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- By XP1K
- The Armory
- 21 Replies
To the professionals out there, not the shade tree guys like myself, y'all tell me if I'm on the right track.
Some time ago I built myself my first rifle. Trued up my action to the best of my abilities and chambered my first barrel. It shoots pretty decent. Half moa is the norm with minimal load development, and it's shot a few in the. 3xx range.
The problem is, when I chambered it I got some reamer chatter toward the end of the chambering process, and I failed to notice it until I test fired it. It's very minimal, but you can feel it in the fired cases. And you can see it in the chamber now that it has a few hundred rounds on it. Probably more like 5-600.
But it shoots good so why mess with it? Well, #1 its not right, and it's bugged me since day one. And I think it's probably going to lead to erosion in the neck due to it not sealing like it should when fired. And #2, probably the main reason, I want to learn how to fix my mistake.
So here's where I'm at. Long ago, the smith that used to due my work for me, may he rest in peace, had told me he had one chatter one time. He had called brownells and was talking to them about it and they told him a process to follow to get it to clean up.
He said brownells told him to take a cotton/flannel cleaning patch and fold it in half and make a small cut with a pair of scissors in the middle, and to slide it over the reamer to the neck/shoulder junction and take a light cut. Repeat the process until it cleaned up. He said he only had to do it once. I forget the depth of cut he said he took.
So that's where I'm at. Am I headed down the right path ? What spindle speed should i run ? I'm here to learn, feel free to tell me if I'm screwing up or if there's another way I should go about it please let me know.
I already moved the shoulder, the breach face, and the bolt recess forward .062" and my witness mark on the barrel and reciever lined up perfect.
Also, I picked up a reamer stop off of LRH, and before I moved the shoulder and everything forward, I slid the reamer in and adjusted the stop to the breach face. Then I added .005" just to make sure I didn't go too deep.
Here's the setup.
Some time ago I built myself my first rifle. Trued up my action to the best of my abilities and chambered my first barrel. It shoots pretty decent. Half moa is the norm with minimal load development, and it's shot a few in the. 3xx range.
The problem is, when I chambered it I got some reamer chatter toward the end of the chambering process, and I failed to notice it until I test fired it. It's very minimal, but you can feel it in the fired cases. And you can see it in the chamber now that it has a few hundred rounds on it. Probably more like 5-600.
But it shoots good so why mess with it? Well, #1 its not right, and it's bugged me since day one. And I think it's probably going to lead to erosion in the neck due to it not sealing like it should when fired. And #2, probably the main reason, I want to learn how to fix my mistake.
So here's where I'm at. Long ago, the smith that used to due my work for me, may he rest in peace, had told me he had one chatter one time. He had called brownells and was talking to them about it and they told him a process to follow to get it to clean up.
He said brownells told him to take a cotton/flannel cleaning patch and fold it in half and make a small cut with a pair of scissors in the middle, and to slide it over the reamer to the neck/shoulder junction and take a light cut. Repeat the process until it cleaned up. He said he only had to do it once. I forget the depth of cut he said he took.
So that's where I'm at. Am I headed down the right path ? What spindle speed should i run ? I'm here to learn, feel free to tell me if I'm screwing up or if there's another way I should go about it please let me know.
I already moved the shoulder, the breach face, and the bolt recess forward .062" and my witness mark on the barrel and reciever lined up perfect.
Also, I picked up a reamer stop off of LRH, and before I moved the shoulder and everything forward, I slid the reamer in and adjusted the stop to the breach face. Then I added .005" just to make sure I didn't go too deep.
Here's the setup.
Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)
- By Ramius
- The Bear Pit
- 108129 Replies
Wetting your pants laughing from watching the smoke bum taking a big drag of hair smoke and then gagging or puking!
Burning horse hair is NASTY smelling!
Shoot some S&B 12ga shells… smells like burnt horse hair.
L3i New "Stinger" Barreled action
- By 68hoyt
- All Things Rimfire
- 214 Replies
Maybe tolerances have changed , it has been almost 3 years ago , please read their experiences before saying anything to me
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PTG 40x repeater action
Has anyone gotten one yet? Looks like the have a single shot and a repeater version Im curious to know how well they shoot and what mags are used. I do know they have a bad rep on customer service but just curious on how the action performs. A guy on FB posted some pictures of the action ge...
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Pope Death Watch... WITH A PRIZE!!! Quart of Maple Syrup to the winner!
- By mosin46
- The Bear Pit
- 757 Replies
seems about as sharp as he was 2 years or so ago
