Search results

Search the forum Search Articles
  1. B

    M40 Build Guide

    Good photo. It's always the little details that get you and having a photo, to review, is a great advantage and visual tool. Thanks! I think using Cerakote for the Bolt Shroud, Bolt (body & knob) and the Bottom Metal, the safety and the sling swivels, is the best/easiest way to achieve the...
  2. B

    M40 Build Guide

    Take your time- as in REALLY take your time to get that buttplate near perfection. It the only vertical 'line,' on an object that presents on a horizontal axis and it really stands-out. That 5% to finish a pre-inlet involves all of the very tedious stuff. Don't be in a rush. It's a lot of...
  3. B

    M40 Build Guide

    Are the screws, for the buttplate, identical to the 'type' that I/we are looking for? That's my understanding, also. (I always wondered about your Park'd rings, in this photo. Torx screws too. Questions-Questions-Questions) Zinc - Manganese... gets mighty confuse'n. They sure did...
  4. B

    M40 Build Guide

    A Zinc finish is a little lighter and has a gray/charcoal look. Mangangese is darker with a dark charcoal tint. Parkerizing is a chemical process using a low strength acid combined with either Manganese (usually WWII up to summer of 1944 and then again on all post war new production) or Zinc...
  5. B

    M40 Build Guide

    mjh30, How old are your Remingtons? I've been on a serious hunt to identify a Remington model that used those screws, on their buttplates and I'm starting to zero in on the 740.
  6. B

    M40 Build Guide

    Redfield mount... If you go back in the forum, MescaBug helped me identify mine. I eventually found another one, but both of mine were found, on Gunbroker (Scope accessories,) in good/used condition. I do hunt both Gunbroker and eBay, fairly regularly. Some guys hunt the local gun shows and...
  7. B

    M40 Build Guide

    From what I've seen, the mount/bases could be found with either finish. All the rings I've seen on original and surviving M40's, were just hot blued Good question. And, that's exactly why I'm here- to get the (best) answers to those little, lingering details. Is someone is producing, with...
  8. B

    M40 Build Guide

    Remington M40 Clone mounts... Last I read, the ONLY M40 mounts available, from Badger, were for later/more recent Remington M700 receivers, that are straight and do not have a lower rear/stepped receiver. They USED TO make mounts for the early/earlier stepped receiver, but they are no longer...
  9. B

    M40 Build Guide

    For a Redfield 700SA, this is what you're looking for to identify one: In the photo to follow, I'm pretty sure the one on the left is the elusive Redfield 511153/40X, but the center and left examples are 700SA's and as you can see, there is some variation in the clipped front corners...
  10. B

    M40 Build Guide

    Here's a photo of an original M40 buttplate C.1969: Not my idea. Proffered by another member and was certainly worth trying, though I'm not happy that it would thread to an 8-32 machine threaded post. 10-32 is and has been an 'industry' standard and probably with good reason. I'll try...
  11. B

    M40 Build Guide

    NUMRICH Part No. 148770FK 721/722 Buttplate Screw, Replacement $3.40 I don't have any M1Garand buttplate screws, but I've looked and they are straight-slotted. The M40 was an assembled firearm, from parts that were (then) in the manufacturing stream. I won't hand fit a screw, but I...
  12. B

    M40 Build Guide

    Is this a variant with the 'straight' buttplate... ? Looks like it, from the photos.
  13. B

    M40 Build Guide

    What Remington buttplate screw is this... ? I went to NUMRICH and picked-up at set for what's advertised as for 722 and they sit slightly below the 'rim of the countersink, like this: THIS (fills the cavity, bearing on the entire surface and standing slightly proud) is a proper...
  14. B

    M40 Build Guide

  15. B

    M40 Build Guide

    Silver Hill M40... 166601 & Silver Hill- Buttstock fit-up/side profile Where were we? Oh yeah... Here's a couple of representative 'side profile' photos of my 16601/-2- buttplate with a Silver Hill M40 stock. My 'old-timey' dial caliper is too small to measure the respective lengths of the...
  16. B

    M40 Build Guide

    Good eyes. It's an original box for a Remington Commemorative M40 SSA rifle, numbered and everything. The stock, however is a Silver Hill (not off of a SSA M40) and just SPF. The two (2) being in one (1) photo is merely coincidental. While we're on the subject; I am going to sell the box.
  17. B

    M40 Build Guide

    This particular stock is SPF and no, I haven't fit an action and/or buttplate to it. I'll pull it out tomorrow and take-off some measurements, perhaps take 'face-on' and 'side' profile photos of a 16601 sitting on the stock. That said, most of the 16001's out there are 'take-offs,' which mean...
  18. B

    M40 Build Guide

    It's called a "Tactical Post" and it rotates the "Power Knob." (pretty sure, anyway.) Somebody-somewhere currently makes the longer tactical posts, so they can be had. I haven't found that person yet, but I'm still looking. Should someone stumble upon that person, please let us all know.
  19. B

    M40 Build Guide

    MescaBug is spot on. If your looking for a 'drop-in' stock (as opposed to a 'pre-inlet) with a bedding block/system, the Accurate Innovations, is it. They won't sell their bedding block/system, independent of their stock (I asked.) Their stock is in use amongst some M40 enthusiasts and...
  20. B

    M40 Build Guide

    Silver Hill M40 stock... SPF SPF to sab9259. Thanks!
Top Bottom
Back
Home
Forums
Merch
Alerts