its now been at about 3 years and 2 lathes, and am finally, finally getting that first bit of real world experience.
Along with the Wallet-reducing tooling of course.
feels good
Have started with a green mountain blank in 22LR. Required turning the barrel down, to .820" to fit and look right, for a CMP Remington 541-X.
lets see.... I have tenoned it twice....chambered it twice now...and it is still in the lathe, waiting on a more proper crown lapping tool to arrive this week - and yes, that will be crown job #2....
Considering that I will be using Loctite 609 to "glue" the barrel in.... I may be looking at a Harbor Freight Press, for removing this Barrel, in the very very likely need for barrel #2... ha truth is I know I will have another go at it.
Making the extractor cuts was not rewarding.. they dont look good, but are functional.
At least I also recognized one extractor being poorly made, and was able to succesfully file it for a proper catch on the Rim.
The chamber is tight. Reamer is a PTG Win 52D, and the bullet is definatly in the rifling. A Lapua Midas fits a bit easier than some of the RWS I have. Some minor lappping of the chamber brass-area done.
Last year I made a decent trigger guard for it out of Aluminum. No work of art, but not too bad either. lots of hand file time.
Also went the Savage route just this past few weeks, and got a used .243 Model 11 (pre-accutrigger, dates back a ways). Ordered a Gretan .5" mandrel and bushing set so I can learn to face the action. made an Action Jig. Or should I say action jig #1, lol.
The nut refused to come off with everything I could throw at it. So started milling a lenghtwise slot in the Nut, then I heard a slight "tink" and screwed off the barrel.
Have a new "precision faced" Nut, Rifle Basix Trigger on the way, and a .22BR barrel arriving.
(Thinking hard of ordering a 22-243win Shilen drop-in in a few months.)
My paper shooting is reasonably infrequent, as is my Coyote hunting. But I really like all my rifles to be capable of touching holes, via handloads and/or just a good rifle. I definatly try to have a scope capable of 16 to 20x on the high end.
And also thanks to all, for posting all the info that you do
Along with the Wallet-reducing tooling of course.
feels good
Have started with a green mountain blank in 22LR. Required turning the barrel down, to .820" to fit and look right, for a CMP Remington 541-X.
lets see.... I have tenoned it twice....chambered it twice now...and it is still in the lathe, waiting on a more proper crown lapping tool to arrive this week - and yes, that will be crown job #2....
Considering that I will be using Loctite 609 to "glue" the barrel in.... I may be looking at a Harbor Freight Press, for removing this Barrel, in the very very likely need for barrel #2...
ha truth is I know I will have another go at it.Making the extractor cuts was not rewarding.. they dont look good, but are functional.
At least I also recognized one extractor being poorly made, and was able to succesfully file it for a proper catch on the Rim.
The chamber is tight. Reamer is a PTG Win 52D, and the bullet is definatly in the rifling. A Lapua Midas fits a bit easier than some of the RWS I have. Some minor lappping of the chamber brass-area done.
Last year I made a decent trigger guard for it out of Aluminum. No work of art, but not too bad either. lots of hand file time.
Also went the Savage route just this past few weeks, and got a used .243 Model 11 (pre-accutrigger, dates back a ways). Ordered a Gretan .5" mandrel and bushing set so I can learn to face the action. made an Action Jig. Or should I say action jig #1, lol.
The nut refused to come off with everything I could throw at it. So started milling a lenghtwise slot in the Nut, then I heard a slight "tink" and screwed off the barrel.
Have a new "precision faced" Nut, Rifle Basix Trigger on the way, and a .22BR barrel arriving.
(Thinking hard of ordering a 22-243win Shilen drop-in in a few months.)
My paper shooting is reasonably infrequent, as is my Coyote hunting. But I really like all my rifles to be capable of touching holes, via handloads and/or just a good rifle. I definatly try to have a scope capable of 16 to 20x on the high end.
And also thanks to all, for posting all the info that you do
