Thread: My gun build

I do all my main gunsmithing during the winter when all the shooting matches shut down. This winter I decided to build another uspsa open division gun that will become my primary competition gun. In 2009 I build my current primary competition gun, which I like a lot, however, I wanted a little more nose weight. So this time around I went with a long dust cover to give me 4 to 5 ounces more up front.

You can see the progress pictures here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3&l=b2fce407f5

I didn't like the way the comp looked so last night I milled 45deg angles on the sharp bottom corners.

This weekend I'm going to serrate the flat top.

I'm still tossing around the idea of doing some decorative lines on the frame, however I don't want to remove too much metal since it defeats the whole purpose of going with the long dust cover.

I plan to run a few thousand rounds through it before sand blasting everything and sending it off to be hard chromed.

Darren

Neat Project Darren.

Looks like it'd be fun to shoot. Very interesting approach to everything and I like the cuts and style you incorporated into it.

Looks good. Keep up the good work!

Great first post as well

Got my gun finished:

Looks great! I just finished (almost) my STI build. 2011/caspian/EGW comp w/ 9mm Clark barrel. I'll get some pics up.
Where in STL are you?

Originally Posted by dhoward80

Looks great! I just finished (almost) my STI build. 2011/caspian/EGW comp w/ 9mm Clark barrel. I'll get some pics up.
Where in STL are you?

Thanks! I live in Belleville but shoot local matches all over the st. Louis area. Most everyone knows me. Check out our StL Shooters forum: StLouisShooters.com.

Where are you? Do you shoot any matches?

D

Reference our STI build.

Are you doing the frame on a manual machine? If so, where did you get the drawings?

There are IGES data packages on Home Gunsmith but I have not seen drawings suitable for manual machining.

Thanks,

Allen