2/21/13

I am an idiot.  Yes, I wound up ordering two Kushnapup kits, an Ultimak gas-tube rail kit for the 7.62x39, a Tapco RAZR flash hider for the 7.62x39, and a Tapco fire control group for the Saiga 12… just in case.  All told, we’re talking around $700.00 worth of stuff… and I might need one more fiddy-dollar bit for the 12 gauge.  We’ll see.  Ha ha!  Back there where I said “more fiddy,” spell checker wants me to say “fiddier.”  Well, I'll practice you!  I'll just add a hymen… uh, I mean hyphen twixt “fiddy” and “dollar.”  There, that fixed it.  Moving on.  I just got the tracking info from Kushnapup and the post office says it otter be here tomorrow!  I might be doing some more amateur gun smithery Sunday!  Tee hee!  I'm so excited!  Let’s see, I know I can't, legally, build the 7.62x39 Kushnapup until I can permanently install the flash hider to make the gun long enough, but I think I can build the 12 gauge.  Oh wait, I still need the screws to reinstall the Russian remote trigger.  Hmm.  Hopefully Lowe’s or Southerland’s will have something I can use.  Surely they otter have SOMETHING.  Oh, I wonder if long pins, held in by the Kushnapup stock itself, would work.  Hmm, interesting.  I'd have to be super careful any time I disassembled the thing for cleaning… but I think that would work.  I'll look into that option as well.  I suppose the pins could have heads on one end and retaining grooves on the other…YES!  I could safety-wire the grooved ends to each other to hold the pins in place and the gun will still be convertible back to a regular non-bullpup configuration!  I like it.  I think I have a plan.  Perhaps instead of grooves, I'll drill teeny-tiny holes through the pins for the safety-wire.  That should work too, and it would be easier than cutting grooves without a lathe.  I really need a lathe.  But that is a gripe for a later date.  And I've just run out of steam.  I guess we’ll call it a really short rant today and perhaps talk again tomorrow.