mike todd

If he has the shop time available I would suggest "bubba" BOB Naes at black river militaria. I ALWAYS GO TO HIM FIRST

yep rectangular hole at top/ right is a common denominator mike

should be GREAT I have fired quite a bit of the ball in .556. clean and just like lake city as far as smoke etc. never had an issue with ANY CALIBER FROM THEM. fired a TON of .308 and 45acp no worries mike todd

I will go through all my brls . should have most cals in various cond. a good friend in PHX just passed and his vault was attacked by treas and the locals and I will be tied up a couple weeks with that , so be patient just a note my gun runs all cal except .308 and 7x57 using what I believe to be 30/06 mags. not marked and that's what they were sold to me as. I have never paid much attention but my gun came setup for fal mags. it has a factory high tech finish much like Teflon? I change the trigger group/ mag housing and use what was represented as 30/06 mags for EVERTHING ELSE IE: 8x57, 7x57, 7.65x53, and 06 . it has never skipped a beat. I have several thousand lbs fnd parts if you need. good luck! mike todd

just a heads up I believe sargesmilitarysurplus.com has a demilled kit avail with a good brl? jn Nevada cheers mike todd

with my original post, I left out an important part. IN ARIZONA, to use state trust land, it is not legal to just go "plinking". you must have a current AZ hunting license and be engaged in "hunting activity" with law full weapons or you can be cited.

DITTO "HOWA", DITTO "COSTA MESA " DITTO "STERLING" "NOT SURE" what the "NEW MAGS" are marked. AR_10er what do you know about the 30 round mags? I have a case I bought at great western in Pomona more than 30 yrs ago. been so long cant remember the logo but they are parked and marked ARMALITE. I always assumed they were sterling???

THIS IS A TOUGH ONE! while unloading at SAR west in 2004 on wed I watched one sell out of a suburban for $10900. b-4 it got out of the truck. I never had much , but a departed friend was a fanatic FURR guy and had a few models. he was heart broken when I told him on Friday. this is only the second I have seen of this model. and I thought they only sold the plans for this one? so it could be "shop built" the "camel gun" is most common and they seem to be $10k or so. mike

WOW, thanx for the great pics! been a long time but it brought back all the joy I had when ANYBODY COULD OWN ONE OF THESE! I cant remember how many 601's I bought but it was more than 12 and I never paid more than $350. I always wanted some of the optics , but could not justify the cost and they were hard to get at the time anyway. one of the first things I did post nov17 was send a not asking our new Pressident to kill the Hughes amendment by exec. order there are many courses to get that done , but all take more time than he has. maybe a few others could do that request? sorry to get off subject , but how great it would be to by a M16 with you tax refund? cheers mike

one used to show up at the marana shoots time to time. it always had a bunch standing around with hammers at the ready like electricians at a downed telephone pole I believe it was ralph wongs? so could have been anything

every USPS office I ever tried ( AZ ) required a current ffl on file and a picture ID for any follow ups? just before I moved to texas ALL the UPS stores I tried in GILBERT,AZ refused all ammo and firearms claiming ONLY the distribution center was approved. things went ok there as long as the resident DYKE was out to lunch or otherwise occupied. ANOTHER GOOD REASON TO FLEE HOME TO TEXAS

We would like to do a run of the barrel wrench for the Portive and Hotchkiss guns, but need an example or drawings and a pic to proceed. I would gladly pay for the time to do pics etc. we have made others for different weapons and they were very well accepted. we strive for accurate, quality results and enjoy the work. there are a lot of weapons out there and to date, I have only found one example that was in an estate controlled by folks with NO interest in guns or collectors . cheers mike

gun drill equip is second to none in the nation!! can drill a .020 hole at 12ft+ !! those machines are NEVER idle! all most all the major manf. and aerospace folks sub contract work at the shop. including NASA. the barrel machines came out of the springfield armory and are pic'd with JOHN GARAND in many publications. they sat for years and we finally managed to do an addition for them, and get them running. the original plan was for me to run that part of the shop when my illness struck. since then only toy projects were done until recently. they are now taking orders and processing a few. the guys are VERY FLEXABLE and customer friendly. they also have created quite a few unique high performance cyl heads and manifolds for the racing industry.

for years we shot at the same location in AZ (blm land) with no problems. ALLWAYS cleaned up all our refuse and brass, even policed the dirt disturbance at times. finally approached while shooting by an official that stated we could be cited and responsible for damage to rocks in the cliff face? we did a lot of .50cal. he took pics and our info concerning a truck sized boulder we had pecked at for years with a lot of resulting rubble, stated we would be contacted, but nothing ever came of it. we went back several times and nothing had changed so I assume all was ok. we do the cannons ONLY on our own ranch for obvious reasons.

PUNISHER, yep I experienced the same thing on my last visit to Portland. not sure the name of the place but it was at a very upscale building downtown with a fine sculptured lawn and the main display was a gentleman clad only in shorts down to his knees and he was smeared with feces almost everywhere below the waist.had a needle still in is arm and was mumbling obscene phrases to passerby. we made the mistake of buying a "day transit pass" and most buses in the rear looked worse than a porta potti after a rock concert except there was no indication of any paper in the waste. our visit to Victoria island had the same high light. I don't get to many "inner cities" or back east much thank god , but I hear tales of the same side effect from all the social support venues. its a fact the only people the laws adversely effect are the ones that have something to loose and can pay why should they waste the time?

"not a shotgun"? I thought the gca 68 defined anything with a smooth bore a shotgun? in the early eighties I was ordered to destroy a mint new service colt .44 cal smooth bore because it was not registered when I got it. not even the option of removing the barrel . there are several examples out there reg. as AOW. why are all the marbles and H+R shotgun pistols in the registry? yep I read the letter and it state's "not a shotgun" but somehow the term smoothbore is NOT in the letter? SCAREY! not on my wall with out an exemption statement describing ALL elements of the piece concerned. PLEASE BE CAREFULL when attempting to apply the law.

I would like to see a couple of the pics showing the feed mech and the breech end of the jacket if possible. there are some parts available and would like to clarify a couple issues. if you could please send them direct to my email . promise not to get in your deal I'm trying to help someone not make a mistake. myoldiron@outlook.com cheers mike todd

DONT! they start to open as soon as they clear the bore restriction. there used to be a couple posts of destroyed brakes on the net.

Glen / HARRY, man you said it the cost would be a killer. I don't recall the exact profile of a brl , we don't have a gun in the collection. the best solution would be to gundrill an old barrel and press in a new core. we did several 308 bren brls with 60 stellite cores in the 70's and they are still going. the only other option would be to remove sections from a damaged worn brl and press them on a new blank. to my knowledge no one makes a blank that fat but we could if need be. L have contacted the shop, and there is machine time available on the drill and rifling equipment, but its limited. available calibers are varied. they are running 6mm and 6.5 mmm at this time. about the wrench's /tools I contacted JOHN KEENE in MAINE and he stated he has an original for sale and another gent has some replica's available . because all ours sold so fast I'm thinking they may not be true to spec but you can check.

whoa there!! 16"barrel shotgun? non nfa? NO WAY! no matter how it came! if it was a "LEGAL SHOT PISTOL" it would be "any other weapon" at least and still require a $5.00 transfer. look guy's its pretty easy THERE IS NO WAY TO GET AROUND THE LAW ! in 1995 I ordered a SAR 48 FAL from J+G sales in Prescott,az. filled out my 4473 and when I got it home , found it was a select fire weapon and ready to go FULL AUTO. someone had made a mistake logging it into inventory and it was sold to me retail. they were due for a major problem down the road when it came up. I was still in violation for possessing an unregistered MACHINEGUN! the shop was more than 100 miles away and I sweated every mile getting it back.

HARRY, we made those at a shop located in phoenix that I haunted more than 40 yrs with hotrod and gun projects. it was always busy but new things were exiting and a challenge. my health forced me to move to texas, but I'm still in contact with them often. we bought a bunch of the barrel machinery out of springfield armory years ago and the focus lately has been getting that running for custom barrels. I will see if any of the old drawings can still be programed in for a run. several have asked and I dropped the ball. stay in touch! cheers mike JOHN KEENE has also asked for more so I guess its time

an original m37 was on this site offered under 15k for more than a year. ended up doing time on gunbroker and never sold there either. gun was legit and a legit estate item along with WWII a4 and a buffalo anm2. presentation is a big factor . when they mess up at the first offering the fixes don't appear to work. timing also will effect things

I always sign up for the entire auction via live telephone and have often had the same questions. after 10 yrs following them and talking to others, I find there is another group of buyers out there that you wont see at knob creek or many gun shows. not sure how or why but the results are not always the same if they offer too many examples of the same thing prices stay down. in most cases the hammer is always more than "street pricing" two yrs ago nice lugers were hammering under 1.7 k that would bring close to 3k on gunbroker. just too many. I bought 12 mint swiss lugers all under 1.3K . the c+r 37's have always been weak at times and many times less than sideplate guns even on this site. due to a bad connection I lost an ORIGINAL exc cond SPANISH WAR COLT GATLIN GUN that closed at 123K next sale a trashy colt exceeded 225k. maybe these guys want to be "under the covers" or something who knows

we made 25 of the wrenches that were exact duplicates. IE BLAKE MACHINE PHX AZ they sold on GB VERY FAST should have done twice that many. I have been looking for an original portive brl wrench for the next project. any help? cheers mike

not quite able to read markings , but unlike any originals I have seen. most are marked by company/ Canada a dated and not at the wrist. however atf exemption still applies for ORIGINAL TYPE REPO STOCKS. but must be exact model stock for exact model/era weapon. this is abused quite often so use care.