MKII (nearly) done (pic heavy)

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cbh560

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Well I have been slowly transforming my MKII over the last year as time and money permits. Let me know what you guys think about it. Many of the how-to's I used to complete the work came from this forum and rimfirecentral.

It started out life as a regular BSEV. I got a good deal on a barely used one from another CGN'er.

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Next I needed a scope and rail. I found a barely used Mueller APT 4.5-14x40 from another CGN'er for a decent deal as well.

I mounted it up on an EGW rail and Leupold PRW medium rings.

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Man did that thing shoot well. But I wasn't done yet. I love the fit of the Evolution stock for offhand shooting, but it just wan't all that practical for target/prone shooting. So I ordered up a Tacticool from Boyds.

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Well now it was looking and feeling better for the type of shooting I was doing, but the itch for modding kept coming. Next in line was trigger job and polishing of the bolt inside and out. That made the action smoother and dropped the trigger pull down to about 2.5 pounds.

Feeling better still

With my smooth action I now needed a little something extra on the end of the handle to grab on to. So I had chat with Bill Hawkes from boltknobsbybill.com and he hooked me up with a nice knob made to the specs I sent him. An evening spent with the dremmel, bench grinder, and tap produced this. Also, the barrel floated in the tacticool, but there were some spots slightly tighter than others. A piece of copper pipe and sand paper opened that up very nicely.

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Well by now its starting to look fairly "tacticool" so I figured why not?!? I headed on down to the local Canadian Tire to pic up some supplies.

Off came the stock and out came the paint.

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Another fellow CGN'er was kind enough to hook me up with a sunshade for my scope and I got it all mounted back on. When I cranked everything down that bottom metal plate was just too damn flimsy, so again I turned to a CGN'er for thicker bottom metal. Now I can torque it down with no worries. This is the final product

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So to sum up, things I've done:

-Mount EGW rail and Leupold PRW rings
-Switch Evo stock to Tacticool
-Trigger job (done myself thanks to a how-to)
-Bolt polishing (done myself thanks to a how-to)
-Mount a Mueller APT and sunshade in said mount
-Grind dremmel and install tactical knob from Bill
-Open up barrel channel
-Paint stock and barrel action
-install thicker bottom metal and bipod.

Things left to do:
-flip open scope caps,
-(maybe) an riflebasix trigger
-paint the scope (if I did what color should I do it?)
-tac pro cheek riser (comb is just a little low)

Let me know what you think fellas. I can't wait to get out and shoot some gophers.
 
Looks Good.... Nice Job!!
You know you're gonna catch hell for painting that nice SS helical fluted barrel though. :D
Try getting lower rings (if you have "high" rings try some "medium" ones) and you may not need the cheek riser as bad. ;)
 
Wham-O said:
Looks Good.... Nice Job!!
You know you're gonna catch hell for painting that nice SS helical fluted barrel though. :D
Try getting lower rings (if you have "high" rings try some "medium" ones) and you may not need the cheek riser as bad. ;)
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I know. I loved the look of the barrel, but I figured what the hell, its just Krylon. It can come off if it needs to :) That first bit of paint was hard to muster of the courage for though...
The rings are medium right now. I bough medium thinking that I may replace the scope one day with something that may have a larger objective....
 
mb101 said:
How much difference did you find the bolt polishing did? where would the how to be found?

thanks
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I would say that the polishing easily makes enough difference to justify spending the time and little bit of money. In the second last pic you can see how the bolt shines from the camera flash. THe action cycles smoother, locks and cocks smoother, and overall looks nicer. You'll be surprised to see how rough some of the maching is inside that bolt. Get yourself some very fine grit paper. I used some 600, 800, 1500, and 2000. Mirror finish.

Here's a link to the how-to

http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78552

Good luck
 
hometownhero said:
Looking good. The paint job looks really good. Have you thought about doing the bipod as well?
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I think I will end up doing the bipod, likely the same as the stock. The scope however, I am undecided on. I think the black looks a little out place, but don't know how to paint it, since the barrel is a solid colour and the stock is a camo....any suggestions? The trigger guard, and bottom metal are solid green.
 
cbh560 said:
I think I will end up doing the bipod, likely the same as the stock. The scope however, I am undecided on. I think the black looks a little out place, but don't know how to paint it, since the barrel is a solid colour and the stock is a camo....any suggestions? The trigger guard, and bottom metal are solid green.
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I would try to do what you did on the stock to the scope, and do the bipod like the barrel
 
hometownhero said:
I would try to do what you did on the stock to the scope, and do the bipod like the barrel
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That sounds like a good idea, for the paint. I think I may just try that out. However, I think that bipod is going to end up in the trash unless I can do something with it. I've pretty much always shot off uneven ground, but when I was mounting my scope up again. I realized one leg is about 1/4" shorter than the other, putting a cant on the rifle.
 
cbh560 said:
That sounds like a good idea, for the paint. I think I may just try that out. However, I think that bipod is going to end up in the trash unless I can do something with it. I've pretty much always shot off uneven ground, but when I was mounting my scope up again. I realized one leg is about 1/4" shorter than the other, putting a cant on the rifle.
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The legs are adjustable... 9 times out of 10, you have to level the tripod anyway.
 
hoytcanon said:
The legs are adjustable... 9 times out of 10, you have to level the tripod anyway.
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Yes they are adjustable, but these ones are don't lock into place. They rely on a friction lock, and it seems no matter how hard I tighten it down, I keep having to readjust after a while. I generally leave it on the lowest when shooting, but at this point they are uneven. I'm going to see if I can find a way to possibly shim it up.
 
cbh560 said:
Yes they are adjustable, but these ones are don't lock into place. They rely on a friction lock, and it seems no matter how hard I tighten it down, I keep having to readjust after a while. I generally leave it on the lowest when shooting, but at this point they are uneven. I'm going to see if I can find a way to possibly shim it up.
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So the thumb screws won't tighten down? I have never seen that before, and your unit does have thumb screws.
 
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