A Remington Rifle Build - Unplugged Part V
The project hardware, as assembled throughout Parts I-IV, is in the form of a heavy barreled Remington Model 700 short action, all stainless, and chambered for the .22-250 Remington. The action was trued, the barrel was installed and its chambered was cut without the use of a lathe or other […] [Read More]
A Remington Rifle Build - Unplugged Part IV
OK, this is the part of the Remington Unplugged project where a rifle is bored, chamber and barrel threaded using only a rusty cork screw and a tablespoon of Skippy peanut butter. Actually, this is the part where a barrel is installed on the Remington Model 700 short action and […] [Read More]
The 264 Winchester Magnum... Part II
About hundred years ago, when cars had a maximum speed of twenty miles per hour and teenagers had to share the road with horse drawn produce wagons, people drag raced street driven hot rods for neighborhood pride and maybe a few bucks. I remember a black 1961 Chevy Bel Air […] [Read More]
The 264 Winchester Magnum... Part I
The .264 Winchester Magnum was introduced in 1958. The first production rifle chambered specifically for this cartridge was the Winchester Model 70 Westerner, with one of the initial production pieces gifted to General Curtis LeMay1. I would have thought the Model 70 African, chambered for the 458 Winchester Magnum, would […] [Read More]
Remington's Model 700 CDL DM Part II
Psychological transference occurs when some common element bridges a current event with a past event, causing emotions associated with the past event to be carried over to the current event. Usually this applies to people; you see someone and visual cues cause you to instantly like them or dislike them […] [Read More]
Remington's Model 700 CDL DM
Firearm design is artistic expression, particularly when a gun’s form follows function and when simplicity, rather than excess, is at the heart of a design. A designer has to not only meet product reliability, longevity, performance, and cost goals, he also has to package all of the pieces so that […] [Read More]
Remington's Better Bigger Boomer Part II
OK. I would like to revise my assessment of the 338 Remington Ultra Mag’s recoil from “mild” to… “assertively brisk”. Hey, anytime 110 grains of powder and 275 grains of lead get together, there are bound to be some consequences. Coming out of this segment of the Remington Model 700 […] [Read More]
Remington's Better Bigger Boomer Part I
I’m preparing for a major vole hunt this afternoon. I believe we all know that anything can happen when in the pursuit of dangerous game, so I thought it best to complete this assignment before hand. I’ve written about the Remington Model 700 XCR II and other Ultra Mags previously, […] [Read More]
A Remington Rifle Build - Unplugged Part III
This last step in the sequence of action truing with precision hand tools is bolt face truing; squaring and aligning the bolt face to the longitudinal axis of the receiver. Pictured, far left, is a Dave Manson Precision tooling block that mounts in the barrel threads of the Remington Model […] [Read More]
My Next Favorite Rifle. Really...
One evening, while my wife was watching the TV show NCIS, my eyes glazed over and I started daydreaming about building a Pro Street, big block something powered, ’40 Willys. When 500 labor hours, a $60,000 rolling chassis and $40,000 drive train began to seem reasonable, I slapped myself in […] [Read More]