I do. See, I paid professional gunsmiths to build me a couple of rifles. I plan to do it twice more in the near future. So why am I a chump? I was talking to a gunowner in my battalion. I asked what rifles he has. One is a Remington 700 in .250-3000 Savage. I asked who built it. He di it himself.

"You're a gunsmith?"

No

"But you have a lathe and mill?"

No.

He held the barrel in a vise and chucked the reamer in a drill. For lube he used a couple of cans of WD-40! Hey, it shoots straight!

What a fool I've been!.........On second thought, I think I'll have the pros do the work. Wow!

Funny, I met mine in my battalion. He was the battalion XO and I was a CO training officer. He DID have a mill. He HAD built LOTS of guns.

Today, many, many years later... he's gotten a bigger, better lathe (I know, I was one of eight guys who got a hernia moving the damn thing into his basement and bringing the "small" [small???] one out), and he's built or worked on EVERYTHING I own.

You just need a different battalion. Keep trying.

(Chucked the reamer in a power drill? Used WD-40 for lube? ARRRRRRRRRGH!!!)

Russ

You say it shoots straight. What kind of groups? how consistant of a zero? Does he reload his own cartridges?

I'll bet he held some real tight tolerances.

A guy I know ( and who shall remain nameless) made his 270 with a Makita drill powering the reamer. He ended up going a little deep but, as luck would have it, 280 brass headspaced perfectly. He was pleased with the results! When he decided to sell the rifle some years later he did have me set it back. Thoughtful. He had done a remarkably good job of reaming it straight. I don't know what he did for the threads or perhaps it was a threaded and short chambered barrel. This same guy was a fine stockmaker and made some very pretty rifles. Regards, Bill.

that wouldn't have been a certain Herr Meck now would it?

Thomas,
I said "nameless"! Another guy had a setup so he could chamber on a drill press. Again, he turned out some surprisingly good work. Regards, Bill.

Jeffeoso it is time for you to switch to decaf...

This home made gun shoots straight enough for deer hunting (they haven't complained yet).

I'm glad he's in the same battalion as me. He has a lot more rank than me (I got E-5 pinned on today ). He had to fight for us to get guns on post at all. My BR rifle is in the arms room and my M70 will be soon. I also plan to bring my BR Heavy Gun here for working up a load in my spare time.

I just wish he would have won the fight to allow us to have airguns in our quarters. I've got this mad thing for an RWS model 48 with a B&L 6-24x40.

Lee

Jeffeosso- One of your best to date! Don't let Axel see it or he will be drilling out the M700's for pipe threads and using his Ridgid Pipe threader on the barrel for sure. I can just see that 460 reamer in the drill press now! I just expanded my expo on how you use a small lathe for Tapering. I'ts a hoot! It will take him a week at least to even figure out what I said! Bet he doesn't even get past how to take out the collet closer!-Best regards-Rob

Jeffeosso-Are you related to or is your brother-in-law/first cousin that "Allen" guy?

Stop, stop, you're giving me ideas! Please stop!

jeffeosso..To manny cups of spoon coffe

Have you ever thought about getting in to stand up commedy. This is the best one , soo far

I have been thinking about the 270-505 for a long time

Could it be done in a short 700 action

/ JOHAN

LongDistanceOperator:

Congratulations on the promotion! Now, onto more important things... WHERE'S THE PARTY?!

I am quite familiar with the Army's gun-control policies... you're lucky to get away with what you've achieved thus far.

You might rethink the scope choice for your "someday" air rifle. Better check out the air rifle page and ask those guys. I think a B&L 4000 Elite's adjustments might not take extended shooting on an air rifle. Scopes are in a whole different ballpark when you start needing them for air rifles.

Again, congratulations to you on the occasion of your promotion today. I know you must be very proud.

Lastly... thank you for serving your nation.

Godspeed, Sergeant LongDistanceOperator.

Russ

Chambering rifles with a power drill? This sounds like something Axel would do!