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25-06 - Here We Go!


rustvyper

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If you look here. I posted about how I practically stole a 98 action with a 25-06 barrel already mated to it. The action had been miss-d&T'd & the bolt had a cruddy attempt at a sporter bolt welded on. When I tried to clean up the weld, a crack appeared so I wacked it with a rubber mallet & it came off! :blink:

The whole rig had a light speckle rust to it & hadn't been touched in years according to the guy I got it from.

Well, while I'm on paternity leave I thought I had better try to get this knocked out!

Decisions, decisions...the best part about sporterizing!

I decided to put this into a choate 98 stock with the blind bottom magazine. I could have ordered new bottom metal with it, but I thought this would be lighter. I'm going to try to make this a lighter rifle for deer & pred hunting that I can tote a distance & can take a beating. With that idea in mind, I decided to also duracoat this gun in a stainless steel. That'll keep me from having to get to involved with finishing out this metal so I can spend time with new baby girl. I also am using the b-square allen head action screws since this one didn't come with any. The safety was missing off the bolt as well, so I'm installing a bold trigger with side safety.

 

Step one...Here it is:

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As you can see, holes are missaligned. A yugo captured 98.

 

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As Clemson suggested - I marked the alignment of the barrel with the receiver by lightly marking it with the dremel. The one thing this guy did right was have a gunsmith install & true the barrel. (I know, I checked!)

 

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I call this the poor LT's barrel vise. It actually works if you clamp hard enough! :)

 

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This weekend I took the receiver & bolt over to a buds to MIG weld. I'd prefer TIG, but he doesn't know how, & I'm trying to keep this project cheap & ain't nothing cheaper than free! Here we are all ready to go.

 

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What a gorilla weld! This is gonna take some serious filing! But he did a pretty good job with the receiver. There seems to be a bit of a divet left on one of the front holes, but I'm drilling in a different spot & it'll be covered by duracoat & the weaver mount anyway. Say what you want about duracoat, it covers a ton of mistakes!

 

Tonight I shaped the bolt handle & cleaned up the weld. It turned out to be a good job for as nervous as my friend was. I need to finish smooth it & get all the rust off the receiver. Saturday I plan on D&T'ing remounting the barrel to the receiver & if I'm feeling really froggy, duracoat the whole deal.

 

Total cost so far:

-$45 action, bolt, barrel

-$103.62 stock & screws

-$38 bold trigger

-$? bolt handle (I don't remember how much I paid, it was laying around.)

-$16.95 duracoat

='s $203.57 so far. Can't buy a POS remington from BPS for that! I'm proud of myself so far! :lol:

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Duracoat's a non-bake on. It doesn't look near as nice as a mirrored blue finish, but for anything else it's hard to beat. It's tougher than nails & almost impossible to scratch or flake. It applies real easy with a quality hobby airbrush.

 

Well my project is 90% there. I D&T'd the receiver correctly & have fir & finished the action to the new bold trigger. Also installed a commercial sporter shroud I had in my drawer, so tack on another $40 to the final price. Why the heck are those things so expensive?! I still have to duracoat & then fit the action to the choat stock. I was dissapointed at first with the choate. It seemed, well...cheap, cheaper than a ram-line. But the more I mess with it, the more I like it. The receiver & action are all in the white right now & so I can pretty much put it together & see what it's gonna look like. It's going to look real sharp.

The inletting on the stock was small. It doesn't even fit & will get worse with a couple coats of duracoat on it. I like that though. Small I can fix, too big I cannot.

I'll add some more pics here soon. I expect to have to rifle done by next weekend hopefully.

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