barrel jacket and sling mount screw hole location

[Adam Lee]

Gents,

I will shortly be the proud owner of a Model 8, courtesy Roger's help - thanks, man! One of many questions that I will be sure to ask: can anyone on the forum snap some pics of their Model 8's barrel jacket, if yours is a later model 8 that is tapped for a sling mount screw?
Apparently, the jacket Roger located for this 8 does have the tapped hole, which I appreciate - I like to use a sling! I just wanted to see how far towards the muzzle the hole is located from the end of the wooden forearm.

Geez, I'm getting pretty ramped up about this rifle - sure will be a nice "gift" to myself, I deserve a break with the insanity of 6th grade teaching this year!

Dave (racin Junkie) and I will be getting together soon afterwards, for a shoot-fest comparo, I hope. His Model 8 is a 1922 or so, in very fine shape, I will have to take some pictures and post them here for him. Like mine, his is also .35, and we both share an interest in reloading for .35, so this could be a lot of fun!

thanks, yall.

Adam

[81police]

Congrats Adam, I'm excited for you! We can't wait to see pictures of your new-to-you "springpole"

Below is a picture of sling locations on 8/81 barrel jackets, the rifle pictured is an 81 but you get the idea.

[imfuncity]

No turning back now, you headed down the prim-Remington8/81-path.

[Adam Lee]

Congrats Adam, I'm excited for you! We can't wait to see pictures of your new-to-you "springpole"

Below is a picture of sling locations on 8/81 barrel jackets, the rifle pictured is an 81 but you get the idea.

Thanks for the photo. Once I get this rifle in my hands, it will be pretty obvious where that sling point lies below the jacket.

Well, I am going to be taking the rifle over to my dad's and enlist his help on this project. He has never been a "gun guy", except for his days learning to shoot with a government-issued M-1 and then an M-14 for Uncle Sam, however he is a skilled machinist and engineer.
Dad worked in his father's footsteps beginning as an apprentice machinist for the Navy, here in Washington, DC. At the Navy Yard, dad was at least the fourth generation of men from our family to punch the clock working for the Navy in some manner. I think dad was telling me one of our predecessors was a shipwright in the 1860's.

Anyway, dad moved from apprentice to machinist before joining the Army in '62. After his service, and our globe-trotting relocation program, he became a civilian Army employee able to use his engineering skills with a variety of weapons systems programs, ranging from Night Vision at Fort Belvoir (I was born at the base hospital!) to MIRV systems, FLIR technology, and the Xenon light systems placed on Jeep trucks in Vietnam.

Back at his place, dad has saved all his dad's machinist tools and dies and so on. His father, also a Navy Yard and Torpedo Factory employee, ended his career working for an early government military subcontractor - Harry Diamond Labs here in Virginia. Unfortunately, he died on the job running parts from Arlington to the lab in a hit and run car accident. I only knew my grand-dad until I was 4 years old, but I do remember his quiet nature.

Wow, didn't realize I was going to do such a deep background report. Oh well, I must have thought it was relevant to describe the family lineage, since it relates to folks who have got machine work embedded in their blood - I am similarly affected!

I think Roger (and Dave) know that I am a 6th grade teacher in "real life" - but I always have been a gearhead, tinkerer, broken gizmos fixer, and wanna-be gunsmith. I think if I brought my Model 8 to tinker with at dad's, he's get a kick out of it. He and I are both SAR members, but in different chapters, and he helped fund an original 1780's vintage flintlock fowler I happened to spot at a local gun show a couple years ago.











I have taken that gun completely apart, and really enjoyed learning its secrets. That will be another story. For now, I have simple plans with my new Model 8 toy: first, to get help measuring threads and creating some "hole-filler" screws for the swiss-cheesed barrel jacket (just kidding Roger), and then to see if dad can design and make my own pro-tool set. I know he can do it, actually I could do it, but he has the know-how to design and follow through. Making a threaded/tapped barrel bushing collar and jacket nut removal bar out of bar stock will not be a hard challenge for my dad.

Anyway, you guys are great, and I think the more I can get my dad to use his knowledge and experience the better for him and his life-span - if you get my drift.

Take care all!
Adam

ps: the SAR = the Sons of the American Revolution. Anyone here a member in a chapter?

[Adam Lee]

Guys,

FWIW the 1930 manufactured barrel jacket that resides upon my 1908 rifle indeed has the threaded hole for a sling mount. Glad it is there!
Also, glad that this is NOT an all-numbers-matching gun, which fits my goal of tweaking this into an even better-looking shooter than it already is!

Adam