Anvil 089: Krag Disaster Recovery

ah oh wow in this episode there was a fire stocks were consumed rust was everywhere Angel piss was used to break things loose ah this is why you undo your meal serps boys inside all gacked up more Angel piss lots of surprises underneath the stock line remove the old finish with a little bit of acetone look ma the inspector's Cartouche is still there steam up those dents oil her down man rust as a boar obstruction fix those screws viola Crag carbing fire in a collection a triple f which is aqueous film forming foam all those things do not go together this particular Crag was in a was in a collection fire and sat in the foam for about two to three weeks Bruno needs to see how the torsion bar on this lid works all of those things indicate that we're going to try to save a crack let's get on down the rabbit hole because this is a deep dive oh foreign this isn't the stock off of that Crag but there was a fire here there was and you say to yourself oh my God he's messing up this Priceless rolling Block stock no I'm not what I'm trying to do is show you how far down we gotta go to get to the actual um to get down to the actual wood and even when we're here the wood's been cooked pretty good I'm gonna go in a little bit deeper okay so we're down to hard Walnut when we're this far in I mean it's I had to take a lot off the side of that this stock isn't going to get saved it was already in a pretty bad condition to start with it had there's a lot of cracking going on here there were some issues with this stock to start with it's even worse as you get to the rear where we've lost enough of this stock it's it's not coming back and I know everybody thinks that you can save it you can't because even though I'm down to Walnut here even this walnut's pretty cooked it's it's it's real punky so um let's let's get over and start taking this Crag apart and see what we can come up with but I just wanted to show you this let you know I wasn't kidding this was an honest-to-god serious fire and side note a lot of what we're doing here works really well on guns that have been in floods the Crags up in the Vise now and we had to do a little bit of work just to Dynamite the bolt open and I don't know what a triple F does to Steel I really don't know but I will tell you that it does some pretty ugly stuff in terms of this rust in here um to remove we lift up on the extractor kick the bolt open and pop the bolt out and we can see a lot of pretty bad surface rust here um that's all going to have to get dealt with but I don't see any really deep hitting but this gun probably should have been gotten to five or six weeks ago there's a clock running on a couple of these this isn't the only one in the shop but it's the one that has a lot of historical values so it's the one I want to save same thing up inside the Box the box has got it's it's pretty bad up in here we'll beat all of that apart and I'm gonna have to take the bottom of the mag off and the reason why I'm not just diving into this is I want to know where I'm going to start lubricating stuff so we'll take a little bit of this Angel piss and just start getting everything wet here um I've seen people do they talk about croyal they talk about ATF with acetone in it that's good I'm going to tell you this if your particular proprietary blend of garbage gets it done for you great I'm not here to talk about it I just know that a good old-fashioned orange can croil is what gets it done for me we'll let this soak for a little bit and then move up to the forehand switching camera angles I don't want to use a lot of weight ah man if we get lucky so I just learned two things by taking off this band the condition it has gone was damn near White you can see up underneath the band here I don't know if anything rusted up in we're really going to find out when we get up underneath the hand guard all right this wood is a little tender here if only because it's a hundred and something years old so I'm trying to be real gentle but there's a set of snaps so I'm gonna wait until I get the action out of the main wood and we'll attack this problem from underneath by pushing upwards on the clamps that are stamping it through the barrel instead of making the wood do all that work sidebar for those of you that watched us run that great big Flintlock a while ago that thing put a little slice right across my thumb and that's why the tape this is an old electrician's trick for uh compensating for being stupid don't apply any bending moments to this thing where they don't need to be I'm handling this thing like it's eggs because I don't know what I've got we got lucky here and that one came out that should be a machine screw because that's coming all the way out okay so we'll bring this up that's a machine screw and then I'm going to set this there's a tray you can't see off camera and you'll see it when we're all done here where I'm laying all these parts out so that we can track them all so far it's so good we're looking at this stock all the inspectors cartouches on it everything is correct this was actually a pretty nice gun before this happened so my previous comment about the the corrosion underneath the stock line we're going to take that with a grain of salt okay you'll tend to blow end grain out so when you lift it put your finger over it like that and lift the metal and lift the metal so you don't blow the end grain right here you see all these things they have these little flecks of wood missing and that's why boy this thing got whacked all the way down inside it's like sugar rust up inside there okay so now the reason why I've got this really really loose setup the device is like 18 20 inches that way I have it held in the uh in the Vise so we can pull this off while Bruno does a pan across what we have to deal with oh wow look at that right there zoom in on that brother push in on that and let them see what we got going on underneath the stock line yikes look at that flicking off there wow okay so now this is why it's good that we did not try to go after this Barrel band and in case you guys are wondering oh my God he's getting penetrating oil on a stock are you kidding me right now the penetrating oil on the stock is the least we have to worry about we'll deal with the stock the Finish is boiled in seed oil anyway so when we reel inseed oil it it's oil so who cares all right so I've got wow that thing is it's just completely anchored in there okay so I'm going to take a punch and I may have to reach in front of you here to do it I'm going to get a punch right there on the bottom of that band can we see that right there I gotta have the light there so you guys can see it there we go now it's moving I'm gonna do the other one off camera yeah I don't expect it to drop free I'm just looking and right there and I'm going to take a still of this and show you the still and we'll blow it up there is a little bit of the original magnificent rust blue on this thing oh my God I cannot believe they issued these things to General Infantry I rolled it up in the Vise here because this had to come off because this device and I'm going to tell you I don't know what it is but we'll find out I thought it was like um to tension the square root of your to tension to rear sight we'll figure it out I'll tear it down and look at it but that had to come off in order to allow this to come straight up holy crap so that's what we're fighting right there all the way around this gentleman is why you take your meal serves out of their stocks all right we're gonna punt here for a second and then come back around to the rear end while I make sure I know what I got to do next foreign yeah that's a irritable Cornucopia fun under there and okay so now we'll roll we'll roll into this and look right here all right so if I remember right that has the calm up just a little bit okay that comes up let me get this in here and get a better camera angle on it because not everybody's ever seen the magazine on a Craig come apart okay and then they're back here we're going to just tap the pen and there is a lot of spring Force here so I'm assuming that we're going to get a lot of Pop when all this happens don't oh continue to pull that out okay so that pin came out with the concordant rust just goop all over this thing now a lot of this is the a lot of this oil that we're seeing here and a lot of this orange ooze is because I did very liberally douse this thing step one when taking the machine apart the first thing you do if you're gonna take that muffler off your car the first thing you do is go down underneath everything and change Universal bearings get down there and get everything oil a couple hours before you begin and make your life tremendously simpler okay and then this whole mess is going to come out of here this spring there is a pretty epic Spring right here that's a spring and that's what snaps this cap shot so that's out and then this should come up and out that should come up and out that way and then we have the follower here and it has a liberal dosing of just Glock all over this thing it's it's nasty but as you can see down in here all of this orange stuff this is almost worse than a cosmoline experience but not quite so that spring will send this whole thing flying unless you're careful pull that out trigger mechanism is obviously designed to be pulled out in one piece out in the field because there are lots of Cuts and Fades here because I'm just trying to show you what the heck's going on in this gun without breaking anything and a lot of it I don't know if I've got pins that are fused in their holders but this obviously rotates around that pin so that pin comes out and then that allows this whole thing to drop out and then that's just going to leave the cartridge cut off back here also I'm working at a really odd angle I'm trying to let you guys see what I'm doing here there's I'm way over here when I really want my head right there as we can plainly see here the cartridge cutoff comes out no it doesn't it almost feels like something is is fused up in here so we can see the plunger plainly right here and there's the plunger and I'm thinking maybe it might be easier to push it down from here I don't take a lot of Crags apart I'm going to tell you that straight up but maybe if we just compress that in there there we go now that's going to all ask so I'm going to hold my hand over this pop that up so that this plunger didn't part company across the room but um worry about that right now is there a screw up in there that's definitely spring-loaded and we'll figure out how that comes out because I want to get down inside that tunnel that was a bit of a surprise because I wasn't expecting to come off but this thing is nasty I mean good Lord all right the inside here there's a collar that has to be depressed and this is solid rusted together so we're going to boil this thing as a unit and then I'll tear it apart after I'm sure I can get up in here and not shoot things across the room the rest of this yeah there's a screw down inside here that once I get the spring unit clear I can pull the screw this is the other side of that screw once that comes out then the extractor comes out and then we'll have the whole thing broken down um into one unit okay um so I've got all this laid out on the table we're gonna get we're going to get our before shot here we go well here it is in its Majesty it's about as far apart as I can take it until we boil it the first time um we'll get all this hung and Thor we'll get a small basket up we'll start doing the conversion you guys should be doing it in your gutter um and we'll talk about the wood and why I didn't take this Barrel band block out why I didn't take out the butt plate screws yet we'll get there and what we're going to do with the wood but for right now oh there's one other thing I noticed so I was tearing it down there's a screw right there so I'm assuming if I pop that screw I might be able to drive this forward Barrel band off but I'm not going to fight that and destroy that screw head all right so we're gonna go boil this thing and the next time you see the metal it'll be at the end of boil out number one and I predict this thing is going to take it's going to take us two possibly two and a half calendar days to shoot this video because you can't rush this you got one shot at it all right so we're gonna go boil it and we'll start talking about the wood here well I had already done this before but a little bit more Angel pests here on this uh on this screw now the back screw on this the reason why I waited everything else is boiling right now these things oxide Jack the rust occupies more space inside the hole than the original iron part did and it literally sets itself in a wood like a rivet right so I had I've oiled this one I've oiled the top one but the bottom bolt right here or if there's one right there the part of the butt that gets grounded during drill the part that gets set on the ground when you want to stand your weapon up and go grab something always takes it into shorts this thing has its head is all mauled and everything so the first thing we had to do is find a screwdriver that would fit it okay and then the screw is in there just trust me I tap on it light Hammer I'm not killing this thing I'm just tapping on it and then let me get an appropriate screwdriver or rear end here so what I'm going to be doing you'll hear it I'm going to be tapping on the back of the screwdriver while I'm turning this thing and what we're doing is shock loading it and making a low grade Jack camera and I'm applying rotational effort and lucky and it broke loose but I'm shock loading the screwdriver and then you've got to make sure you rock it so that you stay down in and I'll clean this screw head up later I'll clean this thing up because this thing is nasty oh good lord there's barely a slot here and yes I'm not straight in and I'm actually turning this off to one side in an attempt to get a little bit of traction on this screw and try to get this going before it gets going here oh shut down lover too JD ah Rover call me if you can on the 2jv all right all right there we go that came out same deal up here this screw here will have this screwdriver bit put in it and tapped in now don't use too big of a screwdriver bit either this way or widthwise because it's possible you get a screw that that's sitting down inside of a mortise you can drive this in actually split the head of the screwdriver apart this way a little bit and wedge it down inside the mortise and again don't ask me how the hell I know that all right here we go go oh wow and these things are jacked up that's there now there's a lot of green blown on the bottom down here the end of this toe has been blown up from having been beat on the ground compressions the grain actually runs this way it's running that way and if you do a stock right you want the grain run out to be up top not on the bottom you want the runner grain to run this way um I got a funny feel in it when this gun was made they weren't really too uptight about which way the green was running all right so then I'm just tapping this now to knock all this loose and again we don't want to blow the wood out up here we don't want to blow the wood out around it we just want it to come out clean well okay we want it to cleanly depart the mortise whether or not what's underneath it or not sorts of shit or not let's take a look at this okay here we go hang on ah a lot of noise ah oh wow we have a combination of rust oil dry rot wow all right let's go up front here we go so this little device right here is kicked more people's rear ends I swear to God they come in here they snap them off you can't pry underneath this and every one of these stocks there's a hole see that hole right there the function of that hole is to allow you to insert this punch right back there and now I'm sitting on the back of that and then take your finger and put it right there okay I want your finger right there because what I don't want is this piece of end grain right here to blow out so in order to do all this it's going to have to be my pinky so you can see what I'm doing but I'm just tapping on this okay and it's clear now and in fact not only is it clear it's actually free to rotate a little bit but you get these things they're so rusted and that was no exception um I don't even think that rust was caused by the fire that's every freaking band locking spring I have ever pulled out of a stock we're in the stock here and I want to show this since this uh acceptance mark on the bottom of this and then we're going to roll this around and look for the U.S inspectors Mark here which I may be able to get you right here in one shot hang on a minute and there's the acceptance Mark right there oh yeah look at that 1901. right there 1901. we're trying to preserve this and not make this thing look all washed out so what are we doing about the fact that um this wood on this gun has been pretty much it's okay the Finish was compromised but all of the wood is okay except for this right up here all this stuff up here at the front end Bruno is going to pan over there to me the wood at the front end has been beat up pretty well but even it's it ain't that bad and I gotta tell you what I think this uh fire might have done this done a favor because it got it in here and got it conserved we're still conserving and doing a little bit of Reverb now I'm going to use just straight up brake cleaner now you go but that'll compromise the varnish I got news for you the varnish was compromised on this thing during the fire let's get back here so just a regular the low uh aggression um Scotch Brite pad and what I'm doing is I am taking the top layer off of this gun this thing is going to be flat when I'm done with it it won't be shiny anymore but we have to the upper layer of varnish was compromised and we need to get down underneath and start seeing this brown color and that's the wood coming out and there is a lot of oil soaked in this thing because this gun has had a living crap meat out of it so we're going to do this all the way down a stock and kind of strip this back with the grain if you push hard enough this will start leaving scratches we're not trying to do that we're just trying to gently get all of this this nastiness right here all of this monk we're trying to get this to come off the stock so we'll just keep sliding on down the beauty of being this gentle is we're going to leave those inspectors cartouches alone we'll go after this now why not soap all right soap will do this also soap will take all of this off the real issue becomes you have to get all the soap off before you can come back and put an oil finish back on it and I have every intention of putting an oil finish back on this gun we're just going to put a layer of boiled linseed oil on this thing and tighten this up but look at that the collar is coming right back and I don't know if it's coming out in the camera here but yeah look at that so we're taking that entire top layer there's some shininess right there what I'm doing here to most people is sacrilege and when I do a straight conservation I don't do this to the wood we very gently rub the stalks out with a little bit of steel wool four out steel wool but that's about all we do we don't go after this however again the Finish was compromised by the fire I'm not the one that made the decision to destroy this but I'm not having to rub real hard and we may have gotten lucky here you may have gotten lucky you can hear that right there there's a spot right here where the grain blew out right up here there's a spot where the green kind of blew I have to sort of iron that down a little bit we'll do that in the oiling phase so here's this part here's the part about a Crag that makes it so weak the only piece of wood holding the four end to the back end this is almost like a foreign connector piece this stock will bend here very easily in both dimensions and all of the recoil is borne by the rear by the rear face of the stock I'm going to bring that up here and take a look at that let me see if I can get down low enough here there we go so all the recoil is taken by that deep groove right there get the light in that group so you can see down in there that's a lot deeper rear Groove than rear Tang uh grip than you would ordinarily see so these stocks this gun is in is kind of weak and I believe that that was born out in military service that these guns had a nasty tendency to crack right here and that's why I was saying in the beginning you got to handle this thing like it's an eggshell because out once you strap the front of the barrel to this thing once you strap the barrel up to it this all turns into one big rigid unit but if this works loose this sucker is going south on you in a hurry going back over to this acceptance Mark right here actually so I'm actually showing up pretty well in normal light put a little bit on there and just very gently rub through it and we don't want to take the edges off of this we want that to be nice and sharp one of the big deals you get when things are sanded or buffed is that the front and the back Edge on the buffer rotation will get what we'll get washed out it's called funneling and we don't want to do that this whole thing is now turning a nice Brown and I'm going to finish this up and then I'm gonna we're gonna pull the dents up we're gonna see if we can get these handling dents up with a little bit of steam ordinarily steam will craze this finish and turn it white but since we're buffing the finish off anyway and we're going to put a new coat of oil on this we want to lift some of the more gratuitous dents in this thing but we don't want to pick them up too high because you get to a point where we could send this stock down smooth and it'll look beautiful but all the history is gone if you do that and uh it doesn't look correct it's kind of like going to a rendezvous with brand new buckskins in the 250 year old weapon I've never quite got that there are two really obvious dents in this thing and here's one of them right here and I think this was caused when the um when the rack caved in on it so this this towel is soaking wet with water you lay that over and in this 1980s vintage monocoat iron that I bought when I was in the Navy supplies to eat now if the fibers of the wood are cut this won't work but if the fibers in the wood were just dented we might succeed look at that and getting some of the bottom of that to come up now that alarm you hear going off in the background if you heard it that's that's the alarm telling me that the uh the parts are done converting on their first pass you can ignore that alarm for a few minutes but then you run out of water and all kinds of weird things start happening okay I think that's actually about as good as we're gonna get that so I'm using the edge of the towel because that's where all the water is trying to drive this heat down into the wood fibers again if you do this on a military finish stock that you're not going to re-oil this will come up white and you will know that you did it so if you commit to using heat and making steam just understand that there is a very real possibility that you might screw something up there right there right there trying to get it set up a camera can see it we're I would never be working at this angle but I want you guys to possibly see what happens so we're going after that bad boy right there that's a sharp crease and I think this thing got knocked over in a pile of stuff and we're just gonna see if we can't get that dent to come up a little bit uh hang on having a low dexterity day here I don't want to pull every dent out of the stock it's got to look correct when I get done that pulled about half of that out actually it changed the reflectivity of the let's even get in right there you see it's got like two Dimensions to it there it is so that's actually coming up fairly well I don't want to bring it all the way up and I don't want to sand it out either because if I sand it out there'll be a big spot on this stock where right now the pores are filled on this thing this stock has had finish on it for a hundred and something years 119 years and the pores are full to the surface if we start cutting down below that and start scrubbing below that there'll be a big open spot right here and oh my God you'll be able to see that from across the freaking parking lot we've steamed up dents we've polished this down and we haven't opened up any of the pores and I think we got lucky here I really do think we got lucky so then we put a little bit of dark stain when you mess the stock up like this go dark all right the only way to go light would have been to strip all the finish off of this but we're going to put a dark oil on this how it was finished originally and let this soak in now I'm not fixing a lot of the hills with this stock but we're going to let this soak in and I'm going to tell you what you can't beat what that's going to look like when this is done and we buff it out and we do a couple of layers of oil on it which is more than it would have had originally but we're getting back down to the point where we we are refurbishing this piece of equipment we're making it operate and be the way it should have been when it was kind of new we have not come to the decision whether or not we're going to reset this thing or not so we can serve first which is stop it from decay then we refurbish we make it run and then we make the decision whether or not and here's the decision if the bore on this thing is ruined Beyond operation it's going to turn into a movie prop and if that's the case we're going to blow it because if it's all the way out of service it's got to look like something a trooper could have been carrying when it was 10 years old if it runs if the bore is okay then I'm going to call its owner and go here we sit we don't have any oil on this thing do you want me to put a coat of rust on it and knock the sheen back what do you want I don't know we'll see well I'm telling you what first conversion we went ahead and wheeled off and it came out pretty clean but here is where this gun is going to take a left or a right turn and it depends upon what comes spraying out of this oh boy you see that puff of smoke foreign let's do that a couple more times because the heart of every gun is the inside of the bore I can fix everything else but if the bore is trashed this is where this gun's going to take a turn between being an active uh weapon that you can actually run live ammo in and a blank firing um prop gun this is owned by the same people that own the um the Ferguson rifle so they would rather have it live firing so would I um but if it can't then it'll get turned into a prop gun and then there are some specific things we have to do gentlemen I want you to remember in spite of all the fooling around rust is a bore obstruction you must get all of this rust out of the bore you cannot shoot it out this particular case I honestly believe from the amount of cosmoline that was in the bottom of the stock that this is fried cosmoline which is a new level of gacked up now that the ladder of life has been strung but chimney sweeps on the bottom most sprung but I spend my time in the ashes and smoke in this whole world there's no happier blue well by now Bruno has figured out to do the split screen before and after on what this metal looked like on this gun trust me unless you've got pitting going deeply into the barrel or the receiver what you think is a complete total loss isn't just don't wire wheel it right off the bat boil it we have a ton of conservation videos up in the conservation videos tab on my YouTube page that explains and go to the sour Barrel if you the sour Barrel episode if you want the short version of it and go to conservation 101 if you want the long version of what's being done here but I'm not going to cover every single aspect of this every single time I do a video on it we're done with the first pass of conversion now everything's been through the Steam and the hot water one time we've dynamited a lot of that charcoal out of the inside of the barrel and we're not quite done it's a little bit adulterated here to here but as you can see after the before and afters we got rid of all of that scrolled and there's no pitting on it because we got to it fast enough that's the good news we saved the stock that's the good news here's the bad news and here's why you buy the book first Bruno's gonna hand me this I was loaned this book um today I was loaned this book by gentlemen on the other side of town this is a pretty damn rare book but it's everything you needed to know about Crags in one place and I'm going to tell you what that book right there told me that this gun is the mutt of mutts we looked at the serial number on a receiver and this is a rifle receiver with a carbine Barrel screwed into it the serial number range is wrong they only made five thousand in one of these things um in 1898 and then in 99 they made actually made a 99 well the rear sights off in 1901 the stock cartoons the inspectors the acceptance mark from the head armor in Springfield says 1901. it's got a firing pin tip off of a 96 or earlier there are a lot of things here that just say that this is a mutt and one of the things that cautioned in that book is beware 98 carbines it says that there's there's an entire page on it because 98 carbines were easy to make spuriously so this is going to get cleaned up fired but it's going to be a movie prop guys and it's going to get blued and it's going to get turned into a full-on movie prop and it's going to live its life out as a collection of parts that's hard to take we're 100 positive that Lawrence of Arabia or George Patton did not carry this weapon it was not in the Philippine Insurrection it was not down in Puerto Rico it just wasn't it is what it is and it's a collection of crap that looks like a carbine so anyway I'm sorry about spouting off on that but the important thing to remember is buy the book before you invest the money in the gone golly I'd like to own a Crag great guess what I know a lot more about Crags right now than I did yesterday and that's the important thing the easiest way to double your money when buying a firearm is to fold it in half and stick it back in your pocket don't reach for a grinder reach for a hammer with a polished head and we're just going to start driving this metal back I have it set down inside of a hole here on my bench block and we got to jack up on top of the Vise where you can see it but all I'm I don't grind metal off of a gun all that metal was there for a reason dremels are great tools but they're they're used far too often in Anger all right here we go oh hey just to defend the Dremel guys I own four of them they're around the shop they get used a lot just letting you know that oh hell if you want to get really crazy oh he has a can of WD-40 read okay anyway all I'm doing is pushing the metal back into this slot we'll lift this screw out of here and set it down on the top of the bench and usually it's a little bit long right there now we're going to come back to that Focus so just yeah we're there okay we're good very good and we're going to come back up here and set that back in again Bruno's chasing my focus all over Helen back it's a butt plate screw so let's not worry about it let's just take a hacksaw to it now and clean it out the real issue was there's sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy here is that slot gets screwed up and then the screwdriver sits up further and further and further in it and it just gets more and more and more hacked up now you don't want to cut down too far I'm just going to go ahead and sort of slice this up a little bit and what that's going to do here is produce a screw head with a with a little bit more depth now we'll look down the inner see what I mean now I got some more depth and a common screwdriver can actually get from side to side and get some torque on this Beast are we going to be able to get all that dead GAC out of the center not really this isn't a very thick head I don't have a lot of room to push material in here so we're going to live with that we'll clean it up a little bit the screws on all the screws and all depends on a Crag are supposed to be fire blued and they call it oil blue um so that's just in the Universal work holding system here we'll go ahead and rig a torch got my tub of oil sitting back there all the screws and pins on a Crag are supposed to be oil blue so we're just going to heat this up we heat the bottom up first and the reason why I like heating these screws up from the bottom is is I want the heat to go up the stem right and then appear in the center and I want the colors to Bloom from the inside out that's just a personal preference of mine you'll find that screws that have been fire blue to have a tendency to rust a little bit less so let's see here is it's starting to change colors I got to get it to where you can see it there it goes now it's starting to turn blue yeah so we didn't polish this and we just dunk it in oil here you can see how it's almost turning black the lighting in here and the way this camera is set up isn't going to really show it to you but if you look at all the colors that something goes through when you're all done you wind up with a screw head that looks pretty decent and can actually make a case for the fact that it had been on a butt plate all that time if I polish all these screws and make everything nice and shiny and pretty um we're right back to the table lamp in the French whorehouse the rest of this rifle is pretty straightforward to put together the magazine kind of baffles people so we'll we'll look at this magazine this is the follower that's going to push the cartridges around the corner they're going to come in here and then the followers going to drive them around a corner present them down here where my finger is so that there's an orientation here that that will slip down into and I get too high there we go right there so that Peg was in there and then this rotates and the way it rotates is there's a spring that's going to push right there so that spring is going to give you the spring-loaded thing to push through so that spring is going to sit right there now there's an inner relationship between the follower and this tab right here and this tab is going to sit up underneath it's going to go underneath this follower right here like this and roll in and then that whole thing is just going to sit down and there's a pin we're going to put through let me make sure I got up underneath that there it is okay so there's a pen that's going to go from here to here and as you can tell there's a pretty honk and spring here trying to keep this thing from moving so the pin you leave a little bit of a hang on a minute here let me roll this over so I can show you what I'm doing here we go so right now we've got that spring catching there and we've got the lid catching so when this thing's all the way and it's going to come down and hook like that so we'll stick the pin in and now we just got a get the get the Kung Fu Grip thing going on here and what I'm going to do is I'm going to shove this in by grabbing it and that's going to allow this pin to slide up into this position here and we've really got to get on it and it helps if this thing's I don't know how you could have done this in a field maybe had to have a vice to really get this this piece here comes down flush and then rotates back until that edge drops over the top and that's kind of how it's caught that's actually a spring right there okay so when you do all that you wind up with this where well it's hidden here but that spring is doing two things it's pushing the follower around spring loading the follower down here spring-loading this okay so when you open this thing up it kicks the follower out of the way and if you drop a cartridge in it right here the cartridge can come through right so when you go to shut this thing the cartridge is here now in order to bring it around the corner this lid sits down on this so This lid will be sitting right over the top like that and this will just right around the corner it'll come right on around and get pushed up into here now if you don't want it to get pushed up into there you have the cartridge cut off the cartridge cut off let's see if we can get it up in there so you can see it's sticking out the cartridge cutoff is this bad boy and when it's like that the cartridge is allowed to present to the bolt this thing doesn't feed up from the bottom like a standard gun it feeds from the side when you have this rotated it obstructs the rim from going around the corner rotate out of the way and it allows the rim to sit here in a position where as the bolt comes forward it can just strip the round off so everything you know about bolt action rifles is kind of 90 degrees out because this is straight up and down so all this feeding action is coming in here off the side and then up into the chamber this cover goes on there's a lip here and in that cover just sort of comes up in and drops down in there like that we'll open this up and get it out of the way so I've had to persuade this gun ever so slightly to get it to go back together again and I don't know how you could have done this in a field and I don't think these guys were probably allowed to take this gun as far apart I'm guessing that this had to be an armor doing this okay let me get a block of wood here so I can really get down on this thing yep that's not quite there yet yeah it is it's there okay again light Taps but I got a polished Hammer so I'm not leaving any marks on this thing the 30 U.S 30 40 Crag call it what you want to call it rimmed round kind of had one foot in each side of History it's not quite powerful enough to hang with a 30 odd six um it runs better than a 30-30 it's good but when we put it up against the seven millimeter Mauser down in Puerto Rico ah it's a little light in the interest of full disclosure I have already fired this thing off the test rig and I know it's going to go bang the bore is silver I'm fine putting it up on my shoulder I've already done all of that so the way this thing was loaded was you were supposed to be carrying loose ammo in a pouch they've tried a variety of quick loaders for these things and to be really honest not so much so you can see it around in there and it all feeds from the side but these things man are flipping butter just so smooth just look at that instant ejection oh rock you gotta love that and I'm gonna tell you what this thing has been a pleasure we really brought it back from the dead didn't we foreign oh yeah well we basically went from this to this and even though this gun may be a mutt it runs the Boris silver and we've successfully saved it um for those of you doubters out here to think you can't save your gear you can if you ever find one of these Crags I'm going to tell you what butter and as always a pleasure foreign [Music]

Channel: Mark Novak

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Id: 87jHzQ70Zck

Length: 50min 29sec (3029 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 22 2020