recent builds

[d.hauser]

wow, its been along time since i was here...... i had back surgery, then the harddrive took a crap, life was really sucking, i was addicted to fentanyl for a year, it was real tough kicking it. been dealing with depression. but finally am almost out of the hole. i hope! so after not feeling like doing much of anything for a long time other then work, because i`m still in pretty much pain and between the vicodin,ciropractor, and the lexapro i am feeling a bit better. so i got off my ass and made some rifles and thought a would share them with you. thanks ken for the rental of your flat press and all the trouble you take to post your progress on your projects its all been very helpfull.

here they are. the short one isnt complete yet, i need to make a gas piston and pin on the front end and decide if i`ll sbr it or make it a pistol.

i tried to get the pics to post but it says there to big so just follow the links.


http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/dhauser/01210001.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/dhauser/01210003.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/dhauser/01210008.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/dhauser/01210009.jpg

[my-rifle]

wow, its been along time since i was here...... i had back surgery, then the harddrive took a crap, life was really sucking, i was addicted to fentanyl for a year, it was real tough kicking it. been dealing with depression. but finally am almost out of the hole. i hope! so after not feeling like doing much of anything for a long time other then work, because i`m still in pretty much pain and between the vicodin,ciropractor, and the lexapro i am feeling a bit better. so i got off my ass and made some rifles and thought a would share them with you. thanks ken for the rental of your flat press and all the trouble you take to post your progress on your projects its all been very helpfull.

here they are. the short one isnt complete yet, i need to make a gas piston and pin on the front end and decide if i`ll sbr it or make it a pistol.

i tried to get the pics to post but it says there to big so just follow the links.


http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/dhauser/01210001.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/dhauser/01210003.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/dhauser/01210008.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/dhauser/01210009.jpg

I'm damned sorry to hear about your misfortune this year. I know addiction can be a beast to overcome. The worst partf for me was the fact that just when you start feeling cocky about having overcome it, it sneaks in when you aren't looking and exploits your weaknesses. I'm glad to hear that you're doing better, and specially glad to heat that you're building again. I find it therapeutic myself, and do it whenever I have six free hours to spend on it. Right now I'm making a bulged-trunnion receiver, but I haven't decided yet what to do with it. Maybe a yugo underfolder? We'll see.

[my-rifle]

The Yugoslavian AK. I got a little carried away though. Instead of one, I did three. :rolleyes: A couple months back I bought a pile of Yugoslavian underfolder kits - about eight I think - and I built one, but not until I built that first blank into a Yugo fixed-stock kit I had.

http://www2.regmar.com:81/Pics/my-rifle/external%20links/yugoslavian%20M70B1matted%20reduced.jpg

It worked so well I took a spare front end I had from a $50 "missing parts" Romanian G kit I had in a bucket with a bunch of other parts, and built it onto a receiver flat and an underfolder stock from a Hungarian kit. After weeks of testing and fitting, I finally decided it was finished, and last weekend I blued it in my backyard using the ammonium nitrate recipe.

http://www2.regmar.com:81/Pics/my-rifle/AK%20Builds/romanian%20g%20underfolder/receiver%20right%20side%20above%2002%20REDUCED.jpg

Well I was so pleased with those two that I went back to that pile of Yugo underfolder kits, and did one on a Cold Steel Solutions blank. Those make tough builds, since the axis pin holes have to really line up well. It came out OK though, and I guess I'll be bluing it in a couple weeks too.

http://www2.regmar.com:81/Pics/my-rifle/external%20links/Da%20Wabbit%201st%20photo.jpg

Somewhere in there I built up a Bulgarian AK74 kit I had laying on a shelf, but I'm still having fun "testing" it, and I haven't had time to photograph it. The AK74 is an amazing rifle, and it's really accurate. Very little bullet drop. When I get a chance I'll photograph it, and I'll put up the images, but for now I'm having too much fun SHOOTING IT!

So Hauser, how're you holding up these days?

[my-rifle]

I hear crickets.