Skylerbone
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Perhaps, though laminate is a non sequitur for lightweight, the pics were merely examples of ventilated stocks. I think it might be interesting to see a traditional stock relieved on the bottom for weight savings.
Doing an upgrade of a minor bedding job on a Rem 700 ADL
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Perhaps, though laminate is a non sequitur for lightweight, the pics were merely examples of ventilated stocks. I think it might be interesting to see a traditional stock relieved on the bottom for weight savings.
the savage lightweight hunter uses cuts in the bottom to shave weight.
I got my boyds thumbhole stocked Savage 110 in .300 down to 7.5lbs scoped with a Nikon 3-9x40 premonarch. lotsa drilling........
Today I received the decapper/expander parts I ordered from Midway, though last evening, found some new Starline cases that I'd sized and primed, so loaded about 50 rounds of .223. Now I'll wait until we get a warmish/quiet day to test the rifle...(hope it comes before June next year).
Shot the Rem 700 ADL, .223 today. Weather was much better than forecast yesterday. Wind was barely noticeable, but the sun wasn't out when I started and I couldn't see my bullet holes in the spotting scope, so I fired a couple of shots between the two vertically-mounted targets and saw them. Some of the first shots were in the black and didn't show up well.
Anyway I fired mostly 3-shot groups with the new loads (unfired-cases). Best group was 2/10", then there were two 1/2" groups, one 3/4", a 4-shot 1/2" group and one 7/10" group. That's kind of unheard of for cases that weren't at least once-fired in the rifle.
I didn't wait for the barrel to cool between shots or groups, but it was cold enough to keep it reasonably cool, though there were some heat waves that affected the image position somewhat, but I tried to determine which position was real and did a pretty good job.
Bottom Line: The rifle definitely SHOOTS better than it did, due to the bedding job. It seems to shoot about as well as my Stainless Varmint Fluted .223, but not as easily, nor is it as cool-looking. Guess I'll keep it as it is for a while. It's hard to justify a new stock for it that costs more than what I paid for the whole rifle. Too bad that it shot so well, because now I can't justify a varmint stock on the excuse that it doesn't shoot well enough, even though the two-colored bedding job is "fugly" inside, but nobody sees that unless I'm dumb enough to show them.
If there were still some "turkey shoots" around, it would make a great "sleeper" rifle. Who would suspect that "cheap factory" rifle would be such a great shooter?
Anyway I fired mostly 3-shot groups with the new loads (unfired-cases). Best group was 2/10", then there were two 1/2" groups, one 3/4", a 4-shot 1/2" group and one 7/10" group. That's kind of unheard of for cases that weren't at least once-fired in the rifle.
I didn't wait for the barrel to cool between shots or groups, but it was cold enough to keep it reasonably cool, though there were some heat waves that affected the image position somewhat, but I tried to determine which position was real and did a pretty good job.
Bottom Line: The rifle definitely SHOOTS better than it did, due to the bedding job. It seems to shoot about as well as my Stainless Varmint Fluted .223, but not as easily, nor is it as cool-looking. Guess I'll keep it as it is for a while. It's hard to justify a new stock for it that costs more than what I paid for the whole rifle. Too bad that it shot so well, because now I can't justify a varmint stock on the excuse that it doesn't shoot well enough, even though the two-colored bedding job is "fugly" inside, but nobody sees that unless I'm dumb enough to show them.
If there were still some "turkey shoots" around, it would make a great "sleeper" rifle. Who would suspect that "cheap factory" rifle would be such a great shooter?
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