Weird home gunsmithing

[jonbearman]

I saw a video last night from a gunshop which I cant link to yet. On it, it showed a bolt action rifle with a scope on it. When he opened the bolt the scope went with it. The guy had drilled and tapped the bolt to put mounts on and then his nice tasco scope. What is the weirdest home gunsmitting idea ever seen on a rifle you saw in a gun shop or where ever. I honestly couldnt stop laughing when he opened that bolt.

 

[Bill K]

He must have drill the reciever and into the bolt with the bolt in the upright position, or how else could he had just opened it ? If it had been closed and he drilled into it, then when he lifted the bolt handle to swing it up and then the bolt back, it should not have worked at all.
Sounds phoney too me. Plus for the scope to slide back on top of the reciever, he must have milled a slot, right ?

 

[Ggmac]

He must have drill the reciever and into the bolt with the bolt in the upright position, or how else could he had just opened it ? If it had been closed and he drilled into it, then when he lifted the bolt handle to swing it up and then the bolt back, it should not have worked at all.
Sounds phoney too me. Plus for the scope to slide back on top of the reciever, he must have milled a slot, right ?

Not all bolt actions have rotating bolt bodies .

 

[Lee in Texas]

I saw the same video. I would guess that someone who knew what they were doing did that wacky “gunsmithing” just to make a silly video.

 

[ebb]

Posted on this forum some one made a barrel from a piece of rebar. Yea it was wacky and kinda cool but with that kind of talent I am sure he could be doing some thing world class.

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

Good way to get a case of scope eye.

 

[Lee in Texas]

Posted on this forum some one made a barrel from a piece of rebar. Yea it was wacky and kinda cool but with that kind of talent I am sure he could be doing some thing world class.

Wasn’t that in Precision Shooting years ago?

 

[PopCharlie]

Good way to get a case of scope eye.

I think the entire project would get a case of stink eye.
PopCharlie

 

[AccelR8]

I remember that video. It was a Savage or Stevens 325 or 340 or some similar model. Those rifles have an open top receiver and a part called a gas shield riding on the bolt. The gas shield does not rotate with the bolt, it rides in the open top of the receiver and goes back and forth with the bolt. They had somehow attached their scope to that gas shield.

 

[Outrider27]

Just my opinion, based on their warranty service (or, more accurately, lack thereof) on one I owned where the entire elevation turret came off the scope barrel the first time I tried to adjust the elevation after installing it on a brand new rifle: there is no such thing as a "nice Tasco scope".

 

[PopCharlie]

Wasn’t that in Precision Shooting years ago?

My first benchrest rifle looked like a railroad tie with a piece of pipe sticking out if it.
PopCharlie

 

[TrxR]

That was done by a barrel maker in Canada as joke project but it actually shot quite well from what i heard.

Posted on this forum some one made a barrel from a piece of rebar. Yea it was wacky and kinda cool but with that kind of talent I am sure he could be doing some thing world class.

 

[jonbearman]

Just my opinion, based on their warranty service (or, more accurately, lack thereof) on one I owned where the entire elevation turret came off the scope barrel the first time I tried to adjust the elevation after installing it on a brand new rifle: there is no such thing as a "nice Tasco scope".

I was kidding when I inserted the word nice.