06-26-2023, 01:04 AM
Update on Howa barreled action progress. I am satisfied with the Stocky's VG carbon fiber stock. The JO hinged floor plate has been installed.
The install of the JO floor plate required more tweaking than anticipated. Dremmil tool was my friend on this one. Turned out a considerable amount of material needed to be removed from stock on one side of the front & rear trigger guard clearance holes through the stock. seems to be fine now.
Dawned on me last night that I could polish up the bolt face with a retired spent case. placed the case in a cordless drill, applied a bit of polishing compound to the base of the case. With the case charged with the polishing compound, Firm pressure was applied with the base of the case in the bolt face. This pushed back the ejector. proceeded to run the drill forward & revers to polish up the bolt face. Ten minutes after first applying pressure the task was showing real promise.
Cleaned up the polishing compound as best I could as well as the rest of the bolt. re-applied lube & look forward to putting her to the test soon.
Today was soon enough. Managed to get out to the range today & run her through the motions. Again was just pushing some inexpensive bulk bullets down the tube to evaluate function and feeding from the JO flush hinged trigger guard system. Happy to report I am satisfied thus far with the JO hinged floor plate.
As for the bolt face, that worked out well also. No longer chewing up brass once the bolt was polished up properly. Think it is about time I start working up a accuracy load for this rifle.
The install of the JO floor plate required more tweaking than anticipated. Dremmil tool was my friend on this one. Turned out a considerable amount of material needed to be removed from stock on one side of the front & rear trigger guard clearance holes through the stock. seems to be fine now.
Dawned on me last night that I could polish up the bolt face with a retired spent case. placed the case in a cordless drill, applied a bit of polishing compound to the base of the case. With the case charged with the polishing compound, Firm pressure was applied with the base of the case in the bolt face. This pushed back the ejector. proceeded to run the drill forward & revers to polish up the bolt face. Ten minutes after first applying pressure the task was showing real promise.
Cleaned up the polishing compound as best I could as well as the rest of the bolt. re-applied lube & look forward to putting her to the test soon.
Today was soon enough. Managed to get out to the range today & run her through the motions. Again was just pushing some inexpensive bulk bullets down the tube to evaluate function and feeding from the JO flush hinged trigger guard system. Happy to report I am satisfied thus far with the JO hinged floor plate.
As for the bolt face, that worked out well also. No longer chewing up brass once the bolt was polished up properly. Think it is about time I start working up a accuracy load for this rifle.