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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2089428" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>A couple of months ago I had a friend that was looking for an AR upper in 223 . when I retired I started looking at the AR platform and trying to figure out how to make an accurate one so I had a couple of them I wasn't using . We got together and worked out a deal , he got a good upper and I got an older Ruger M77 mark2 chambered in 22-250 . The serial number said it was made in 2000 but it kind of looked like it may have been at least a hundred years old . It had lived it's life as a ranch truck gun and also had been a saddle gun for a time so the bluing was worn the stock had some dings but no bad cuts or gouges . I don't think it had ever been cleaned and he probably got what was left over of the two box's of ammo that came with it new when he got it . I like a challenge so we made the deal and both were happy . I took my new trophy home stripped it down cleaned the bore well and it then looked almost new . Stripped the bolt and got all the dirt and hay dust out of it , I use a good auto past wax here on my bolts as we have so much dust . I used to use graphite . I hot blued the barreled action and stripped the stock to bare wood . For fixing the dents in the wood I take a damp cloth and put it on the wood then use my wife's iron and iron them to raise the wood grains back up if they aren't broken . I then used a good wood floor finish on the stock as that's what I had that would stand up well with out spraying it on . A coat dry for 24 hours then 0000 steel cleaned it and did another coat for 6 coats . Then I turned some aluminum pillars fitted them to the action and installed them and bedded the action to the stock . I have found that a thin barrel in the Ruger's seem to shoot better for me if they have a pad of bedding near the fore end of the stock so I put one in there with out putting any stress on the barrel just some bedding for the barrel to be cradled in so it returned to the same spot after a round has been fired time after time . I then sealed the barrel channel well with several coats of Tung oil so it won't change with the weather . I decided that I would try the Burris adapters for mounting a scope on a Ruger action instead of the proprietary Ruger rings, with the Burris signature zee rings . I mounted the adaptors and trued them to the action then set up the 30 mm rings trued to the adaptors . I set the retical of the 30mm 8.5x25 target scope to the center of it's travel . Leveled the action and and mounted the scope trued it with my string line and adjusted it to center line of the rifle bore using the base adjustments . We've had some windy days so I waited for a nice day with little to no wind in the 40's to take it to the range . Using factory 45 gr. ammo the first round was 3" right and 1" low at 100 yards the next two were only about an inch and a half grouping in the same area so I made my adjustments . The same grouping but around the bulls eye with the next three . I went ahead and put a total of 20 rounds down range so I have some brass to work up a load seating depth ect. I also found that it needs a cheek riser for me and the scope mounting it has so that will be the next project for it . I'll build one with some walnut and purple heart I have then clean the stock off and mount it to the stock . It keeps me busy and I told Casey that when I want to get rid of it he can have it back for something else for me to play with .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2089428, member: 91783"] A couple of months ago I had a friend that was looking for an AR upper in 223 . when I retired I started looking at the AR platform and trying to figure out how to make an accurate one so I had a couple of them I wasn't using . We got together and worked out a deal , he got a good upper and I got an older Ruger M77 mark2 chambered in 22-250 . The serial number said it was made in 2000 but it kind of looked like it may have been at least a hundred years old . It had lived it's life as a ranch truck gun and also had been a saddle gun for a time so the bluing was worn the stock had some dings but no bad cuts or gouges . I don't think it had ever been cleaned and he probably got what was left over of the two box's of ammo that came with it new when he got it . I like a challenge so we made the deal and both were happy . I took my new trophy home stripped it down cleaned the bore well and it then looked almost new . Stripped the bolt and got all the dirt and hay dust out of it , I use a good auto past wax here on my bolts as we have so much dust . I used to use graphite . I hot blued the barreled action and stripped the stock to bare wood . For fixing the dents in the wood I take a damp cloth and put it on the wood then use my wife's iron and iron them to raise the wood grains back up if they aren't broken . I then used a good wood floor finish on the stock as that's what I had that would stand up well with out spraying it on . A coat dry for 24 hours then 0000 steel cleaned it and did another coat for 6 coats . Then I turned some aluminum pillars fitted them to the action and installed them and bedded the action to the stock . I have found that a thin barrel in the Ruger's seem to shoot better for me if they have a pad of bedding near the fore end of the stock so I put one in there with out putting any stress on the barrel just some bedding for the barrel to be cradled in so it returned to the same spot after a round has been fired time after time . I then sealed the barrel channel well with several coats of Tung oil so it won't change with the weather . I decided that I would try the Burris adapters for mounting a scope on a Ruger action instead of the proprietary Ruger rings, with the Burris signature zee rings . I mounted the adaptors and trued them to the action then set up the 30 mm rings trued to the adaptors . I set the retical of the 30mm 8.5x25 target scope to the center of it's travel . Leveled the action and and mounted the scope trued it with my string line and adjusted it to center line of the rifle bore using the base adjustments . We've had some windy days so I waited for a nice day with little to no wind in the 40's to take it to the range . Using factory 45 gr. ammo the first round was 3" right and 1" low at 100 yards the next two were only about an inch and a half grouping in the same area so I made my adjustments . The same grouping but around the bulls eye with the next three . I went ahead and put a total of 20 rounds down range so I have some brass to work up a load seating depth ect. I also found that it needs a cheek riser for me and the scope mounting it has so that will be the next project for it . I'll build one with some walnut and purple heart I have then clean the stock off and mount it to the stock . It keeps me busy and I told Casey that when I want to get rid of it he can have it back for something else for me to play with . [/QUOTE]
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