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That just keeps getting prettier and prettier. I like the look of the safety mod. Does it provide enough purchase for use on a field gun?
Thaine

Thanks. The safey has 40 lpi checkering. No problem using it in the field. We only rarely use the safety in benchrest.

I may round off the edges more this winter and re-blue it.

After shooting it for a couple of days, working on loads and practice, I cleaned the barrel and hand rubbed a coat of finish on it this morning. It's in the vise for a couple of days till it dries well. Match again next Saturday.

Comments re: the state of my workbench are not solocited.

This is the first target shot in a match with the Ruger. Shot on 10 June. Range was 100 yds. I started with the sighter bull on the bottom right. There's a sighter bull on each target and you can shoot any number of shots on it. (I always shoot at the sighter first.) The sighter score doesn't count, unfortunately in this case. Then I shot at the bull immediately above it at which time I decided that the gun would be O.K.

Had I not jerked the trigger on the bottom left bull this would have been a good target. Haven't shot a centerfire bench gun in a couple of years is my only excuse. The Kepplinger trigger is expensive and O.K. but it sure ain't the Jewell I am used to for benchrest. I'll get used to it. The other six shots would make for a pretty decent group. I shot the number three bull last and, when I saw the result, considered it a reward for an industrious and virtious life.

Ironically the load that works best so far is the old Remington benchrest bullets and a case full of IMR 4895.

Hey, that might work in a pinch.



Nice shooting

Well done, well done
What fun
and do you remember to pull the scope back before each shot??
I have never wanted to just trust the spring
Mike

Not so far. I check it once in a while and it's always right against the front ring. I had to put a little more tension on the spring before it returned as it should. I lube it occasionally.

So far shooting this thing has been fun. I, also, like just looking at it. This is the first gun I've stocked that turned out pretty much the way I wanted it.

The completed rifle. Since Photobucket is giving me a hard time I switched to Imgur.

I switched to Imgur also Dick. Photocrapbucket has given all users the same thing now. They want $400 a year now to host pictures that will be used elsewhere. Wish I could download all my PB pics, but no luck trying to do so yet.

Lovely wood on that rifle Dick, really sets it off.