My 40 is shipping today
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NRFord
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Mine Too!
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Congratulations to both of you! Such a great choice. Your going to love it.
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Enjoy the build. Take your time. Sharpen your chisels.
Mine is showing out for delivery today. I'm going to have to get my wife and daughter to bring it in the door. I'm 8 days out of total knee replacement. It will be a while before I'll start working on mine.
Arrived albeit a bit late but still here! Just have to wait out my knee replacement surgery. I'm 13 days post op getting better but not quite ready to navigate the basement stairs.
I was taught after my left knee replacement on stairs up with the right leg and down with the left. I had good aftercare as far as movement. They had me working the knee after the first day. Do stuff, just do it slow and easy.
Congrats. You'll enjoy building that. What brand is the barrel?
Yeah I made huge progress after surgery. Normally they like to see 90 degrees of bend at 2 weeks. I'm well ahead of that at 113 degrees. I've been pushing the pt hard as much as possible. I was up and walking doing stairs right out of surgery.
It's a 40 cal
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Don’t rush your recovery, you got in hand now, it will be there when your ready.
I saw that in an earlier post. I was curious as to who made the barrel. Are there any stampings to indicate the manufacturer?
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Let the build begin! Finally recovered enough from knee replacement to where I'm feeling pretty darn good, so today LET THE BUILD BEGIN! Started about 1:30 this afternoon barrel dropped right in with no issues. Trigger dropped in with no issues. Lock required about 3 minutes of inletting and fit perfect. Lock bolt bolster fit no issues. Had to stop there as I needed to order the drill bits to drill and for the lock bolt. Total time spent 1 hour and 15 minutes.
MountainSmoke
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That's great to hear! Enjoy your time working on that rifle. Looking forward to seeing more.
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Your lock bolt hole wasn't drilled?? They include a tap to chase that hole if you have alignment issue...
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If your Kibler lock isn’t already drilled and tapped something is amiss. As @NRFord said, a tap is included in the kit to use as a chaser. Please double check your lock and call Kibler if there’s a problem.
I was showing the wife my progress and I pulled the hammer back and low and behold it was drilled and tapped. DOH! Now one step closer!
Gun is finished in the white. 8 & 3/4 hours per my journal. Took quite awhile to get the ram rod pipes and ram did to fit the gun. I'm glad I installed the barrel, pipes, fit the ram rod to the gun before drilling the pipes. If I hadn't it would not have been pretty. The ram rod needed more taper to fit the stock and the stock needed a bit of lead filed into the hole. Pretty much the longest time spent assembling the gun.
Looking great! Just a note, it's best to square up the wood inlets to fit the pipes, rather than cutting the length down. The tabs do have to be trimmed in height once they are fit, though. Nice work!
Jim
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