Jake 98c/11b

As a manufacturer I have no problem waiting, I know the issues involved. Heck, I still have a shrike on order and 5 Bohica .50 bmg uppers in the works so that should tell you something about both my patience and my understanding of the issues with bringing new products to market. Someone here said something about ordering when they were in Afghanistan and receiving product when in Iraq. Oddly enough I ordered after returning from Iraq and I will be receiving product when in Afghanistan. Some of you fuckers need to man up and realize that this world does not revolve around

Family first, all else second.

Who said "If you ain't CAV YOU AIN"T SHIT"? Does that mean if you are Cav you are shit? Personally I don't get worked up over these minor delays but then again I still have a deposit down on the Shrike... I figure I will get my 6 drums eventually and I strongly suspect it will be sooner than I will get the Shrike (and I haven't given up on that one either). Mike, I think what I have seen so far is fantastic, not just the product but the conduct of your business. I will be keeping an eye on you and your company. I have a prototype I might bounce off of you when the frenzy of b

Mike, I'm not sure the spray on bedliner will do you any good but I can't say for certain. From what I have seen I think you are well on your way to a successful product. What materials are you looking at using for the body of the drum?

Mike, I may have missed it in the 11 pages (mostly crap) of postings but can you give me the dimensions of the drum you are building? I remember seeing the weight but not the diameter of the drum body. Thanks and I am eagerly awaiting your product.

We have a customer who owns a SBS saiga and he wants the barrel threaded for choke tubes. This customer is very particular and wants a specific local shop to thread the barrel and make special tubes for his gun, unfortunately that shop is not comfortable with having an NFA registered gun in his shop. Does anyone here have any experience with removing the barrel from the trunion of the Saiga shotguns?

I am just a parts changing hack but I have had some success with these things. I will say that in all actuality I am not a big shotgun fan in general, I prefer to shoot rifles (it's an Army thing), but they are fairly easy to work on so we have done some odd shotgun projects in the past. I will give credit to the folks at Ares Defense because it was one of their short (13 inch) 20 ga guns that got me started with these things. The gun belongs to one of my regular customers and he was nice enough to let me take a look inside it. The gun has three ports at .078" and two at .063". The only fu

You can buy a milling attachment for many lathes. I have zero actual training and little experience with machine tools (but that never stopped me before) but it may be worth looking into.

Tony, a fourth port was added at .081 and one of the existing ports was opened to the same diameter, the other two are .073". Nothing was done to the spring of this gun. I Have run only three different loads through it since the work was done, 100 rounds of a Remington game load and about 35 rounds of buck and slug. One of the other guys in the shop has done about as much but I am not sure of the mix he used. A little mill work on an existing four rail forend was required. It mounts to the gun at two points and has proven to be solid and runs parallel to the bore on our one and only sa

The new president of the NRA is a long time machine gun owner/collector, I think their policies will reflect this.

Aegis Dei, the guns are all running 100% right now. I originally had some issues with my personal 20 ga but have since worked it out. I opened the gas ports to .083 and stilll had issues but I got tired of removing the gas block so I replaced the front half of the recoil spring with a reduced power M1911 recoil spring I had in the parts box, it ran fine after that. Since customers shoot it here at the range I added a recoil buffer. I figured that since we don't bother to change the gas setting based on ammunition when customers use it the buffer was a requirment. No problems since then.

You know Cobra, I never thought of that one. I have welded over a few and ground them down but only rarely does anyone want to pay for that (besides my welding isn't that great). Thanks for the info. And to answer your other question, if the machineshop is comfortable in doing it you should be fine. Specialty shops (like PolyChoke) are usually more comfortable with work like this because they have the specialized tooling and a body of experience that can guide them through the process. Some don't like to deal with guns as it is for fear of violating the complex laws and contradictory p

Cobra, I have a few more guns here that we have done (didn't want to post all of them and bore people) and one of them is a 20 that I will add a polychoke to. I think the polychoke you mentioned should work but what I would do is turn down the barrel to ensure the wall thickness is consistent. I THINK this would avoid the misalignment problems I have seen with aftermarket chokes. If the barrel needs to be threaded on the inside you will need to use a carbidecutter to cut through the chrome lined bore before you can thread the bore.

The 20 ga is 18.25 inch (for now).

Assuming I can add the pictures correctly, what follows will be some of the guns we have built recently. The first is a SBS we built for one of our regular customers. For reasons unknown he wanted the LE Entry AR stock, he pays so he gets what he wants. He also wanted a three rail forend and, since we couldn't find one, we made one for him. Barrel length is 13.5 inches and it runs fine. Next is a 20 for one of our instructors, he is a double distingushed shooter who retired from the Navy years ago, since he is only about 5'3" he asked for the ACE ARFX short stock. The third one