We had a lot of fun with this on the CST Alumni site, so I just had to post this here for giggles too!

ruger scope mount by Rod Henrickson, on Flickr

Wow, failure on so many levels...

What's the problem here? That is a Ruger right? Seems on par with the rest of their manufacturing processes these days

Cheek weld? No. Chin weld

I saw a derivative of that on a Mosin Nagant at the local gun range once. Guess it had to be that high to clear the bolt throw. Chin weld is right!

Absolute artwork!

It takes a High Powered, Master, Red Seal, Techno-Sparky to get good beads like that welding 1018 angle iron to 410 stainless too !

Those aren't your backwoods, Kentucky Farmer welds, dontchaknows ! LOL

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Originally posted by Dead Eye:
Cheek weld? No. Chin weld

JB Weld would have worked just as well.

What is the problem? Do you want functionality, or looks?

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Originally posted by dpcd:
What is the problem? Do you want functionality, or looks?

I'm really glad you didn't say:
"FUNCTIONABILITY"
So glad.
So DAMNED GLAD !

WHY!?!?! i am certain there's a 1/4"NPT tap in his toolbox, somewhere ..

John Wayne said it best "A man"s gotta do what a Man's gotta do"

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Originally posted by Rolland:
John Wayne said it best "A man"s gotta do what a Man's gotta do"

I worked with an engineer once. His take (and I heard more than a few times) would be "It's fine as far as form, fit, and function goes, but it looks like pan hammered shit."

I guarantee that 90 plus percent of Americans think Functionability is a word. Because we now have a nation of illiterates.

I'm still beside myself and having kittens over the fact that Americans have adopted and are now using the British word: "FITMENT"

I HATE that word. It shouldn't even be a word. It's a word an imbecile would use ! ! ! !

I see/read the word "whilst" being used more and more, bugs the shit out of me.

"At what point in the death of the animal did the [Bubba gunsmithing] fail?" Mr. Rod, you are a treasure.

craigster

Drinking coffee whilst reading your comments is hazardous. I actually like making up words that ought to be eg. "equivalate" as in cooking mielie pap equivalates to fixing Southern corn grits. (I think I'd like your engineer friend but would have to go to confession often.)

Barry

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Originally posted by speerchucker30x378:


I'm still beside myself and having kittens over the fact that Americans have adopted and are now using the British word: "FITMENT"

I HATE that word. It shouldn't even be a word. It's a word an imbecile would use ! ! ! !

Rod,
I love this word, in proper use ... fitment, to me, means you hammered and banged it in, forcing it to work, through adverse circumstance and mismatched parts ..

I do use Whilst, but, unlike Fitment when used as a verb, that is a real word.
Fitment, used as in, "Fitting a butt plate", is incorrectly used.
Fitment is a noun, Only. The butt plate is the fitment; the process of installing it is not.

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Originally posted by dpcd:
I do use Whilst, but, unlike Fitment when used as a verb, that is a real word.
Fitment, used as in, "Fitting a butt plate", is incorrectly used.
Fitment is a noun, Only. The butt plate is the fitment; the process of installing it is not.

EGGFAWKINGZACKERY ! Fitments for firearms are things like scopes, slings, aftermarket magazines and suppressors! You don't adjust the fitment, of these fitments. You fit or adjust the fitments !

Thankfully in Canada we have replaced the word "fitment" with the word "accessories". I like that word much better. It actually sounds like a real word.

I'm speechless.

Dave

Might start a trend. Rat Gun?

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Originally posted by custombolt:
Might start a trend. Rat Gun?

OMG ! ! ! !
I gots to find an old Savage bolt action and builds one of them ! ! ! !
LMAO ROFF

A few years ago a friend up in north east Texas
invited me to go shoot some hogs that were tearing
up his pasture.
I had a rifle and a light but he said, no,use his
rig because he just mounted a new night vision scope
he hadn’t tried out yet and said I can try it first to
see how I like it.
It was already dark but wanted to see how it looked.
Scope went flying ten feet. I looked at him and all serious
he said damn, thought super glue would hold it.

No Ranch Rifle deserves that kind of abuse...

I have made it a practice of putting some red fingernail polish on important parts of my repair projects as it makes it easier to find them in the grass.

Additional info: Make sure you conceal the bottle so your wife doesn't spot it on the workbench.

Thavage?

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Originally posted by speerchucker30x378:

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Originally posted by custombolt:
Might start a trend. Rat Gun?

OMG ! ! ! !
I gots to find an old Savage bolt action and builds one of them ! ! ! !
LMAO ROFF

[QUOTE]Originally posted by custombolt:
Thavage?



A Thabbage or possibly a Nermin cowboy gun !

Do they have Rat-Cowboyth?

When did you guys go to CST ? I never learned to weld like that when I was there ? I do remember that as a metallurgist they banned me from the metallurgy classes !

I can't remember who taught me to weld while at CST, but Gus would have a good laugh at that.

CST'76 Alum

It's not the worst example of welding I've seen.

Dave

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Originally posted by The Dane:

I think that has to be the nicest Lee Enfield that I have ever seen. People look down on us Danes because we eat rotten herring and smell of ethanol and caraway seed. But we're just misunderstood! Hell, not so long ago we raped, pillaged and burned our way across half he known world and unlike other peoples and races who are trying to bury their sordid and tainted past, we're still proud of our bad-assed-past. We could do it again too if we wanted! We're just - - - - - busy. We have - - - - - - - stuff!

You know.

If only we could find a way to keep those low life Norwegians from trying to steal our thunder all the time. They're like that silly little brother that mother forced you to take with you everywhere you went!

SKOL !

American ingenuity at its best, never underestimate a shut in, they can build anything and it has to work or they don't survive. Im sure the builder of both was one of the dudes on "Alaska the last frontier" TV show, the Krutchers at their very best. Lord help us!!

These half-assed jobs just bug the crap out of me, any idiot can see it needs a 3rd hose clamp close to the ocular.

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
American ingenuity at its best, never underestimate a shut in, they can build anything and it has to work or they don't survive. Im sure the builder of both was one of the dudes on "Alaska the last frontier" TV show, the Krutchers at their very best. Lord help us!!

The Kilchers are living proof, that the Americas can even turn the Swiss into a bunch of HillBillys! LOL

He might have a shop and may axe like he nos wat he doin. LOL.

Steve.........