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Clay Spencer told me that he glued in press .22 barrels.

Check the sear relief cut at the back of the rear pillar.

Starting with a .220 Russian case, that has been neck turned, I fill the case about half way up the shoulder with Bullseye, center up a 3/4" square over the end of the neck, and poke it into the neck with the long side of a small Allen wrench, till it is flush with the case mouth. I do this with...

The first two pictures (upper left) show his tops. The earlier one had the thin bag, that I believe Protektor Model can furnish in leather. The other one takes regular bags. I have both...

The assumption being that the fixed head is in perfect contact after firing, which, even with a custom action may not be the case. Yes, it would make no difference going forward and back but that is hardly ever an issue. In any case, I have both fixed and separate heads in custom actions and the...

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I have a custom action with a floating bolt head. While the lug contact is excellent, having them in full contact as you cycle the bolt, with striker spring tension on the bolt creates more friction, and makes the bolt operating effort higher. I notice that on the latest production the bolt...

If you do this with an action that has been sleeved the full length of the bolt body, you risk binding. Bob leaves them factory in the front receiver ring and sleeves them very close in the back. This way the bolt is located in two places, nose and back, so no bind. Start with an untouched action.

Al, It is more than just chambering the barrel. It is how he does the action, including the bolt. Just doing the fit in the counterbore will not give you what he does. If you carefully do the whole thing, and hit all of your marks, I believe that you will be quite pleased with the results. He...

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To all three of you. Do any of you have any direct experience with Bob's action work? Al, the contact I wrote about was not in the bottom of the counterbore. He uses .007 clearance there. it is between the sides of the nose, which he trues, and the sides of the counterbore. He leaves the stock...

A few years back against a field entirely populated by custom actioned rifles, except for his, Bob Brackney won the California State Championship which is a four gun match, shooting nothing but actions that he had blueprinted and sleeved, including unlimited. Randy, perhaps you should consider...

Perhaps the dean of 700 gunsmiths, Bob Brackney, sleeves the bolt in the rear bridge to quite close tolerance, trues up the bolt nose and face and uses a very close diametric fit for the bolt nose in the counterbore, with about .007 axial clearance. These actions shoot exceptionally well. Years...

If you do some measuring of the distance from the back of the shroud to the back of the cocking piece, using the bottom of a caliper, comparing the fired position with an empty chamber, vs. the same thing after firing a primed case I think that you will find that the firing pin is stopped by the...

Some time back Speedy discussed the warehouse. He said that in a season that he was doing excellent, he tried switching to everything that was said to have worked well in the warehouse, with disastrous results. Switching back, his success returned. You might want to consider that. I do not know...

Why bother cutting the die? All you have to do is to leave out the bushing.

Harrells uses CNC turning equipment and boring bars to produce the interior shapes of their dies. The reason that they have such quick turn arounds is that they make standard versions that mostly vary by base opening diameter that they have sitting on the shelf when your order comes in. They...

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You can be sure that there was real provocation. I have gotten along with Al just fine. But you do not want to insult someone when you are standing in his house.

Before you do that remember that doing so will position your cocking piece farther forward relative to the front of the firing pin flange. Check how much clearance you have between the bottom of the cocking cam notch and the nose of the cocking piece. If you move the hole forward by that much or...