Monthly Archives: December 2014

31 Dec

Happy New Year 2014!

Steven K. Ledin,

Happy new year to all! Hope it's great and you are all blessed with a half-glass-full attitude and pass that attitude onto others throughout the year!

My babiest sister Kara was over last weekend with her three kids Lila, age 5, Owen, age 10, and Eden, age 12, to visit and have fun with our three crazy beasts. They have always had dogs and they loved ours, even though they are hard to control. The dogs, not the kids.

I made them each a necklace from bone that they picked out. 

I brought out a Gamo MP9 semiauto pellet rifle with a …

24 Dec

Merry Christmas!

Steven K. Ledin,

19 Dec

Polishing my Bone, with Remington, FLIR, and ATN

Steven K. Ledin,

I make jewelry for friends out of deer bones. I saw a Facebook thread that stated you can strip them easily with a pressure washer. Let me tell you, it doesn't work. You still have to soak them in high concentrate peroxide and strip by hand. Pressure washer hardly did anything. And by the way, don't boil them. I think it lessens the structural integrity, and the fat makes the bone a bit tawny colored.

I put a new CMC trigger in my Remington R-25. There have …

06 Dec

Zastava PAP 92 Pistol with Century Brace and MWI Handguard VS AK Maadi Rifle with Hogue

Steven K. Ledin,

The above picture shows a Serbian Zastava PAP 92 AK pistol imported by Century Arms International with a Century SB-47 Stabilizing Brace and Midwest Industries handguard. I put it together for a friend last weekend. He also bought an MWI flash hider, but forgot to purchase the spring, detent and pin needed to hold it in place, so that's coming. I'll grind off a small spot weld and install the parts soon.

Whether legal or not, shouldering the pistol offers just about the same head position as the rifle, with my nose touching the rear of the receiver. The gun …