I am almost finished rebuilding my uncle's old 270. It was a fairly unpleasant rifle to shoot in its original form. It started life as an early 700 ADL with a 22" barrel and short LOP and knurled steel butt plate. My dad bought this rifle in high school but it kicked like a mule so he did the most logical thing. He sold it to his little brother!!
I finally got all the parts together and tore it down, cleaned 40 years of gunk out of it, and trued it up. I installed a PTG one piece bolt and recoil lug, a Shilen #3 stainless barrel finished at 24 3/4" and pillar bedded it into a Remington take-off BDL stock. I will re-use the original trigger. I still need to fix the barrel where the copper wire was wrapped around the shank and the brass tipped spider screws contacted the barrel. In hindsight I should have bead blasted the barrel after I chambered and crowned it. I didn't order a bolt knob with this bolt so I had to make one. I think it turned out pretty well with the case head inletted into the end of the knob.
The finish was in pretty good shape so I did not need to re-finish the action. In the future I would like to get into Ceracoting to add a little style to my projects and protect the surfaces of the components from the elements. This is my fourth complete rifle. It is getting easier but I am still learning a lot and making quite a few mistakes. I am catching more of them before the cutter touches the metal but still have to fix a few screw-ups.
When the bedding is good and cured and I have the scope installed I will work up a few test loads and see how she shoots. I hope to have some good results to post soon.
If I have over looked anything please let me know. Have a great weekend.
David
I finally got all the parts together and tore it down, cleaned 40 years of gunk out of it, and trued it up. I installed a PTG one piece bolt and recoil lug, a Shilen #3 stainless barrel finished at 24 3/4" and pillar bedded it into a Remington take-off BDL stock. I will re-use the original trigger. I still need to fix the barrel where the copper wire was wrapped around the shank and the brass tipped spider screws contacted the barrel. In hindsight I should have bead blasted the barrel after I chambered and crowned it. I didn't order a bolt knob with this bolt so I had to make one. I think it turned out pretty well with the case head inletted into the end of the knob.
The finish was in pretty good shape so I did not need to re-finish the action. In the future I would like to get into Ceracoting to add a little style to my projects and protect the surfaces of the components from the elements. This is my fourth complete rifle. It is getting easier but I am still learning a lot and making quite a few mistakes. I am catching more of them before the cutter touches the metal but still have to fix a few screw-ups.
When the bedding is good and cured and I have the scope installed I will work up a few test loads and see how she shoots. I hope to have some good results to post soon.
If I have over looked anything please let me know. Have a great weekend.
David
