Im hoping this will be a short guide or how to make a cheap build a good build. I have a Savage 10 with a harte barrel chambered in 6X sitting in a B&C Medalist stock and mounted with weaver picattiny scope base and low rings and Vortex 6-20X50. Nothing is exceptional quality but this is a budget build cause I have an 11 month old and still in school. The rifle shoots though, I have posted up results of the 6X shooting 1/4" and under groups but the problem has been that I get the occassional flyer and I want to eliminate those. I also want to prove that $5 grand may buy better quality, but good old time and hard work can make a $1k rifle not just as accurate, but also as consistent. Thats the main issue with cheap builds vs like a GA Precision is consistency, that and the medalist is the ugliest stock ever. To help aid in my endeavor I had purchased the Wheeler Engineering Scope Mount kit. It has lapping bars/compound, levels, torque wrench and thread locker. Kit is like $90. The torque wrench alone probably is all I needed but oh well.
So, the start of my project was the stock. One of the worst fitting stocks ever, no wonder im getting flyers. When I first bought the stock, I had to dremel the trigger well wider, dremel inside the stock in numerous places to keep the stock from rubbing the sides of trigger group and action. The rear tang had to be sanded down an exceptional amount to keep from rubbing as well and I had to sand the bolt handle area cause that rubbed everytime I closed the bolt. The last thing was to sand out the barrel channel. The harte barrel is .92 at the muzzle so it needed a LOT of sanding and it still was hitting. So, again, the start of my project yesterday was to sand more out. I used my lapping bar and wrapped it with 80 grit sand paper and went to town.
So, the start of my project was the stock. One of the worst fitting stocks ever, no wonder im getting flyers. When I first bought the stock, I had to dremel the trigger well wider, dremel inside the stock in numerous places to keep the stock from rubbing the sides of trigger group and action. The rear tang had to be sanded down an exceptional amount to keep from rubbing as well and I had to sand the bolt handle area cause that rubbed everytime I closed the bolt. The last thing was to sand out the barrel channel. The harte barrel is .92 at the muzzle so it needed a LOT of sanding and it still was hitting. So, again, the start of my project yesterday was to sand more out. I used my lapping bar and wrapped it with 80 grit sand paper and went to town.
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