Years ago I bid on and won a rifle that was listed as the ugliest rifle ever Sporterized and then they added “WHAT WAS HE THINKING?”
I was going for the sum of the parts, I was thinking no one could build anything that ugly without knowing what they were doing so I bid on and won the auction. I paid $120.00 plus shipping. Before I started on the parts I loaded 120 rounds of 12 loads using different cases, powders and bullets and went to the range. After spending most of the day shooting and cooling the rifle I decided there was nothing I could do to improve on the accuracy. The groups moved but did not open up and each group could be covered with a quarter.
The barrel was bedded with JB Weld, the barrel was welded/bedded with a stock below the barrel and a stock above the barrel. The stock was the recoil lug and mounted to a short butt stock.
I could call this rifle ‘BEAUTY’, it is a M1917 Remington, It does not have the large floor plate and it does not have a magazine well, it is part of the bedding.
Reloading forums had a field day, I was concerned all of the attention was going to drive the price up. The builder included his driver license number to the top of the receiver.
Any how, I applied the leaver policy to the rifle after returning from the range. I lefter the way I founder.
F. Guffey