Well ....... Humpff
I suppose I could have read the original post a little closer. A lot closer.
OOPS!!
Shucks!!
DARN!!
Never Mind
first report
1) fixed the feed problem - got it first go too - took about two hours - almost took as long to put the dang gun back together afterward!
the back end - the closed bit - of the carrier was way too tight to allow a round fully in from the magazine I roughed it out with a stone on the dremel (yes Coffin Maker Dremel tools sjhould defnitely be banned from the gunroom) then finished it out with a dremel sanding drum that I have setup on an extended shank for use in the electric drill (dont try that in your dremel you will do serious damage to something, could end up with the extension shank embedded in your skull!) fine paper put a nice finish on it all. Woulda been more cautious about this except that I have a functioning model 71 to kinda copy off - they a little different but ya can look in there and see how stuff is intended to work
2) shoot report ---they put a good barrel on this !!!!!
Loaded 10 new starline with 67 grains of black, 45 thou HDPE wad, 335 grain LEE boolit (my hacked up version of the 405HB) as cast .
3 went to sight re alignment 25 and 50 yards
then 7 at 100 (sights still need some work but we get to that later)
Surprised I did this good with my eyes and the barrel sights
fired three (bottom grouip) wandered up for a look see
fired four - musta took a different sight picture for those but anyway the whole thing is about five inches high by three inches wide - pretty pleased with that for a first outing