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Reply #30 - Jan 22nd, 2025 at 11:07am
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Greg,
Is that 28-30 case made from a 30-06 parent case?
  

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Reply #31 - Jan 22nd, 2025 at 12:54pm
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Yes Scott it is.
Not for the meek and mild either but I'm getting the process sorted out.  Carnage has been substantial and there are a lot of junk pieces of 30-06 and several die bodies in my wake.  I did a brief post on it a while back with only a sliver of interest.  The swaging process I've worked through gives me a very heavy wall at the head so it'll be a substantially reduced load in this case, but it should be everlasting Wink.
Here's pics of just a tiny bit of carnage followed by a couple of good ones next to a Peter's original.

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Reply #32 - Jan 22nd, 2025 at 5:04pm
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Amazing what with some dies and a little tonnage you can come up with. That's what I would call re purposing to the extreme...




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Reply #33 - Jan 27th, 2025 at 12:01am
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Did some more on the Ballard tonight, made a sliding extractor, the arm for it and started fitting it.  A little more to do yet.
  

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Reply #34 - Jan 27th, 2025 at 12:50am
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Square threads on a Ballard! Cool! Cool
  

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Reply #35 - Jan 27th, 2025 at 11:17am
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Greg, how are you retaining the extractor on the Ballard? The Remington #7 has a screw in from the side, you doing something similar?
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Reply #36 - Jan 27th, 2025 at 12:06pm
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Bob,
The extractor is following the Eric Johnson design, it's a close fit in the slot, and the arm comes up from the lever and movement is limited by the window cut in the barrel.  I'll share pictures of that when I get there.  I've used this method on five of my other builds and it works flawlessly.  I'm still working the arm into the slot on the receiver.
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Reply #37 - Jan 28th, 2025 at 5:25pm
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Looks like my year end project didn't end last year, but I did get a call from someone at C Sharps Monday to verify what type of crown I wanted on my Ballard #3F, and spacing for the scope bases! 
So should be on it's way to Al Springer by now for rust bluing and color case. Once it's here I'll fit the new forearm to the large heavy barrel and mount a spare scope for some ammo testing!
  

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Reply #38 - Jan 29th, 2025 at 9:18am
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Yes Jerry, I am retarded that way, square threads when I can...

Vall, the 3F sounds like a worthwhile project to carry over.  Smiley  My best laid plans of finishing a couple of these lingering projects by years end, didn't happen.  The boss cracked the whip and chose to finish a couple of work projects by year's end instead.  My little gun projects are going to linger til June now I bet so this thread will just carry on - confusing for some, maybe my fiscal gun year will be moved to June?
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Reply #39 - Jan 30th, 2025 at 9:55am
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Had some wee hour free time last night, the dummy barrel stub is in and proven for the extractor.  All that's left is to fit the arm into the slot and notch the extractor (red arrow in the pic).   
Bob you had asked about retaining the slider? the tip of the arm fits into the slider and it's captured so motion is limited.  The extractor only has .180" worth of motion, enough for your finger to grab the case and remove it.
  

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Reply #40 - Jan 30th, 2025 at 11:01am
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Glad to see some progress on your stuff, even if didn't get finished.  I started to finish the low wall project I'm stocking, and after the first day, my hands got "winter cracked" so bad I couldn't stand to wash inletting black and walnut purple stain off of them.  So, just super glued them and walked away until they heal.  Now, on the road, going to spend a few weeks in Tucson, St George, Death valley so will be mid to end of February before I get back to them.

Always easy to find excuses!  I pulled a muscle in my back around new years, and it's been so sore I haven't been able to get down on the floor and grout my new lathe in place, so it's sitting on shims waiting for that.  The mill is waiting the old one to sell and move out of the way so it can get into final position.  Again, lots of excuses!
  
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Reply #41 - Jan 30th, 2025 at 11:50am
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Greg, I thought that’s what you were saying.  Been thinking about this type of extractor for this Hepburn I’ve been working on, but been so tied up with all the other intricacies of the gun I haven’t spent much time thinking about it.  The owner of the original thinks I should make it with multiple barrels, which would be fun, but unless I chamber them all with the same family of cartridge I would need to completely disassemble the action to remove/install a barrel and change extractors.  The original is a 2 barrel setup, a 44 and 30-40 Krag.
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It’s funny how when your writing something your mind starts thinking clearer.  After writing the above comment on the Hepburn’s extractor it got me thinking that the way the extractor is fastened into this action has me wondering, if with the breech block down, maybe the extractor can be removed.  The way this thing was designed it wouldn’t surprise me!
  

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Reply #42 - Jan 30th, 2025 at 1:26pm
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Bob,
I implemented this same extractor design into my 22rf Hepburn but I'd already installed a conventional one in my 44-77 Hepburn or I'd have done one there also.  The other thing I did in both cases was to get rid of the folded lever spring, these builds now have a spring not unlike the HW hammer spring.  Switching a barrel is easy on the 22, and again I'd made it with square threads and it bumps up and clocks like a vault.  I have a lighter (tongue in cheek) barrel for it and an extremely heavy for it...

Dave, besides my work problem, my other excuse is traveling to shoots on the weekends - gets in the way of some of these builds...  Woe is me... Wink
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Reply #43 - Feb 1st, 2025 at 1:28am
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I try to stay on course, but fail frequently.  Here's my distraction tonight... The high wall 22 I've been competing with is kind of bland but it shoots well.  Here's spicing it up a tiny bit -  poured a pewter forend cap tonight, semi finished. 
The rifle is already heavy so I didn't want to add a lot of mass out there so I kept things small.
  

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Reply #44 - Feb 1st, 2025 at 11:09am
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That's a nice touch Greg! Never seen one like it, and it looks much better than the usual huge variations.
  

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