[loboslanding]

Finally! Seems like I've been playing with this one for a long time, but she's finished and test fired one round in the backyard. The round ejected and the mechanism reset so now I'm looking forwards to putting a whole drum thru it.

My workmanship on this gun is mediocre at best, but ugly works too.

 

[rocco1911]

Congrats

Congradulations Lobo looks good to me I'm not big on perfection eighter as long as it functions perfect thats all that matters but it looks great to me happy plinking

 

[mspurg]

Lobo,

I see IO is selling the semi-receiver for the Ppsh41. Is that what you used?
Also, I like to remind builders who work on Russian firearms from WW II to think about the following. Go in your back yard and build a 20’ by 20’ shack. Start your work in the middle of winter when the temp gets to around 10 below zero (or move to where it gets that cold). Make sure all your tooling is from the 1920s. Make sure you are wearing boots with holes in them, and some “first rate” ragged clothes. Have a cot in the corner, and a wood stove, a bag of potatoes, and maybe one bottle of Vodka. Build!!!! Before you put the final touches on your firearm, make sure you pour the paint on the ground, and then mix it with several others colors (left over paint from painting their planes). You are allowed one meal a day and not allowed to shave or shower. Now make sure you do a “perfect” job of building that firearm!!! You have two weeks to build your Ppsh41!!!
Looks like a first rate job, you must have had more than one bottle of Vodka. You cheated!!! LOL!

 

[kkkriverrats]

As the fly on the mirror said "looks good to me"

Suits me, and I'm hard to please. Function over form any day.

 

[sdk1968]

function is the big word on this gun.

 

[loboslanding]

It's a sweet little gun.

Purg, I bought a blank receiver section from stenparts and did the cutouts myself using a die grinder and then welded it to the receiver and rear catch from my parts set. The part of my workmanship I don't like is where I made the welds to attach the new upper receiver to the parts set...I had to grind them down to make them look decent and it's ripply. I can only MIG weld and can't TIG which would have made a much nicer job. Using a MIG for this project is like using an axe to peel one of them Rusky potatos.

 

[sdk1968]

this is hands down the best repair section out their for the money.... ive got several of them.

oh and these are nice people to deal with too!

 

[weasel_master]

I had a bunch of extra stuff with my kit. I didn't see the need for having them so I just gave them away. How much do they want for a repair section?

 

[mspurg]

Yes, you definitely took the "build-it-from scratch" approach. I would guess your MIG experience is a whole lot better than my arc welding experience!! LOL!
I have a kit that has the "full" barrel shroud, uncut, so I am taking my time on how to try to build this one. I would like to get it "SBRed", so I could build it as close to the original as possible, which means it will probably never be built.

It's a sweet little gun.

Purg, I bought a blank receiver section from stenparts and did the cutouts myself using a die grinder and then welded it to the receiver and rear catch from my parts set. The part of my workmanship I don't like is where I made the welds to attach the new upper receiver to the parts set...I had to grind them down to make them look decent and it's ripply. I can only MIG weld and can't TIG which would have made a much nicer job. Using a MIG for this project is like using an axe to peel one of them Rusky potatos.

 

[loboslanding]

this is hands down the best repair section out their for the money.... ive got several of them.

oh and these are nice people to deal with too!

Yep, he's on my way home from work and 1 mile from my church...great guy.

purg, good luck on the SBR. I built this gun off one of those uncut full barrel shroud parts sets and I've got one more for the next gun too.

 

[sdk1968]

Lobo,

glad to hear tht you actually "know" him...

they really have been very helpful everytie ive dealt with them and ive got sten parts from him as well.

oh and yes you picked the "right kit" to go with that part.

made for an easy build didnt it?

now just think if you do the next one with Shermans parts.

oh bTW, you dont have to sacrifice another kit if you dont want to.. you can convert the one you got over to Shermans stuff just buy getting another bolt and lower set up... IO is trying to dump most of this stuff.

 

[loboslanding]

I've got several parts sets and bolts, but I think I might do another PPSH and keep my original effort intact. I'll use Shermans method next time so now I'll start looking for a reasonable SKS FCG.

 

[sdk1968]

yeah i checked for you and came up empty at a reasonable price... plenty of them out there. but most people are just to high.

there are a couple on flea bay.

 

[weasel_master]

SDK, what do you shoot through yours? I've got some Bulgarian that's supposed to be pretty hot. I was thinking of getting some Romy from AIM but the Bulgy was dang cheap.

 

[sdk1968]

Romanian all the way!! do have some Polish.


lots of bad reports out there on the Bulgy stuff so instead of sorting thru is it good or is it not i just stayed away.

Romanian is still out there for 10 or 11 cents a around. hard to beat that.

Shermans conversion doesnt care what kind you use.. it just WORKS.

side note: a lot of the improvement in Shermans config is bolt mass and the rest is firing pin related, he makes a hell of a pin for these.