fiver
Well-Known Member
well I pulled down the SIL's rifle today.
it's a Montgomery ward [western field] of unknown age in 308.
this poor rifle has lead a hard, hard life.
bluing missing, stock is cracked up at the fore-arm, bedding [what bedding?] everything slides around in there some stuff touches nothing and everything else rubs where it shouldn't.
his scope rings were loose [one was broken]
the bolt was put together wrong, and the barrel had been cut down to 18-1/2"s at some point for some reason.
stuff inside is rough and burred [shaking my head]
other than that it's a fine piece of equipment.
it was clean [except the barrel from his last outing]
but I'd expect that from someone that spent a few years in the sand-box.
so today I started working on the burrs and the bolt I don't know how he didn't lose the spring or the little lock pin for the bolt shroud as it was not in alignment whatsoever.
once I got everything straightened out the trigger pull was slightly heavier but muuucuch smoother and the rifle has a bit faster lock time..
I replaced all of his scope problems.
then seen a Burris full field 3x9 scope sitting on my shelf so I replaced that too [probably doubled the rifles value]
next I guess comes a lot of sanding and fitting of the internals.
then a couple of dabs of bedding compound around the action.
after I fix the crack in the stock I'm just gonna bed the barrel the whole length from the recoil lug to the fore-arms tip to stabilize everything.
after that some load work-up with some 3031 and my home made 150gr bullets to try and maximize the barrels short length.
if all that works [god I hope so] it's going to the paint shop to get a green and black tiger stripe paint job.
if not I guess a new barrel is In it's future.
any suggestions?
it's a Montgomery ward [western field] of unknown age in 308.
this poor rifle has lead a hard, hard life.
bluing missing, stock is cracked up at the fore-arm, bedding [what bedding?] everything slides around in there some stuff touches nothing and everything else rubs where it shouldn't.
his scope rings were loose [one was broken]
the bolt was put together wrong, and the barrel had been cut down to 18-1/2"s at some point for some reason.
stuff inside is rough and burred [shaking my head]
other than that it's a fine piece of equipment.
it was clean [except the barrel from his last outing]
but I'd expect that from someone that spent a few years in the sand-box.
so today I started working on the burrs and the bolt I don't know how he didn't lose the spring or the little lock pin for the bolt shroud as it was not in alignment whatsoever.
once I got everything straightened out the trigger pull was slightly heavier but muuucuch smoother and the rifle has a bit faster lock time..
I replaced all of his scope problems.
then seen a Burris full field 3x9 scope sitting on my shelf so I replaced that too [probably doubled the rifles value]
next I guess comes a lot of sanding and fitting of the internals.
then a couple of dabs of bedding compound around the action.
after I fix the crack in the stock I'm just gonna bed the barrel the whole length from the recoil lug to the fore-arms tip to stabilize everything.
after that some load work-up with some 3031 and my home made 150gr bullets to try and maximize the barrels short length.
if all that works [god I hope so] it's going to the paint shop to get a green and black tiger stripe paint job.
if not I guess a new barrel is In it's future.
any suggestions?