SIL's rifle

[fiver]

update coming on the SIL's rifle.

I have had it here for the last couple of day's and I found a very workable solution for the stock.
Big Hint:
it's sitting waiting for the clear coat to dry right now.
i'll give it a couple of hours and do a final clear coat then put it together tomorrow.
I'm gonna do a touch up on the rear action screw and look over the trigger a bit tomorrow also.
I should be able to get it close to mine with just a touch of work.

i'll get the wife to take and post some pictures tomorrow afternoon when everything is put together.

now I gotta measure everything to see if the barrel and action will fit in the oven so I can do the cera-kote and finish everything off.
[while the wife is at work of course]

 

[Ian]

So you did a rattle-can camo job?

 

[fiver]

sumthin like that, but it turned out pretty dang nice.
I got 4 coats of clear on it last night and I'm just heading out to work on the other stuff right now.
BTW I didn't pick the color

 

[fiver]

 

[fiver]

well how's it look?

the top pic is a close up of the finish so you can see the texturing.
the second is how thin it actually is you can see the old deeply and very poorly rolled checkering [with the tops flattened off] underneath still.
in the last one.
that's a closer representation of the actual color it come out it's a couple of shades darker but the flash on the camera picked up the gold highlights instead of the blacks and browns.
i'll get the wife to do a full length pic here in a minute so you can see the overall effect.

I figured i'd never really get a silk purse out of the pigs ears but if I stitched things together well enough I could get him a football to play with.

that's one of the yellow colored Yotes we get around here.
I got another one yesterday [even more yellow but shagging off quickly] when me and Littlegirl went out after ground squirrels.
I had it mounted on top of a 'ahem' vintage and distressed cedar chest then added handles to the sides of the top so it can be lifted off to see the junk err,, wife's junk inside.

 

[fiver]

 

[quicksylver]

my what?

Fiver...if you want me to believe you .....
You have to say it this way"my w-h-a-a-a-a-t ?"....

 

[fiver]

what? [short A]
used to be my catch phrase in H/S?
I was pretty well known for it.

I'm aware of electronic stuff [the A.F. tried to sign me on to be be some kind of computer technician in a former life]
I just don't use it unless I absolutely have to, kinda like Quigly and a handgun.

 

[Ian]

Photos? Nice. Is that some of the "stone texture" paint? I actually have thought about doing a plastic Savage stock in that stuff, grippy as heck and pretty durable. I sprayed some hacked-together door panels in that stuff after I modded, reinforced, and fiberglassed them for more speakers (long story, previous kid had destroyed the panels hacking on them to get some junk speakers to sorta fit with drywall screws) and it still looked great when I sold the car to the next sucker years later. Anyway the stock looks good and ought to do well as long as he holds his face tight on it when he touches off a round, or has a decently long full beard, otherwise I see a little face hamburger in the making!

 

[Brad]

Nice stock. Scrawny yote.

I'm with Ian, if the texture is what it looks like that is a 308 belt sander.

 

[fiver]

yeah the taxidermist used a smaller form [I think it was one he had in stock and made it work]
this is another one I retired, it's the last piece of taxidermy work he is ever gonna do. [hands wont allow him to sew any more]
the last one died after doing my deer.
the one before that retired after doing one last one for me after doing all my Birds over the years.
Dawn's fish was the last one, the one before that done, he actually done it after retiring and ended up dying 6 months later.

it is a stone textured paint but it isn't rough.
after I done the second coat I waited until it was almost fully dry then hit it with the heat gun and took my hands pressing everything down flat.
then I heated it up again and drug a plastic Bondo spatula across everything especially the stock where your face sits.
it was almost 1:30 am when I got done.
so I set it above the heater and let everything cure for another 16hrs and started the clear coats.

it isn't rough like you'd think.
but it is textured, only the texture is flat and the stock actually slides across your face.
you can still grip it pretty well.
he run off about 35 round with it this afternoon and the only thing he could find to mention was "what happened to the trigger"?
I chuckled a bit and asked what he meant, he was like "it just goes off" I don't have to fight with it.
I aim where I want it to go, take up that little bit of slack, and as soon as I press on it boom.
umm yeah about 3 hrs to do that.

 

[Pistolero]

"stone textured paint"......
Is that something that everyone else knows about and just dumb ole' me has no
clue what it is or where one might find it?

Looks pretty good. Gotta laugh at the trigger comment. He never had a good trigger before?

Bill

 

[Ian]

It's a craft item, comes in different colors. Just the thing to fix up a trashed piece of garage-sale furniture, refinish a vase, pot, picture frame, or apparently a rifle stock.

 

[fiver]

I got it at wal-mart, but I'm sure ACE and other places have it.
I'm probably gonna do some more stuff with it.
they have a grey one I really like.
and I got a couple of horrible stocks that would benefit from me digging the inlays out then filling everything in and smoothing it all up then painting them.

when I put the first coat on I really thought we made a huge mistake it looked like we were spraying sand all over it.
then I could see it kind of sloughing down a bit and thought there was no way it was gonna work.
then I realized it was trying to level itself off and the stock was sucking some of the paint up but I had it hanging up so it was kind of fighting itself.
the rest I outlined in he thread.

he hasn't really ever shot a real nice rifle of any type before.
I have let him shoot a couple of my good ones from time to time and he doesn't know what to think.
if I can just get him to settle in and shoot off a front and rear bag a few times he can shoot some pretty good groups.
he shot a good solid 2 to 2-1/2" group at 300yds with my Bergara in 30-06.
this rifle Is probably the best one anybody in his family owns now [he has 4 brothers that shoot] it just needed to be completely stripped down and gone through with some care and better fitment of the parts.
a better barrel will make it shoot even better of course but for how/where he hunts it's easily good enough.

 

[Pistolero]

Interesting to repurpose non-gun stuff. Good on you for showing him that guns don't
have to have garbage triggers. Making 2-2.5" groups at 300 shows good skills, not
everyone can do that, no matter what rifle. When I first started competing with Swiss
rifles at 300 meters, I got a real education on what a poor trigger squeeze, versus a
good trigger squeeze versus a perfect trigger squeeze will mean on the target. Not too
hard to move a shot 8-12" at that range with a bad effort on the trigger. Sure is not like
shooting at 100 yds, and not 3 times the difficulty, either, a good bit more.

My wife started shooting on the college rifle team, so she absolutely demands a good trigger
on everything. When a match .22 rifle is your first learning experience with triggers, even average
triggers are "not acceptable". Can't really argue when she says "This trigger is terrible.", yep, it often
isn't too good, so I am always making triggers crisp and light for any of her guns.

Bill

 

[fiver]

I have had a couple that felt pretty good but were real heavy it would fool you into having a false poi
it would shoot high just by pulling the trigger.
and lead you into jerking on it pretty hard time after time.[slapping at it]
it sucked because the rifle would still shoot good groups, but as soon as you shot something else and went back it was like you forgot everything about that rifle.
a simple trigger swap and tune brought it around, the impact change was quite noticeable, and consistency became a normal thing.
the weird thing was this was a fairly custom mauser rifle with an aftermarket trigger, it was just super heavy and full of creep because the angles didn't line up properly.
I'm gonna try it in another rifle and see how things work out there.