Here's my '44 springfield. Came into my hands with dane barrel and a synthetic stock. Parkerizing was quite worn, but receiver was in otherwise great condition. Wanting to have it brought back to its former glory, I sourced a boyds unfinished stock, an unfired springfield '51 barrel from pocketfisherman (thanks!) and shipped it off to Nick from Vulcan Gun Refinishing. The dane barrel shot fine, however, I thought I may as well re-barrel as I was wanting to bring it back to "new" condition. I went with a service pack from wolff gunsprings as well, replacing the recoil, hammer, ejector and extractor springs.
Nick was a complete pleasure to deal with, and I found his prices very reasonable. I have no problems recommending him to anyone else looking to undertake a project like this.
I took it out the other day, however I had the largest jet in my adjustable gas system and forgot the others at home. Needless to say, I was short stroking and ended up with a straight pull bolt gun haha.
As a side note, I brought some handloads out with me (hornady 150 fmjbt, 50gr IMR 4064, fed 210) to shoot over the chrony and velocities were in the 2840-2870 neighborhood (chrony @ 10ft). I understand this is a little faster than the M2 ball load at ~2750 (although with a different powder). If I throw the original gas plug in, should I drop the powder charge a touch? I would like to stick with 4064, already a few pounds kicking around. The AE 150fmj ammo I had was hitting between 2920 and 2960 if anyone was wondering.
Nick was a complete pleasure to deal with, and I found his prices very reasonable. I have no problems recommending him to anyone else looking to undertake a project like this.
I took it out the other day, however I had the largest jet in my adjustable gas system and forgot the others at home. Needless to say, I was short stroking and ended up with a straight pull bolt gun haha.
As a side note, I brought some handloads out with me (hornady 150 fmjbt, 50gr IMR 4064, fed 210) to shoot over the chrony and velocities were in the 2840-2870 neighborhood (chrony @ 10ft). I understand this is a little faster than the M2 ball load at ~2750 (although with a different powder). If I throw the original gas plug in, should I drop the powder charge a touch? I would like to stick with 4064, already a few pounds kicking around. The AE 150fmj ammo I had was hitting between 2920 and 2960 if anyone was wondering.
