You got that new 24" Fluted Ultra barrel, you grabbed
a decent case for all your doo dad's and you promtly
march into Gander and take over there counter repair
area in there gun shop
The guy says: "can we help
you?". You respond: "No thanks I want to try on some
scope rings and some of your scopes". He is quiet because
your buying their products. An hour later after opening
and trying out several mounts and scopes you leave with
a 4-16x50 scope and some Weaver rings, 1/16" off barrel.
Thats all good but we know even a good grouping gun
bone stock will group better getting the trigger pull down
below 3#, so lets take that unfired new gun apart!
Little painters tape will save that finish even tho this gun
will be getting a home brew custom Realtree finish
Now spill out all those pesky springs and rough finished
iron parts...most everything has to go back in!
A couple hours of polishing everything down to the pivot
pins, honing and polishing the trigger, shiny and smooth
we trim the trigger spring and trial fit several times until
we hit under #3 pull, it will drop more on its own.
She fires smoother during dry fit than new, no creep as well!
Now lets free float that barrel, hand polished a Neoprene
washer until the barrel "just" floats but supported equaly,
we're going for sub MOA groups and want to shoot crows
out at 300 yards!
20mn of polishing the inside of the barrel before the first
shot is fired, another hour of bedding the rail and lapping
the scope mounts in their final position...tired yet?
Not done yet we need to go fire a bunch of different weight
bullets to see what groups the best, cleaning the barrel
several times along the way during breakin...gotta love a
new gun! Not pictured is the cutting and rewelding of the
trigger or trigger spur to clear the scope, cant have that
scope too close to the barrel :shades Chances are your gun
was gonna group good anyway but doing these steps
before you even fire it will save re-zeroing in you gun after
or possibly not accurizing it anyway right? Next chapter:
Painting your brand new gun with flat spray paint!
