A new book on "How To Do It" by one of The Best

[HomerOz]

G'Day Fella's,

Not sure if this is the best place to post this but....

I recently became aware that one of Australia's Best Gunsmiths, has written a book titled "Centrefire Rifle Accuracy- Creating And Maintaining It"!
FYI, Mr W (Bill) Hambly Clark Jnr, is one of only a hand full of individuals, capable of making Best Grade rifles!!!
Regardless of weather it is a rebarreling job or a complete Best Grade rifle, Bill is the person to contact.
Anyway, Bill has put all of his knowledge and experience into a 475 page book, with hundreds of colour photographs.
The self description goes;
"The definitive work, describing, in detail, the creation of an accurate centrefire rifle."
"Not only are step by step instructions provided, but the theory behind the mechanics is explained in detail".

The price is $100.00 (Australian Dollars) including postage within Australia.
So anybody from overseas, should cont Bill for a quote on postage to their neck of the woods!
This can be achieved by emailing Black Duck Publishing at; blackduckpublishing@bigpond.com

Hope that is of interest to some of you

Doh!
Homer

 

[Guy Miner]

Excellent!

Always good to learn of a good, new book.

 

[DrMike]

That sounds like a definitive book that would be a welcome addition to the library of any shooter.

 

[HomerOz]

G'Day Fella's,

I'm sure it will be well worth the $100.00, that's why I had no hesitation in sending my money to Bill for a copy of his book!
And yes, I received No discount etc, for writing this up in various forums!!!

Hope that helps

Doh!
Homer

 

[HomerOz]

G'Day Fella's,

I received my copy of this book the other day, and I have to say I'm impressed by the contents!
If your interested in some more detail, go to www.NitroExpress.com and click on the "General including General Hunting & Shooting" for more details!
Even if your not planning on starting to Gunsmith your own or others rifles, the information within this book, will give any person that wants to have a rifle accurised, the details to ask your Gunsmith "How are you going to do that"?....!

Hope that helps

Doh!
Homer

 

[SJB358]

Very nice. I dig books like that. Might have to take a look.

 

[HomerOz]

G'Day Fella's,

SJB358, it may be a bit expensive but I'm sure you will be happy with the contents of Bill's book!
The only real downside of it is, the initial run was of only 100 copies of the book.
This may change if the demand becomes great but I didn't want to take the risk!!!

Regards
Homer

 

[HomerOz]

G'Day Fella's,

Bit of a side track of this thread but after reading the small amount of this book, I'm already feeling a bit more confident to rebarrel a few of my rifles!
This being the case, a couple of months back I started to cut up and then machine a slab of heavily rusted steel plate that I picked up, a few years back.
At the time I thought to myself, "Hmmm, I should be able to make something out of that"!!!

Anyway, here are some images of a Barrel Vice that I recently machined up.....
I made it so that I could utilise the same Barrel Bushes that Brownell's sell and a pair to suit a Remington std barrel are in place.

Doh!
Homer

 

[Elkman]

Homer
When you run out of barrels, you can use your vise to pull bearings off of the end of truck axels. That vise should suffice for clamping about anything round. Beautiful work.

 

[SJB358]

Very nice work Homer. That is some awesome looking equipment!

 

[DrMike]

You've performed a particular act of magic with that barrel vise, Homer. It looks very good.

 

[HomerOz]

G'Day Fella's,

Thank You for your kind words, I'm pretty pleased with my efforts as well!
Yes Elkman, it is a rather substantial bit of equipment but I do tend to believe (with certain tasks)), there is no such thing as Over Kill!!!

I had some images of the B/vice in the lathe, being drilled and bored out but It appears my computer has hidden then some where (Doh!)?
I'll down load them from the camera again shortly, and post some of them here as well.

Doh!
Homer

 

[HomerOz]

G'Day Fella's,

I was finally able to extract the images I told you about, from this Box-a-Trix!

See below

Doh!
Homer

 

[HomerOz]

G'Day Fella's,

I was in contact with Bill H-C the other day, and do to the initial amount of demand for a copy of his book, Bill is contemplating a second run?
So if anybody that was contemplating obtaining a copy, and missed out, contact Bill at the address at the start of this thread, and try to twist his arm!!!

Been a bit busy myself of late, and only just this morning finished off my Action Wrench and clamp jaws to suit a Rem-700 action!
Here are some images of During and After....
Doh!
Homer

 

[IdahoCTD]

My action wrench has a hole to put the front action screw through. It helps with the wrench spinning. Nice work though.

 

[HomerOz]

G'Day Fella's,

Idaho CTD thank you for that info and kind words, I'll drill a clearance hole to suit!
Also IIRC, some clamping jaws have rebated faces to accept the action recoil lug, is this really needed?

Doh!
Homer

 

[IdahoCTD]

It is used to align a crush recoil lug like a Remington. To be honest I use my aluminum action port wrench more than my wrap around wrench because I don't need to tighten my actions as tight as Remington does and I can use my recoil lug alignment tool. It's faster too. I mainly use my wrap around wrench to break free factory barrels. In your case if you don't want to mill the recoil lug recess into it then you can mark where it is lined up prior to removal and as you tighten it up line the mark back up. The down side is you can't use a aftermarket recoil lug (not really needed IMO).

 

[HomerOz]

G'Day Idaho CTD,

Thank you for that info and advice!

I now assume that the rebated space in the clamping jaw, is just for Recoil Lug alignment when the barrel is being installed/fitted to the action?
I wasn't sure if it was to assist with things, during the removal of the factory barrel???

As you say, using a recoil lug alignment tool, is probably a better option!
Thank You again for this advice!!!

Doh!
Homer

 

[IdahoCTD]

Yes it's to align the lug going back together. Coming apart it isn't needed.

 

[FOTIS]

Homer:

Is Nick Harvey around and still writing?