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<blockquote data-quote="ralfus" data-source="post: 397170" data-attributes="member: 20413"><p>My brother in law handed me his first rifle to fix up, a older M77 in 7mm Mag. He said the accuracy just ran out and I offered to look at it before he sold it. The finish was trashed from 25 years of hard hunting. The stock had been bedded in the early 80's and the exterior was sanded and polyurethaned. Good Leupold glass but well scratched tube. </p><p></p><p>First thing I found was the bedding material went soft. It was like scraping old latex paint off of a bucket, that soft. There's the accuracy issue. Rebedded it with Marine Tex. </p><p></p><p>The stock just look trashed so I covered the checkering with textured Marine Tex. Just masked the stock, iced on the epoxy and did the texturing. Instructions are available elsewhere. Same effect on most of the trendy "sniper" style stocks. Works great, takes only an hour and very durable.</p><p></p><p>Adjusted the factory trigger to 2.5 lbs.</p><p></p><p>Sandblasted the metal, including the scope (not something for everyone to do) and coated all in Duracoat coyote Tan (Arizona). Camoed the stock.</p><p></p><p>Recrowned the muzzle.</p><p></p><p>I spent maybe $60 in materials on the rifle. It shot great when done and he has a backup rifle for his hunts now.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/ralfus/DSC03276.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>If you're not familiar with customizing this is the perfect opportunity to work on a rifle without much risk. Marine Tex or other epoxy kits cost $20-35 and will be enough to do a few rifles. You can buy a muzzle chamfering kits from brownells with the cutter, pilot in one caliber and handle for around $60. the price of one crowning job will buy the tools to do it for the rest of your life, just but additional pilots for each caliber for around $20. If you decide later to shorten a barrel you can buy the facing tool for about $40 too. My whole set cost me around $100 and I have cut/crowned maybe 40 barrels so far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ralfus, post: 397170, member: 20413"] My brother in law handed me his first rifle to fix up, a older M77 in 7mm Mag. He said the accuracy just ran out and I offered to look at it before he sold it. The finish was trashed from 25 years of hard hunting. The stock had been bedded in the early 80's and the exterior was sanded and polyurethaned. Good Leupold glass but well scratched tube. First thing I found was the bedding material went soft. It was like scraping old latex paint off of a bucket, that soft. There's the accuracy issue. Rebedded it with Marine Tex. The stock just look trashed so I covered the checkering with textured Marine Tex. Just masked the stock, iced on the epoxy and did the texturing. Instructions are available elsewhere. Same effect on most of the trendy "sniper" style stocks. Works great, takes only an hour and very durable. Adjusted the factory trigger to 2.5 lbs. Sandblasted the metal, including the scope (not something for everyone to do) and coated all in Duracoat coyote Tan (Arizona). Camoed the stock. Recrowned the muzzle. I spent maybe $60 in materials on the rifle. It shot great when done and he has a backup rifle for his hunts now. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/ralfus/DSC03276.jpg[/IMG] If you're not familiar with customizing this is the perfect opportunity to work on a rifle without much risk. Marine Tex or other epoxy kits cost $20-35 and will be enough to do a few rifles. You can buy a muzzle chamfering kits from brownells with the cutter, pilot in one caliber and handle for around $60. the price of one crowning job will buy the tools to do it for the rest of your life, just but additional pilots for each caliber for around $20. If you decide later to shorten a barrel you can buy the facing tool for about $40 too. My whole set cost me around $100 and I have cut/crowned maybe 40 barrels so far. [/QUOTE]
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