Really sorry about the wait guys, internet speed's slower than Gina Rineheart attempting to make a getaway in a Toyota Prius. Here's a little teaser when it first arrived.
Unfortunately, I've not visited the safe in a while, but it has had a little bit of work done to it since, mainly a lot of metal polishing with various grades of sandpaper and re-bluing. I did however, manage to get up to the re-bluing stage. Acetoning the body once all the black paint was stripped back, polishing up the surfaces with a lovely fluffy bench grinder, applying Birchwood Casey Super Blue, leaving it for an a hour to rust, dunking it in a container of Luke warm water, then proceeding to rub it back gently to steel wool.
Unfortunately, WD-40, which was used to prevent further rusting with the bluing, instead decided to create lots of ugly patches, which ruined what was such a nice rust-blue.
Guess I've got to strip it back and start again.
The ATI stock however, has worked out really well, took less than 15 minutes to file and fit, then an extra 20 to bed with shimming, plus floating the barrel out. Once I've got the full rifle on the table, I'll even give a mini-review on it.
Wylie27 wrote:He is young, no control yet
Just gonna ignore this one.
sandgroperbill wrote:
But what's with the sticky gooey bolt?
Running a lab analysis as we speak
AZZA'S HJ47 wrote:All we want is some 303 porn
You'll get some in due time
knowsnothin wrote:so a 303 case pushing a .224 round? yikes.
Yep, first load is going to be 30 grains of AR2208 pushing out a 45 grain .224 projectile. Guessing to see power output just over that of a 22-250. It's possible to hit 220 swift performance, but I'm not willing to try that juuuuust yet
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