Cutting the dovetail will be nerve racking!Wambli Ska wrote: ↑Wed Dec 17, 2025 4:10 amVERY good direction. The .22 Hornet has never been a long distance affair anyway, basically a short range varmint gun. At 200-300 yards this will be a slam dunk hit producer on steel. Very satisfying...
1885 low wall in 22 K Hornet.
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You have access to a mill?Elk Creek wrote: ↑Wed Dec 17, 2025 4:29 amCutting the dovetail will be nerve racking!Wambli Ska wrote: ↑Wed Dec 17, 2025 4:10 amVERY good direction. The .22 Hornet has never been a long distance affair anyway, basically a short range varmint gun. At 200-300 yards this will be a slam dunk hit producer on steel. Very satisfying...
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The gunsmith at the shop has one, maybe illWambli Ska wrote: ↑Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:09 amYou have access to a mill?Elk Creek wrote: ↑Wed Dec 17, 2025 4:29 amCutting the dovetail will be nerve racking!Wambli Ska wrote: ↑Wed Dec 17, 2025 4:10 am
VERY good direction. The .22 Hornet has never been a long distance affair anyway, basically a short range varmint gun. At 200-300 yards this will be a slam dunk hit producer on steel. Very satisfying...
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Yep, that's the way to go brother... Why take a chance.
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It’s at the shop it will be cut tomorrow…..
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Outstanding!!!
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Oh I had to put the blinders on…..JunkCollector wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 1:25 pmAnd you didn't bring anything else home....good restraint
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If that is the shop you brought me to, a person could easily fill their vehicle with good finds
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It was, and it does. You should have seen Enzo….Diver43 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 7:38 pmIf that is the shop you brought me to, a person could easily fill their vehicle with good findsElk Creek wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 3:37 pmOh I had to put the blinders on…..JunkCollector wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 1:25 pm
And you didn't bring anything else home....good restraint
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That’s a fact, I was there when that happened.Wambli Ska wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 6:41 amHey I bought a set of real ivory grips and Tony threw in a gun!![]()
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So it’s coming together….
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Now THAT is what that gun should look/work like 



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I kinda like that chunky forearm on that.
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Now that looks right!
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Yep. I can see some rancher laying it on a flour sack on the kitchen window sill and rolling a coyote trying to snoop around the chicken coop.
BTW with FMJs it’s a hell of a turkey gun, where allowed.
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If a rancher laid a rifle on a sack of flour and shot out the kitchen window he would have is wife hitting him with a rolling pin for sure! The kitchen is the wife’s domain, and that sack of flour is months worth of biscuits…..Now if he stepped out the door and shot it form the porch? He’s getting a peach pie……Wambli Ska wrote: ↑Sat Dec 20, 2025 4:41 pmYep. I can see some rancher laying it on a flour sack on the kitchen window sill and rolling a coyote trying to snoop around the chicken coop.
BTW with FMJs it’s a hell of a turkey gun, where allowed.
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Or what what dad did. He zipped a coyote from a second story upstairs window, through a screen he was going to replace.Elk Creek wrote: ↑Sun Dec 21, 2025 2:14 amIf a rancher laid a rifle on a sack of flour and shot out the kitchen window he would have is wife hitting him with a rolling pin for sure! The kitchen is the wife’s domain, and that sack of flour is months worth of biscuits…..Now if he stepped out the door and shot it form the porch? He’s getting a peach pie……Wambli Ska wrote: ↑Sat Dec 20, 2025 4:41 pmYep. I can see some rancher laying it on a flour sack on the kitchen window sill and rolling a coyote trying to snoop around the chicken coop.
BTW with FMJs it’s a hell of a turkey gun, where allowed.
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My house, my domain. At some point I shot out of just about every door and window in my ranch. I just have folks notice before the trigger was pressed.Elk Creek wrote: ↑Sun Dec 21, 2025 2:14 amIf a rancher laid a rifle on a sack of flour and shot out the kitchen window he would have is wife hitting him with a rolling pin for sure! The kitchen is the wife’s domain, and that sack of flour is months worth of biscuits…..Now if he stepped out the door and shot it form the porch? He’s getting a peach pie……Wambli Ska wrote: ↑Sat Dec 20, 2025 4:41 pmYep. I can see some rancher laying it on a flour sack on the kitchen window sill and rolling a coyote trying to snoop around the chicken coop.
BTW with FMJs it’s a hell of a turkey gun, where allowed.
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Front sight dovetail cut and Lyman 17a installed. The holes in the top of the barrel plugged. A Lyman no.2 tang sight, that my in-laws sent for Christmas, installed. The factory Lyman screws worked, perfect length and thread pitch. This Friday a proper range report!
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