Winnipeg Hungry M14 Clinic Sat 04 Apr 2009 Debrief Here!

Yes it was a great day. Thanks to Hungry, the boys at range Supra, and Grizzlypeg for bringing out the welder. Its good to see the all the guys coming out to make the clinic great. Can't wait till the next one. :D
 
Thanks Hungry, and all those who helped put this together, Supra, Fire and everyone. One of those days when you heard and saw so much that it will take a while for it to all sink in. I like the suggestion we get together at the range and give each other an opportunity to see the guns in action and try various stocks and optics combos that people have put together. There were no two guns alike it seemed. Hungry, you're a wealth of information and it was my pleasure to meet you in person. You've given us the courage to shoot, tinker and modify these guns without fear of losing our most vital appendage.
 
It was a pretty great day to make a rifle go ping! Good work putting it together and thanks to Hungry's instructor for making him do this for the rest of his years. It was pretty cool to finally meet the master!

For those that are interested in shooting these m14's now here's your chance:

The Manitoba Provincial Rifle Association has a match coming up on:

(It's one day or the other, will know as it draws closer)

27TH (SAT) 0800‐1800 HRS (SIERRA MATCH)

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TH (SUN) 0800‐1800 HRS (SIERRA MATCH)

It's 300M, so bring out your freshly tuned rifles and give target shooting a try.

See www.manitobarifle.ca for more info.


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I'm home now. Showered and started some laundry. Good to be back from Winnipeg. Suprathepeg: I could not get over how quickly I checked in and then I was boarding in no time. That airport is so tiny and intimate, it was a simple experience unlike Pearson's Terminal 3. Way nicer in Wpg.

All of you in Wpg:

I could not have pulled off this clinic without the collaboration of the pointmen: Suprathepeg and Fire. These pointmen arranged the clubhouse and also that big table and the donuts. How sweet (literally....)

I cannot forget to mention PrairieMedic's input helping us get the clubhouse to teach in and then test fire on the range afterwards. His help was awesome. Whoops, we cannot forget Jester421's coffee urn. That was most welcome! My head is spinning from this 36 hour whirlwind weekend. I gotta have a nap and decompress. It certainly was a very long day yesterday.

All of you MB CGNutz were most wonderful to meet. We truly have a great community of shooters out there! I was so glad to meet all of you. My only ONE regret is that I did not have time to sit down, bzllshzt with you and answer any questions about future tweaks and projects. Otherwise, I have no regrets whatsoever.... I would like to do this again.

Just like JohnOne over at Marstar.ca..... we can work together and bring another clinic to Ottawa at Vankleek Hill GC next March. Now I can think about another April visit to Wpg.

Gotta rest up. Tonight I'm putting away all my tools back in the cabinets....

Thanks everyone for allowing me to humour you with my stale jokes and memorable stories like the "Butt Trap Story" and "How to play with the Spindle Valve on the firing line" story. You'll be telling those stories at my funeral :D

whoops, I cannot forget to mention Grizzlypeg... thanks for bringing and then welding up all those gas cylinders. That rig worked really well. I never got around to thanking you for such kind deeds.

Granite: How did that Devcon bedding job turn out? Thanks for volunteering to pull on Stealth_Omega's receiver only to go falling and flying backwards into the M14 clinic crowd when the receiver finally 'broke' from the tightly gripped barrel!


TTFN,
Barney
 
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Attention, found after the clinic:

- 1 Cleaning Rod
- 2 heavily used pairs of adult absorbant underwear. 2XL.

If you are missing these items please pm me. I would like to get 2 of them out of my house soon.

If anybody needs their brass mic'd I have a kit here. No charge.
 
Granite, as the duty medic I would like to thank you for not making me look at your ass. :)

Did you shim the gas system? Mine grew a ping right we added the shims.
 
For some reason the shorties that I've seen don't seem to ping. This many not be a bad thing though. My shorty has shot MOA with hand loads and doesn't sing the sweet music of love.
 
I am truly amazed that after the clinic, there were so many rifles that PING'ed longer and louder. To me, that's testimony that the tweaks we are doing work really well! :D

Hat's off to you new guys who did a great job! That's the reward for hurting yourselves banging out those shims of 8 thou sheet steel. :evil:

:cheers:

Barney
 
The clinic was fabulous. All praise to our charismatic teacher.

I was expecting just box-stock Norcs at the clinic but instead we
had a plethora of everything under the sun. Huge cool factor on
some of them. Lots of usgi stuff and some that was downright
unusual.

My main concern going into this clinic was headspace. We learned
what tool was used to measure once-fired brass, and in my case,
both rifles were good. Hungry showed me how to do the measuring
and I passed it on. No one who measured their once-fired brass had
anything extreme.

The bedding was interesting. I do have a Cooey and I'm going to
practice on it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks to Grizzlypeg once again for the very neat welding. It's most
appreciated. Thanks also to the point men for the clinic and the
Selkirk range for hosting it.

In closing, I went with two new Norinco M14s, both of which rang
slightly. We worked on one of them (the worst, in my opinion) and
now it rings nicely. And it can still be improved with bedding. The
clinic was a success.

Glen
 
suprathepeg said:
For some reason the shorties that I've seen don't seem to ping. This many not be a bad thing though. My shorty has shot MOA with hand loads and doesn't sing the sweet music of love.
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It won't ring because you don't have one of the regular M 14 flash hiders on it. Those are what make the Pinging sound. :D
 
Yup, it was a great course, especially for those of us who weren't that familiar with semi's.
So yeah, big thanks to our leader, Hungry (who hopefully will have more time to finish stories:)) and Grizzlipeg for the welding.
Hope to do it again next year.
 
I had a lot of fun, and I think it was worth it despite the drive from Saskatoon ;). Found out my rifle was so good out of the box that I should "buy two lottery tickets." I didn't actually make any tweaks to it while I was there for this reason, but learned a lot of stuff from watching others work on theirs. How to change the barrel, and how to align the barrel were quite interesting to see.

I don't think I'll make the trip out to Winnipeg again next year, but if there's one closer at hand either in Regina or Saskatoon, I will likely come out :D.
 
Granite, I didn't get a chance to watch the bedding process. Does the bedding set with the trigger group in place, and the guard fully closed? Does the bedding compound stop at the lower lugs on the receiver?
 
Well worth it

Fantastic clinic, I really appreciate the time and effort Hungry put into the clinic. It's great to have such a fantastic resource available.

Also, PrairieMedic, Jester421, thanks for answering newbie questions, I would have went home with a disassembled M1A were it not for you.
 
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