Re: Good inexpensive vintage bolt action rifle?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Clark</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 7.62gunr</div><div class="ubbcode-body">98K trumps ALL "vintage" bolt military weapons. </div></div>
That is true, but for variety, sometimes you change channels.
I have $5 into the 1937 Iz Mosin Nagant receiver at a gun show. It had a sewer pipe barrel attached.
I got an unfired semi finished VZ59 machine gun barrel for $40 from TN Guns. I got that discount because it had a gas hole that I tapped and plugged. I cut many of the quick change features off the barrel to make it round. I made a stepped shroud that I lapped and Loctited at the breech so the receiver should and the inner C ring both made contact when I headspaced it.
The stock was a take off.
The pistol grip was an STG58 take off [discarded for 922(r) compliance], mounted with 3/8" lag bolts with the wood screw threads cut into the wood in two holes so the grip can be moved forward or back.
The scope mount is an ATI $23 model, but I drilled and coutersank a third hole for the 10-32 screws into the receiver.
I pillar bed with 3/8" mild steel tubing while pre compressed.
The bi-pod mount was a piece of scrap Walnut that is glued with Tightbond II and pinned with .1" diameter stainless deck nails.
There is a $2 Uncle Mike's swivel stud screwed into the Walnut, for the Harris bipod mounting.
The trigger job is just a .045" shim under the rear of the sear, that gets the force from 9 pounds to 4.5 pounds.
Someone TIG welded the bolt handle for me, as my TIG welding skill is primitive.
Try to buy a newly manufactured receiver with an inner "C" ring, flat bottom, and integral recoil lug, and you will be into the big $.
When in two minutes, the scope, rings, cheek rest, and bi pod are moved on to another rifle, there is only ~ $100 invested into the rifle.
I got a 100 piece box of the 7.62x53R Lapua brass for $42 ~8 years ago. Now it is $126.
What does it all mean?
The rifle cost less to build than 100 pieces of brass
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+1 on this ^^^