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Thoughts on Lothar Walther?
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<blockquote data-quote="Buck Fever" data-source="post: 1938328" data-attributes="member: 113501"><p>Life got in my way for a while but I finally got the barrel.</p><p></p><p>So far it looks good but I haven't given it a really thorough inspection with my Teslong bore scope yet.</p><p></p><p>One thing was weird. I screwed it hand tight on my receiver, then tried to chamber the dummy round I made from the one piece of formed brass I made. The bolt handle seemed to get all the way forward and then stop before dropping. I had to unscrew the barrel about 70° to get it to close easily. That's about 0.010".</p><p></p><p>I didn't think I could be off that far so I hand tightened the barrel again, got out my Hornady modified case (for setting bullet seating depth) and it chambered just fine. Side by side they look near identical. I'm going to have to do some careful measuring to see what is different.</p><p></p><p>I also installed my 3/4-24 Sidewinder brake adapter on the muzzle.</p><p></p><p>Any way, I have the parts, now I need to make it in to a system so I can just grab the case, grab a range bag and go shooting a mile+.</p><p></p><p>After I get the brass sorted out and the barrel final torqued in the receiver I need to cut and mount the 15mm linear bearing bipod mount, drill the Arca rail adapter to bolt to the linear bearing, cut the Kaizen foam for my case to hold the rifle, bipod, magazines and ammo, develop a load at 200 yards, zero it, generate DOPE at probably 300, 600 and 1,000 yards and then take it somewhere that I can stretch it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buck Fever, post: 1938328, member: 113501"] Life got in my way for a while but I finally got the barrel. So far it looks good but I haven't given it a really thorough inspection with my Teslong bore scope yet. One thing was weird. I screwed it hand tight on my receiver, then tried to chamber the dummy round I made from the one piece of formed brass I made. The bolt handle seemed to get all the way forward and then stop before dropping. I had to unscrew the barrel about 70° to get it to close easily. That's about 0.010". I didn't think I could be off that far so I hand tightened the barrel again, got out my Hornady modified case (for setting bullet seating depth) and it chambered just fine. Side by side they look near identical. I'm going to have to do some careful measuring to see what is different. I also installed my 3/4-24 Sidewinder brake adapter on the muzzle. Any way, I have the parts, now I need to make it in to a system so I can just grab the case, grab a range bag and go shooting a mile+. After I get the brass sorted out and the barrel final torqued in the receiver I need to cut and mount the 15mm linear bearing bipod mount, drill the Arca rail adapter to bolt to the linear bearing, cut the Kaizen foam for my case to hold the rifle, bipod, magazines and ammo, develop a load at 200 yards, zero it, generate DOPE at probably 300, 600 and 1,000 yards and then take it somewhere that I can stretch it out. [/QUOTE]
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