first rifle barrels for the United States Marine Corps M40 rifles?? Is this accurate?
"The Action has a small modification done ahead of the rear bridge of the action to allow chargers to be used. (This can be done with a 3/4" endmill...)"
It's called a clip slot. You fail to mention however that not only is the rear bridge of the receiver modified but there is also a half moon cut milled into the front bridge of the receiver. Without that important cut, I don't belive the cartridges would top load into the receiver. The Unertl scope mount drops into those two cuts.
BTW, if you can really do these cuts nicely, you could probably sell your services for quite a bit of money. Dan Ross charged me $250.00 for those 2 cuts in my ADL receiver.
"Firing the .300 Win Mag out of a 13lb. rifle is not that big of a deal, a muzzlebrake is a definite asset, but by no means a must have."
Are you a particularly large fellow?
All,
Can someone tell me how to post a JPEG of a rifle?