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Firearms => Pre - Flintlock => Topic started by: rifleshooter2 on November 08, 2009, 12:03:02 AM

Title: my latest gonne
Post by: rifleshooter2 on November 08, 2009, 12:03:02 AM
Playing with scrap again. 8 inch chunk of cold rolled steel for a barrel, an old rake handle for a tiller, and a piece of rebar for the trigger.

a few hours of work and a brand new .62 cal hand gonne.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/rifleshooter2/100_2636.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/rifleshooter2/100_2638.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/rifleshooter2/100_2637.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/rifleshooter2/100_2639.jpg)

Andy
www.legionville.com
Title: Re: my latest gonne
Post by: redwoodfox on November 08, 2009, 12:19:26 AM
cool! love the shop too, looks well stocked and used.
Title: Re: my latest gonne
Post by: rifleshooter2 on November 08, 2009, 12:33:26 AM
Thanks I  just retired from the Air Force last week so it will see alot more use I hope.

Andy
www.legionville.com
Title: Re: my latest gonne
Post by: FrankG on November 08, 2009, 02:18:21 AM
Now thats puttin a rake to good use !! thmbsup Its amazin what jumps out from within a scrap pile isnt it ! I love it !  chrrs
Title: Re: my latest gonne
Post by: redwoodfox on November 09, 2009, 01:08:21 AM
Quote from: rifleshooter2 on November 08, 2009, 12:33:26 AM
Thanks I  just retired from the Air Force last week so it will see alot more use I hope.

Andy
www.legionville.com
thank you for your service flwa
Title: Re: my latest gonne
Post by: Bull on December 08, 2009, 03:22:06 AM
Quote from: rifleshooter2 on November 08, 2009, 12:33:26 AM
Thanks I  just retired from the Air Force last week so it will see alot more use I hope.

Andy
www.legionville.com

Air Force!!  COOOOOL!


Didn't retire but served with 'em....mighty nice hand gonne ya made there!
Title: Re: my latest gonne
Post by: Red Badger on December 08, 2009, 03:57:28 AM
Thank you for your service - I did my time with the Air force to  got out in 88 so you were probably just getting ready to go in...
Title: Re: my latest gonne
Post by: rifleshooter2 on December 08, 2009, 02:09:54 PM
Thanks for your service also. We served some of the time together. I started in 1983. Security Police thmbsup

Andy
Title: Re: my latest gonne
Post by: Red Badger on December 08, 2009, 03:44:24 PM
Me too then I went to Disaster Preparedness... Decided I liked teaching better than working missile silo's   bunkr
Title: Re: my latest gonne
Post by: Bull on December 08, 2009, 05:44:04 PM
graduated high school in 1988....

waited until I was a little older and went in 1993...served all 4 years in CE as a plumber at Holloman AFB, NM...