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Blue printing actions
- Thread starter Toddco
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More info needed.
What kind of action?
How far do you want to go? Simply true up the bolt face/lugs, or full blueprint?
How much are you willing to invest?
There are a few true machinists/rifle specialists on this forum, longriflesinc comes to mind right off the bat. Pnce you provide more info, they will probably contribute to the conversation.
What kind of action?
How far do you want to go? Simply true up the bolt face/lugs, or full blueprint?
How much are you willing to invest?
There are a few true machinists/rifle specialists on this forum, longriflesinc comes to mind right off the bat. Pnce you provide more info, they will probably contribute to the conversation.
LongRifles Inc.
New member
If I may. . .
www.longriflesinc.com
click on "process" at the top.
Now to answer your question. If you spend a zillion dollars tuning up a remington and hang a junk barrel of the end of it you'll have a gun that is minute of backstop instead of minute of mountain behind the backstop.
If you do all that and have a barrel fitted from a quality manufacturer by someone who understands accurate rifle building expect the gun to shoot inside of your abilities.
It's all relative but it all starts with a GREAT BARREL. I cannot stress that enough.
As someone who's been building scratch built high end custom rifles for the last 13 years I feel qualified saying that. It's not conjecture or speculation, it's experience.
Hope this helped.
Chad
www.longriflesinc.com
click on "process" at the top.
Now to answer your question. If you spend a zillion dollars tuning up a remington and hang a junk barrel of the end of it you'll have a gun that is minute of backstop instead of minute of mountain behind the backstop.
If you do all that and have a barrel fitted from a quality manufacturer by someone who understands accurate rifle building expect the gun to shoot inside of your abilities.
It's all relative but it all starts with a GREAT BARREL. I cannot stress that enough.
As someone who's been building scratch built high end custom rifles for the last 13 years I feel qualified saying that. It's not conjecture or speculation, it's experience.
Hope this helped.
Chad
If you have a good shooter and are satisfied with that, don't mess with success. If you are trying to make an improvement using the same bedding and the same barrel or using a soft floppy thermoset plastic stock, then there is only some chance you will see an improvement. Blueprinting is one of those things like case preparation that has to be done for peak accuracy, but whose benefits can be lost in the noise of common problems in the other areas I mentioned.
This might be a little off-topic, but I think it's at least tangential to the original post...
LongRifles, Inc: If a customer called you for a project and they wanted you to put a [insert high end maker here] barrel on their un-blueprinted Remington 700 action and then bed it in a McMillan stock, would you? Or would you insist they blueprint along with that work? Is the truing a cornerstone to the project or an optional bonus?
LongRifles, Inc: If a customer called you for a project and they wanted you to put a [insert high end maker here] barrel on their un-blueprinted Remington 700 action and then bed it in a McMillan stock, would you? Or would you insist they blueprint along with that work? Is the truing a cornerstone to the project or an optional bonus?
LongRifles Inc.
New member
This is an easy question for me to answer. As a practice I don't do "piece work" at my shop. I much prefer to have total control over a build rather than "do this but not that."
The reason is when it leaves the shop I want to know its going to perform to expectation. I take a very personal interest in the rifles I build. It would be difficult for me to just stick a barrel on a receiver and then send it out the door. It may shoot great, but it'd bug me because it probably wouldn't be exceptional.
My intent when I wrote in this thread was to simply state that if a guy is on a fixed budget, spend the money on the best barrel you can afford before you go spending "oodles" on action work. You'll be much further ahead.
Thanks.
Chad
The reason is when it leaves the shop I want to know its going to perform to expectation. I take a very personal interest in the rifles I build. It would be difficult for me to just stick a barrel on a receiver and then send it out the door. It may shoot great, but it'd bug me because it probably wouldn't be exceptional.
My intent when I wrote in this thread was to simply state that if a guy is on a fixed budget, spend the money on the best barrel you can afford before you go spending "oodles" on action work. You'll be much further ahead.
Thanks.
Chad