This is my second /26\ carbine 11,027,044 we found a few months ago. It came with an Ultralux 4X25 scope, the previous owner did not have the original cover so I bought a replacement and removed the scope. The stock has no numbers or markings other than a small faint stamp on the bottom in front of the sling swivel. You will notice there has been a repair made to the stock, right side near the butt plate. It looks like maybe someone dropped it knocking a chip out of it?! The trigger group, magazine and bolt/carrier are all matching. The gas tube has the number 8490 electroplated on it and the rod appears new.
It has surface rust in several places but otherwise is in decent condition and shoots great, in fact better than my 3 mill /26\! I plan to get a spike bayonet and cleaning rod soon.
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That's a nice little shooter there Danny! thumb1
That repair at the back of the stock is pretty common. The cause for it in the heel like that is typically a poorly located pilot hole for the screws that hold the buttplate on. I had a Sino-banian that had a crack in the exact same area. If the holes are off too badly and put undue stress on the wood, a crack can form at a grain line and travel down the stock at it ages. I suspect that's what may have happened in this case (does the bottom edge of the repair pretty much line up with the upper screw that holds the buttplate on?) If you're curious, you might pull the buttplate and see where the repair is in relation to that screw pilot hole. It looks like they cut out as small a section of the problem area as they could. Does the repair go all the way through and show up on both sides, or just on the right side?
Neat gun regardless!
It doesn't appear to go all the way through running-man but your explanation makes much better sense than it simply being dropped. I was curious after reading your post so I pulled the butt plate and here is what I found. It's hard to tell how deep this repair goes but I'm sure it's at least to the hole for the screw.
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This is how it looked when we got home with it. After shooting it a few times I removed the scope and put another cover on it.
The previous owner didn't have the original receiver cover so the only thing matching is the bolt, carrier, trigger group and magazine. We are using the cover w/riveted rail on Mary's Carbine now as it lowered her Reflex sight about half an inch. The bore looks great and it shoots really good.
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photobucket doesn't like your links Danny! think1
I don't understand sir, what do ya mean? I can see pictures from this end!
Oh thats weird Danny... I don't see them either.
Yup weird, I see a few, weird
Okay, I'll delete them all and try it again!
I see all but 3 now?
Quote from: jusridin on September 18, 2014, 08:59:28 PM
I see all but 3 now?
Are you talking about the total number of all the posts? Initially I posted 5, then in answer to running-man asking about the repair to the stock I posted 3 of the end of the butt stock without the butt plate. In a third post I added 2 more of the carbine, one with the scope and the second one of the target.
Quote from: Dannyboy53 on September 18, 2014, 05:40:42 PM
It doesn't appear to go all the way through running-man but your explanation makes much better sense than it simply being dropped. I was curious after reading your post so I pulled the butt plate and here is what I found. It's hard to tell how deep this repair goes but I'm sure it's at least to the hole for the screw.
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This post here.... only post with no pics showing now Danny...
Nice 11 mill man! That thing is in nice shape!
Looks good Danny, I just get the "Sorry. This person has moved or deleted this image" on the pictures in reply 2 also.
Brian
Thanks guys! I'm getting that now also bbush. Last night all the photos were showing on my computer, I don't know what the hay happened. I got Mary to take the photos, she does much better than I, I'll blame it on her!
I'm going to try it again.
This one is in the best condition of my two /26\ guns and there is a bayonet in the works thanks to Crazyone!
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The pictures are showing up for me now. Looks good.
Brian
Thank you Brian, yesterday was just an "off day" for me!
The bayonet came in today and my carbine is better dressed, thanks to Crazyone!
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Looks great!! 8)
110% improvement there Danny! When you shoot it next, you might try extending the bayo and see how that affects your accuracy. Some people swear there's an improvement with the bayo extended.
Thanks guys. I'll try that running-man, I've heard that too!
That was fast! Looks much better imho. thumb1
Quote from: Loose}{Cannon on September 24, 2014, 06:02:28 PM
That was fast! Looks much better imho. thumb1
Yeah, thanks Cannon. Crazyone mailed it Monday and it arrived here 10:30 this morning!
Like running-man said a while back, it just doesn't look right having an empty bayonet lug hanging under a barrel! Now both my /26\ guns have bayonets, it's good to look into my cabinet and see pig-stickers!
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Quote from: running-man on September 24, 2014, 04:45:02 PM110% improvement there Danny! When you shoot it next, you might try extending the bayo and see how that affects your accuracy. Some people swear there's an improvement with the bayo extended.
Running-man since you posted this statement we recently did some shooting and Mary decided to try extending the bayonet for the heck of it (I thought you were joking about this!) and see if it had any effect on the groups. I read statements pro and con and to be honest I am a bit skeptical!
After firing a few shots with the spike bayonet stowed away Mary extended the bayo and fired a few more rounds from her [0306] gun and the group tightened up from about 2½" to about 1¼" at 25 meters. I was surprised and quite frankly thought it simply a stroke of good luck but she got the same results a second time!
I regrettably have no photos of the target but we intend to try again soon and I'll record the results and post them in the range/target section if anyone is interested. I didn't try my /26\ gun but I'm curious to see if this has any effect with it also.
Has anyone else on this board tried this and seen similar results?
I have never done a comparison nor have I seen anyone do any real tests etc..... very interesting Danny. thumb1
Well I wouldn't label what we plan to do as being an "official scientific review"! But the ammo we shoot will be from the same lot # and we will probably use at least two of our carbines.
I'm open to any other suggestions of course!