American Gunsmith

Hi-Point Carbine

Taking on the Hi-Point Carbine, here’s my take on setting up this inexpensive 9mm long gun.

by Paul Mazan
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Gunsmithing usually reduces trigger pull weight but there are times when an increase is called for, especially when restoring handguns.

by RK Campbell
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Getting up to speed with the Speedmaster.

by Ed Nutter
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The Ruger 10/22 rifle has a large variety of aftermarket parts available to improve its performance. This is what I did to improve the accuracy for rimfire competition.

by Glen Calvert
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An overview of two target pistol projects.

by Charlie Briggs
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Sometimes solving an isolated shooting problem with our rifles will demand all the study and analysis we can put into it.

by Norman E. Johnson

Every once in a while we may be faced with a gunsmith/shooting situation that turns out to be more elusive than we had anticipated. I had built a rifle chambered for the 6x45mm cartridge as one of a quadruple switch-barrel set up. The chosen barrel was a Criterion six groove with a 1:8 twist which would stabilize bullets to just over 100 grains. I went with a Model 700 Remington short action, originally chambered for the 221 Remington Fireball, circa 2008, as my choice in building a super accurate, medium-weight rifle capable of extreme accuracy.

Following my customary diagnostic procedure, the action was precision bedded into a Bell and Carlson Medalist varmint weight stock without floor plate, but a magazine cutout did exist. A bedding pillar/loading ramp was bonded to the magazine cutout as an integral unit replete with central action screw. Sighting equipment left nothing to guess work with a Talley Picatinny mounting system and a well-proven 32X target scope. There were no compromises.

From the outset, including the bore break-in, the rifle displayed ordinarily fine accuracy with a…

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Here’s how the Model 700 Remington rifle, converted to single shot with a special loading ramp and serving as a dual-purpose bedding pillar with added central action screw, shoots with the best of them.

by Norman E. Johnson
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