Re: precision rifles... show em
After a fair amount of waiting and couple of trips back and forth across the country to "get it right", I have finished my first truly custom sniper rifle.
This rifle started out as a Remington M700 LTR. I parted it out and sold off everything, keeping only the action and bolt (complete with Badger knob).
The action was shipped to Mike Bryant in Wheeler, Texas, along with a Mike Rock 5R barrel blank I picked up from GAP. The barrel has an 11.25" twist.
Bryant did all of the truing work to the bolt and action. He then barreled the action, finishing the barrel at 24".
The barreled action was shipped (along with Badger base and rings and Williams floor plate) to Hateca, who did the MolyResin work in flat black. Very very nice work, I might add.
I picked up a new McMillan A-5 in molded-in woodland camo. I had Randy pillar/glass bed the action to the stock.
The finished product was shipped back and glassed with a Leupold Mark IV 10X with mil-dot reticle. Add-ons include a Harris bipod, Shilen trigger (set at 2 lbs even) and a TIS M24 sling in OD.
This rifle turned out more nice than I had even imagined. It has had one range trip to the tune of about 100 rounds. As it stands, I've only fired three five-shot groups that weren't a single ragged hole. That's not my prowess on the rifle, ladies and gentlemen!
Many many thanks to Hateca for all of his help on this project. For those of you who have not had the opportunity to have work done by Randy, you are missing out. As a side note, the original gunsmith for this project, for whatever reason, used the Palma reamer to cut the chamber initially. As such, my factory Fed GMM 168grs didn't work. . .to say the least. Since Hateca was already going to have my stick to complete the bedding work, he also used the correct reamer and fixed the problem. Again, hat's off to Randy!
Pics of the targets inbound!
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