CPA

[Kurt]

Well, was it worth the wait?

The picture is a little dark and not showing the wood to well, but it sure looks good.
Kurt

[Kurt]

Forgot

The sight. I think the short staff is the way to go for a .22. When you get to shooting it let me know how far you can reach with the average ammo with it.
And the windage, when you twist it right or up does it move the windage right? All of my sights except the DZ scope move right. I don't want to start to think R/L.

[Don McDowell]

Got the scope mounted and shot it just a very little bit, but haven't shot the irons. There's more than ample room on that staff to reach further than a 22 can go me thinks.
The Baldwin on the Raton gun moves right it down, left it up.

[Kurt]

Well Don, you had a day nor to shoot it! need a report!
No excuses!!

Kurt

[Don McDowell]

Shot it a bit last evening, and it shoots pretty decent. Haven't had a chance yet to really stretch it's legs.

[Kurt]

Does the chamber feel tight when you load or does the bullet just drop in?

[Don McDowell]

The ejector doesn't fit just right, so it's sort of hard to tell whether its the tight fit of that or the ammunition. I think it'll get better with use. But for now I have to push the cartridge into the chamber with my thumb until the ejector makes contact with it's recess and then close the breech. If you try to close the breech before the ejector has contact with it's slot, the breechblock will close the ejector and cut the cartridge in two.

[Kurt]

There is a setscrew on the extractor where you can set the extractor closer to the chamber. I did this to my .22. That rifle has a lot of adjustments. You can set the hammer draw tension, firing pin strike and the tension of the breach block.
My chamber is very tight. I let the block finish seating the round. I think that is why it shoots so well.
The extractor I polished on some 800 grid paper.

A suggestion.
Before you pull the block pull the hammer on 1/2 or full cock. I had the trigger spring disengage no big thing but it took a while to figure out what was going on when I couldn't cock the hammer when I got it put together.

[Don McDowell]

I think most of the problem is how tight the extractor fits in it's recess in the barrel. That gets wore in a bit it will probably be ok. I'll shoot it a bit more before trying any adjustments on the thing. I believe it's going to shoot pretty well. It had no problem keeping all the rounds on a regulation NRA 22 chicken at 35 yds using a rest. That chicken is about half the size of the 22 bpcr chicken.
If we don't get a thunderstorm and tornado here in a few moments, I'll take the tractor and rebuild the 22 berms and get the targets back up.

[Iron Coyote]

Very nice Don
I like it.
Thnx Lots
Bob