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Good progress today on a 30cal conversion for a BAM B51.
Made a breech with up sized bolt and cocking lug to handle the larger bore.
Big ports, probe less bolt and maximized hammer stroke. Seems perky so will try for numbers later this week.
This barrel is an rsterne/seanp designed for the JSB pellet, should be a real shooter!
Walter

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Walter

Welcome Back Walter

and will wait for updates on this new project, sounds very interesting.

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Custom Design by ME PCP/HPA Air Carbine 10-50X60 Scope My 2018 FT Open

Great to see you back, Walter.

Sounds cool.

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Cool project, Walter.... If you haven't seen it, I did a .22 cal that hit over 50 FPE.... topic65795.html

You might find some of the things I found (and changed) of interest.... or maybe not....

Bob

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Dominion Marksman Silver Shield - 5890 x 6000 in 1976, and downhill ever since!
Airsonal; Too many! Springers, Pumpers, CO2, but I love my PCPs and developing them!
Proud Member of the 2000+fps Club!

Yup I sure did and now she's mine

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BSA Mercury 177 cal
slavia 618
M3 Impact
Daystate rever
AA510 carbine
JTS Airacuda

Pics

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Walter

VERY nice, Walter.... lockup looks good and beefy, too.... "J" slot to retract the bolt?....

Bob

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Dominion Marksman Silver Shield - 5890 x 6000 in 1976, and downhill ever since!
Airsonal; Too many! Springers, Pumpers, CO2, but I love my PCPs and developing them!
Proud Member of the 2000+fps Club!

You got it Bob
Probeless bolt for uninhibited flow. As this gun will likely see pellets and bullets i figure seating at bore diameter will be the same as well
Thanks eh

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Walter

Love those "J" slots, use them in all my high-powered designs, combined with a probeless (flat nosed) bolt.... If you want adjustable power, you can use a rod that protrudes into the short slot, adjustable from the back with a SHCS like this.... You can just see the pin in the slot with the SHCS in line with it on the back of the receiver.... Screw it in and it restricts how far back the bolt can retract....



When the bolt is not retracted fully, it obstructs part of the barrel port, resulting in the ability to dial down the velocity.... This gun had 9 turns of adjustment, although effectively it shot the same velocity at 7 turns out as at 9 turns.... With it all the way in, the bolt was in the loading position, and the only air providing the shot was leaking around the sides of the bolt nose.... dialing the velocity down to about 400 fps....



This is particularly useful if you want to shoot pellets and bullets from the same gun, without having to completely retune it.... For instance, with the above PCP tuned to shoot the 34 gr. Beasts at 950 fps at 7 turns.... at just under 4 turns you would get the same velocity with the 27 gr. BBTs.... and at 2 turns it would still be shooting 950 fps with the 18 gr. Heavies.... It looks like you should have enough width in your receiver to do that?....
Bob

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Dominion Marksman Silver Shield - 5890 x 6000 in 1976, and downhill ever since!
Airsonal; Too many! Springers, Pumpers, CO2, but I love my PCPs and developing them!
Proud Member of the 2000+fps Club!

Very cool Bob!!

I like that setup and will check this one it is 0.950 wide with 0.312 bolt so could easily use a #10 screw with a 0.156 pin.
Having trouble finding time to shoot esp over a chrony. When work had me out in the mountains everyday it was definitely easier lol
Keep up the good work Bob, hankering to see more from you.
Walter

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Walter

I'm sure an 8-32 SHCS with a 1/8" steel pin would be plenty strong.... but if you have room for a 10-32 then why not....

Glad to see you back here for sure....

Bob

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Dominion Marksman Silver Shield - 5890 x 6000 in 1976, and downhill ever since!
Airsonal; Too many! Springers, Pumpers, CO2, but I love my PCPs and developing them!
Proud Member of the 2000+fps Club!

So Walter, what is the chrony numbers on this gun ? Looks good. Glad to see you post again. You and Rsterne need to get together and build and patent a high powered Canadian made airgun. You's have the knowledge. I'de be honoured if you called it the Bryan gun.

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BSA Mercury 177 cal
slavia 618
M3 Impact
Daystate rever
AA510 carbine
JTS Airacuda

Thank you Bob and Bryan for the welcome back. Am happy to be here for sure!
I need to get a baseline set of numbers from this setup. 2700ish is giving 860 with 46gr FX pellets.
Hope to find time to shoot a full string asap..
Cheers

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Walter

Hmm, a .30 cal B51! That's awesome!

Rich

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