OK it's not a sniper rifle but figured this was the best place to post it as it is vintage.
Close to being done with a rebuild of a Remington 30 Express rifle. It's a 4 digit s/n. Made 1921 to 1940. Remington still had all the tooling from making the 1917 Enfield rifles. So they added some minor mod's to make it into more of a sporting rifle. They modified the bolt stop lever, straightened the trigger guard where the biggest changes besides a sporter type stock and standard sporter sights. If I remember right mine was made in 1926.
Of course when I got the gun...the stock was butchered up pretty good and the bore of the barrel was junk/all pitted.
So made a new barrel (duplicated the contour). Fitted a NOS Redfield ramp front sight. Still have minor stock work to do around the rear receiver sight and still have to do the final finish work on the stock. It won't be that high gloss looking finish when it's done. It will be a satin finish. The stock.... I don't know what brand it is. I found it on Ebay and got it for a $100. It was semi finished. I sent the barreled action to Alex Sitman at Master Class Stocks and he did all the final inlet and bedding for me and did somewhat final sanding to it. So I'm doing the finish work on the stock. I installed a Timney trigger.
Just got the barreled action back from having it rust blued. Glen Rock bluing in Wy did the rust bluing work and did a real nice job.
On another thread we we're talking about all the shortages going on and I mentioned I couldn't find any 30-06 ammo to test the rifle out. Well I got ball ammo and can test it that way (which I did run a couple of rounds thru it) but don't have any hunting type bullets or box hunting ammo to run thru it. So I have to give a shout out to @
Later, Frank
Close to being done with a rebuild of a Remington 30 Express rifle. It's a 4 digit s/n. Made 1921 to 1940. Remington still had all the tooling from making the 1917 Enfield rifles. So they added some minor mod's to make it into more of a sporting rifle. They modified the bolt stop lever, straightened the trigger guard where the biggest changes besides a sporter type stock and standard sporter sights. If I remember right mine was made in 1926.
Of course when I got the gun...the stock was butchered up pretty good and the bore of the barrel was junk/all pitted.
So made a new barrel (duplicated the contour). Fitted a NOS Redfield ramp front sight. Still have minor stock work to do around the rear receiver sight and still have to do the final finish work on the stock. It won't be that high gloss looking finish when it's done. It will be a satin finish. The stock.... I don't know what brand it is. I found it on Ebay and got it for a $100. It was semi finished. I sent the barreled action to Alex Sitman at Master Class Stocks and he did all the final inlet and bedding for me and did somewhat final sanding to it. So I'm doing the finish work on the stock. I installed a Timney trigger.
Just got the barreled action back from having it rust blued. Glen Rock bluing in Wy did the rust bluing work and did a real nice job.
On another thread we we're talking about all the shortages going on and I mentioned I couldn't find any 30-06 ammo to test the rifle out. Well I got ball ammo and can test it that way (which I did run a couple of rounds thru it) but don't have any hunting type bullets or box hunting ammo to run thru it. So I have to give a shout out to @
W54/XM-388 as he sent me a couple boxes of Hornady Precision Hunter 178gr ammo to help me out. So Thanks bud!!!!
So here are a few pic's for now. I also have to do some final fitting to the inletted sling swivels and then send those out for rust bluing as well.Later, Frank