This is my most recent build, which I'm putting together specifically for the upcoming HERT class at Thunder Ranch, and because I wanted something that could go out to 1000 yards + but that I can carry around more easily than my 300 WSM. It's nearly done:
I built and installed the comb, bedded the stock, lapped the rings, built custom stock screws (why are the stock screws nearly a 1/4 inch too short?) lapped and bedded the scope mounts, and with a friend of mine we did the barrel and built the brake out of a hunk of 6061-T6. (He did most of the brake work!)
I will get new glass for it (thinking of either the Vortex HD or the IOR 3-18. I will probably do one more bedding on it for some gaps I don't like the looks of, although really they are cosmetic.
I may do something on the bottom of the stock (to make it flat) and might put a rail on the front grip.
I'm dorking around with modding G3 mags to fit into the bottom metal. They'll be cut down to be 12 rounders with new stainless-steel lips. It might yet work, we shall see. At less than a buck a mag, it's the cheapest option by far to get the parts.
I don't think I'll lap the bolt face, etc.. I didn't do that on my last Savage and that thing routine shoots well under 1/2 MOA, so I'm going to see how this one shoots first.
And I will, at some point, duracoat it.
Building ammo now. Only one day at the range so far, looks like I'll be getting between 2700-2800 FPS with Remington brass, CCI BR Primers, Berger 140s and either H4350 or H4831SC.
2520
++++
I built and installed the comb, bedded the stock, lapped the rings, built custom stock screws (why are the stock screws nearly a 1/4 inch too short?) lapped and bedded the scope mounts, and with a friend of mine we did the barrel and built the brake out of a hunk of 6061-T6. (He did most of the brake work!)
I will get new glass for it (thinking of either the Vortex HD or the IOR 3-18. I will probably do one more bedding on it for some gaps I don't like the looks of, although really they are cosmetic.
I may do something on the bottom of the stock (to make it flat) and might put a rail on the front grip.
I'm dorking around with modding G3 mags to fit into the bottom metal. They'll be cut down to be 12 rounders with new stainless-steel lips. It might yet work, we shall see. At less than a buck a mag, it's the cheapest option by far to get the parts.
I don't think I'll lap the bolt face, etc.. I didn't do that on my last Savage and that thing routine shoots well under 1/2 MOA, so I'm going to see how this one shoots first.
And I will, at some point, duracoat it.
Building ammo now. Only one day at the range so far, looks like I'll be getting between 2700-2800 FPS with Remington brass, CCI BR Primers, Berger 140s and either H4350 or H4831SC.
2520
++++
