Loose Change?

[Jcostabile]

Hello Bill.
I mentioned last week I was purchasing this rifle you built. I was told the rifle name was loose Change and you built it for a friend (Mary, I believe). Is there any information or story you can provide me on the rifle. I’m very excited to have it after a long wait.

Thank you,
John

 

[Bill Calfee]

Friend Jcostabile.....

Friend Jcostabile:


I kinda thought it might be Loose Change, and yes, I built it for "The girl with a pistol", Mary Stark..


Friend Jcostabile, Mary would bring the rifle to the shop, I'd work on it for a couple hours, then she'd take it back home, so I didn't have to keep overnight records on it.....

That's been years ago, and I don't remember much about the rifle...

So we'll explore Loose Change together.....OK..

The first thing you need to do is to take a good close-up picture of the extractor slots in the breech face of the barrel.

There was something unique about the barrel, but I don't remember exactly what it was...it was not a new barrel but one that was absolutely killer on another of my slave guns.......so I fit it to Loose Change....

So we'll explore Loose Change together....OK

And of course the other Internet rimfire sites will explore it with us too......BC

 

[Jcostabile]

Thanks Bill. Attached are a bunch of close up pics.

 

[Bill Calfee]

Friend Jcostabile:

Thank you......I really need a better picture of IMG-3180...lighted better....I need to see the extractor slots and how they're cut....take some Q-tips and clean the extractor cuts.....

Also......if you can, push a slug through the bore and take some good pictures of it......

Also take another picture of my name on the barrel....looking straight down at it.....if you have time..

BC

 

[Jcostabile]

I hope these are better, the prior owner had not cleaned it at all, and I need to give it a good cleaning still

 

[Bill Calfee]

Friend Jcostabile:

Excellent pictures....

I'm still not seeing what I suspect I did, barrel wise....

My suspicion is that I fit a barrel from one of my slave Turbos, which of course use a threaded barrel tenon...

The 2007 Anschutz barrel tenon diameter is .866-7"........and it's about 3 inches long....so even though the barrel has 1 inch of .750" diameter threaded, that leaves about 2 inches to clamp the barrel to the action......which is plenty...

But I can't tell from the pictures....if I had the gun in front of me I'd know in a second......

One other point....I use a formed cutter to cut Anschutz extractor slots....and yes I used the formed cutter to do these slots, because they're so pristi8ne...

But, there's no way I could cut V shaped extractor slots over the extractor slots of a Turbo and make them so pristine..

Having said the above...

I didn't cut extractor slots in a bunch of my Turbo slave barrels.....because I knew I might be using them later...

At this point friend Jcostabile I'm just as curious as you are...


It would help if you could push a slug through the bore and take pictures of it....clean the bore first....although this is not absolutely necessary.

I'm still pondering.......

Oh, one more comment:

There's no question but that you own a 100% all Calfee rifle....

I don't know what you paid for it, and I don't want to know, but, while other Anchutz 2007 rifles will lose value, you Calfee will appreciate in value as the years go by....

BC

 

[22Turbokid]

Thats a awesome looking rifle

 

[Jcostabile]

Friend Jcostabile:

Excellent pictures....

I'm still not seeing what I suspect I did, barrel wise....

My suspicion is that I fit a barrel from one of my slave Turbos, which of course use a threaded barrel tenon...

The 2007 Anschutz barrel tenon diameter is .866-7"........and it's about 3 inches long....so even though the barrel has 1 inch of .750" diameter threaded, that leaves about 2 inches to clamp the barrel to the action......which is plenty...

But I can't tell from the pictures....if I had the gun in front of me I'd know in a second......

One other point....I use a formed cutter to cut Anschutz extractor slots....and yes I used the formed cutter to do these slots, because they're so pristi8ne...

But, there's no way I could cut V shaped extractor slots over the extractor slots of a Turbo and make them so pristine..

Having said the above...

I didn't cut extractor slots in a bunch of my Turbo slave barrels.....because I knew I might be using them later...

At this point friend Jcostabile I'm just as curious as you are...


It would help if you could push a slug through the bore and take pictures of it....clean the bore first....although this is not absolutely necessary.

I'm still pondering.......

Oh, one more comment:

There's no question but that you own a 100% all Calfee rifle....

I don't know what you paid for it, and I don't want to know, but, while other Anchutz 2007 rifles will lose value, you Calfee will appreciate in value as the years go by....

BC

I did it twice Bill

 

[Jcostabile]

Thats a awesome looking rifle

Thank you

 

[Bill Calfee]

Friend Jcostabile:

That's a 6 groove barrel, and by the width of the lands and what looks to be about a 75/25 groove to land ratio, it's probably a Lilja.

To help confirm this do this:

Using a good micrometer, place a slug with one land cut centered between the jaws like this picture...

You will be measuring the groove diameter of the bore...

BC