User:Greg Glover

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  • Former Ordnancemen in the US Marine Corps
  • Husband
  • Father of two Daughters and two Grandsons
  • City Building Inspector
  • Compettivly Shooting, Hunting and Reloading for over 35 years
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My attraction to Wikipedia is that I can be apart of the community. I really like the resources here and have become quit engaged. What keeps me here are the articles that cross my very person interest in small arms.

I am very dyslexic; no pity please, I just threw that out so you will understand why I misspell words (spell check not withstanding).

[edit] My Avocation

Other than hunting and shooting, I build rifles and design small arms cartridges. To date I have built maybe 10 custom rifles. I start with a factory action; M700 or cheap M98. I am curently working on a Palma rifle useing a Remington 40xb stock. Of though’s rifles I only have one left. I use that for 1000yd competition.

The chambering is a wildcat I conceived 30 years ago. I call it the .284 Achilles and is based on a .425 Westley Richards case. I have since started using the 7 mm Remington Ultra Magnum brass. This brass is much stronger and will allow the full potential of this cartridge to shin through. I also reload and have probable put several thousand pounds of lead through my presses.

Well two new rifle projects are in the works. I am working a wildcat called the .416 Achilles. This is a shortened (to fit in a standard length action) and necked up .375 Remington Ultra Magnum. Ballistically the cartridge should be equivalent to the .416 Remington Magnum. The second project will be .460 Weatherby Magnum built on a 1999 Montana Professional Hunter Action. The action isn't here yet but the wood blank is and other components are on order.

Do to my knee surgery last year I will not be hunting this year. I have just currently been able to get back to shooting 1000yd. competition. I hope to have the Palma rifle finished by March of this year and start learning a new discipline.

Oh, how could I forgot! I'm a motor head as well. Anything and everything to do with big block Chevy's. I eat, drink and breath them. I've built too many to count. I love them all; form 366 gutless wonders to 572 behemoths, naturally aspirated to blown, stroked to destroked, manual, automatic, turbocharged or on the bottle. Its all good...

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