Packrat

THE DAY HAS COME!!! January 1, 2004 is the start of the First National Postal AK Match. AKFiles.com is hosting the administration of it. It's open to all Kalashnikov-system firearms, plus automatic rifles produced in any of the former ComBloc countries. No fees, no prizes, nothing but the enjoyment of competition. (There may be some prizes put up by some companies, but none as yet. I won't promise what we don't have.) If you're interested, go to AKFiles.com. We have our own forum there, and you can read the rules and FAQs, as well as downloading the official target. If you have questio

Another shooter was just playing around with some scrap plywood and tried making furniture from that as a "laminated" piece. His first attempt was for a forearm. He used 3/4" plywood, one piece with the laminations horizontal with a piece on each side with laminations vertical (making an open-ended box. When shaped into a forearm with the bulges, it made a very nice piece, especially after staining. He then used 2 pieces glued together flat to make a stock, which came out looking good also. If you like the look of laminated wood, and are thinking about making a stock for yourself, this wo

You can make a feed-ramp out of 3/4" pipe. A 3" nipple makes about a dozen, even though you have to cut off the threaded ends. If you can find a scrap or pipe, you don't have to waste anything (and it doesn't cost anything). I cut it with a hacksaw, but the cut-off wheel on a Dremel would do as well. The outside radius is about right to fit the radius of the space in the trunion. The ramp needs to fill the space under the barrel (on top of the trunion) and be a length to fill from under the barrel to the end of the trunion. There is a rivet on the left side of the trunion which seems to h