Happiness is a new gun 2

[BirdsThaWord]

I’ll prob end up getting this. A bit pricey, but I like how the grip screw locks the slot into place. They have a vid on the website showing how it works. Pretty cool. Thanks for opening my eyes to this!
https://www.challisgrips.com/p/49-Fu...Extractor.aspx

[Bawanna]

They make a bit that fits in a bit holder (screwdriver). Way more cheaper and seems like a lot easier to use than that. Could get both standard and slim with enough left over for a few boxes of 22.

https://www.brownells.com/tools-clea...g-driver-bits/

[BirdsThaWord]

They make a bit that fits in a bit holder (screwdriver). Way more cheaper and seems like a lot easier to use than that. Could get both standard and slim with enough left over for a few boxes of 22.

https://www.brownells.com/tools-clea...g-driver-bits/

Thanks for the "tips"! No pun intended. Funny you mention the 22 ammo. Just left my pop's place. He is going in a nursing home. Brought back the Ruger 10/22 I bought him years back (Absolutely MINT) as well as his EIG 'Buffalo" 22 revolver (2 cylinders, 1 for 22 long, 1 for 22 mag). I had taken him a few boxes of 22 ammo over the years. They were all sitting there, along with a bunch of other 22 long/magnum ammo.Plus found a few 270 rounds for the old hunting rifle he had given me a few years ago. Glad to have that kinda stuff, but sad given the situation.
I seem to have hijacked this thread. Can somebody please post up about a new gun?!?!?

[dao]

Challis makes excellent quality stuff. I have both the slim and standard bushing tools and I feel like they are worth the money. Difference between them and the screwdriver bit is that it allows you to screw the tool down into the bushing, and prevents any sort of slippage. I use them on any bushings I remove for any reason, not just for bad ones, with the exception of Challis bushings I've installed. Now that being said, if a bushing's inner threads are shot then these would be no different than a bit. They do require good grip screw threads in the bushing in order to take advantage of the tool's protection of the bushing's slots. Challis makes some hex headed bushings that don't have the fragile slots, as I mentioned above.

You do have a way with metal Bird. That V10 is already looking much better. With the black rounds it will look like a Sig Equinox, or a Kimber Ultra Elite. I'm really partial to both of those myself.

[BirdsThaWord]

Thanks dao! I was looking at what the Colonel sent me and thinking… If I bought both tips, one for the slim and one for the thick, I’d be just a few buck below the Challis kit. If I’m reading their stuff correct, it comes with both? I do like the idea of the grip screw locking the piece into place to prevent slippage. I was also looking at their grips screws. Those hex heads do not interfere with grips? If so, I would think that would be an even better route to go.

[Bawanna]

I'm not seeing the kit that comes with both. I see standard and slim, 29 bucks each. Never seen those before. If I could get both for 29 or so I'd get a set myself.

[BirdsThaWord]

Not a kit. They come separately. I wish they just sold one complete (either thick or thin), with the screw and rod, and then a separate complementing bushing tool for less money. But they don't.

The hex heads do not interfere with grips, and nothing needs to be done to the grip for them to fit.

Well durn it! I’d want to have both and the Colonel is correct about the price then. I’ve already ordered some standard bushings, but will get some of the Challis one’s the next go round. I think that design solves the slipping screwdriver head dilemma all together.

[dao]

Not a kit. They come separately. I wish they just sold one complete (either thick or thin), with the screw and rod, and then a separate complementing bushing tool for less money. But they don't.

The hex heads do not interfere with grips, and nothing needs to be done to the grip for them to fit.

[Bawanna]

Happy dance. I finally managed to win an auction yesterday. Been trying for a few weeks. Got what they call a Gill Gun. This one is a Savage 7A. Stevens and Savage and others made them in the 50's. It' semi auto 22. The thing that intrigues me, granted it don't take much is when you fire and hold the trigger back, the action stays open, soon as you release the trigger it goes back into battery to fire again.
I did a refinish for a guy a few years ago and knew I had to have one someday. This one is a mag feed. I'm watching another one that is a tube feed. Hoping it don't go out of sight price wise so I can get it too.
So many toys, so little time. And yes, I'm taking them with me. When they nail the lid shut I won't have pall bearers, they'll need a crane.

[dao]

Congrats Colonel, sounds like a very cool gun. Got pics?

They might nail the lid shut but it sounds like maybe they'll need to bolt the bottom on