Background: My first hunting rifle was my dad's first deer rifle. It was an M1917 made by Winchester. My dad walked down to Montgomery Wards, I think, and bought this thing in the cosmoline at 12 years old. He and my grandfather sporterized this, occasionally with help from the local gunsmith. Their work made this thing into a serviceable hunting rifle that shoots 1" groups at 100 yards, if you get the trigger pull down.
Goals:
- Spend under $500 to improve and modernize this sporter into a 0 - 600yd Antelope rifle.
- Recontour(maybe ok) or replace the current stock to be more friendly
- Refinish stock
- Refinish metal with some kind of spray on finish.
- Improve trigger pull
- Change to cock on open
- Rechamber to 30-06 AI
- Recrown
- Add a good recoil pad. Limbsaver
- Rescope to a good mid range scope thinking 4 - 16 x 40 or similar.
Questions:
Is a Weaver K4 worth anything in trade?
Any idea what scope bases could be on this thing?
Goals:
- Spend under $500 to improve and modernize this sporter into a 0 - 600yd Antelope rifle.
- Recontour(maybe ok) or replace the current stock to be more friendly
- Refinish stock
- Refinish metal with some kind of spray on finish.
- Improve trigger pull
- Change to cock on open
- Rechamber to 30-06 AI
- Recrown
- Add a good recoil pad. Limbsaver
- Rescope to a good mid range scope thinking 4 - 16 x 40 or similar.
Questions:
Is a Weaver K4 worth anything in trade?
Any idea what scope bases could be on this thing?