Cg-63 6.5x55
- Thread starter SteveBentley
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Why?
They only happen to be one of the finest and most accurate rifles ever built, just exactly the way they are.
Are you really qualified to improve on THAT? If so, perhaps you ought to be 'smithing the rifles for our Bisley team or our Olympic team.
Or is this just plastic-stock-and-Picatinny-rail time?
In THIS forum, we generally try to preserve them; we leave the butchering to the others.
They are a valid part of history: genuine Swedish military rifles, carefully rebuilt into competition firearms which can win matches in Canada today.
They should not be "modded" by anyone.
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They only happen to be one of the finest and most accurate rifles ever built, just exactly the way they are.
Are you really qualified to improve on THAT? If so, perhaps you ought to be 'smithing the rifles for our Bisley team or our Olympic team.
Or is this just plastic-stock-and-Picatinny-rail time?
In THIS forum, we generally try to preserve them; we leave the butchering to the others.
They are a valid part of history: genuine Swedish military rifles, carefully rebuilt into competition firearms which can win matches in Canada today.
They should not be "modded" by anyone.
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I'm talking about getting a stock that doesn't weigh 100 pounds without me paying $3000 to get a custom piece of french walnut cut. And no its not plastic/pictanny time, but give me a cheap piece of plastic and I'm sure after glass and pillar bedding, truing the action and all locking surfaces, I would be able to increase the accuracy with the right load.
Boyds website shows that they inlet for the Swede action, but you would be best calling or emailing them to confirm that they can accomodate your receiver dimensions. Their stocks are good quality and reasonably priced. Bell & Carlson also inlet their Carbelite composite stock for the Swede (#5251), but they can be hard to get up here.
Before you do anything permanent to the metal, try a new stock and see how it performs. Simply bedding it into a good, stiff stock and careful load development should get you very good performance without having to permanently alter a piece of history.
Mark
Brilliant!
Considering that most which I have seen and played with have shot under half a minute with irons already, I would think that any massive and monumental improvements ought to be most noteworthy.
Be a heck of a lot cheaper just to learn how to shoot with the corner of the front sight and both eyes wide open.
The Scandinavian countries built some very accurate rifles, generally out of everyone else's leavings. Norwegians did Kar98k into a .30-06, Danes did them into HB 6.5x55s and 7.62x51s, Swedes used their own actions and did 6.5s. AS THEY COME they generally get half a MOA with only the gentlest tweaking. They used the best steel and the best machinists and the best wood and the best woodworkers available and they built World-class competition rifles.
In Practical events, these things already are utter death on the 1100-metre plates. This already has been proven at CFB Shilo, several years running, in events in which the farmers' team came in 1st, the Army snipers' team in 2nd and the RCMP SWAT instructors' in a tie for 5th.
The RIFLES are about as good as they can be made, just as they come. Only improvements possible are in consistency of ammunition (commercial stuff is garbage, ALL of it, far as these rifles are concerned), and shooting technique.
'Nuff said.
I'm gonna run away now and hide in the sock closet, talk to my Ross, before I blow a fuse.
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Considering that most which I have seen and played with have shot under half a minute with irons already, I would think that any massive and monumental improvements ought to be most noteworthy.
Be a heck of a lot cheaper just to learn how to shoot with the corner of the front sight and both eyes wide open.
The Scandinavian countries built some very accurate rifles, generally out of everyone else's leavings. Norwegians did Kar98k into a .30-06, Danes did them into HB 6.5x55s and 7.62x51s, Swedes used their own actions and did 6.5s. AS THEY COME they generally get half a MOA with only the gentlest tweaking. They used the best steel and the best machinists and the best wood and the best woodworkers available and they built World-class competition rifles.
In Practical events, these things already are utter death on the 1100-metre plates. This already has been proven at CFB Shilo, several years running, in events in which the farmers' team came in 1st, the Army snipers' team in 2nd and the RCMP SWAT instructors' in a tie for 5th.
The RIFLES are about as good as they can be made, just as they come. Only improvements possible are in consistency of ammunition (commercial stuff is garbage, ALL of it, far as these rifles are concerned), and shooting technique.
'Nuff said.
I'm gonna run away now and hide in the sock closet, talk to my Ross, before I blow a fuse.
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Blame it on the American gun press, who has to sell advertising for all these nifty new pricy ways to "improve" a solid workhorse into a pink pony with braided mane and manicured hoofs. Ohh, I forgot about the rime-stones. 
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CG-63s
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Some CG-63 rifles were bedded at the factory using an "Accurglass" type of bedding compound. Some were bedded simply using the wood stock itself.
As mentioned, Trade-ex has some CG-63 stocks for sale by themselves.
There is a reason for the weight and dimensions of the CG-63 stock. That stock came about after testing by the Carl Gustafs State Arsenal, to develop a target rifle for serious competition shooting. If the OP is complaining about the weight, he should try shooting a CG-80 rifle, a Sportco 44, or a heavy barreled Remington 40x or Winchester target rifle.
A CG-63 is a target rifle, not a bench rest rifle. A properly bedded and tuned CG-63 will stay well within the 10 ring out to 600 meters, IF the shooter is capable of it. It was made not only for known distance shooting at targets, but also for a unique type of Swedish shooting known as "field shooting." In this, various types and sizes of targets are set out at distances unknown to the shooters at the start of the shoot, and they regularly shoot out to 600 meters at some very small targets.
BTW - the last time SMELLIE went to the sock closet to sulk, we had to slip Pizzas under the door to him for a week. This imparts an added burden on the demands, hardship and responsibility of his closest friends ---both of them.
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Some CG-63 rifles were bedded at the factory using an "Accurglass" type of bedding compound. Some were bedded simply using the wood stock itself.
As mentioned, Trade-ex has some CG-63 stocks for sale by themselves.
There is a reason for the weight and dimensions of the CG-63 stock. That stock came about after testing by the Carl Gustafs State Arsenal, to develop a target rifle for serious competition shooting. If the OP is complaining about the weight, he should try shooting a CG-80 rifle, a Sportco 44, or a heavy barreled Remington 40x or Winchester target rifle.
A CG-63 is a target rifle, not a bench rest rifle. A properly bedded and tuned CG-63 will stay well within the 10 ring out to 600 meters, IF the shooter is capable of it. It was made not only for known distance shooting at targets, but also for a unique type of Swedish shooting known as "field shooting." In this, various types and sizes of targets are set out at distances unknown to the shooters at the start of the shoot, and they regularly shoot out to 600 meters at some very small targets.
BTW - the last time SMELLIE went to the sock closet to sulk, we had to slip Pizzas under the door to him for a week. This imparts an added burden on the demands, hardship and responsibility of his closest friends ---both of them.
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