LRI's latest:

[LRI]

Gotta show off the new galvenized peg board somehow.

CR Mod-O on a tuned up Remmy.

Work performed:

1. Single stroke diamond honed receiver bore
2. Tier 1 blueprinted on our 5 axis cnc mill
3. Pinned lug
4. Blueprinted bolt on one of our 4 axis vertical cnc mills
5. Tig welded tang groove (std thing when we are stocking the gun)
6. M40 clip slotted
7. M40 double radius ejection port
8. Side bolt release
9. M16 xtr install on bolt with dual ejectors
10. 8-40 base hole upgrade
11. Timed/Tig'd handle with timing advance
12. Faceted bolt shroud
13. Bolt fluting
14. Tac knob install
15. Barrel fitted, 6.5mm Creedmoor for ELDX 140's
16. Muzzle threading
17. Thread protector installation
18. cnc stock inletting
19. Pillar bedding
20. All hardware installation
21. Cross pinned trigger/mag box web
22. Camo Stencil cutting
23. All finishing/coating work

Parts:

1. M700 SS SA
2. LRI Lug
3. LRI bipod mount
4. LRI Side bolt release
5. LRI M16 xtr
6. LRI 20moa M40 type lugged base
7. LRI HD flush cup
8. LRI HTR DBM
9. LRI ULTACH hardware
10. Manners T5A
11. K&P barrel blank
12. Jewel trigger

Our new DBM installed.

 

[brianf]

that is some nice clean work right there

no bumps, bruises or gaps

 

[hollowoutadime]

That's clean. I'll bet it runs nice and not too heavy to hunt with. What's something like that ballpark for?

 

[longgunJR]

That's great work Chad, I'll be talking to you about a side bolt release soon, so I can run a TT Diamond on my R700.

 

[XLR308]

That is one fine looking peg board. ?
The rifle is pretty slick to

 

[LRI]

That is one fine looking peg board. ?
The rifle is pretty slick to

I posted this on FB as well and got all sorts of "vaginal" over the fact that not ONE person made a comment on it. I worked all day on that stupid thing. lol.

Thanks!

 

[sgtsmmiii]

Beautiful. Love me some LRI full builds. The peg board is WAY cool. .

 

[Threadcutter308]

When you gonna come out with your own Action ?

 

[LRI]

When you gonna come out with your own Action ?

As I have stated repeatedly; Never and here's why:

15-18 years ago a suppressor was a rare thing to see. I may have threaded 3, 4 barrels for a can per month. Now we do 90% of our barrel work so that they are "can ready".

What does a can have to do with an action? The Hearing Protection Act. When that became a "thing" the can market tanked almost overnight. Why spend and wait when were being told that we'll buy them in 6 packs at Walmart right?

Those companies flipping cans started to starve. Some did. Some got smart and started making actions. Anyone ever wonder why the "custom" action market bloomed overnight with a dozen or so companies no one had ever heard of before?

There ya go. That's my theory anway.

Well now, now you literally have a race to the bottom. 20+ years ago custom actions were coveted, rare, and expensive. Now they get flipped at Bass Pro Shops from custom gun plumbers no one has ever heard of.

I will politely steer clear from that shit show. I'm much happier taking the "race engine approach" where I acquire a production grade part and "hot rod it" to emulate the performance and features of the aftermarket.

There's an estimated 5-6 million Remington's in circulation. If I did nothing else for the rest of my life I would not scratch 1 tenth of 1 percent of that number. I'd die a man who lived a very comfortable life.

Besides, I don't need my name on an action made by someone else and my shop is nowhere near what it takes to make receivers. My routine chats with Ted from ARC only further drives that point home. The infrastructure he's had to build borders on the absurd and he's nowhere near finished.

I like doing exactly what were doing and we'll continue to just refine our stuff and make it as best as we possibly can.

Thanks though.

C.

 

[goinghunting]

Dang I'm staying at a house about 10 miles down the road from LRI and decided not to bring one of my 700s to leave and have Chad do his thing on... My reasoning was that I was just so busy. Dumb move.

 

[brianf]

Knowing that you cannot divulge anything proprietary would you be able to share what exactly IS needed for action building.

For the dumb ones like myself (for a small scale up) I would think you need
mill/lathe/cnc
Design if not a pure clone
Partner for coating/hardness
Pressure testing from outside company

Over simplified but I must be missing something if you don’t even want to touch it.

Just the trigger puller...

Thanks

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

Gotta show off the new galvenized peg board somehow.

CR Mod-O on a tuned up Remmy.

Work performed:

1. Single stroke diamond honed receiver bore
2. Tier 1 blueprinted on our 5 axis cnc mill
3. Pinned lug
4. Blueprinted bolt on one of our 4 axis vertical cnc mills
5. Tig welded tang groove (std thing when we are stocking the gun)
6. M40 clip slotted
7. M40 double radius ejection port
8. Side bolt release
9. M16 xtr install on bolt with dual ejectors
10. 8-40 base hole upgrade
11. Timed/Tig'd handle with timing advance
12. Faceted bolt shroud
13. Bolt fluting
14. Tac knob install
15. Barrel fitted, 6.5mm Creedmoor for ELDX 140's
16. Muzzle threading
17. Thread protector installation
18. cnc stock inletting
19. Pillar bedding
20. All hardware installation
21. Cross pinned trigger/mag box web
22. Camo Stencil cutting
23. All finishing/coating work

Parts:

1. M700 SS SA
2. LRI Lug
3. LRI bipod mount
4. LRI Side bolt release
5. LRI M16 xtr
6. LRI 20moa M40 type lugged base
7. LRI HD flush cup
8. LRI HTR DBM
9. LRI ULTACH hardware
10. Manners T5A
11. K&P barrel blank
12. Jewel trigger

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Our new DBM installed.

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All that is great but, whats for supper?

 

[Mike Casselton]

Dang I'm staying at a house about 10 miles down the road from LRI and decided not to bring one of my 700s to leave and have Chad do his thing on... My reasoning was that I was just so busy. Dumb move.

Go pay Chad a visit, buy one of the recievers he might have in stock and press on.
If Chad doesn't have any recievers, drive to downtown Rapid City and go to 701 Main street. AKA First Stop Guns. Buy an old Remington and take it back to Chad.

 

[rookie7]

Perfection in craftsmanship. That’s what I see.

Well done!

 

[b6graham]

never have i lusted over a Remington until now

 

[LRI]

Go pay Chad a visit, buy one of the recievers he might have in stock and press on.
If Chad doesn't have any recievers, drive to downtown Rapid City and go to 701 Main street. AKA First Stop Guns. Buy an old Remington and take it back to Chad.

Save your money. I have M700 receivers in stock and if by chance were out of a particular flavor the Remington Custom Shop is 200 yards down the street and managed by a guy who worked for me for 5 years. It's a solution that's a phone call alway followed by 10m of paperwork.

Easy button.

 

[SonicBurlap]

Gotta show off the new galvenized peg board somehow.

CR Mod-O on a tuned up Remmy.

Work performed:

1. Single stroke diamond honed receiver bore
2. Tier 1 blueprinted on our 5 axis cnc mill
3. Pinned lug
4. Blueprinted bolt on one of our 4 axis vertical cnc mills
5. Tig welded tang groove (std thing when we are stocking the gun)
6. M40 clip slotted
7. M40 double radius ejection port
8. Side bolt release
9. M16 xtr install on bolt with dual ejectors
10. 8-40 base hole upgrade
11. Timed/Tig'd handle with timing advance
12. Faceted bolt shroud
13. Bolt fluting
14. Tac knob install
15. Barrel fitted, 6.5mm Creedmoor for ELDX 140's
16. Muzzle threading
17. Thread protector installation
18. cnc stock inletting
19. Pillar bedding
20. All hardware installation
21. Cross pinned trigger/mag box web
22. Camo Stencil cutting
23. All finishing/coating work

Parts:

1. M700 SS SA
2. LRI Lug
3. LRI bipod mount
4. LRI Side bolt release
5. LRI M16 xtr
6. LRI 20moa M40 type lugged base
7. LRI HD flush cup
8. LRI HTR DBM
9. LRI ULTACH hardware
10. Manners T5A
11. K&P barrel blank
12. Jewel trigger

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That's a sweet looking peg board and that rifle is looking nice as well. Hopefully by next year I'll have a Bighorn TL3 I might want to have you work your magic on and turn my parts collection into a rifle.

 

[Winny94]

like the rifle, but that workbench is a thing of dreams

 

[45cal4life]

There was a peg board??? All I saw was a very nice rifle

 

[supercorndogs]

Are you going to corner the market galvanized peg boards?!?!?

 

[winniedonkey]

Boot question but never seen it asked, is a 223 Rem bolt compatible in a 308 Rem action? If so could @LongRifles Inc. make a sexy 2 bolt 1 action rifle?

 

[Mrpike71]

If I may ask...is there any negatives to the dual ejectors? I’m thinking about having this done to my 700 that already has the m16 extractor. Beautiful rifle btw!!!

 

[LRI]

If I may ask...is there any negatives to the dual ejectors? I’m thinking about having this done to my 700 that already has the m16 extractor. Beautiful rifle btw!!!

Sure!

The very first ones I did had a noticeable increase in effort when closing the bolt on a loaded chamber. This was due to double the spring pressure on the case head. We started to trim one of the springs (4 coils) to resolve that. You notice it ever so slightly now, but its very small and its never been an issue with anyone since.

The problem were solving with it is the ejection angle of the case as its punted out of the port. The M16 xtr on a 700 encourages the case to leave the port in an almost vertical trajectory (1 o'clock). This is because of where Remington locates the OEM ejector pin. Adding the 2nd one gets it more towards horizontal. Scopes, rails and whatnot get in the way of the case as its leaving so getting it "more flat" solves the issue.

It's light years ahead of the caveman practices of dremel tooling the extractor claw to try an alter the exit. This was common years ago and I never understood the logic.

Lets remove a part that works most of the time with one that'll work every time. Then, we'll grind on that working part and fuck with the very feature that provides all the purchase on the case rim. We'll make it smaller so that it'll focus stress in a smaller area as its grabbing onto soft brass.

Then we'll get mad and call it names when it fails or doesn't work right.


Around 3.5 years ago I got so irritated with this stuff that I decided to bring it all in house. I designed our own version, added features I felt were/are important, and then setup an account with a very well established heat treating facility located in the Pacific North West. We ran some 1st articles and sent them out. I learned that I was having them hardened too much. They weren't lasting. So, backed off the hardness and added a double temper. Never been an issue since. We burn through well over a thousand of these a year. Both in installations we do and direct sales to other shops/clients.

 

[LRI]

like the rifle, but that workbench is a thing of dreams

Sam's club bench: Around 4 or 500 sheckles.
Roll of outdoor carpet: Maybe $20
2, 12' sticks of 1x1x.050" wall square tubing; $25 from the farm/fleet store.
Amazon galvenized peg board and a metric shit ton of hooks: $60 delivered.

4 hours to put the bench together (197 screws in that biche)
Half a day for me to cut up and weld the frame for the peg board (phones, triage, walk ins, crisis aversion, suicide prevention/encouragement, etc. . .)

Not terribly expensive and it'll put quite a bit of time back on the clock as I don't have to go digging through drawers anymore.

 

[SonicBurlap]

Sam's club bench: Around 4 or 500 sheckles.
Roll of outdoor carpet: Maybe $20
2, 12' sticks of 1x1x.050" wall square tubing; $25 from the farm/fleet store.
Amazon galvenized peg board and a metric shit ton of hooks: $60 delivered.

4 hours to put the bench together (197 screws in that biche)
Half a day for me to cut up and weld the frame for the peg board (phones, triage, walk ins, crisis aversion, suicide prevention/encouragement, etc. . .)

Not terribly expensive and it'll put quite a bit of time back on the clock as I don't have to go digging through drawers anymore.

Thought I did recognize the bench, got one of those from Sam's a few years ago, also went to the Seville website at the time and got me eight of their enameled pegboard panels to hang behind it, and a smaller bench with two small drawers, pegboard panel, light, shelf, and power strip, very organized and functional.

 

[aaronk]

I hate thumbhole stocks, but that is one sexy gun! What's the contour on that barrel?

 

[LRI]

I hate thumbhole stocks, but that is one sexy gun! What's the contour on that barrel?

It's the "LRI Rem Varmint". Nothing more than a typical RV with an extra inch added onto the cylinder portion. I like barrel mass in the chamber area and it gives us a nice canvas for engraving.

That's one.


Two: It keeps inventory simple. With one barrel I can use it for a typical bolt gun or do 2 minutes of contouring and have it plop into a Ruger RPR. Much easier/flexible vs having to keep two different sticks on the shelf.

 

[LRI]

Some receiver work porn:

The list of problems I wanted to solve by making this 5 axis leap:

• Reduction in tool library to mitigate tolerance stacking
• Consolidated machining operations to improve dimensioning accuracy
• Exceptional Parallelism between bolt and receiver lug surfaces through tool package consolidation
• Use of a "Higbee" lead thread to eliminate the risk of a torn or galled thread
• Avoidance of part distortion from “point contact” type work holding
• Taper free receiver ring threads with use of thread milling tool paths
• Standardization of receiver threads with traceable/qualified gauging
• Misaligned optic base holes corrected, improved by enlarging to 8-40
• Exceptional surface finish
• Streamlined production via consolidated programming for barrel fitting and subsequent operations
• Pinned recoil lug positioning for repeatable clocking during assembly, saves hours when stocking bedded guns
• Available for Short, Long actions in any bolt face configuration, material, or hand dominance
• Fastest rotation in the industry. In/out in a few days vs weeks/months.
• Repeatable headspace values from one receiver to next. We control this to -.001"

 

[Mrpike71]

Sure!

The very first ones I did had a noticeable increase in effort when closing the bolt on a loaded chamber. This was due to double the spring pressure on the case head. We started to trim one of the springs (4 coils) to resolve that. You notice it ever so slightly now, but its very small and its never been an issue with anyone since.

The problem were solving with it is the ejection angle of the case as its punted out of the port. The M16 xtr on a 700 encourages the case to leave the port in an almost vertical trajectory (1 o'clock). This is because of where Remington locates the OEM ejector pin. Adding the 2nd one gets it more towards horizontal. Scopes, rails and whatnot get in the way of the case as its leaving so getting it "more flat" solves the issue.

It's light years ahead of the caveman practices of dremel tooling the extractor claw to try an alter the exit. This was common years ago and I never understood the logic.

Lets remove a part that works most of the time with one that'll work every time. Then, we'll grind on that working part and fuck with the very feature that provides all the purchase on the case rim. We'll make it smaller so that it'll focus stress in a smaller area as its grabbing onto soft brass.

Then we'll get mad and call it names when it fails or doesn't work right.


Around 3.5 years ago I got so irritated with this stuff that I decided to bring it all in house. I designed our own version, added features I felt were/are important, and then setup an account with a very well established heat treating facility located in the Pacific North West. We ran some 1st articles and sent them out. I learned that I was having them hardened too much. They weren't lasting. So, backed off the hardness and added a double temper. Never been an issue since. We burn through well over a thousand of these a year. Both in installations we do and direct sales to other shops/clients.

You talked me into it...thanks

 

[Dthomas3523]

This makes me want to order a 700 SA trucker out with every upgrade LRI offers. With an AW cut. Cause......why not?

 

[smacha538]

Some receiver work porn:

The list of problems I wanted to solve by making this 5 axis leap:

• Reduction in tool library to mitigate tolerance stacking
• Consolidated machining operations to improve dimensioning accuracy
• Exceptional Parallelism between bolt and receiver lug surfaces through tool package consolidation
• Use of a "Higbee" lead thread to eliminate the risk of a torn or galled thread
• Avoidance of part distortion from “point contact” type work holding
• Taper free receiver ring threads with use of thread milling tool paths
• Standardization of receiver threads with traceable/qualified gauging
• Misaligned optic base holes corrected, improved by enlarging to 8-40
• Exceptional surface finish
• Streamlined production via consolidated programming for barrel fitting and subsequent operations
• Pinned recoil lug positioning for repeatable clocking during assembly, saves hours when stocking bedded guns
• Available for Short, Long actions in any bolt face configuration, material, or hand dominance
• Fastest rotation in the industry. In/out in a few days vs weeks/months.
• Repeatable headspace values from one receiver to next. We control this to -.001"

I have a brand new 700 action with a .223 bf sitting in the box burning a hole in my safe. I’ve been wanting to send it off to you and have it made into a crmod1. Trying to find a stock I like.

 

[goinghunting]

@LongRifles Inc. Hey Chad you around your shop any tomorrow? Saturday?

 

[kriller134]

Any new videos of the machine running?

 

[tsu45]

I posted this on FB as well and got all sorts of "vaginal" over the fact that not ONE person made a comment on it. I worked all day on that stupid thing. lol.

Thanks!

Maybe everyone was confused on why the wall control was sideways

 

[bmeudy]

Wow @LongRifles Inc.
I have an action/barrel with you now for a 6.5 PRC build. Waiting like a kid at Christmas!

 

[roostercogburn98]

Is it sad that I like the pegboard setup as much as I do the rifle?

 

[bmeudy]

Is it sad that I like the pegboard setup as much as I do the rifle?

Nope. Lol. It’s ok to like anything LRI does.

 

[BBVDD]

Wow @LongRifles Inc.
I have an action/barrel with you now for a 6.5 PRC build. Waiting like a kid at Christmas!

I got my son's action back from Chad a couple of weeks ago. The work is spectacular. Now just waiting on the barrel from Jim at Northland.

 

[bmeudy]

I got my son's action back from Chad a couple of weeks ago. The work is spectacular. Now just waiting on the barrel from Jim at Northland.

Chad did a 6.5 CM for me last year. Can you say tack driver! Not to mention it looks phenomenal!

 

[bschneiderheinze]

I’ll stick with a origin or Curtis for probably the same end cost

 

[DIBBS]

@LongRifles Inc. is that stock painted, dipped, or ? And what is that pattern or color scheme called. It's Beeeutiful, and I think would work both in fall and winter.

 

[b6graham]

I’ll stick with a origin or Curtis for probably the same end cost

i'd take a LRI rem700 over anything curtis has or will ever make

 

[Huskydriver]

I’ll stick with a origin or Curtis for probably the same end cost

Really you came into this thread just to add this gem of a comment?

 

[bschneiderheinze]

i'd take a LRI rem700 over anything curtis has or will ever make

Good for you I guessing you’ve never run a Curtis. I’ve had work done by LRI and respect them but nobody can make a 700 a custom action and that’s coming from someone that’s had at least 30 of them.

 

[LRI]

@LongRifles Inc. is that stock painted, dipped, or ? And what is that pattern or color scheme called. It's Beeeutiful, and I think would work both in fall and winter.

We paint all of our stuff. The artwork is something I conjured up years ago and we settled on "DMP" as the name. (Digital MissPrint) My wife Kalli lays up all the artwork and my punk son does the paint work.

To date, we've never film dipped.

 

[LRI]

Thank you all for the kind remarks. One principle difference with us is that we build on a broad gamut of actions and we have a menu of gunsmithing services that very, very few can replicate in house. Here, it's us doing the work. I look upon gunsmithing as actually doing something besides screwing a barrel onto someone's action and then squishing it into a chassis.

As for brand X vs brand Y. 9 out of 10 are clones of the M700 design. I guess I fail to see what problems are being solved by spending more money just because someone decided to call it "custom". This particular customer wanted an M700 and he wasn't afraid to wring it out. Personally, I find that a whole lot more interesting than yet another photocopied M700 that really does nothing any better other than maybe the primary extraction feature.

There are well north of 7 figures worth of M700's lingering around Gun Land. You can buy em for almost nothing and for the budget-constrained shooter, the upgrades can be done progressively as funds allow. Parts are plentiful and they are cheap. Do they respond to some well-executed work? Absolutely. I view it as an engine block plucked out of a boneyard and turned into a street brawler or race application. You can make a ton of power with those and they are pennies on the dollar of what a Dart or LSX block costs.

The bottom line is it's an opinion and everyone has their right to them on a forum. Dumbing down the conversation with verbose remarks is lame and I wish it would stop.

 

[b6graham]

Good for you I guessing you’ve never run a Curtis. I’ve had work done by LRI and respect them but nobody can make a 700 a custom action and that’s coming from someone that’s had at least 30 of them.

And never will. Character says a lot about some people in this niche market.

 

[bschneiderheinze]

And never will. Character says a lot about some people in this niche market.

Alright buddy you keep buying products made by big box inferior manufacturers I’ll put my money In the the little guy making a quality product at the same price your putting in yours. I still own R700 as hunting rifles but my competition rifles are all customs. It’s not worth the extra time making them work. This has been covered over and over again on this forum and I have seen multiple fail in or not function well in competition. LRI is a top notch gunsmith and they can make the turd shine but it still doesn’t compare.

 

[Stoweit]

My Curtis was anything but perfect.

 

[JeffLebowski]

I’ll stick with a origin or Curtis for probably the same end cost

I own a Curtis I like a lot and that was a dick comment. You didn’t have to shit in this thread, you really didn’t.