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Bailey;

Your work and design are excellent and it is most generous of you to share your work process and your techniques. Such generosity is not often encountered among the trade. I remember Jack Rowe telling me that even when he was a teen age apprentice in the late 1940's in the gun trade in Birmingham, that when he would be delivering or picking up parts from the various gunmakers shops that many of the gunmakers would place an apron over any work that they were doing when he walked into their shop so he could not see how they were performing their tasks. When I first visited some of the gun trade in Birmingham 20 years ago they were more open about their work, but there was still much protection of their knowledge--which is quite understandable especially with such skills learned in color case hardening and barrel blacking.

I think that it is poetic that you happen to live in the town named after the Greek goddess of hunting. I still miss living in Texas it was the best place I ever lived in my career. Even my wife loved it as well.

I was viewing your photo of milling the threads for the barrel insertion into the action; do you happen to use one of the German Decker style milling machines?

Kindest Regards
Stephen

With regard to people showing their work here, other people that aspire to improve can never do so if they never have a chance to see good work.
Mike

Mike, I fully agree, and I have no interest in their political affiliations. Featuring instruction here that makes such work possible is every bit as important as the work itself. We need to do all we can to preserve the skills that make good gun-making possible. The world coming up has little interest in making anything mechanical, and we're losing hundreds of years of hard earned knowledge and skill.

Someone needs to get a life. And it a'int Bailey or SKB.

Wait a minute Billy... it was you who brought up political opinions in this thread. That was in your childish, whiny, and ridiculous response where you saw equivalence in Bailey Bradshaw's small link, included in his excellent, but relatively few posts, and the constant stream of blatant free advertising done by your liberal pal Stevie.

And that B.S. line about doing all we can to preserve gun making skills was a real joke too. Your primary interest appears to be supporting and electing anti-gun Liberal Left Democrats... anti-gunners who wish to ban guns and impose restrictions on the manufacture of guns and ammunition. But for some reason, you post most all of your support for anti-gunners in the main Double Gun Forum where a lot of your rifle buddies won't likely see it.







...lots more where that came from... direct from a guy who claims to have no interest in political affiliations...right Billy?

People here can't read.I never objected to Bailey's posts. What I detest is Keith's selective outrage-- that and his very existence. I don't care about posters' politics IF their posts are interesting and informative. I can't say it any clearer than that. Keith, thanks again for amplifying my message. I appreciate your effort to get the word out. PS: Do all our veterans here approve the President's abandonment of our Kurdish allies? RWTF must find Trump's performance as CIC a bit uncomfortable. All Trump fans should read Gen James Mattis' interview in the current issue of Atlantic magazine. You won't find coverage like this on FOX National Enquirer NEWS.

It took 40 years for people to forget about us stabbing our South Vietnamese friends in the back, now this. Who will believe us now? Much of our trouble in the "Sand Box" comes from the Allies dividing it up after the "Great War" IAW their political desires instead of the historical divisions of the past. Leaving out a "Kurdistan" is only one example.
Mike

Very interesting, thanks.

Craig hyperventilating as usual. No one could possibly make sense of his word salad. Der Ami, no one will believe us, nor should they so long as our Liar-in Chief occupies his throne. Hopefully, that won't be much longer. There's a great deal to do to restore the United States in its position in the world. Trump's heroes live in Russia, The Phillipines, and North Korea. Could there possibly be a better working definition of treason?

Nice work!