A couple of illustrious Hide members have helped me acquire the parts to do a quasi, pseudo, ish, kinda-like M83 build. Always thought it was a neat rifle but saw photos so rarely it always fell to the back brain. It is such a unique rifle though.
Barreled action I used something on-hand. Its a fluted MTU Bartlein 18" in 6mm Creed. 0.300 PTG lug and an A serial Rem 700 with the receiver face squared and some lug lapping. I tuned an old Walker down to the danger zone for it. Simple Man 7.62 suppressor. Textured spray paint.
The stock is a Mcmillan Silhouette. Very cool profile. It needed finish inletting on a couple notches (2 beer inlet), some pillars added (1 beer bed), and a bottom metal fitted. The bottom metal inlet was oversized for any BDL I could find but too small for anything M5 style. The Hawkins Hunter was reaaally close, so went with that (3 beer inlet). Added an SRS rail up front (1 beer install) cuz I intend to do more than just stare at this thing.
Scope is the Bausch & Lomb 10x40 Tactical. It is the tank everyone says it is, no question. But it went in USMC rings cuz a completely Navy rifle was just feelin all gay. Found some caps and other accessories in the parts bin, bedded and torqued the whole shootin match, and here ya go!
First shot results to follow this weekend...
Barreled action I used something on-hand. Its a fluted MTU Bartlein 18" in 6mm Creed. 0.300 PTG lug and an A serial Rem 700 with the receiver face squared and some lug lapping. I tuned an old Walker down to the danger zone for it. Simple Man 7.62 suppressor. Textured spray paint.
The stock is a Mcmillan Silhouette. Very cool profile. It needed finish inletting on a couple notches (2 beer inlet), some pillars added (1 beer bed), and a bottom metal fitted. The bottom metal inlet was oversized for any BDL I could find but too small for anything M5 style. The Hawkins Hunter was reaaally close, so went with that (3 beer inlet). Added an SRS rail up front (1 beer install) cuz I intend to do more than just stare at this thing.
Scope is the Bausch & Lomb 10x40 Tactical. It is the tank everyone says it is, no question. But it went in USMC rings cuz a completely Navy rifle was just feelin all gay. Found some caps and other accessories in the parts bin, bedded and torqued the whole shootin match, and here ya go!
First shot results to follow this weekend...
