http://doantrevor.com Custom rifle builing, machining, metalworking and woodworking for highpower and smallbore target rifle shooters. Custom grips for CSS, T2K, AR15's, Space Guns, Tube Guns Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:13:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/457965051dfa8828ff501f1e393f2d5f?s=96&d=http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://doantrevor.com http://doantrevor.com/2010/04/06/scope-rail-and-rings-for-smallbore-and-longrange-rifle/ http://doantrevor.com/2010/04/06/scope-rail-and-rings-for-smallbore-and-longrange-rifle/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:32:57 +0000 Doan http://doantrevor.com/?p=1839 ]]> This has been one of my chief rants over the last couple of years… that the advent of the new rails and rings, which are actually pretty high quality, add so much height to the shooting position, that when you go from your iron sights to your scope you have to raise the cheekpiece 1/4″ to 3/8″.  On this project I set out to make the scope at the same height as my iron sights.  One of the things that I discovered is that when you order a set of rings (that they call low rings now) are the same height as an old set of Weaver rings.  You think you’re getting low rings and they are actually high rings.  The whole affair ends up that you have an extremely high cheekpiece when you get done.  After arguing with the parts for 2 years, I decided to build a prototype for myself to see if it could be done, and still end up with a set of workable, reliable, repeatable rings that ended up the same height as the iron sights.  I think this whole problem developed over having rings and bases to satisfy the tactical shooters.  I appreciate the precision and the quality of rings that are being made for tactical rifles, but what you lose  is the ability to shoot a prone rifle in a comfortable position.  Or maybe I’m just getting to be a cranky old fart….

Tagged: 22 Rimfire, AR15, Bedding, Competition Shooting, Competitive Shooting, Composite, CSS Stock, Custom Rifle Building, Custom Rifles, F-Class, Inletting, Long Range, Machining, Milling Machine, Palma, Rifle, Rifle Stock, Rile Restoring, Scope Rails, Smallbore, Space Gun, T2K, Target Shooting, Tubb Gun, Tube Gun, Veteran's Palma Team Raffle Rifle, Woodworking ]]> http://doantrevor.com/2010/04/06/scope-rail-and-rings-for-smallbore-and-longrange-rifle/feed/ 4 doantrevor Scope Rings and Rail IMG_0303.CR2 Scope Rings and Rail IMG_0306.CR2 Scope Rings and Rail IMG_0304.CR2 Scope Rings and Rail IMG_0307.CR2 Scope Rings and Rail IMG_0297.CR2 Scope Rings and Rail IMG_0295.CR2 Scope Rings and Rail IMG_0238.CR2 Scope Rings and Rail IMG_0221.CR2 http://doantrevor.com/2009/10/25/1260/ http://doantrevor.com/2009/10/25/1260/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:37:59 +0000 Doan http://doantrevor.com/?p=1260 ]]> This is a H&H Ian Robertson stock that I modified the pistol grip on to match the owner’s wooden stocks that I have done in the past that were Culbertson patterns with a slightly larger pistol grip.  I modified the grip to make it larger, matched the color and the silver pattern, installed butt plates, removeable cheek piece, bedding for a Barnard action, and made the trigger guard.  The stock is a composite stock – from time to time I do work on composite stocks, although most of my stock work is with wood.  Working with composite materials stems from when I spent years building custom motorcycles – show bikes.

Tagged: Bedding, Competition Shooting, Competitive Shooting, Composite, Custom Rifle Building, Inletting, Long Range, Machining, Metalworking, Milling Machine, Palma, Pistol Grips, Rifle, Rifle Stock, Target Shooting, Trigger Guard, Veteran's Palma Team Raffle Rifle, Woodworking ]]> http://doantrevor.com/2009/10/25/1260/feed/ 0 doantrevor Composite stock IMG_3951