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My 9 yr old grandson's new sniper rifle-almost finished!
For a shop project, My grandson, Owen asked me if we could build a wood rifle.
I had him look through some old American Rifleman, and he found this article about the Seal Sniper team.
The gun is based on a Remington 700 action.
So we are copying fairly closely the pic that he chose.
The project is a lesson in using shop tools as well as PATIENCE!!
He keeps asking me, when it is going to get done, and I keep at a steady slow pace, each day, doing only a little on it.
I measured him and the stock is built to his proportions and everything else is scaled down for that.
The first barrel was sliced to fit, but my wife sat on it when it was under some pillows on the couch, and the barrel broke! So this morning I inletted the stock for a full strength barrel.
Barrel is 3/4 inch hardwood dowel, and the rifle is cut from one solid piece of alder wood. After it is finished, Owen is going to camo the whole thing, and I'm mounting an old cheap Tasco scope on it.
Look at the detail of the picatinny rail! Right now, even the scope rings fit as is, but we plan on inletting two metal portions screwed in for the real scope mount for strength.
I mortised out the mag carrier so that even a wood magazine is removable. And the under side has a mortised T rail cut right into the wood as a bipod rail for a removable bipod.
That wire bipod is only temporary until we make on out of wood.
Still quife a few more hours to put into this project.
Tonight we are shaping the stock. Look at the trigger cutouts!
Thought you might enjoy seeing this.
For a shop project, My grandson, Owen asked me if we could build a wood rifle.
I had him look through some old American Rifleman, and he found this article about the Seal Sniper team.
The gun is based on a Remington 700 action.
So we are copying fairly closely the pic that he chose.
The project is a lesson in using shop tools as well as PATIENCE!!
He keeps asking me, when it is going to get done, and I keep at a steady slow pace, each day, doing only a little on it.
I measured him and the stock is built to his proportions and everything else is scaled down for that.
The first barrel was sliced to fit, but my wife sat on it when it was under some pillows on the couch, and the barrel broke! So this morning I inletted the stock for a full strength barrel.
Barrel is 3/4 inch hardwood dowel, and the rifle is cut from one solid piece of alder wood. After it is finished, Owen is going to camo the whole thing, and I'm mounting an old cheap Tasco scope on it.
Look at the detail of the picatinny rail! Right now, even the scope rings fit as is, but we plan on inletting two metal portions screwed in for the real scope mount for strength.
I mortised out the mag carrier so that even a wood magazine is removable. And the under side has a mortised T rail cut right into the wood as a bipod rail for a removable bipod.
That wire bipod is only temporary until we make on out of wood.
Still quife a few more hours to put into this project.
Tonight we are shaping the stock. Look at the trigger cutouts!
Thought you might enjoy seeing this.
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