Faux Panda

[AlNyhus]

Today's project was turning a Davidson sleeved 722 into a Faux Panda. Will finish up the counter bores tomorrow and get it screwed, glued and tattooed.

Good shootin'. -Al

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Thats more like a faux polar or maybe a teddy unless youre cutting it off

 

[Terry]

Nice work Al!

 

[AlNyhus]

Thats more like a faux polar or maybe a teddy unless youre cutting it off

Yep.

Most haven't ever seen a Teddy or a Polar was so I hit the Easy Button with the Panda reference. -Al

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Yep.

Most haven't ever seen a Teddy or a Polar was so I hit the Easy Button with the Panda reference. -Al

Just call it a long wheelbase panda

 

[257ack]

screwed glued and tattoed----- You must be an old Navy man. Good luck with your project

 

[jackieschmidt]

I like that. Long wheel base Panda.

Good job, Al.

 

[AlNyhus]

Plopping the rail on there seemed like it would be as straight forward as plunging four holes down over the existing base screw holes in the sleeve, adding a counter bore to those holes, whipping up some epoxy, bolt/epoxy the whole lash up together and relax with an adult beverage or a cup of coffee, depending on the time of day.

Wrong!

Things just weren't making sense and sparing all the "...gorey details" as Randy Robinett says, the issue boiled down to that the two existing inboard base holes were not in line with either the existing front or rear base screw holes.

My work around for this...right or wrong...was to position the base screw holes correctly over the holes in the sleeve, then offset the counter bored holes by the amount the base screw holes were off so they are visually correct down the long axis of the rail.

Like Ralphie in 'A Christmas Story' helping his Dad change the tire blurting out "Oh, f-u-d-g-e! "

Good shootin' -Al

 

[Hal]

Someone makes a one piece sleeve with the dovetail machined in place for next time.

Hal

 

[AlNyhus]

Someone makes a one piece sleeve with the dovetail machined in place for next time. Hal

This is an older gun that's getting freshened up, not a new sleeve being installed.

 

[AlNyhus]

Finished up.

 

[RGRobinett]

Gene will use that .222 to be, "whuppin' us like rented mules" all summer . . . RG

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Looks great!

 

[WayneShaw]

Good job Al!

 

[Ledd Slinger]

Today's project was turning a Davidson sleeved 722 into a Faux Panda. Will finish up the counter bores tomorrow and get it screwed, glued and tattooed.

Good shootin'. -Al

Nice work I have a 722 I will be doing the same thing to. Just picked up this sleeve from a member on here for the job. I will be doing a picatinny rail on top. Might cut a couple inches off tho.
Need to get a large diameter barrel for it as well. Plan on doing a stepped double shoulder

 

[AlNyhus]

Nice work I have a 722 I will be doing the same thing to. Just picked up this sleeve from a member on here for the job. I will be doing a picatinny rail on top. Might cut a couple inches off tho.
Need to get a large diameter barrel for it as well. Plan on doing a stepped double shoulder

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Bolt in or glue in? -Al

 

[Ledd Slinger]

Bolt in or glue in? -Al

Both. I’ve never done one before so kind flying from the seat of my pants and just going with what I think will work good. I already have the top of the 722 receiver drilled and tapped for 8-40 screws and glued in a single shot follower. Plan on bolting thru the sleeve to the receiver scope rail screw holes but only tightening enough to assist holding central alignment of the receiver in the sleeve as the glue cures. I also plan on making it a dual port action by milling in a left load port. Will probably pre-mill the steel receiver prior to gluing and then mill the sleeve after everything is together and glue is cured. That way I’ll have a good tooling guide when milling out the port on the aluminum sleeve to match them perfectly.

 

[spike-55]

Finished up.

damn it!!! Al that looks really good!!!!
i got an old shilen built sleeved 722 with a shilen old school benchrest stock in .222. i have had it for years. now i may have to drag it out and play with a load. was gonna think about selling it but may have to play with it now!!
stan

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Lemme check my junkpile. Yep let me in too

 

[Ledd Slinger]

Finished up.

How was it inletting and bedding the stock? Did you mill out the inletting on a 700 SA stock, use a stock with different inletting, or start from a flat top blank?

I have a 700 footprint LR BR stock on the 722 right now and was planning on milling it out for the sleeve but wondering if there’s a better way to do it. Thanks.