- Location
- 54°52'56"N 112°10'7"W Alpha Bravo
Don't take my comment as a slight.
I'm just curious if you've done a baseline with the key remaining parts of the rifle. Namely, you have the receiver, bolt and barrel. You haven't shot it to determine the inherant accuracy potential of the rifle. You probably haven't checked headspace either. Is your barrel indexed correctly?
However, you've started to invest in part A, B, C, etc etc, which may or may not have a huge overall impact to further accurise the rifle.
To be honest, I'm not building this to be a tack driver, 2-3 MOA is fine with me. If I get better then great. It's going to be my truck/deer gun, as long as it's reliable and durable, I'm content.
That being said, if at the end of my build it needs to be tweaked by a smith, then thats fine too. The point is, with the foundation and with all the new quality parts the potential will be there...
BTW the barrel was indexed properly my line of sight/gas cylinder is true, if it hadn't of been I wouldn't have re-finished it. I'm also assuming the head-spacing is fine due to the fact that no other CanAm shortys had any issues.
Again, this build wasn't about precision, it was about seeing if I could up the overall quality of the rifle and stay well under the price of an M1A. I'm also havin' a blast learning about the rifle and the build in general, it's quite fun...
I guess we'll see at the end what kind of results i get...