Here’s a short video of one of the first feed tests of the magazine after I built the custom follower. SUCCESS!!
Cue Rocky theme music…
-~D~-
Here’s a short video of one of the first feed tests of the magazine after I built the custom follower. SUCCESS!!
Cue Rocky theme music…
-~D~-
The other day I decided to attempt to fabricate something that I’ve seen talked about on a ton of gun forums, but that very few people had actually tried to build, a removable, extended magazine for the Mosin-Nagant. I guess, technically it’s not really a “removable magazine” in the common usage of the word because [...]
The Mosin-Nagant M44 is unique among the Mosin variants due to the fact that it has an attached, folding bayonet. It’s a really cool feature and a clever piece of engineering, but it didn’t quite fit the aesthetic of my scout mod.
Now, there are a few quirks with the M44 barrel and drawbacks to [...]
Here’s a pic of the original bolt on my Mosin-Nagant M44.
It’s a stubby little thing, and although it’s fun to slam with an upward strike of your palm after the bolt sticks after 30 rounds or so, I decided to replace it with something that gives me a bit more leverage and fits the [...]
I’ve been looking for a small project lately with which to test my new metal casting tools so I decided to make a sturdier aluminum reproduction of the flimsy, plastic handle endcap on my Mosin-Nagant M44 Scout Project rifle. It came out pretty well for my first attempt, if I do say so myself.
Finished product [...]
Recently I purchased a Mosin-Nagant 91/30 with the intention of “sporterizing” it (modernizing), but when I got it home and looked more closely at the rifle, I realized that it was in way too nice of a condition to modify, so I decided to sport my M44 instead. From a collector standpoint, my 91/30 has [...]
A little while back, I asked my friend, Jacob, if he would make me a crucible and some tongs for my metal casting setup. His Snap-On welder is far superior to my Home Depot Special (which claims that it can weld up to 3/16th” steel, but I think that must be in a perfect laboratory [...]
Here’s some engraving I did recently on the LCD border for The Clacker PC I’m sure any “real” engraver would laugh at this method, but I think it’s a great trick for the hobbyist to add some eye-candy to a piece of polished metal.
(The brass still needs to be repolished in these photos)
All you do [...]
Hey everybody, Last week I had a film crew from Germany’s ZDF/3sat network come to the house to film a segment for Neues, a popular tech show. They wanted a day-in-the-life-of sort of approach so I took them down to my friends’ shop, Advanced Waterjet in Anaheim, to get a part cut, then brought it [...]
Here are some quick snapshots of my new PC, “The Clacker”, named in honor of the “clacker” characters in the Bruce Sterling/William Gibson novel, The Difference Engine. I had hoped to finish this PC in time for the Oxford Steampunk show but I ran into several production delays with outsourced parts, so I sent some [...]