I feel like good work and good gunsmithing doesn't get enough attention... its a bit of a read....
Bottom line up front, get a hold of https://tonybenm14.com/ if you need work on your M1A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would like to give a shout out to Tony Ben... Not only for his You tube channel but also his shop he just opened.
Years ago I started watching his channel. Part by part I ordered everything for a M1A. Started with a LRB M21 receiver. Lothar Walther barrel (Krieger was out of stock)... War Fighter gas system. NM trigger... etc.... I wanted the m21 stock from Springfield, but they were discontinued before I could order one. Then I wanted a J Allen.... no where to be found. I settled on a archangel stock.. put it in the mill, opened it up to fit the rear lug of the LRB arms.. Bedded it with devcon.... and it just wouldn't shoot accurately (3-4 inch groups no matter what I fed it).
I end up getting frustrated and let it sit a round for about a month and then I saw he opened up his shop. I called and picked his brain... I decided to order a McMillan and when it came in I would send it to him... A deployment later and the stock is at the house, I box it up and send it to him.
I asked him to bed the rifle and look it over to make sure I didn't mess anything up. After all this was the first chamber I have ever cut with a pul through. Sometime later he gets to it, step by step he's telling me what he finds, gets the bedding done. Test fires it and it shot well under 1 Inch at 100 yards .... He boxed it up and sent it home to me.
Yesterday I took it to the range to do load development on it... Everything was under 1 inch at 100 yards. The best group with 175 grain SMK was just over 0.6 inches at 100...
I cannot give enough compliments to him. A true professional and craftsman. I know I can be a bit particular, and some times tough to deal with. I am extremely inquisitive. He was beyond patient and professional.
10/10 would recommend to anyone wanting bolt gun accuracy out of a M1A.
(And yes I know I can go one step lower on rings, they are on the way)
Bottom line up front, get a hold of https://tonybenm14.com/ if you need work on your M1A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would like to give a shout out to Tony Ben... Not only for his You tube channel but also his shop he just opened.
Years ago I started watching his channel. Part by part I ordered everything for a M1A. Started with a LRB M21 receiver. Lothar Walther barrel (Krieger was out of stock)... War Fighter gas system. NM trigger... etc.... I wanted the m21 stock from Springfield, but they were discontinued before I could order one. Then I wanted a J Allen.... no where to be found. I settled on a archangel stock.. put it in the mill, opened it up to fit the rear lug of the LRB arms.. Bedded it with devcon.... and it just wouldn't shoot accurately (3-4 inch groups no matter what I fed it).
I end up getting frustrated and let it sit a round for about a month and then I saw he opened up his shop. I called and picked his brain... I decided to order a McMillan and when it came in I would send it to him... A deployment later and the stock is at the house, I box it up and send it to him.
I asked him to bed the rifle and look it over to make sure I didn't mess anything up. After all this was the first chamber I have ever cut with a pul through. Sometime later he gets to it, step by step he's telling me what he finds, gets the bedding done. Test fires it and it shot well under 1 Inch at 100 yards .... He boxed it up and sent it home to me.
Yesterday I took it to the range to do load development on it... Everything was under 1 inch at 100 yards. The best group with 175 grain SMK was just over 0.6 inches at 100...
I cannot give enough compliments to him. A true professional and craftsman. I know I can be a bit particular, and some times tough to deal with. I am extremely inquisitive. He was beyond patient and professional.
10/10 would recommend to anyone wanting bolt gun accuracy out of a M1A.
(And yes I know I can go one step lower on rings, they are on the way)
