Posted: 11/13/2010 8:17:57 PM EDT
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Finally had some time to work on a frame and slide I've been sitting on for a while. Used a foster over run frame and a no name slide I got from an auction site for a song, also some Sarco parts and an Iver barrel, pretty much a drop in fit- barrel gauge is a handy thing! Just a bit of fitting the slide to frame and minor fitting of the trigger- had an unused grip safety that seems to be a nice fit.
Function tests passed, no hammer follow, good sear to trigger fit, about 5# pull, safeties work. Cycles snap caps from magazine. Threw on some sights I had laying around that fit the sight cuts, lined them up with a laser cartridge. http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv46/djdelas/1113102352a.jpghttp://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv46/djdelas/1113102352.jpghttp://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv46/djdelas/1113102350.jpg Will take for a test fire later this week. |
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Looks good. My eyes must be messing with me, but is that Government size or Commander? For some reason, I can't tell for sure.
It's not mine, but I'm not a fan of Pachmayr grips or that particular trigger but that's just me. But overall the gun looks good. I'm not brave enough to take the plunge into a build of my own yet. Are you going to refinish everything? If so, what are you going to use? What color? |
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I'd like to get it parkerized, trigger isn't my fave either- it fit in the nicest of the ones laying around. Depending on how nice this one ends up, I may use some lasergrips I have for it, the fronstrap is smooth so I am inclined to just use some wraparound grips.
Gonna do a bit more final checking before the test fire- headspace and timing checks. Read up on my KuhnH. books today during some down time, no need to rush something that waited over a year already. Having some issues with the beavertail and the trigger during the reset- the safety stays engaged until the trigger goes all the way forward but the trigger catches! I have a short trigger I'll try in it and I may end up changing out the beavertail. Some of my text was cut out of my original post- I'd guess this build has cost me about $225 in parts- frame slide and barrel and majority of parts- alot of internals were just leftovers from multiple parts kits that didn't make it into the previous 2 builds. Aimforthemedic- I wouldn't want to burden some poor guy with my cheap-o frankengun! ha! |
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So I took it shooting today, put about 100 rounds of magtech 230 gr ball through it. First 2 mags of 2 rounds went well- feeding, extracting and lock on the empty mag. Put the rest through it with only 2 malfunctions, Fail to extract I guess, the next round would chamber but the fired casing would not eject but instead get caught along the ejection port lengthwise thus keeping the slide open. Only 2 rounds, so I'll try to tune the extractor (I guess- suggestions welcomed!) or change it out.
Everything else worked as it should, slide lock after last round, sights were on at 15 yards, very light trigger- less than 5 pounds I'm guessing- will measure when I put in the short trigger. Now I just have to figure out what to do with the shaping I had in mind then the finish, which I am still leaning toward parkerizing- probably will send it out to a place to have that done. |