rustvyper Posted December 11, 2010 Report Share Posted December 11, 2010 Well I drew my brother-in-law for our annual Chistmas draw & I've been chomping to get another build going, so I thought to myself, "can I do it?" well that remains to be seen, but I'm gonna try. I just PCS'd to Las Vegas, so I'm in the midst of setting up a new workshop, unpacking boxes & missing obvious things. However, the cold weather has got me raring to try & my brother just got back from Iraq. I know he has no idea, I simply texted him & asked him if he could have any rifle caliber what would it be? Like any good army puke - 308. Well the good thing about moving is that it makes you inventory all the parts you've squirreled away around the house & shop. So I was in luck! I had a A&B barrel in 308 that I got from a guy who was no longer building. I also had a 24/47 that the bolt was already done for me with a butter knife bolt handle by weaver77. I actually built a similar rifle a few years ago for another buddy - just so happened it was 308 too: It turned out real nice & I'm doing something similar. So... Here we go. I couldn't for the life of me find any of my 6-48 taps so I had to order more (waiting on those) & I had to get a 308 reamer from the co-op. Mike & Brad (who had the go gauges) were kind enough to priority those to me so the adventure has begun. I figure I need to ship it by NLT the 20th to get it to NC by Christmas. I started by getting all my parts together: I had pretty much everything already minus the stock. Richards had a bargin bin 48 on sale for $79, it was supposed to come with studs & a declerator pad, but no studs although the pad is nice. It is ROUGH though & I think it'll be the majority of work on the gun. Step 1: Grind the hump off & drill for weaver #45's & 46's. I'll have to wait on tapping it until I get my taps in the mail. Here's What I have left to do in order: - Chamber the gun - Sandblast all the parts - recrown the barrel with a 11 degree crown - sand off the parts numbers on the floor plate & take it to be engraved with my brother's last name - sand out all the dings in the trigger guard & action - fit a shim inside the mag-well to better accomidate the shorter 308 round - fit the bolt shroud to the bolt & get everything working outside the stock - fit the action to the stock & inlet the barrel channel & stock for the optima side-safety trigger - blue the action, the barrel, the trigger guard & the floorplate - polish the bolt - I'm undecided whether it should all be polished silver or if I should blue the bolt shroud. - finish the non-showing metal with a ceramic based paint (like inside & outside the mag-well) - sand & truoil the stock. It's a walnut fancy grade with a rose-wood cap so it should turn out REAL pretty. - fit it all together & get her cycling right. - shoot it. Holy Smokes that's a lot in 10 days. I should get most of it done this weekend, which is good because that stock is gonna take some elbow GREASE! I'll post pictures randomly until I get this thing done or go crazy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivitir Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Nice looking rifle. I like the bolt handle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 I didn't know there was a base in Las Vegas- recruiting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 I didn't know there was a base in Las Vegas- recruiting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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