Accurizing the Stevens 200...

I've been meaning to do this to my 308. The forend of mine so flexible that if I shoot it off a rest that is positioned forward on the forend I can see the crosshairs dip a bit as I start to pull the trigger. So I shoot it with the rest just a few inches ahead of the receiver and that helps.

I did make an .045 trigger spring and that does help, some.
 
Nice job. Bedding will make a significant improvement to consistency. Inletting is way too generous.

If you haven't decided on a load, consider 75gr amax or bergers over Varget and a CCI 450 or BR4 primer. I use Win cases but pretty much everything works well.

69gr MK's are hugely popular too and shoot well in these rifles.

I bet you can tune that rifle to a consistent 1/2 min.

Despite their inexpensive price, they shoot very well for a factory rifle.

Jerry
 
icehunter121 said:
Most guys and gals in here are getting sub moa groups with the stevens.My buddies with some handloads in .223 when I shot it the groups were less then .5 at 100 yards. for a cheaper rifle they impressed me lots. As for dumping $400.00 in the bar in one night...

When my G/f at the time walked in and I had 4 tables of ppl s**t faced on shooters and was standing there with my hand on the shooter girls ass and my other one on some other chicks ass standing beside me...lets just say that I came home with a very grumpy person!!!:D
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"But honey I'm just checking these ladies' postures, I swear!"
 
firemachine69 said:
"But honey I'm just checking these ladies' postures, I swear!"
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Meh....I was just checkin them for saddle sores...:D

So I took it out yesterday and the groups I got were only 2.5 inches or so...but but but...few things were against me at the time.All the ammo I had was some Federal hard ball stuff so that doesnt surprise me. Before I even shot it I had already shot a 7mm WBY .. 300WSM...my 340 WBY...416 Rigby...as well as .308 and 12 different loads out of a 22-250. I didnt have breakfast or even any food in me,was drinking pop and was having the shake thing going on from the mass amounts of sugar in my system.

I shot over 40 different loads out of 8 different calibres non stop so was probably a little recoil weary at the time also. But its a nice little rifle and is still going to continue to get worked on. So all in all it wasnt a fair test....but at least it goes bang and that is a good start to it...:D
 
I love tinkering on these rigs. Your efforts certainly turned out a lot nicer than my fiberglass bondo/steel lag bolt contraption...

Eventually I just swapped the plastic stock out for a simple walnut job that I made up from a 88 Mauser blank I had kicking around. They are great shooters regardless. Nice job!
 
Looks like a good job on the forend to me. I also did a little to my 22-250 right out of the box, before I shot it. Bedded the action with JB weld and lightened the trigger considerably (how much I'm not sure, as I don't have a trigger guage, but at least by half compared to factory - and I tested it repeatedly for safety). It shoots under 1" all day long with inexpensive winchester white box ammo. If I wasn't getting the accuracy I wanted I'd do the stock in a similar manner to what you did, but as it's a sub 1" rifle right now I'm not fooling with it any more. These are great little rifles.

Now lets see if they go back to $299 with our dollar back where it was before!
 
Let it cure longer than overnight before you start twisting and bending. After 2 days to a week it will be fully hard and stiff as hell. You'll be laughing.
 
BigUglyMan said:
Let it cure longer than overnight before you start twisting and bending. After 2 days to a week it will be fully hard and stiff as hell. You'll be laughing.
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It was actually 2 days after bedding the stock in that I shot it....but a better remedy then that....eat some friggen food b4 taking off shooting for 4 hours....:D
 
BigUglyMan said:
And start small next time. My Rigby is reserved for either cross stick practice or the end of my range session!
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Actually it wasnt the rigby it was the 340 that got me. For the rigby I had on the past recoil shield but took it off and shot the 340 with just a very light jacket on. I forgot how much they recoiled off the bench as I havent shot it in 8 years or so....
 
Well... this .223 is all fine and dandy, Dennis, but I want pics of the .22-250. I heard a few rumors that once a rifle has crossed your bench it's as precise as a laser beam.
 
Yeah, the 200 in .223 is a surprising little rifle. I stiffened the stock on mine and bedded the action (with JB weld, I'm cheap:D). I sighted it in at a gravel pit at around 25 yards a few weeks ago, finally made it out to the range today and put some 55gr PMC downrange at 100 yards. It's got a Burris fullfield II with Leupold rings/mounts and a shooters ridge bipod.

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I know it's cool to blame the gun for those two shots on the right, but that's all me. 5 hour range session was starting to get tiring, I was thinking more of supper than the last few shots. That's a dime for scale.

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Got bored and tacked up some clays, this one didn't break.

All shots fired from a bench with the bipod at 100yds. I'm not a good enough shot to give any great statement on the rifle's accuracy, but I can say that it shoots better than I do. Pretty good combination for a "cheap" rifle and "cheap" ammo.
 
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