My New Stevens

hannibal said:
Just bought a mod 200 in 243. How did you lighten the trigger? I'm assuming you filed the contact point/sear? It's even but it's quite heavy. And now I have to paint my stock too, ....son of a.....
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All I did to the sear was spray it with a little moly. As for lightening the trigger, one end of the trigger spring is held inside a screw tube (for lack of a better discription) the tube is notched on the top to catch the trigger spring, it allows for 90 degree turns before catching the trigger spring again. I just backed it off until I got the trigger where I wanted it.

I also double checked my adjustments on a couple of sites on the net. They cautioned not to back the spring off too far as lack of tension on the spring could cause it to fire unexpectedly, particularly when a round was being chambered. The site I saw said don't go below 3.5 lbs of trigger pull.
 
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Great job guys. I strongly recommend that you bed that action around the recoil lug, and each action screw. I bed under the rear tang too but that is up to you. Open up the foreend ALOT so that the stock cannot hit the barrel under any circumstance.

The stocks are generously sized so that action will move around causing flyers. Once bedded, you will be able to see how great these rifles shoot.

My vote would be the 139gr or 162gr SST over H4350 lit by a CCI BR2 primer in Win brass. Collet neck sized to reduce runout. I bet you shoot 1/2" groups or smaller at 100yds.

Personally, I don't like the heavy pull of the factory trigger. They can't go down much under 2.5lbs safely. I put in a SSS trigger group and can now enjoy much lighter pulls. At this point, a Savage with Accutrigger might be just as expensive ????

My walkabout hunting rifle is a Savage Dmag w/accutrigger in 308. Need to find a 7-08 barrel some day.

Great rifles and enjoy...

Jerry
 
JeffR said:
All I did to the sear was spray it with a little moly. As for lightening the trigger, one end of the trigger spring is held inside a screw tube (for lack of a better discription) the tube is notched on the top to catch the trigger spring, it allows for 90 degree turns before catching the trigger spring again. I just backed it off until I got the trigger where I wanted it.

I also double checked my adjustments on a couple of sites on the net. They cautioned not to back the spring off too far as lack of tension on the spring could cause it to fire unexpectedly, particularly when a round was being chambered. The site I saw said don't go below 3.5 lbs of trigger pull.
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Sweet, thanks dude. This is why I asked before ripping and tearing. I checked mine and it's about 6.5lbs, 4 would be nice.
 
mysticplayer said:
Great job guys. I strongly recommend that you bed that action around the recoil lug, and each action screw. I bed under the rear tang too but that is up to you. Open up the foreend ALOT so that the stock cannot hit the barrel under any circumstance.

The stocks are generously sized so that action will move around causing flyers. Once bedded, you will be able to see how great these rifles shoot.

My vote would be the 139gr or 162gr SST over H4350 lit by a CCI BR2 primer in Win brass. Collet neck sized to reduce runout. I bet you shoot 1/2" groups or smaller at 100yds.

Personally, I don't like the heavy pull of the factory trigger. They can't go down much under 2.5lbs safely. I put in a SSS trigger group and can now enjoy much lighter pulls. At this point, a Savage with Accutrigger might be just as expensive ????

My walkabout hunting rifle is a Savage Dmag w/accutrigger in 308. Need to find a 7-08 barrel some day.

Great rifles and enjoy...

Jerry
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What's the story on the difference of opinion about bedding the rear tang. Many say not to bed the rear tang.
 
I bought a 7mm-08 Stevens for a very young friend loaded some 120gr Horn. V-max with 14gr of IMR 700X. This load shoots into one hole at 25 yards, hardly no recoil. I think this load At 1800 ft MV will kill a deer out to 75yards.
 
Fred M said:
I bought a 7mm-08 Stevens for a very young friend loaded some 120gr Horn. V-max with 14gr of IMR 700X. This load shoots into one hole at 25 yards, hardly no recoil. I think this load At 1800 ft MV will kill a deer out to 75yards.
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The 117gr bullet from a 25-35 kills deer quickly at twice that distance. No doubt your 120 V-Max will do the same. :cool:

Ted
 
So here is a bit of a twist, I head up to Squamish, find a good place to try out the new gun, and using factory ammo I fire a shot and I find the bolt to be a little tough to operate. I remove the bolt, clean the gun again, fire a few more shots, still doesn't feel right. That is when I notice a primer cap sitting in the mag well.

I look over all the rounds I have fired, and they all have marks from the ejector pin (which is now broken) and three have the primers popped out. I don't reload so I don't know alot about diagnosing ammo problems but it seemed like hot ammo to me. The casings that didn't have the primer pushed out had it flattened out. I could chamber a live round without a problem, but a spent round required more force to close the bolt.

I took it into a gunsmith today and he agreed that the problem was very hot rounds. He contacted the ammo rep to address the problem, and is currently looking over the gun to ensure that there can be no other cause.

Once it is confirmed that the ammo is the problem I will post the type and lot number, along with any solution the rep is willing to offer.
 
Yes I know the V-max is a varmint bullet.
Yes I know it will kill a deer, I killed two of them just to find out but my bullet traveled
more than 3000 ft. With the low velocity
I am guessing it will penetrate at enough
at close range to do the job.

Although I designed this load as a light plinking load for the kid. He is not quite ready yet to go after deer.

This is a wonderful juvenile load for a kid or woman to get used shooting a hunting rifle.
 
So here is a bit of a twist, I head up to Squamish, find a good place to try out the new gun, and using factory ammo I fire a shot and I find the bolt to be a little tough to operate. I remove the bolt, clean the gun again, fire a few more shots, still doesn't feel right. That is when I notice a primer cap sitting in the mag well.

I look over all the rounds I have fired, and they all have marks from the ejector pin (which is now broken) and three have the primers popped out. I don't reload so I don't know alot about diagnosing ammo problems but it seemed like hot ammo to me. The casings that didn't have the primer pushed out had it flattened out. I could chamber a live round without a problem, but a spent round required more force to close the bolt.

I took it into a gunsmith today and he agreed that the problem was very hot rounds. He contacted the ammo rep to address the problem, and is currently looking over the gun to ensure that there can be no other cause.

Once it is confirmed that the ammo is the problem I will post the type and lot number, along with any solution the rep is willing to offer.
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Jeff, if it is not the ammo, the only other thing i could see causing that kind of pressure is a chamber that has been cut too tight, but not too tight to take a round, or perhaps a slightly undersized bore (would be kinda crazy if the accidentally screwed a 260 tube on and stamped it 7-08). These would also cause undue pressure. Kinda scary on any note, to think that a combination of all factory stuff is producing results like that. What kind of ammo were you using, out of curiosity?
 
Jay said:
P.S. $347.77 plus tax, with a free hard case for each rifle and a nice lock blade knife thrown in to boot. That was at Dante in Montreal, the only place I could find the 308 and 243 at the same place.
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I bought mine in .308 from Dante too, but no lock blade :mad: How'd you manage that?
 
Fred M said:
Yes I know the V-max is a varmint bullet.
Yes I know it will kill a deer, I killed two of them just to find out but my bullet traveled
more than 3000 ft. With the low velocity
I am guessing it will penetrate at enough
at close range to do the job.

Although I designed this load as a light plinking load for the kid. He is not quite ready yet to go after deer.

This is a wonderful juvenile load for a kid or woman to get used shooting a hunting rifle.
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Sure, but why use a VMAX when there are proper big game bullets available in .284 120 grain?
 
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