Epoxying barrel to reciever.....good idea??

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So im kind of new to the whole rifle scene. Ive picked up my first rifle....dont laugh its a 10/22. Anyways Ive been reading up on mods and Ive read about epoxying barrel to the reciever. Anyways, wondering about what material to use and how to do it...Thanks
Also curious about buffing and polishing the trigger group, what is this going to improve?
Thanks in advance for the information.
 
Never heard of epoxying a 10/22 barrel to the reciever.
I don't think I would try that, its kind of a permanent solution I'd think. If its the barrel droop your concerned with that some rifles have there are other ways of fixing it.
 
"...what is this going to improve?..." Smooths the steel on steel movement. Makes the trigger pull lighter and smoother. Don't mess with the trigger unless you know how though.
 
Ive been reading up the disasembly of the trigger group and I really think its something Im capable of completing. I read that the epoxying of the barrel eliminates any unwanter harmonics between the reciever and the barrel, any thoughts??
 
Border Barrels in the UK makes very high grade replacement barrels for Anschutz target rifles. These are normally secured with two tapered pins. He recommends bonding his replacement barrels in place with a Loctite product. The pins are replaced, but only for cosmetic resons, they do not touch the barrel. The thought is that this is more than strong enough, and that there are no induced mechanical stresses. How well this would work in a 10/22 I cannot say.
As already mentionned, there is a place for polishing in a trigger mechanism. BUT you need to know exactly what you are doing.
 
epoxy 1022 barrel to receiver

devo20 said:
So im kind of new to the whole rifle scene. Ive picked up my first rifle....dont laugh its a 10/22. Anyways Ive been reading up on mods and Ive read about epoxying barrel to the reciever. Anyways, wondering about what material to use and how to do it...Thanks
Also curious about buffing and polishing the trigger group, what is this going to improve?
Thanks in advance for the information.
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Yes it works - because of stacking tolerances between the aluminum receiver and steel barrel -
You have to have a scope mount that screws into the barrel, extends over the receiver and screws into the receiver.
You epoxy bed the scope mount to the barrel and receiver and unitize both.
I have done this and my Ruger 1022 shoots as well as my Anschutzes
5 rds into a 23 caliber hole at 100 yards (no wind)
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I have a Beretta ES100 rifled slug gun with the barrel epoxied on. It shoots better than any other slug gun I've ever seen. tight groups out to well over 200 yards from a bench. Too bad the damn thing still kicks like a mule...... I would suspect that most guns are tight enough to use green sleeve retaining loctite on, just be carefull not to get on any other parts....
 
What Chopper did with his is very interesting. However it sounds like the sort of thing that you find way down the list of mods to do to enhance accuracy. Before I bonded the barrel to the reciever and made these a permanent one piece item I'd be looking at a lot of other mods that give more for the buck and forget sweating over the small stuff. Oh, and learning to shoot better also comes to mind as well. I don't know your shooting history but since you're asking about this sort of stuff and not mentioning having done a bunch of other mods already I have to wonder. For example if you don't have a match bull barrel then I'd think twice about gluing your gun together since it'll make future work a real pain. And as said there's a lot of things to do before you reach that point that will help a lot.
 
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