How to make a BAR

[1903Collector]

Pretty awesome video

 

[Knob Creek]

A retired gunsmith friend of mine in Rhode Island had a Semi-Auto BAR. I asked him how long to convert it to full auto. His answer? ’Ten minutes’.

 

[76Too]

A retired gunsmith friend of mine in Rhode Island had a Semi-Auto BAR. I asked him how long to convert it to full auto. His answer? ’Ten minutes’.

Answer is probably the same for how long it took for soldiers to get sick of humping that beast around!

I really WOULD like to shoot one in FA some time, as long as they didn’t make me carry it first.

 

[FiremanBob]

I like the way Henry Bowman used his.

 

[Knob Creek]

Answer is probably the same for how long it took for soldiers to get sick of humping that beast around!

I really WOULD like to shoot one in FA some time, as long as they didn’t make me carry it first.

I shot that gun in Semi-Auto it weighed in I think about 18lbs.

 

[Knob Creek]

Dick Peabody writes about Jack Hogan

BAR man.

 

[FrankNA]

Those were the days when manufacturing was manufacturing! OSHA,....OSHA who? "Hey some guy just lost a finger tip on the barrel lathe" - "OK, get him patched up and back on the line ASAP and make sure he doesn't do that again or he's fired!" - "You got it boss!"

 

[Shark_Cage]

My dad shot one in WW2. He thought it was too heavy

 

[MGnoob]

A bar is a beast..

 

[Mountain]

Answer is probably the same for how long it took for soldiers to get sick of humping that beast around!

I really WOULD like to shoot one in FA some time, as long as they didn’t make me carry it first.

Gramps was a Ssgt in WW2, Philippines. He laughed and told me that when they issued him a BAR he pointed at the mountains and said give me a M1.

 

[Dadstoys]

I was my Father's favorite weapon .
He wasn't all that big of a guy either .

 

[cams]

That’s a bucket list gun for sure. FA mounted on a standing tripod covering the front of the house from the attic. A bottle of Jack waiting on the floor next to it, couple Tiki torches for range sticks and some Barry Manilow or some other creepy music cued up on 2 amps just to f*** with their heads before the fun starts.

 

[426wedge]

All those flat belts and pulleys made me think of my grandpa. He would bring me to his work in Wesfield, and they were everywhere. Fascinating for a young kid.

 

[Mountain]

That’s a bucket list gun for sure. FA mounted on a standing tripod covering the front of the house from the attic. A bottle of Jack waiting on the floor next to it, couple Tiki torches for range sticks and some Barry Manilow or some other creepy music cued up on 2 amps just to f*** with their heads before the fun starts.

I think the BAR would make a great grand finale, but my meat and (two veg?) rooftop gun would be a suppressed 10/22 for nads shots while playing this...

All those flat belts and pulleys made me think of my grandpa. He would bring me to his work in Wesfield, and they were everywhere. Fascinating for a young kid.

In my earliest days I had a customer that was still making leather drive belts for industrial purposes. Supposedly there were a few machines / processes that ran best with the leather belts and could not be converted to rubber v-belt drives. I had another customer who made tool handles on machines that were originally driven by a steam engine driving an overhead line shaft, with the various leather belts dropping from the line shaft to the machine pulleys. Same machines had been converted to electric motors, but the old steam engine and line shafts were still there. That place was founded to make wagon wheel spokes for the westward expansion.

Similar process for turning rifle stock blanks-


View: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=849058845558478

 

[Dadstoys]

That’s a bucket list gun for sure. FA mounted on a standing tripod covering the front of the house from the attic. A bottle of Jack waiting on the floor next to it, couple Tiki torches for range sticks and some Barry Manilow or some other creepy music cued up on 2 amps just to f*** with their heads before the fun starts.

This would be my choice.
Cranked to 11.

 

[1903Collector]

In this age of CNC its truly amazing to see all the "hands on" in that video. Today you just stick a hunk of metal in a machine and hit a button and out comes a finished part, well maybe I'm simplifying a bit but look at all the steps it took just to make a receiver. One man does this operation, off to the next man for another and so on.]

I also got a kick of how people dressed for that type of work back then, one guy in a suit, others with bow ties...just a different time.

 

[BigGreen2000]

All those flat belts and pulleys made me think of my grandpa. He would bring me to his work in Wesfield, and they were everywhere. Fascinating for a young kid.

Where’d he work, Savage?

 

[BigGreen2000]

Any similar videos for Garand or 1903A3 production?

 

[cjrubes]

Any similar videos for Garand or 1903A3 production?

Not a Garand or 1903, but the M1917 is close enough. Very interesting video of some WW1 rifle production



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39wM-lzDWE4&ab_channel=HighCaliberHistory

 

[Chevy 2 65]

View: https://youtu.be/g2jRwp19csA

 

[timbo]

And then the socialist FDR came along, introduced the NFA act of 1934 and all the fun went out the window.

 

[Broc]

Pretty awesome video

I love that barrel straightening by eye. And those c*nts at Remington could get a sight straight on the Marlins when they purchased them.

 

[NHKevin]

And then the socialist FDR came along, introduced the NFA act of 1934 and all the fun went out the window.

That was bad but Reagan screwed us worse.

 

[timbo]

That was bad but Reagan screwed us worse.

right you are. Reagan did a lot of good stuff but when he did bad, he did very bad...actually, I think that goes for every "good' president.