No particular reason for this post. UC asked me to e-mail him some pictures of my Mustang with the action broken down, which I did. He put a composite picture together with some I sent him, so I thought I would post it just for the heck of it. I don't know how to composite pictures like that. Maybe he will tell me.

That is a beautiful rifle you have there...

NO!

UC is such a hard, hard man. I guess it comes from not being able to speak English.

Good looking gun, Semi....

In the third pic. there is a long rod, what is that for?

That's the screw that attaches the buttstock to the action. I doubt it is exactly right as Semi had modified his to take a nut. It comes as a slotted screw so I chopped off the nut. Probably isn't how an original would look. Semi's mod is an improvement but I thought to make it look more like the original by chopping off Semi's nut.

semi; did it hurt when UC chopped on your nut??

Yep, it's the stock bolt.




The factory head is a straight sided cylinder about 1/2" in diameter and 1/4" thick, with a screwdriver slot. I modified it by using JB Weld to attach
a 1/2" flanged nut on top of the cylinder. That lets me use the same 1/2" socket used for the breech plug to remove the stock. It's a lot easier than
a screwdriver.

Here's the modified bolt head.




Now here's the scary thing! Did you notice what looks like heavyrust on the action -especially around the edges where the stock sits? I was SHOCKED when I saw
the pictures. None of that is visable to the naked eye. I even put a magnifying glass on those spots and can not see rust. What the HELL? The only visable rust is on the top of that nut, around the inside edge of the hole.

Here's a better picture. The rust only shows up when I use my photo enhancement software to change to lighten the exposure of the picture. You cannot see it in the original picture saved from the camera. Weird huh?