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Puffer

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??? = Tuning/honing your MLs
« on: May 29, 2020, 01:20:27 PM »
Tuning/honing your MLs

? when do you "Tune/Hone ? {as soon as you receive the firearm ?, After you have fired it a # of Xs ?
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Offline Ironhand

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??? = Tuning/honing your MLs
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2020, 08:18:50 PM »
I usually test fire first

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Re: ??? = Tuning/honing your MLs
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2020, 09:29:00 PM »
What Ironhand said.  I play with them, then see what needs to be done.  Of course I mostly buy used so much of the tuning has been done or I end up "detuning" to make the gun function safely again....  ;banghead;

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Offline garrettep3

Re: ??? = Tuning/honing your MLs
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2020, 06:53:28 PM »
I will always fix a trigger before I fire the first shot.
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Re: ??? = Tuning/honing your MLs
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2020, 07:18:27 PM »
I inspect the lock and triggers when I first get it, if needed it gets honed and polished, ask Puffer, he's been in my shop with a trigger and lock for his Baker, first thing we did was make a new trigger to change the geometry and make it a shorter, lighter trigger pull, then polished everything, worked a heck of a lot better then.
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Re: ??? = Tuning/honing your MLs
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2020, 04:13:23 PM »
Quote from: BEAVERMAN on June 10, 2020, 07:18:27 PM
I inspect the lock and triggers when I first get it, if needed it gets honed and polished, ask Puffer, he's been in my shop with a trigger and lock for his Baker, first thing we did was make a new trigger to change the geometry and make it a shorter, lighter trigger pull, then polished everything, worked a heck of a lot better then.

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Re: ??? = Tuning/honing your MLs
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2020, 05:03:32 PM »
Well I tune mine as I go along in the build so when I get it finished I can take it to the Range and complete any tuning required as I sight in and get use to the new (or new to me) rifle.  :shake
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Offline waksupi

Re: ??? = Tuning/honing your MLs
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2020, 10:17:30 AM »
You do need to know what you are doing. Even on a Chambers lock, I put in a couple hours fine tuning them when building a gun. The last rifle I built I used a Kibler lock, and it took the least amount of cleanup to be good.
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