May 15th- The Remington is Complete!

May 15^th – It is done! (well…almost done)

The Remington is complete.

The Checkering has been finished and sealer applied.

Here are a couple of pics of the final rifle:

 

So…to recap:

1)    The trigger has be reset to a 2.5 pound pull

2)    The lugs have been lapped

3)    The action trued, and the raceways polished

4)    The receiver has been pillar and glass bedded

5)    The barrel channel has been glass bedded and the barrel free floated

6)    The rifle has been fitted with a leupold scope

7)    Synthetic stock has been replaced with a walnut stock

8)    Recoil pad installed

9)    The stock has been finished and decorated with hand checkering.

So in the end we went from this factory rifle:

To this “custom rifle”:

When I first received this rifle it would put a 180 grain bullet in a 5 shot group roughly the size of an orange…now with all of the mechanical work it “should” shoot a group roughly the size of a fifty cent piece.

That is the last part of this experiment…to take her to the range and try her out!  That will happen this Saturday and I’ll be sure to post a final picture of the target to see how we did!

I hope you’ve all found this interesting!