I finished my winter (1 month) project. Thanks for the advice.
It's a 24/47 Yugo Mauser. Adams and Bennet 7mm-08 barrel, Bold Trigger, Boyds Stock, 3-9 Bushnell scope on Leupold Hardware.
I did all the work myself. Reaming the chamber, headspacing, lapping the lugs and boltface. I made my own fixtures and lapping tools as well. The gun is finished in matte stainless Gunkote with Teflon. The action is glass bedded on stainless pillars. I also totally removed the charging area and reprofiled the action.
It shot three shots into 0.40 today with my first generic handload from a sandbag prone. Hornady 139 grain Boat Tail interlock bullets set .015 from the lands, 41 Grains of H4895, CCI Large Rifle Primers. I formed cases from 308 cases so I'd have a thicker neck on them, and trimmed them all to length and reamed the case necks.
Incidentally, the bullets averaged 2890 FPS, which is 40 FPS faster than the listed max load, and I'm 1.5 grains under the max charge. No signs of overpressure.
Gun 100$
Barrel 80$
Stock 80$
Trigger 40$
Reamer Rental 40$
Paint 25$
Bedding Epoxy 15$
About 380$ in this one without optics.
I'm extremely happy with how well this thing shoots. I think it can shoot better off a real bench with a higher power scope. I might throw on my 24X just to test it out.
Thanks for looking.
It's a 24/47 Yugo Mauser. Adams and Bennet 7mm-08 barrel, Bold Trigger, Boyds Stock, 3-9 Bushnell scope on Leupold Hardware.
I did all the work myself. Reaming the chamber, headspacing, lapping the lugs and boltface. I made my own fixtures and lapping tools as well. The gun is finished in matte stainless Gunkote with Teflon. The action is glass bedded on stainless pillars. I also totally removed the charging area and reprofiled the action.
It shot three shots into 0.40 today with my first generic handload from a sandbag prone. Hornady 139 grain Boat Tail interlock bullets set .015 from the lands, 41 Grains of H4895, CCI Large Rifle Primers. I formed cases from 308 cases so I'd have a thicker neck on them, and trimmed them all to length and reamed the case necks.
Incidentally, the bullets averaged 2890 FPS, which is 40 FPS faster than the listed max load, and I'm 1.5 grains under the max charge. No signs of overpressure.
Gun 100$
Barrel 80$
Stock 80$
Trigger 40$
Reamer Rental 40$
Paint 25$
Bedding Epoxy 15$
About 380$ in this one without optics.
I'm extremely happy with how well this thing shoots. I think it can shoot better off a real bench with a higher power scope. I might throw on my 24X just to test it out.
Thanks for looking.