Wynterlynn19
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who has a reconmedation for purchase of blueprints and step by step guild on firearms builds.
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Here is a pair of handmade .22 single action revolvers. It is entirely possible to make firearms from scratch.
This pair was made over 65 years ago by a gentleman who was in his late 80s. Since this photo was taken, I made a replacement ejector housing, and cylinder locking bolt.
What sort of fireams? There is a wide variety available.
Do you have a PAL?
Any metal or woodworking skills?
This pair was made over 65 years ago by a gentleman who was in his late 80s. Since this photo was taken, I made a replacement ejector housing, and cylinder locking bolt.
What sort of fireams? There is a wide variety available.
Do you have a PAL?
Any metal or woodworking skills?
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vagrantviking
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Frank deHass is one of the big names for books about single shots.
Glenn Davis comes up in connection to gunbuilding also.
Some machinist forums go into gun builds as well.
Glenn Davis comes up in connection to gunbuilding also.
Some machinist forums go into gun builds as well.
Blastattack
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Weaponeer has a boatload if blueprints for all sorts of stuff. Full prints for various M1919 machienguns is quite a fun read.
All sorts out there, if you ever decide what you want to actually build.
Jaco has designs for crude and simple stuff. There are at least a couple outfits offering plans for .50 BMG cal bolt action rifles. At least two, maybe three outfits offering Gatling Gun plans to make a scale working (or not) model of different historical Gatling guns.
Dozens of cannon designs out there.
Or you can track down the copies of the Winchester Model 21 shotgun prints, and slave away at those. One of the rare exceptions, where actual factory drawings have escaped factory custody.
Most of the plans I have seen online require that the builder either be willing to live with a pretty crude design, or, essentially, be capable of re-drawing the design to their own tastes.
Very few of the plans I have seen actually walk you through step by step. You are expected to be able to work out how and when you make the stuff. If you cannot get through that yourself, you should like as not, not be meddling with stuff that can hurt you.
Jaco has designs for crude and simple stuff. There are at least a couple outfits offering plans for .50 BMG cal bolt action rifles. At least two, maybe three outfits offering Gatling Gun plans to make a scale working (or not) model of different historical Gatling guns.
Dozens of cannon designs out there.
Or you can track down the copies of the Winchester Model 21 shotgun prints, and slave away at those. One of the rare exceptions, where actual factory drawings have escaped factory custody.
Most of the plans I have seen online require that the builder either be willing to live with a pretty crude design, or, essentially, be capable of re-drawing the design to their own tastes.
Very few of the plans I have seen actually walk you through step by step. You are expected to be able to work out how and when you make the stuff. If you cannot get through that yourself, you should like as not, not be meddling with stuff that can hurt you.
Always a possibility.
But if that is the case, maybe said rat will find out that its a lot of bloody work, and skilled work at that, to make anything that will safely and consistently function. And requires thousands of dollars more worth of tools, than it would cost to hang out with the homies and buy one.
Even buying component parts and building a firearm up from them, is a losing proposition, from a financial and practical perspective. Buying a forging or "80 percent" receiver blank, and making it work, requires more skill time and money, than just buying one legally, and the end result, unless you have some real, marketable skills, will be more expensive and less valuable, than if you had bought one.
Now, appreciating that there are actually folks out there stupid enough to provide illegal guns to street rats, they usually also find out that said street rats will send them down the river in a plea bargain deal to try to avoid being in as much trouble when caught. Who knows, they might end up cellmates, eh?
Under the Laws now, building a gun is legal, as long as it's one you can legally own, anyway, but it's a lot of work, and there are damn few around that will go to the trouble, else we would be awash in home made firearms. I can recall seeing maybe three, in my life, in person, that were finished, and have seen perhaps a dozen more on line from, mostly, a core group of very very few actual guys out there that had both the skills and the willingness to apply them. None of them were street rat types, or willing to hang out with those either.
Short answer, if you need a step by step, hand-holding guide, you are not much of a risk of ever getting it done.
Take a look at BROWNELLS site in the magazine section they used to have a book describing the building of a single shot rifle. Had a lot of interesting info that you may want to be aware of before trying your hand at manufacturing.
