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About 3 years ago, I bought a Superlight .243. I did a trigger job, washered the barrel lug, put on a scope, and tried 85, 90 and 100 grain ammo in it.
No luck, like many Superlight owners, I found that unless by luck of draw you got the rare shooter, these are the quirkiest Handi's around. "Pattern" was the best description, not group...
So I stuck it away and vowed to get back to it later.
Later came lately in a fit o' boredom.
First off, the rail that came with it for scope mounting was way too long for firm mounting on the thin barrel. I had an old rail for the discontinued H&R Model 058, but while the holes were the same spacing the chamber contour on 058's was different. Only the outside edges of the rail bottom contacted the chamber top on the Superlight.
No problem, I wrapped sandpaper on the outside of the Superlight chamber and set the rail on it and sawed away! Didn't take but about 15 minutes to match the contour for full contact.
With that solved, I had always noticed that, since they didn't make a special foreend for the thin barrel on these guns, the synthetic one from the factory had a LOT of side to side play. That couldn't be good for accuracy! The wood foreends are stiffer, and I had one from another Handi. I also had a Metal foreend screw-on extension to replace the composite one all guns but Buffalo Classics come with.
Soooo, I drilled some holes inside the foreend channel, broke open a single rifle Brownell's Glasbed kit, wrapped the barrel with electrical tape and painted the contact surfaces with release agent. I bedded from an inch in front of the rear of the channel to an inch in front of the foreend screw lug.
I put a popscile stick between the barrel and the front of the channel before I screwed it down and let it to cure overnight. This would give me "float' in front of the bedding.
I applied the release agent correctly, as it popped loose the next morning. I let it cure another two days before sanding, removing the release agent, etc.
To match the look and feel of the synthetic buttstock, I used a can of the Black Spray Grit Epoxy paint from Brownell's. It's a bit shiny though, so I put a coat of flat camo black on top of the rest.
To take ALL the variables out of my range work, I put on a better scope - a Nikon ProStaff 2x7x32. I have three boxes of ammo; two Federal 100 grainers (nosler partition and standard soft point) and some 80 grain soft points.
Now if I just can get to the range for a test spin... Whew!!
- perklo