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Genre: How-to
by: videomandw
The muzzle crown on Custer’s rifle featured a deep radius. Larry Potterfield, CEO and Founder of MidwayUSA, recreates that type of crown using a specially ground cutter and a metal lathe in this brief video.
by: MidwayUSA
Larry Potterfield, CEO and Founder of MidwayUSA, demonstrates the process for installing a short chambered barrel on a Mauser 98 receiver. This process allows anyone to re-barrel a rifle without the use of a lathe.
In this GunTec presentation Larry Potterfield, Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA, demonstrates the process for quickly polishing a rifle barrel using a metal lathe. Taking only about ten percent of the amount of time it would take to polish the barrel by hand; this process ensure a smooth, even finish.
Due to the corrosive nature of black power cartridges, many firing pins founder in older firearms are damaged and in need of replacement. In this short video Larry Potterfield, Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA, demonstrates the process for fabricating a replacement firing pin from drill rod using a metal turning lathe.
Before you can install a barrel blank it must be threaded and chambered. In this brief video Larry Potterfield, CEO and Founder of MidwayUSA, demonstrates that process using an octagon barrel and a metal lathe. The barrel is chambered for the 50-70 Government cartridge and is one more step in the Custer Rifle Project.
You can’t buy gun screws at the hardware store and if you’re working with older firearms you may not be able to find them anywhere. Larry Potterfield, CEO and Founder of MidwayUSA, demonstrates the solution to this problem by fabricating a gun screw out of drill rod using a metal lathe and milling machine.
