About two three years ago I read about how to build your own scope.
Did I read it in the Fouling Shot ???
Do any of you remember that write up???
:cba::dude:
Home made scopes. where did I see it???
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rmrix
posted this
31 October 2010
I read it on the ASSRA web forum. It was GREAT! Would like to give it a try some day.
Good luck if you build one and post a play by play so we know how it works out. BTW You MUST be retired or single or both!:^:
Michael Rix
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gregg
posted this
31 October 2010
No No but I will look for that.. It was in a monthly mag.
Retired and or single????:wow:
Interresting but why would you say that. ??? :thinking:
I would love to try it but I don't have the machine tools yet..
I would love to have the tools to try. I'm working on it.lol
Give me a reply on the single and retired and I will tell you no lies,.>
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rmrix
posted this
01 November 2010
Gregg,
Building a scope, from what I have read will be a time intensive project. I have most of the tools; lathe and mill and most of the other shop tools but I think with kids around and even a wife that likes to do “stuff” it would be very hard, for me at least, to stay on task and complete the scope. Kind of like building a complete rifle but worse.
This might have been printed up in the ASSRA mag as well but for sure on the forum. The gentleman wrote it up wrote in great detail and provided lots of info on what to do and not do based on how each step worked out for him. By reading his detailed reports you could avoid some costly problems. It was realy fun following his progress over the course of 6 months on how the scope was coming along.
Michael Rix
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Reg
posted this
01 November 2010
Gregg, I think what you are looking for is in the Jan-Feb issue of the Single Shot Rifle Journal. Vol 62 No. 1 , with a follow up artical several issues later dealing with making a set of mounts for the scope. Prior to that it was discussed in the Single Shot Rifle forums but I have yet to locate exactly where in the forums it was. For someone with a bit of metal working ability it looks like a snap. All materials were listed. Fastenal was listed as a sorce for the tubing but I found another sorce was Airparts, Inc. 2400 Merriam Lane, Kansas City Ks. 66106-1780. 913-831-1780. There we purchased 3/4"x.035 4130N tubing @ 2.90 per ft. Might have gone up a bit since. I have everything just sitting in a pile, and like I said, it really looks easy but hope to finially get the time to work with it this winter. Somewhere I do have several more referances sorces as there were a few points left out of the article such as you need a “Pope ” style rib to stabilize the tube in its mounts and he could have done a bit better explaining how the adjustable focusing part works but by and large you can actually make one of the old tube scopes and really, its not rocket science. Also contact a guy named Stangarone, 104 Pollywiggle Lane, Pleasantville , N Y 10570 for tungston cross hair wire. I have tried using dental floss, cat hair and you name it for cross hairs. They all are a pain to use. Stay with the real McCoy, its much easyer. Good luck, let us know how it works out !!
Reg
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raytear
posted this
01 November 2010
RE: material for scope cross-hairs. At one point, I think during WW-2, scope makers of various types--rifle scopes, artillery and sighting optics of various sorts that required cross-hairs used spider silk and/or human female hair that had never been bleached or tinted.
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gregg
posted this
02 November 2010
Gregg,
Building a scope, from what I have read will be a time intensive project. I have most of the tools; lathe and mill and most of the other shop tools but I think with kids around and even a wife that likes to do “stuff” it would be very hard, for me at least, to stay on task and complete the scope. Kind of like building a complete rifle but worse.
This might have been printed up in the ASSRA mag as well but for sure on the forum. The gentleman wrote it up wrote in great detail and provided lots of info on what to do and not do based on how each step worked out for him. By reading his detailed reports you could avoid some costly problems. It was realy fun following his progress over the course of 6 months on how the scope was coming along.
Michael Rix
Ok lol
Here the real deal. I am 57. Lost my wife to cancer when I was 48. kids are now 29 and 30 years old. I think I could of pulled this stuff off better back when the kids were small better than I could now . Kids were good about staying out of stuff and wife was a hunter and serious shooter of the black powder round ball kind. Ohh she had her mod 19 S&W and her E- German Mak. Her Colt SAA 22 revolver .Others I cannot think of right now but you get the picture. She take care of the house and when I get a day off I could start building. I have a gal pal now that lives 180 miles away and has growned kids of her own . I worked allot of night and weekend shifts by my self . SO spent days on days or weeks only seeing the guy that releaved me off shift and who ever I paid for gas to drive to work. Lots of time to live in your head thinking of all the neat things you would like to do or go to. I'm thinking its not healthyway to live???
Retired now but my ageing Mom has kept me hopping.
I have things going on with my mother and my kids and My gal has thing going on with grand kids and kids. Its just plain nuts.:shock::shock::doooah:
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gregg
posted this
02 November 2010
Gregg,
I think what you are looking for is in the Jan-Feb issue of the Single Shot Rifle Journal. Vol 62 No. 1 , with a follow up artical several issues later dealing with making a set of mounts for the scope.
Prior to that it was discussed in the Single Shot Rifle forums but I have yet to locate exactly where in the forums it was.
For someone with a bit of metal working ability it looks like a snap. All materials were listed.
Fastenal was listed as a sorce for the tubing but I found another sorce was Airparts, Inc. 2400 Merriam Lane, Kansas City Ks. 66106-1780.
913-831-1780. There we purchased 3/4"x.035 4130N tubing @ 2.90 per ft. Might have gone up a bit since. I have everything just sitting in a pile, and like I said, it really looks easy but hope to finially get the time to work with it this winter.
Somewhere I do have several more referances sorces as there were a few points left out of the article such as you need a “Pope ” style rib to stabilize the tube in its mounts and he could have done a bit better explaining how the adjustable focusing part works but by and large you can actually make one of the old tube scopes and really, its not rocket science.
Also contact a guy named Stangarone, 104 Pollywiggle Lane, Pleasantville , N Y 10570 for tungston cross hair wire. I have tried using dental floss, cat hair and you name it for cross hairs. They all are a pain to use. Stay with the real McCoy, its much easyer.
Good luck, let us know how it works out !!
Reg
:fire
BINGO WE HAVE A WINnER..:dude::dude::dude: I set them aside and now cannot find them. It ad to be the fouling shot or Single Shot Rifle Journal. or the BPCN.
Thank you. I will try to get the information together. I'm a ways out from doing it.
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Reg
posted this
02 November 2010
Gregg, I for one, find trying to get around in the ASSRA forums a bit difficult when it comes to locating older info. Could you , or anyone else for that matter, remember when or exactly where the posting was about making the scope. I understand it was far more inclusive than the magazine article. Thanks Reg
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gregg
posted this
02 November 2010
Gregg,
I for one, find trying to get around in the ASSRA forums a bit difficult when it comes to locating older info. Could you , or anyone else for that matter, remember when or exactly where the posting was about making the scope. I understand it was far more inclusive than the magazine article.
Thanks
Reg
I do not but will be looking . If i find it I will post here
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Reg
posted this
03 November 2010
Thank you. Michael Rix, any word from you on this subject ? Thanks Reg
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32ideal
posted this
03 November 2010
Try this thread for the ASSRA Scope design discussion:
Enjoy, 32ideal
:cba:
PS here are the youtube movies that go with write up!
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