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Rem 700 BDL varmint .22-250
For quite a few years my go-to fox spotlighting and long range bunny busting rifle has been an old BDL varmint .22-250 I picked up second hand in my LGS. It's the bottom one:
Until recently the only things I had done to it were to mount a Ziess Conquest 6.5-20x50 and fit a Rifle Basix trigger. It consistently shoots 50gn v-maxes into around 0.5" at 100m. I have no idea how many rounds the barrel has seen, and it's not even glass bedded. I have always wanted to strip off the 'bowling ball' finish and replace the hard plastic butt plate with a thin rubber pad. Finally started on this project in the last few weeks. I had a furniture maker trim the curved butt end to suit the flat Pachmyer 250B pad. The original finish was taken of using 'Polystrippa' and I have been wet sanding the stock using 'Organoil' garden furniture oil. I'm up to 800grit wet and dry paper at the moment. I'm liking the grain that has surfaced. Marcus |
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There was some very nice wood hiding under the factory finish. Congratulations!
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Very well done! Looks fantastic! Good call taking the bowling pin finish off.
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Beautiful wood! Are you going to replace the forend cap & grip cap? I always hated the white line spacers Remington used.
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It almost appears to have a cherry red color. Is that just the lighting or an effect of your finish? If so how did you do it? Looks great
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Looks really nice. How are you working around the checkering? I have one I'm going to be tackling soon.
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