Re: My rifle back from the "Smith"??PIC HEAVY!
I just received an email from Jose. Here's a copy of my original email detailing what I found;
OK Jose,
I’ve attached several pictures for you. Feel free to post them if you like. You may also post my findings. Some of the pictures are before and after, you should be able to see the difference. The following are my findings;
1- The receiver face, threads and lug abutments have not been trued. I can still see the factory saw cuts on the receiver face. You may be able to see the saw cuts in the pictures.
2- The lug abutments in the receiver are not true to the receiver face. The difference between the two lugs are .0015” when measuring from the receiver face.
3- The bolt face, bolt lugs and bolt nose have not been trued. I can still see the factory finish on the bolt face (small pit like finish).
4- One bolt lug is making contact slightly more than the other.
5- The bolt nose and face of the bolt lugs were rubbing the rear of the barrel tennon and inside the bolt nose recess. This is bad for accuracy and I cleaned this up while the barrel was in the lathe. It’s just clearance but it needs to be there. You can see this in some of the pictures.
6- When measuring the depth from the receiver face to the face of the bolt lugs the top lug measured .704”, the bottom lug measured .694” This is just clearance but needs to be trued while in the lathe.
7- The chamber appears to be fine, no run out. I removed the burr and polished the chamber giving it a 320 grit finish. Should be OK
8- I polished the rear of the tennon and threads, you can see this in the pictures.
9- Headspace was checked and it’s +.002” over a go gauge.
The thing that would really bother me above all is this. The receiver and bolt were never trued, you just received a barrel change and a new lug. Now, if you didn’t pay for receiver truing no big deal but, if you did, you got jacked. Why build a rifle and not true the receiver. Photos of the crown aren’t in this email because I haven’t re-crowned it yet, I will though. 7mmRM is supposed to send me a spec sheet to scale for the ejection cut out. Since a cutout is already there and high all I can do is just clean it up a bit and try to make it look uniform.
The crown, ejection cutout and finish is all that’s left to do. If you would like me to paint the rifle in flat black KG Gun Kote let me know what you want to do so I can get this rifle back to you, it’s almost finished.
I can take more photos if you like but, I think I’ve got it covered pretty good
