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Building the .22 rifle

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26 October 2006, 07:25
waksupi
Building the .22 rifle
I have a Mossberg M44 trainer, I am going to do some work on this winter. It will shoot into around 1.75 " at a hundred yards, as is.
I will be building an Acrabond stock for it, and need tips on bedding for a .22 rifle. I know center fire quirks, but have not played with the .22 LR for accuracy before.
I already have a Model 70 style trigger system underway for it, but would certainly welcome any suggestions on something already in production? The M70 type trigger will be simple to complete, but I don't need to be re-inventing the wheel.
Thanks.
Ric Carter


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Ric Carter
20 February 2007, 10:05
TomP
quote:
Originally posted by waksupi:
I have a Mossberg M44 trainer, I am going to do some work on this winter. It will shoot into around 1.75 " at a hundred yards, as is.
I will be building an Acrabond stock for it, and need tips on bedding for a .22 rifle. I know center fire quirks, but have not played with the .22 LR for accuracy before.
I already have a Model 70 style trigger system underway for it, but would certainly welcome any suggestions on something already in production? The M70 type trigger will be simple to complete, but I don't need to be re-inventing the wheel.
Thanks.
Ric Carter


I am starting something similar with a 513T, have noticed that floating its barrel doesn't help. I have done some glassing to fit the receiver and added a small pillar. Scope is on a modified Weaver mount, cut to fit the existing holes. I have made a dovetail buttplate for a hook and to add a sled for riding benchrest bags ( found a BR-50 club locally ). It was firelapped some years ago, seemed to help a small amount. Trigger is next, will be the hard part.


TomP

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23 February 2007, 17:33
Bud W
My experience has been that floating/bedding/foreend pressure and other techniques work with 22LR sporter barrels but don't seem to make a whole lot of difference with the heavy target barrels. There was a technique called "Electric Bedding" used years back in which a light dampening pressure was applied to the barrel at the stock foreend; it may have worked but it disappeared! My route would be to bed the action and free-float the barrel; if that doesn't help, I'd shim the foreend/barrel contact.

Bud W