how do I mill a rail for a pump rod?

[knownothingmags]

I stand by my original comment.

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[luke]

I stand by my original comment.

[knownothingmags]

If you don't take your time.[emoji23] Carter use to do them all the time for us in CA. They work flawless

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[luke]

You can definitely half-ass on a manual mill.

[knownothingmags]

you can do it on a manual mill easily, but Im guessing the appropriate people have been in contact with you already.

[Dawg047]

please send it to someone that knows how to mill it. It is not as simple as milling a straight slot. It is a compound slot that requires either a cnc mill.

Exactly what captian pinky said. The slot "slopes" up which allows the pump rod to come forward and down to clear. Luke I believe slots rails for pumps.

[captian pinky]

please send it to someone that knows how to mill it. It is not as simple as milling a straight slot. It is a compound slot that requires either a cnc mill.

[cougar20th]

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[rawbutter]

I'm getting a pump kit, and I already have a pump milled body, so the only thing I'm missing to complete the build is a pump milled rail. Fortunately, I have a mill, but unfortunately, I've never seen a pump-milled rail in person, so I'm not sure what to do.

The way I understand it, a pump mag has a shorter bolt return spring, so the bolt doesn't fully reset after firing. (And the wave spring helps with this, right?) When you pump the handle, though, the pump rod reaches back through the rail and pushes the bolt back. When you fire again, however, won't the bolt hit the pump rod? I'm guessing the pump rod has to be pulled down somehow when it's in the forward position.

So do I need to just mill a channel for the rod? Or does the back end of that channel have to have an upward slant?

How good are my chances of screwing this up completely and ruining a perfectly good rail?