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My rifle rebuild
« on: June 09, 2013, 01:06:47 PM »

So I go this rifle in 1994, a savage 110 30-06. I hunted deer and elk with it for about 15 season's. I've harvested all my elk and a bunch of deer with it. Well over time and wear the rifle was looking really ruff. I didn't know the first thing about gun smithing, but I decided why not learn on this old gun.

So a few years ago I put a new stock on it and a new trophy Bushnell scope. Man I started having problems right away, so In my adventure I learned all about glass bedding, and proper cleaning or rifle barrels. After I glass bedded the new stock and thoroughly cleaned the barrel I had the gun shooting good, but no where great.

Here is the rifle with the new stock and glass


I then decided that the rifle really need to be gone through and basically gutted. First was the magizine box, held to gether with a sheet metal screw.




That sounded easy enough just pops out and then reclip the new one in :tdown: I nearly cut off the knuckle on my index finger right off the bat. Ok next was the bolt. I took the bolt apart and clean it. The bolt looked really good internally so I just went with a new handle to match the guns theme.  I also had to replace a broken trigger guard and a worn out magazine follower.




I next put on new glass and went back to Bushnell. I got a trophy xlt for Christmas and set that puppy on it.



The last step was putting on the new barrel. That was really challenging. I tried using a vise with hard wood blocks but it was a no go. So the old barrel ended up in the vise and with some persuasion i got it off. I bought a E.R Shaw barrel stainless with a 1:10 twist rate. The barrel installed really easy and I had it all put back together in no time.



 I had to redo the glass bedding for the new barrel, and I tell ya what this old gun shoots like a champ. For the first time since I owned it I got 1 inch groups at 100 yards.   Well worth the work put into it.
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Re: My rifle rebuild
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2013, 08:44:05 AM »
Beautiful job!!! I have almost the same rifle! Mine is chambered in 7mm Rem Mag. Do you still have a stock trigger? How much did the new barrel cost? Once again nice job! It looks ready to go another 15 seasons!
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Re: My rifle rebuild
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2013, 10:06:22 AM »
Beautiful job!!! I have almost the same rifle! Mine is chambered in 7mm Rem Mag. Do you still have a stock trigger? How much did the new barrel cost? Once again nice job! It looks ready to go another 15 seasons!

Thanks,

I did keep the stock trigger. I heavily weighed my options on a new trigger. In the end decided that the trigger still worked fine and was not necessary to replace. The new barrel is $233.00 stainless or It would have been $199.99 blued.
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