HI I can finally do a write up on my Western Rattler I bought from AOA used last month , well I spent literately weeks on this gun and can finally say it is a deadly accurate gun which shoots any weight slug and casted ammo and my GMI swaged Sub MOA and shoots any slug from 740fps beyond 99p fpa. I sold my Evol as I am Swagging slugs and collecting Data currently with swag press , ok this has been very frustrating so I will start from day 1 when gun arrived ,It was dirth dusty ,I cleaned barrel there were lead partices in moderator cleaned everything .
Loaded gun with pellets 60 grain ones , mag holds 17 after 3 shots it jammed , I had to remove barrel and hammer deformed one back in magizine , my reg started at 150 after gun jammed it dumped air in bottle ,
Next say jsb 50 gainers same thing 5 shots and jammed , next time I tried Gmi slugs and sam3e thing ammo jammed in magizine , and reg was 200 bar ,
so I loaded 2 slugs at TIME and shot 10 rounds at 50 yards omg looked like I ahot it with a shot gun , I also tried 2 of my donnfl both gets got broken in my shogun and emperor i was not happy I called aoa a few times tried a few things like adjusting more air to magizine , this is semi auto and you can adjust this ,did not help and my reg was horrible , I ended out taking gun apart completely
I founf so many things wrong with gun , action , loading , reg it was horrible this gun was sold for over 2k . to make it worse , no diagrams anywhere online and also wrote to western 3x with no replies , Well I learned the LCS sk19 is same gun with many things on line for this pne ,
ok Lets dig into issues
1 my regulator es was like 140fos , due to the fact the entire regulator was solid Rust all washers rusted together ,
2. there was rust on the piston for reg here it sealed along with sand or lead particles , I cleaned everything polished washers with 10,000 frit paper and oil and bore with jb bore polish , I reassembled regulator , I then refinished delron seat ,by hand I tried to flip disk but ended up cleaning debris and polishing it all flat again , and reassembled
3, Barrel , I measured barrel muzzzle and breech and also magisine , well mag ,300,, the breech .301 and muzzle ,294 . you wild think .295 would be best however in fully auto and semi auto ammo must stay seated or they will flop and jam , I tried every size and ended up with ,300 aS ,299 sould move and can jam , so , if I did re-barrelled it opt for muzzle ,298 like every other 30cal out there as this mush drag means have to clean more then norm ,
Barrel issues ok now for barrel flaws My barrel had 4 flaws , 2
being breech and muzzle not square and in middle it got tight then loose then tight , the crown was not square and both ends not square off by ,003 and ,006 , I checked up barrel in lathe squareed both ends , then i cut a 13degree crown , I then repaired a gouge near muzzle my guess is last owner sleaning rod hit ,
then I polished barrel on lathe i cur PEN MADE A CENTERING BUSHING , AND MY CLEANING ROD , i MADE A CAST OF MY BARREL WITH LOW TEMP LEAD 214F , I INSTALLED THREADS IN ONE END AND ATTACHED TO MY CLEANING ROD , AND PUT 240 GRIT AND POLISHED BARREL , THEN CLEANED AND THEN REPEATED WITH 480 GRIT CLEANED THEN 600 GRIT CLEANED
FINISHED OFF WITH JB POLISHING PASTE , NOW BARREL IS FLAWLESS , i THEN REBLUED MACHINING ENDS TO MACH BARREL AND REASSEMBLED , I THEN MAKE SLUGS 15 SIZES FROM 44 GRAINS TO 88 GRAINS , AND SHOT TODAY , THE GUN IS AMAZING THE SLUGS PREFORMED TOTALLY FLAWLESS WITH ANY SPEEDS NO JAMS NO MAG NOT CYCLING , i SHOT OVER 300 SLUGS TODAY , i NOW CAN POST PICTURES OF AMMO I MADE AND ALSO SOME GROUPS AND DATA ,
GUN APART
GMI SLUGS I MADE to tune and check accuracy and data
lastly here is groups after repairs and swaging GMI slugs , BTW these slugs best ammo I shot in my life , great performance accurate flawless and deadly expansion , they sure did their homework designing these slug tooling , thanks LOU
BEFORE WORK DONE
AFTER ALL WORK DONE GROUPS
View attachment STRING RATTLER.txt
Loaded gun with pellets 60 grain ones , mag holds 17 after 3 shots it jammed , I had to remove barrel and hammer deformed one back in magizine , my reg started at 150 after gun jammed it dumped air in bottle ,
Next say jsb 50 gainers same thing 5 shots and jammed , next time I tried Gmi slugs and sam3e thing ammo jammed in magizine , and reg was 200 bar ,
so I loaded 2 slugs at TIME and shot 10 rounds at 50 yards omg looked like I ahot it with a shot gun , I also tried 2 of my donnfl both gets got broken in my shogun and emperor i was not happy I called aoa a few times tried a few things like adjusting more air to magizine , this is semi auto and you can adjust this ,did not help and my reg was horrible , I ended out taking gun apart completely
I founf so many things wrong with gun , action , loading , reg it was horrible this gun was sold for over 2k . to make it worse , no diagrams anywhere online and also wrote to western 3x with no replies , Well I learned the LCS sk19 is same gun with many things on line for this pne ,
ok Lets dig into issues
1 my regulator es was like 140fos , due to the fact the entire regulator was solid Rust all washers rusted together ,
2. there was rust on the piston for reg here it sealed along with sand or lead particles , I cleaned everything polished washers with 10,000 frit paper and oil and bore with jb bore polish , I reassembled regulator , I then refinished delron seat ,by hand I tried to flip disk but ended up cleaning debris and polishing it all flat again , and reassembled
3, Barrel , I measured barrel muzzzle and breech and also magisine , well mag ,300,, the breech .301 and muzzle ,294 . you wild think .295 would be best however in fully auto and semi auto ammo must stay seated or they will flop and jam , I tried every size and ended up with ,300 aS ,299 sould move and can jam , so , if I did re-barrelled it opt for muzzle ,298 like every other 30cal out there as this mush drag means have to clean more then norm ,
Barrel issues ok now for barrel flaws My barrel had 4 flaws , 2
being breech and muzzle not square and in middle it got tight then loose then tight , the crown was not square and both ends not square off by ,003 and ,006 , I checked up barrel in lathe squareed both ends , then i cut a 13degree crown , I then repaired a gouge near muzzle my guess is last owner sleaning rod hit ,
then I polished barrel on lathe i cur PEN MADE A CENTERING BUSHING , AND MY CLEANING ROD , i MADE A CAST OF MY BARREL WITH LOW TEMP LEAD 214F , I INSTALLED THREADS IN ONE END AND ATTACHED TO MY CLEANING ROD , AND PUT 240 GRIT AND POLISHED BARREL , THEN CLEANED AND THEN REPEATED WITH 480 GRIT CLEANED THEN 600 GRIT CLEANED
FINISHED OFF WITH JB POLISHING PASTE , NOW BARREL IS FLAWLESS , i THEN REBLUED MACHINING ENDS TO MACH BARREL AND REASSEMBLED , I THEN MAKE SLUGS 15 SIZES FROM 44 GRAINS TO 88 GRAINS , AND SHOT TODAY , THE GUN IS AMAZING THE SLUGS PREFORMED TOTALLY FLAWLESS WITH ANY SPEEDS NO JAMS NO MAG NOT CYCLING , i SHOT OVER 300 SLUGS TODAY , i NOW CAN POST PICTURES OF AMMO I MADE AND ALSO SOME GROUPS AND DATA ,
GUN APART
GMI SLUGS I MADE to tune and check accuracy and data
lastly here is groups after repairs and swaging GMI slugs , BTW these slugs best ammo I shot in my life , great performance accurate flawless and deadly expansion , they sure did their homework designing these slug tooling , thanks LOU
BEFORE WORK DONE
AFTER ALL WORK DONE GROUPS
View attachment STRING RATTLER.txt
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