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Default A 1800 Meter Luger !

A 1600 meter Luger???
What??? There ain't no such thing!!!

Well, in that case...We'll have to make one!!!

Here's a look down the barrel of the '1600 Meter Luger'...



It's been a while since I did a 'Fantasy Artillery' barrel, and I had some odds and ends lying around, so I whipped up a long-barrel Luger with an 1894 Swedish Mauser carbine sight on it. Here's an abbreviated pictorial of my mis-adventures (leaving out the mistakes)...



I'll start out with a pic of some of the tools and parts available, or that had to be made along the way.



The machine work starts with the Swedish Mauser 1600 meter rear sight, sourced from eBay some time back.



1. The rear sight had been rudely hammered off the barrel by some unknown hack, and had metal deformation that couldn't all be restored. So I milled off the excess.

2. A Green Mountain 9mm barrel blank being skim cut on the lathe for concentricity. 4140 steel, 1:10 twist.

3. Turning down one end to form the breech stub.

4. Threading the breech stub, 18mm x 20tpi.

Next up is fitting the barrel extension.



5. Receiver fitted to stub. nice snug fit.

6. Turning the relief at the breech face.

7. Turning down the base where the rear sight sits.

8. Fitting the Swedish Mauser rear sight.

Next up we turn to the muzzle end.

(Edit: Quick pic of what it looks like when turning down the barrel)...



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