Building "Match" Grade .22

RIFLEF said:
Blastattack:

Ron sure makes great barrels, I am presently shooting 2 of his in .308, what a pleasure.

Looking at the rail, is it on backward?

I have similar set-up on an Anschutz, with rail, also a Walther KKJ-T, and I can put a TRAKKER right on without any other modifications.

The receivers did not have to be drilled and tapped because the retaining system is like the original dovetail sights on these European actions.
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Ron's barrels are very nice indeed. This is my first and will not be my last.

No, the rail is on exactly as I designed it. It's excessively long because i wanted the greatest amount of flexibility for Iron sights. This will allow any Picatinny/Weaver based sight or base to be mounted exactly wherever I want it, without it having to hang way back of the action. It also has 20 MOA of cant built in, which was verified after I put on my scope that had been previously mounted to a .308 with a 20 MOA cant. The .22s landed 6.5 inches low at 100 yards before I adjusted the sight. Also, 7 inches right, which attests to Remington's poor scope hole alignment (I was pretty close to bottoming out the turret before).

I saw that RPA also makes a Picatinny/Weaver base, which may or may not be a future upgrade. We'll see how well the PH5C works first.

I'm not a huge fan of dovetail rails though. Both myself and Ron agreed that drilling and tapping a proper rail would be a much better and much more permanent solution. It also does not hurt that all the work was free; me trading my hours for his product and expertise.

I love my baby, damn fine result for the work I put in :D
 
Blastattack,

Thanks for the reply, you have a very nice set-up, use it well and enjoy.

Drilling and tapping the Anschutz and Walther actions for me was not an option, as I wished to keep the originality and integrity of the actions.
 
Thank you very much. She's ma' baby and I love her :D
Just got back from a shoot tonight, and despite performing rather poorly (operator's fault) in the actual completion (off-hand mostly, though I scored in the high 80s for our benchrest comp, top score being 94), I did manage to print a 10-shot ~.200 grouping at 20 yards. I'll give it a better measure tommorrow. Kinda eyeballed it and took my best guess at size.

Fair enough. I likely would have the same hesitations drilling and tapping into a multi-thousand dollar gun. However, having paid a mere $150 for the gun at a show, I had no such reservations. One cannot devalue a $150 gun by attaching a proper rail to it, however doing the same to a $1500 gun could have a pronounced negative effect. In short: I hear ya'.
 
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So... a little update.

After much planning any many nights fantasizing about the rifle, I finally bucked up and bought myself some real glass.

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My humble 580 now sports a Sightron SIII 10-50x60 Target Dot. The stock is apparently off of a Remington 540, and still needs some work done before the thing is finished. I would just like to thank those who have helped me along with this project, Namely my good friend Ron Smith for all the work he put into mounting the barrel and making the scope rail. I would also like to thank Jerry Teo for the absolutely awesome scope. Just received it today, and I just can't wait to go out and shoot it! This has been a long time coming, and still has a ways to go, but I am super stoked. Cheers!
 
Mystic Precision said:
Looking great.

Now to find the right match ammo and you can watch them go into the same hole all day long.

Enjoy

Jerry
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Indeed. Need to order up some Tennex and see what I can achieve. Once that stock gets finished, the rifle should be able to print some very tiny groups, though I currently doubt my ability to match the rifles' ability.
 
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