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Messages - lklawson

#1
I got a reply from the U.S. National Scouting Museum.

QuoteMerit badge pamphlets did not exist for Merit Badges in 1910, they came along later in the program in February 1919. The Merit Badge in question, Master at Arms, was part of the British Scouting program and was brought to the U.S. in 1909 as part of the initial launch of the Scouting program in this country. There is no record that any U.S. Scout ever earned this or any of the original 14 merit badges imported from England.

So I guess I'm looking for a copy of the 1910 British manual.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#2
Quote from: springfield art on August 02, 2021, 02:15:27 PM
There's no doubt that there is a Scout memorabilia site; you probably know that already! Or searching e-bay, bet you did that, too! Good luck with your search!
I actually have permanent search/want entries on ABE-Books, which has found rare and hard to locate books for me in the past.  No luck so far.  :)

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#3
Quote from: sebvox on July 31, 2021, 11:00:15 PM
Have you tried contacting the National Scouting Museum at Philmont?  They have an extensive research library.  I would also try going to a local trade-o-ree.  It's mostly patches but some guys have rare stuff like what you are looking for.

https://www.bsator.com/2021-trade-o-rees/
Thanks.  I'll check with them.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#4
Help me find a book! I'm looking for an original 1910 U.S. Boy Scouts "Master at Arms" merit badge handbook.

I've already found and republished the 1926 edition but that is a much later edition and it's British. The U.S. BSA "Master at Arms" badge was discontinued almost immediately, in 1911. I'm trying to source an original copy, both for my personal research and to pursue my hobby of republishing antique manuals and making the high-quality PDF available for free.

If you're a BSA collector (or a book collector) and have a copy, please, contact me. If you're not willing to part with your original, I can get done what I need with decent quality pics or even photocopies.

Please help me preserve this information and make it available to future generations.

Thank you!

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#5
R51 General Discussion / Disassembly videos
July 19, 2021, 10:50:39 AM
I don't recall if these R51 disassembly videos have been posted or not.  So here they are (again?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78k1Aqtz8IM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ4uq8H123E

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#6
General Discussion / Re: Remington Plant Re-Opens
April 22, 2021, 10:02:20 AM
Quote from: sebvox on April 22, 2021, 09:00:22 AM
The Remington plant in Ilion, NY reopened in early April with 45 employees returning to work.  200 will return by the end of the month.  They are going to start production with the model 870 shotgun. 
I saw a report recently that they've reopened their Ammunition Plant and are swinging production to full.

https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2021/4/12/big-green-is-back-remington-ammo-plant-working-247

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#7
Introductions section / Re: Hello
April 14, 2021, 08:49:20 AM
Quote from: mcrosa on April 13, 2021, 09:27:55 PM
Looking forward to Learning and participation in this forum. Thanks for allowing me in.
Hi.  Which are you using, the black or the smoke?  What's your ammo preference?  Had any issues with primer flow or with bullets plunking longer than the leade?  Is it a carry gun or a range toy?  What's your carry rig/preference?

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#8
R51 General Discussion / Re: Grips?
March 31, 2021, 01:38:35 PM
I guess time will tell.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#9
R51 General Discussion / Red Dot
March 25, 2021, 07:03:37 AM
I've been knocking around the idea of buying a slide and having it milled for a RD.  But at that point it's almost as expensive as buying a gun already milled.

Ah well...

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#10
R51 General Discussion / Re: Barbed pin?
February 01, 2021, 11:01:55 AM
Quote from: FlatEarther on January 30, 2021, 12:03:31 AM
Picture of the retaining pin.
The big end is about 1/3 total length.
https://www.gunpartscorp.com/products/1583270
This one is a little different from mine.  Mine had a "rim" or "head" on the wide end, a little like like a nail or the rim on a .22lr.  But it was stepped like the one in the link.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#11
R51 General Discussion / Re: Barbed pin?
February 01, 2021, 10:59:17 AM
Quote from: sebvox on January 29, 2021, 07:52:46 PM
Did you take any photos of the stepped pin or of the metal debris?  Did you happen to remove the extractor while you were at it?  Just curious if the green extractor buffer is showing any fatigue or wear.
Unfortunately, I did none of that.

I thought about taking a pic of the tiny disk, but not before I'd thrown it in the trash.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#12
R51 General Discussion / Re: Barbed pin?
January 29, 2021, 09:25:05 AM
Popped it out last night.  The pin is stepped just as you said.  In fact, it seemed to have a head with a rim a little like a roofing nail or the rim on a .22LR.

It took a bit more force to hammer out that I expected but it came out and went back in without damaging anything.

The channel was clean of carbon.  The detritus binding up the channel was a small disk of some metal.  It might have been just a flake of lead from the HC bullets that I use to hand load.  But it might also have been a bit of primer.  Follow me here.  I've noticed that even with standard pressure ammo, no matter what ammo I use, my R51's would always kind of crater the primers.  I suspect this is because of how the Hesitation Lock works.  If a primer was a bit thin or there was +P pressure (or both) then as the Hesitation was partially cycling, but after the firing pin retracted, the pressure could potentially force the primer against the Firing Pin hole and press out a plug of the primer cup through the Firing Pin hole.

I didn't find the brass so I don't know if the the primer appears to be pierced or not so I can't do any more than guess where this bit of metal came from.  It might be either of the guesses above or something else.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#13
R51 General Discussion / Re: Barbed pin?
January 27, 2021, 12:21:28 PM
Quote from: springfield art on January 27, 2021, 11:26:37 AM
I don't know, but thanks for the 'alert'. Have you tried
blasting the heck out of it with high pressure air or
some spray can gun stuff? Good luck. My R51 has
been apart some time now, and I need to get back
to studying it and get it operable. It was a project
learning thing that I just let lapse.
Not yet.  I've got several things to try first before disassembly.  Flushing it out, an ultrasonic bath, and maybe a dental pick.  But those things didn't work last time so I figured I'd ask and try to be prepared.

In the mean time, I was pointed at a web page someone put up with a complete disassembly video, and also to the Numrich parts page.  No barbs.

https://www.themccluskeyarmscompany.com/feat-of-the-week-gunsmithing-blog/remington-r51-disassembly

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#14
R51 General Discussion / Barbed pin?
January 27, 2021, 11:13:53 AM
I may need to disassemble the Pedersen block to clean the Firing Pin Chanel.  Something has gotten inside the channel in my Smoke R51 and is preventing the FP from slamming forward.  I've had this problem once before with my black R51 and ended up sending it back to Rem for warranty work.  That doesn't look to be an option now.  So I need to disassemble the block, take out the FP and spring, and clean it all.  But I've heard rumors that the retaining pin is actually barbed.  I know that when it happened with my standard black, I tried to drive the pin out and it didn't want to budge.  That's when I decided I didn't want to risk it and just contacted Remington.

The parts diagram I found online sure looks like a standard pin.  Anyone know for sure?

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
#15
Quote from: sebvox on November 12, 2020, 03:53:31 PM
Remington discontinued the R51 in 2018 and all of the fire sales have already happened.  Accessories were always pretty limited and are mostly gone.  You can find some things here and there online.
I don't remember seeing the official statement from Remington.  Do you have a link?

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk