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Jack’s Personal “Conversion Experience” We moved this over from last month and now here it is! Kimber Rimfire Target .22lr 1911 Conversion Kit Jack performs an evaluation of two brands of .22LR conversion units for your 1911 style pistol. Both are similar, yet their design and construction vary. We try them on two different 1911 style pistols with SEVERAL (and we mean SEVERAL) different brands and types of .22LR ammo including target loads and super highvelocity. It is a grueling and involved test, but thanks to the magic of video we don’t make YOU suffer through it all. In the end Jack gives you not only direct results for those specific .22 conversion units, he also gives you some basic information that will apply to ANY .22 conversion you use on a 1911. Coming Next Month Next month we will start the new year with a BANG as only GunTech can! The January issue of GunTech will feature another installment of “Gene’s Gun Locker,” this time on the Reising machine gun. We’ve got more product reviews and Lenée Landis interviews AGI instructor Fred Zeglin. At Reising M50 Submachine Gun the firing range, Gene tries out the new line-up of pistols from SIG. Next, he pays a visit to our friends at Ten-X to check out their revolutionary new “shotgun accessory” for the AR platform. Keith goes on an undercover mission to a pretty unusual place and Ken has another installment of “Tips from the Workbench.” As always, Jack reviews more products and gives you his pick for “Tool of the Month”. Jonathon Arthur Ciener “Platinum Cup” 1911A1 .22lr Conversion unit Firearm Evaluation We mentioned at the beginning that this month we are evaluating the same gun we are featuring in our Disassembly/Reassembly Course. It is the new “American Rifle” from Ruger. This is meant to be an affordable, entrylevel, bolt-action hunting rifle. It incorporates certain features that were recently developed by a competing company and has some additional innovations of its own. Ken and Bob give it a thorough going over at the bench and then we’re off to the range for the field evaluation. This field evaluation was one that fellow GCA members got to participate in at this year’s Gunstock gathering. We combine our experience with their feedback and give you the straight dope. Disassembly/Reassembly Course Well, here we are near the end of another issue of GunTech and it is time for the Disassembly/Reassembly Course on the “Ruger American” rifle. As Ken takes you through the complete disassembly and reassembly, you really get to see the unique features that were discussed earlier in the evaluation. At several points you will become closely acquainted with features of the design and construction that make the gun VERY easy to work on in some areas and more difficult in others. Ken shows you all the best tips and tricks for dealing with these twists and turns and, as usual, makes it a simple, straightforward process. As you bask in holiday cheer and all that is good about this season we’ll be working hard to put together the inaugural issue of 2013, so enjoy your holidays and we’ll look forward to seeing you next year . . . in GunTech! ◆ 4 The Ruger American Rifle Ortgies .32 ACP Pocket Pistol from Deutsche Werke. Note “D” on grip panel. AR-30A1 .338 Lapua Magnum Std Rifle, Fixed Stock Early Pocket .32 made by Heinrich Ortgies himself. Note “HO” on grip panel. We conduct a thorough bench and field evaluation on the new AR-30 rifle from ArmaLite, chambered in .338 Lapua Magnum! We finish-up with the month’s Disassembly/Reassembly Course as Ken takes you through twists and turns of Lenée Landis’s favorite carry pistol, the German Ortgies pistol. What a cool way to kick off another new year full of exciting issues of Gun Tech! Remember the “BANG” we mentioned? You’ll get a BIG one of those every time we light off that AR-30! Enjoy your holidays and we’ll see you next month, or should we say year . . . in GunTech! ◆ Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at GCA and AGI!
Jack’s Corner by Jack Landis AGI Technical Services Manager, GCA Connection and GunTech Editor Here’s some Great News for those masses of you GCA members and AGI customers who constantly call me and beg for us to make an Armorer’s or Disassembly/Reassembly course on your beloved Prysbylsky Semi Auto Assault Derringer brought home by your late, favorite, Great, Great Uncle Cosmo from his time of service during the Crimean War. By the way Frodo, your nasty note regarding my doubts that a great market existed for this item was not helpful! I’m still a sensitive, New Millennium kind of guy and I cry easily. OK, we’re really NOT going to make one on that gun, but Robert Dunn has arrived at the Bear’s Den, AKA Bob’s Shop, in Oregon to spend a few weeks filming Armorer’s courses with the Great One and Ken Brooks. What!? You ask? Ken? Why Ken, doesn’t he do the Disassembly/Reassembly courses? Well, yes he does! Good catch! However, Grasshopper, we’re making a modification to our usual format. Bob’s great gift is his ability to show and explain design and function of the various guns in the courses in a manner clear and simple enough for even your Editor to understand. One of Ken’s strengths is his ability to make the Disassembly/ Reassembly process clear to even the least of us, that and his hands must be smaller than Bob’s. Since Bob says his arthritis makes getting heavily spring loaded parts into and out of their homes without some truly colorful language, and to spread the labor to increase our output, Ken is going to do the D/R parts of the courses and Bob will do the history and design/function/repair parts of the courses. We all think this will be a real step forward, please tell us what you think (relatives of the principals please pipe down!). We’ve acquired the following guns from both our members (Thank You so very much, and your copies of the courses will be sent as finished) and outside purchase: 1. Smith & Wesson Sigma Series Semi Autos – includes the new SD series guns as well as the 2nd Gen improvements to the original S&W series 2. Ruger P Series Semi Auto Pistols – long awaited and much requested 3. Ruger LCP/LC9/Kel-Tec Pocket Pistols 4. FNH FNP9/40 Series Semi Auto Pistols 5. 1903/A3 Springfield Rifles 6. Benelli Semi Auto Shotguns – we’re attempting the 4 bagger of M1/M2/ M3/M4 variants so we want to borrow as many of these as we can to show the variations and are buying the others to do cut-aways. 7. Benelli Nova Pump Shotguns 8. Winchester Model 70 – the 3 bagger of Pre-64, Post-64 Push Feed and Classic. We still need a Beater/Rust Queen/Fire Damage gun for a cutaway 9. Cowboy Double Barrel Shotguns – We have a Stoeger Coach Gun, Rossi Ext. Hammer Coach Gun, and EAA/Baikal Bounty Hunter II’s, both Ext. Hammer & Hammerless. Anyone who has a Chinese copy of the Colt ’87 or Remington 1878 (Taylor copy) and would let us use it in the course please call/email me poste haste! This will be a premium course because of its length. Owners of the guns we’re still looking for email or call me at jlandis@americangunsmith.com or (800) 797-0867 x104. As long as I’m asking for stuff from our members, how about letting me know if you see a gun/product/tool/assessor that you’d like to see your humble editor review for you? If you ask me and I do it, other than a gun, we’ll send it to you when we’ve finished. How’s that for a heckuva deal? Also, I ask the many of you who call and ask questions to write up their projects and send them in to me for use in GunTech, with the appropriate AGI credits as compensation. Most of you say, “Well, OK, that’s a good idea! Free stuff, huh?” Like this is the first time the idea ever occurred to you??? Excuse me! Have I not begged in these very pages for articles by our members to the point that it has become pretty embarrassing?? Sometimes I feel like I need to perform the LeRoy Jethro Gibbs head slap. “Come on Probies”, give all of us the benefits of your tips, tricks, and discoveries. Don’t worry that you didn’t get an A in English or Creative Writing, we’ll make it look like you did. Has anyone we’ve published here looked illiterate (other than me or Keith)? Man up! Email me your stuff and I’ll call you if I need something clarified. Make all of your friends think you’re really smart and erudite (just using the word will make you the talk of the local VFW/American Legion/Moose crowd. Don’t send me any nasty/outraged letters or emails, I belong too, and cooked breakfast Sundays at the VFW for years). The idea is that a lot of the things and techniques we use are probably not thought of by others. No one person knows more than all of us collectively. You would be amazed how often that something you routinely do would be considered a REALLY great idea by many of the rest of us. You are probably waaaay more clever than you think! By the time you read this Gene and I will have done this month’s GCA Live monthly webinar. Hopefully we will have done it on our “lavish” new set in his basement where I used to live. Yes, it’s true, I WAS the “Basement troll” of AGI legend. I’ll have shown several new items, both tools and products whose full reviews will appear later in GunTech. Those of you who make or sell products or have a project you’re proud of and would like to see them shown here, email me. ◆ 5
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