Thanks for the warm welcome guys! Glad to be here, and see a lot of you here too.
I lived about 5 miles from Viola, Idaho where Rocky was from. Unfortunately, I never met him, I wasn't interested in experimenting in the time our living there overlapped. I bought the rifle there. The guy that had inherited it and sold it to the pawn shop was a truck driver and I could never get hold of him to get any more info or the dies for it. It's been 12 years or so, it's about time I did something with the rifle, the sight was a good first step.
There's nothing wrong with the cartridge, and it's easy to make brass for it. Just anneal the neck of a .30-06, put 8 grains of red dot in a primed cartridge, fill to the top with cream of wheat, and put a spit wad of paper into the neck to keep the mess in until you can fire it. Then, I take the bolt out, slip the cartridge under the claw, and chamber and fire it. Presto-chango, perfect 8mm gibbs case.
I'm going to load up a few and go to the range when weather allows, see where the new sight points it.
Greg, I'm thinking about the RB, even did something about it last week. I decided it would be quicker and easier to send the pieces off to someone to do than to set up my lathe and mill, so I sent it to John King. He told me February or so. I've got a lot of house stuff to finish that will take up my free time for a while, so other than finishing the stock on my Falling Block Works and on my other Mauser project, gun stuff will be put off unless I get someone else to do it.
dave
