I am wrapping up my pair of 580 conversions. This one is in 17 Garin.
A couple formed, but not fireformed 17 Garin rounds flanking a 17 Hornady Hornet.
I am not a fan of the glossy look it has right now, but I put a coat of Tru-Oil on the stock yesterday evening and I like it to cure for a week between the final five coats before knocking it down with 0000 steel wool. When I get it done in about a month I will rub it down with rottenstone and then give it a couple coats of Ren Wax and it will please me.
I sealed/bedded the barrel channel tight to .01 Pipe Wrap with Score High Pro Bed hoping it would have enough clearance and it appears that it is going to be. If the foreend warps over I will sand it out. .01 clearance looks so much better than .02 and this is a pretty stout barrel that tapers to .650 at the muzzle.
Don’t worry about how the grain runs in the wrist of the stock. We ran a 7/16 end mill down into a blind hole and epoxied an oak dowel in. It’s bomb proof, I promise you.
The barrel is a Douglas 24 inch, straight taper, 1:10 twist and although I have only shot ten rounds, so far it has picked up ZERO copper.
Basically I threw together ten rounds using 20 grain Dogtown bullets, 205M, 12.5 grains 1680 in new Starline brass. I didn’t pay any attention to OAL or where the lands are. I just wanted ten rounds that will go boom today.
The one at the bottom is a throw away. The shoulder was collapsed and I just shot it to blow the shoulder out. I should have shot it into the dirt instead. I shot two rounds at 25 yards, then two at 100 yards to get the scope zeroed.
The five shot group measures .607 center to center. I’ll load up five each in .2 grain increments to 13.5 grains and try and shoot it again in the next couple weeks. The weather has been good, once it gets cold and rainy I am not inclined to do much range work, especially if it involves setting up the chronographs. I’d rather go deer hunting.
So far so good. It looks like it is going to be a decent little rifle once I get the glossy off it and do a little load development.
I bought a couple of the Diamondback 4-16x42 that Midway has on clearance for $199 right now. For the type of shooting we do with this class of cartridge, they will be fine. No sense in blowing money on scopes I might actually prefer when there isn’t anything to be gained. For ~300 yard varmints (ground squirrepls, sage rats, prairie dogs & rockchucks) they will do anything any other scope would do and do it just as well.
A couple formed, but not fireformed 17 Garin rounds flanking a 17 Hornady Hornet.
I am not a fan of the glossy look it has right now, but I put a coat of Tru-Oil on the stock yesterday evening and I like it to cure for a week between the final five coats before knocking it down with 0000 steel wool. When I get it done in about a month I will rub it down with rottenstone and then give it a couple coats of Ren Wax and it will please me.
I sealed/bedded the barrel channel tight to .01 Pipe Wrap with Score High Pro Bed hoping it would have enough clearance and it appears that it is going to be. If the foreend warps over I will sand it out. .01 clearance looks so much better than .02 and this is a pretty stout barrel that tapers to .650 at the muzzle.
Don’t worry about how the grain runs in the wrist of the stock. We ran a 7/16 end mill down into a blind hole and epoxied an oak dowel in. It’s bomb proof, I promise you.
The barrel is a Douglas 24 inch, straight taper, 1:10 twist and although I have only shot ten rounds, so far it has picked up ZERO copper.
Basically I threw together ten rounds using 20 grain Dogtown bullets, 205M, 12.5 grains 1680 in new Starline brass. I didn’t pay any attention to OAL or where the lands are. I just wanted ten rounds that will go boom today.
The one at the bottom is a throw away. The shoulder was collapsed and I just shot it to blow the shoulder out. I should have shot it into the dirt instead. I shot two rounds at 25 yards, then two at 100 yards to get the scope zeroed.
The five shot group measures .607 center to center. I’ll load up five each in .2 grain increments to 13.5 grains and try and shoot it again in the next couple weeks. The weather has been good, once it gets cold and rainy I am not inclined to do much range work, especially if it involves setting up the chronographs. I’d rather go deer hunting.
So far so good. It looks like it is going to be a decent little rifle once I get the glossy off it and do a little load development.
I bought a couple of the Diamondback 4-16x42 that Midway has on clearance for $199 right now. For the type of shooting we do with this class of cartridge, they will be fine. No sense in blowing money on scopes I might actually prefer when there isn’t anything to be gained. For ~300 yard varmints (ground squirrepls, sage rats, prairie dogs & rockchucks) they will do anything any other scope would do and do it just as well.
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