Results : Muscle Power League 2019, Spring/Summerr Series

[PhatMan]

Bob,

On the Hatsan 55S, it is a relativley straight job to fit a fore-sight tunnel - just mill off the fibre optic top part of the fore-sight, to leave an almost 'made for it' dovetail.

Strange to have a rifle with a foresight tunnel that cost more than the rifle !

Have fun & a good Sunday

Best regards

Russ

[zooma]

Bob,

On the Hatsan 55S, it is a relativley straight job to fit a fore-sight tunnel - just mill off the fibre optic top part of the fore-sight, to leave an almost 'made for it' dovetail.

Strange to have a rifle with a foresight tunnel that cost more than the rifle !

Have fun & a good Sunday

Best regards

Russ

Thats a tidy looking milling job you have done there Russ!

The pictures shows the barrel held in your milling vice - it looks a lot like my Vertex milling vice's. I have three of these vices in different sizes and found them to be excellent value for money.

Getting everything held square would have been the key to getting the top surface in line - did you use "soft jaws" or some other sort of protection for the barrel surface when you worked on it, or did you risk fitting it directly into the plain vice jaws (as shown in your picture)?

I only ask as I may have a similar project in mind, but I am juggling the risk of marking the barrel in the milling vice jaws with the more secure "hold" that I would probably loose by fitting soft jaws or wood block sleeves.