24/47 project
MY 24/47 has been disassembled and in the original box for about five years.I got it from classic back when very good graded examples were $139.Today I'm starting on a pure tong oil finish with the...
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What kind of Tung Oil Finish do you plan to use? If Formbys, please reconsider, since it is a furniture grade material intended to produce a surface varnish finish & is not well suited for milsurp...
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Re: 24/47 project
Howdy Rob. Welcome to Parallax Bill's Yugoslav Mauser forum!First question; Have you thoroughly cleaned and degreased it? These rifles were usually slathered in cosmolene and had about 60 years of...
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Re: 24/47 project
I'm using 100% tung oil.I did the cat litter/black bag treatment three years ago(thanks to you guys).My gun has a new barrel and all new bluing, but I do have an Elm hand guard to deal with.I'm...
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What else you got hiding in that closet, Rob? After pulling out a 1909 Argentine I'm kind of wondering
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I decided to be a little more aggresive smoothing out the elm hadguard since not original.I'm going to reassemble and then do the final coat of tong oil.What ammo would you guys buy today to...
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Hi Rob.... Ammo.... I feed mine the old 190 grain milsurp stuff unless I am hunting,,,them my reloads religislouy. Any milsurp will work,,,I mean go BANG, but some it better than others. SAMCO has...
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I've been using PRVi Partizan from Serbia for my mausers. FMJ is good , planning to try the soft point next spring to check if a difference in accuracy. You can get this for about $15/20 rnd box,...
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Right now any surplus is going to be near impossible to find for something less than a chunk at least of a fortune.
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