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 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:

I'll just need to be patient and find all the needed pieces, this may be long, but that's fine. The cleaning, varnishing, and bluing can still be done meanwhile.

Did you solve the ejection problem?

Commissar von Toussaint wrote:
Okay, digression time. At work today I was in training for most of the day. When it was done and I was catching up on emails, a co-worker came into my office on an urgent mission. "Thank God, you're still in, I have a question and I can't think of anyone but you who can answer it."

"Go ahead," I said uneasily.

"It's about old ammo. A friend inherited something in .32 Win Special. How hard is that to find? Have you heard of it?"

I smiled. "Yeah, I can help you with that."

What is the weirdest, rarest caliber you have or have shot?

I think the weirdest caliber I ever shot was .357 Remington Max, which was basically the .357 Mag with some extra junk in the trunk. They made it for Center-fire single shot rifles, but being America, someone made a revolver capable of actually loading 6 of them. Man did it have a lot of ouch on it. It was basically like firing a Magnum +P+. Just too much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.357_Remington_Maximum

Cool idea though. Just the felt recoil in a pistol frame, ouch.

Commissar von Toussaint wrote:


What is the weirdest, rarest caliber you have or have shot?

Well rare in the UK, got to fire half a dozen rounds of HKs 4.6×30mm for their MP7.

On a related note the chaps that normally carry them seem to have switched to some kind of M4 with what looks like a 10" barrel.

The_Real_Chris wrote:
Well rare in the UK, got to fire half a dozen rounds of HKs 4.6×30mm for their MP7.

On a related note the chaps that normally carry them seem to have switched to some kind of M4 with what looks like a 10" barrel.

I've not encountered that in the States. Very cool!

4.6x30 is vanishingly rare in the US too. Guns that shoot it are unicorns and the ammo is just as much so.

5.7 definitely won the "smol zippy caliber" war for the market share as you're starting to see guns getting released that are not P90s or FN57s. Until we start to see some similar releases I doubt 4.6 will make much traction.

The_Real_Chris wrote:

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:

I'll just need to be patient and find all the needed pieces, this may be long, but that's fine. The cleaning, varnishing, and bluing can still be done meanwhile.

Did you solve the ejection problem?

Unfortunately, the ejection problem I have got on my brother's Reina I could not solve. Even less so when thanks to his goldfish tier memory he forgot were he had put his minimal rounds, so I couldn't really take the chances to see what actually happens.

But from what I remember, it had the double issues of often times eating the ejected cartridge - so I suspect either the magazine that does ejector to maybe be to short, or the recoil/hammer spring to vigorous) and sometimes rounds would get stuck in the ramp and fail to feed. Correct lubrification only slightly improved things, and swapping magazines wouldn't suppress the issue to satisfying levels neither...

So I'll probably have got to buy another spring group and swap them. In the meantime, I might try the silly method they sometimes apparently used for pistols recoil springs when the eat the cases, and strap it to the vice for a ridiculous time to "soften" the spring of. I thought about cutting a ring or two but to this day I can't figure out how you're supposed to take it apart. French guns often have got... Weird designs.

As for the Falcor, I've received the parts I ordered for the foregrip, I'll now have to check and hope I bought the right ones, but I can't do that right now as I'm again away on construction site.

.577/450 is my most unusual calibre, I think.

Though I have had a go on a Monkey Tail breech-loaded with paper cartridges, that was good fun

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
But from what I remember, it had the double issues of often times eating the ejected cartridge - so I suspect either the magazine that does ejector to maybe be to short, or the recoil/hammer spring to vigorous) and sometimes rounds would get stuck in the ramp and fail to feed. Correct lubrification only slightly improved things, and swapping magazines wouldn't suppress the issue to satisfying levels neither...

So I'll probably have got to buy another spring group and swap them. In the meantime, I might try the silly method they sometimes apparently used for pistols recoil springs when the eat the cases, and strap it to the vice for a ridiculous time to "soften" the spring of. I thought about cutting a ring or two but to this day I can't figure out how you're supposed to take it apart. French guns often have got... Weird designs.

Yeah, we know all about the Chauchat.

I'm not clear on what you mean by needing to "soften" a spring. In my experience, weak springs are more of an issue than strong ones. Indeed, before I even think about buying surplus, I check to see if replacement springs are available because in older firearms, these are almost always worn out.

As for weird cartridges, even without my aquatic misadventures, I don't really have "exotic" calibers so much as ones that simply have fallen out of favor. For example, 9mm Largo is really hard to find now but it was once reasonably plentiful and finding weapons chambered in it is pretty easy. Similarly, ammo for Japanese WW II arms is awful scarce at the moment, but arms that need them are not. I recall getting an alert that 8x22mm Nambu was back in stock, but it sold out before I could order it.

Right, I recieved the parts I ordered, made a quick test... an percussion occurs! Of course, it'll still need the foregrip and to be tested with rounds, but so far, all good.

Nice try ATF. I lost all my firearms in a horrible boating accident in the middle of the ocean within US territory. Sadly, I own no more guns.

usmcmidn wrote:
Nice try ATF. I lost all my firearms in a horrible boating accident in the middle of the ocean within US territory. Sadly, I own no more guns.

Same here, but one can still talk about them.