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Next I began cleaning and polishing the firing pin. I de-burred and rounded the edges, I even polished the retaining pin hole

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I'm not sure how much this helps, but it certainly can't hurt

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The extractor, sanded and polished on all sides, edges de-burred

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The extractor plunger was chucked in my drill and polished to 2400 grit

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Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:15 am
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I also polished the firing pin channel and extractor channel by wrapping 600 grit sand paper around my needle file

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Then I polished the bolt on the buffer and put it back in the machinist vice so I could jewel it.

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I use a 1/4" Cratex abrasive stick and Mother's polish, after jeweling the bolt I washed it down with brake cleaner and after drying, put it in my ultra-sonic cleaner with soap and hot water.

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then re-assembled it

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I wasn't happy with the depth of the "swirls" left by the cratex stick, so I started over. I bought a tube of valve grinding compound and a stainless brush for a Dremel, then I put some heat shrink on the brush to prevent the bristles from fanning out under pressure

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This time the swirls are much deeper and defined

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Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:17 am
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The charging handle was not the best looking one I have seen. I could have easily bought one for $30-$50, but some of those aftermarket ones add weight to the reciprocating assembly which can cause extraction issues.


Here is what it looked like when I started, you can see the machine marks in the back of the handle

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After removing the machine marks I polished it to a 600 grit

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Then I did the same to the front

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After polishing on the buffer

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The handle is made of steel, so I will need to keep and eye on it and polish it from time to time.

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This project has me feeling some type of way.

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Good job on jeweling the bolt.

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Fri Sep 02, 2016 10:27 am
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Thanks guys!


I bought this generic rimfire scope (nearly identical to my Tasco scope I installed on my Savage Model 93 Varmint Sniper Project).

It has a lighted recticle that lights up in red or green, a 50mm objective and 6-24 power adjustable magnification.

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While I was at it I bought this sun shade for a few bucks

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I didn't want a black scope on my white and silver rifle, but the silver version of this scope was nearly double the price, so I decided to buy the black one and paint it silver myself.



For the paint I chose Rustoleum Silver Metallic. Based on some online reviews, it seemed like a decent paint and it was affordable at just $3.95 a can.

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Wed Sep 21, 2016 3:31 pm
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I removed the sun shade and end trim along with the turret covers. I then taped up the lenses and the other parts I didn't want painted. This scope (as many of the newer ones are) is coated in some sort of teflon like, non-stick coating.....the tape didn't want to stick to it.

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After a few light coats I removed the tape and re-assembled the scope

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Wed Sep 21, 2016 3:33 pm
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I then turned my attention to the aluminum and stainless scope mounts, here they are before:

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and after polishing

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Also just a side note.....when I opened the scope mount packaging I noticed there were only four of the eight screws needed to hold down the upper clamps. I sent an email off to Weaver. They sent four more screws right away without question.

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Inspiring. Thank you Casey.
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Wed Sep 21, 2016 3:54 pm
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I am sure many who are reading this are wondering why I didn't pony up the dough for an aftermarket bull barrel. I did actually shop around and found that Green Mountain Barrels has the best bargain (great quality with decent prices). A Green Mountain bull barrel would have set us back $150-$200 (depending on options), which could be 1/2 our entire budget.
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So instead I chose a factory one. Besides changing barrels on the 10/22 is easy and we can always upgrade later. In addition many shooters have been able to get great accuracy/precision from the factory barrels.
The barrel is a standard 18.5" factory Ruger stainless barrel, 1 in 16 right hand twist rifling.

It did not have a rear sight when I got it, but thankfully I have an extra one that came off my 10/22 Spencer Carbine project

The barrel will get a full polish, the rear sight installed and then installed on the receiver.

Here is the barrel before, it has a "brushed" finish, which looks OK, but I want Ava to shine.

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We started with 400 grit sand paper sanding in both lengthwise and shoe shine fashion. I then went through 600, 800, 1000, 1500, 2000 grit papers before finishing with Crocus Cloth.

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And after polishing

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I then installed the rear sight and set it aside while I finish up the the other parts. I'll give it another once over before final installation

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The stock is by far the most ambitious part of this build, so I saved this for last.
I intend to modify a factory beech wood stock using pieces of poplar to create a custom target thumb-hole stock, fitted perfectly to myself.
Included will be a few modifications like a rear tang and a bedding solution using JB weld and some parts I had laying around the shop.


The first step was to figure out how big of pieces I needed to cut to make the stock. I traced a factory stock onto a big sheet of scrap paper

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To figure out the size/location of the pistol grip/thumb-hole I used my the stock from my Hoplophobe Project that was almost completed

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The new piece measures approx. 4.5 x 14", I will cut it a bit on the long side, I can always cut the butt stock to get the proper length of pull.

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I think I want to build up the area behind the receiver. When I add the rear tang I might end up a little thin on material there.



Before cutting the new butt stock pieces we went to work cutting the original stock

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I couldn't figure an easy way to cut the forend, so I decided to do it by hand. I drew a line just up from the take down screw hole

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I removed the barrel band section

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I then cut the pieces for the forend

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and started gluing them on

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Now the sides and bottom are glued on, I need to build a piece to plug the end and we can start making saw dust

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I made the end piece from two pieces of 1x4 poplar

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opening up the barrel channel, I'll work on this more later as I want a completely free-floated barrel

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The popsicle sticks are to build up the area to make it thicker, I will follow the line tapering it to disappear at the front of the forearm. This will act as a finger hold as well as an accent.

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