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donmarkey

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Anyone ever work with them? After rough milling the ears off of a p14 enfield and squaring it up, I layed a straightedge arcoss it and noticed the rear was still about a 1/8" higher than the front ring. That got me thinking of custom options, I was originally planning to just recontour the rear bridge to the same height and radias as the front ring. Any Ideas?

-Don

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The front ring diameter on the P14/M17 is about identical to the savage 110. The Savage 110 bridge is flat and sits lower than the front ring.

 

Rather than re-contouring the bridge, I'd mill it flat to match the Savage bridge, or at least a section of it .750" wide. You can then use Savage one piece and two piece bases. With a flat rear bridge, there should be no mis-alignment. You can actually measure the difference between base heights to determine how far to lower a milling bit referencing the front ring.

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The front ring diameter on the P14/M17 is about identical to the savage 110. The Savage 110 bridge is flat and sits lower than the front ring.

 

Rather than re-contouring the bridge, I'd mill it flat to match the Savage bridge, or at least a section of it .750" wide. You can then use Savage one piece and two piece bases. With a flat rear bridge, there should be no mis-alignment. You can actually measure the difference between base heights to determine how far to lower a milling bit referencing the front ring.

Good thought, I'll pic up a set of bases and see what it looks like.

-Don

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Square bridge scope mounts ae fairly easy to make and give the action a truly custom look that few others will have.

 

 

Here I have a pic of a P17 done up nicely by Tom Burgess.

 

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I don't know whose work these two pics are of:

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Thanks. Yes he does. That integrated scope release is neat.

 

Making square bridge bases isn't that hard but making them look this good is!

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Not exactly a square bridge and has alot of polishing to be done, but I was trying to dress up the savage mounts gun nutty recomended. Now I wish I would have started with a nicer looking base. But I'm cheap and that burris was only 5 bucks.

-Don

 

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Does anybody know safety/shroud on that Tom Burgess P17 can be found.Never saw one on a P17 before.Also is there a pic of the other side.Looks like the perch has beem eliminated and the bolt stop considerably midified.

Ed LaPour sells the 3 position safeties, and to eliminate the perch all you have to do is weld a piece to the receiver to hold the end of the spring or bent the spring back to contact the receiver.

-Don

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Thanks for the info. I had read that you could eliminate the perch that way and it makes sense when you look at the action but I had never actually seen it. Sometimes a pic can be worth a thousand words.

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Damn (bubba scratches his head wondering if it's real, while inside knowing it is, and for the first time realizing the true height of the moutain he must climb).

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