Shortly afterward I began working on the FM No. Mark and I drew and wrote up a set of plans (see Chapter 2) on how to make it and from that beginning this book was born. It was an action that I could make, and did make, and I felt that single shot rifle fans would be interested in the design. And because they were very shootable I wrote about them, with the articles appearing in RIFLE magazine. There were many problems to solve in designing and building this action, and although it is very odd-ball, the rifles built on it were very shootable and extremely accurate. 1 VAULT LOCK action design and building a couple of rifles on it. A letter and a visit from one of them indirectly challenged me with the end result of coming up with our FM No. That action, however, with some changes became the DeHaas-Miller action which I have described in another book.Īs soon as Single Shot Rifles and Actions came on the market I began receiving many inquiries from readers, many of whom were aspiring gun designers and those desiring to make their own single shot rifle from scratch. The trouble was that in writing that chapter I designed an action which I could not make. Nearing the end of his editing job on this book, he called me with a request to write one more chapter describing what I thought was the ideal single shot action in view of the fact that I had found some fault with almost every action covered in the book. It was the late John Amber, who edited my book Single Shot Rifles and Actions, who shook me into action. Anyway, my dream action had to be different from all others and it had to be of simple design and construction, but most of all it had to be one I could make in my modestly equipped home workshop. That dream was slow in being fulfilled and 1 kept telling myself I had good reasons for putting it off. For many years a dream of mine was to design and build a non-bolt action single shot rifle I could call all my own.
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