I started a few days ago on a busted up Pershing I picked up for 50 USD on Fleabay. I knew I was going to be tearing this one apart and giving it a face lift. I ordered stock Henglong recoil mechanisms. I measured the BB unit and came up wit a factory HL recoil that should work well. We will see, but my best guess after a few beers and staring at it long enough, gave me enough confidence to hit the buy button.
I tore the entire thing down and started with the most difficult part, which was fitting a barrel assembly. I went to Walmart and bought a Shakespeare Durango fiber fishing rod for 8 bucks. I took my calibers in with me to measure the rods to find out which one would work well. This one happened to be the cheapest of them all. I took a 50 cal casing, and sliced it up to put into the mantle as a guide for the recoiling barrel. After finding the section and the length that I needed, I took a brass Airsoft barrel that I had lying around from some of my airsoft guns. It fit perfectly inside, needed a bit of shimming at the mantle to center it in the fishing rod section. I then epoxied it all together and added the stock HL Pershing muzzle. Glued it all together waiting on the recoil units.
So here it begins.......the Tiger Killer. I needed a formidable opponent for my Axis battalion.
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