American Gunsmith

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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A double trigger shotgun can be converted into a single trigger even at a small shop. Here’s how it’s done.

by Sergey Lyalko
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Rechambering a Model 700 Remington action from .222 Remington to .224 Valkyrie entails going to a shorter and larger diameter cartridge. We’ll accomplish this by enlarging the chamber and utilizing the existing barrel threads while not giving up much barrel length in the process.

by Norman E. Johnson
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