BLUEPRINTING

SCREWCUTTING

BEDDING

RELOADING COURSES

LOAD DEVELOPMENT

Blueprinting is the technique used to true up a rifle action and involves removing all the variation inherent with factory actions. Correct blueprinting will turn a Remington 700 factory action into a superior action that will attain benchrest quality groups in the right hands.

Action set up in lathe with centreline indicated at 0.000 runout

Layup blue applied to action receiver prior to first cut

Layup blue partially removed showing how un-concentric factory action actually is.

Finished receiver face

Lathe setup to true the internal locking lugs

Finished internal and external faces of receiver

Truing the front locking lugs

Truing the rear locking lugs

Truing the boltface

Further work to sleeve the rifle bolt can be undertaken if required.
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