Sniper feedback and sc village sticker

[Sbrannam]

Have a sniper 1 my buddy bought new. Came from sc village. The feedneck is missing and the sticker is worn out. Does someone make feednecks? How hard would it be to pull the feedback from mini body? Is it worth it? Does anybody make reproduction sat cong stickers

[Ecapnation]

Every feed neck is machined to the body. Easier to get a new one then swap one

[RedLeaderSB]

Maybe don't ruin a working thing to fix a broken thing.
I have a 2k2 feedneck already pulled if you want it. Maybe it will work, maybe it will require minor machining/adhesive.

Bacci was able to get me a replica sticker for my Sniper 1 as well. Maybe ask him if he has any more.

[DocsMachine]

Feed necks like this are pressed in. And once removed, no longer "fit"- the 'press fit' has been lost.

The proper fix is to measure the hole (and/or rebore it to clean it up, depending on how the old one was removed) and turn a new neck to properly fit- that being about a thou or two larger than the bore size.

The ideal fix is to have the new neck annoed- which also makes it very slightly larger, which needs to be taken into account- and then pressed in.

The big trick with most markers like this, is the feed neck gets pressed in, then the bolt passage bored back out. It's possible to pre-machine the feed neck, but it's very tricky to get it to line back up right, and even trickier to get it to press without catching an edge or scarring.

Doc.

[Sbrannam]

Thanks for the info. My intention is to rebuild it back to its glory and give it back to him. It was his very first marker. I'll pm on feedneck. If anything, it will give me a pattern on the new one. Any idea on year of mini.

[Grendel]

Mini dating is near impossible, that is an actual made as a Mini/Sniper III body by WGP given the placement and value of the number. Given the sight rail milling it is definitely post 1995 and good chance pre-1998 because it lacks the angled off sight rail forward of the feed neck. Those dates are completely guesses because Mini production was higgledy-piggledy and they used what was on hand when there were orders for them and prepared bodies could sit quite a while between assembly runs, especially for RF they were definitely lower demand and usually ended up in Sniper III vs. Mini-Cockers. This body could be either and no one really ever tracked or collected Mini serial numbers that I am aware of and they have a completely different sequence then full body serial numbers.