Accurate Rifles and Restorations is a niche family enterprise established in 2023 by Geoff and Crystal Montgomery. We are passionate about the art of custom riflesmithing and restoration, offering a comprehensive range of services to cater to the unique needs of our clients. With our expertise and attention to detail, we strive to deliver exceptional craftsmanship and exceed expectations.
Cool thing about the 1903 is that it was designed to single feed without using the magazine, so there is no potential of breaking the extractor like you would on Mausers
The music in the back ground sucks. Also your gluing materal without any doubt should have been green locktite. It is the choice of most machining projects that forever bonded in the name of the game.again Green loctite
So, as someone who's done sleeves on engines, I'm curious if that liner is supposed to be that easy to push through? How do you fix it to the barrel? Locktite?
Been watching your videos for a long time. Since Wyoming gun club…think that’s the other channel. Always thought you do stellar work, and care about the fit/finish of the product. Rarity with mostly anyone that works on anything.
Wow, thank you very much! Yes, the old place of employment was called Wyoming Gun Company and I have since moved on from there (on good terms!), opening our own shop and now have our own channel here. Your comment means a lot to us in our new endeavor, thanks for watching!!
Run away?? Come on.... Simple. replacement resolves any issue you have with the J lock. If i had run away inwouldnt own 2.of the best rem 7s i own a SS 7SAUM and a 300SAUM. Both rifles are sub 1/2 "...jees
The high end packaging is a big turn off for me. I would rather a company theow it in a cheap box with some packing peanuts and sell me the parts for $20 less.
I think you did a good job talking to a camera it can't be easy to talk to a camera like you would a person face to face and good information in the video thanks for doing it
now, imagine this being made on steam powered lathes and mills, with overhead belting coming down vertically, and with hand forged lathe/mill tools and bits. They were just better, smarter people ;o)
In Sheridan, Wyoming. These are actually made here in the USA, according to Weatherby. Not a Howa, does not have import engraving like the old Vanguards, etc. Nice to see!
from my experience as a machinist and building rifles, with the way you are holding the barrel, you are not aligning anything. you are just flexing the barrel. once you loosen up the jaws and that fixture on the outboard side of your headstock, everything is gonna go back to its original position and be misaligned. check out nathan dagley at straight shot gunsmithing.
Watch part 3. Proving it at 1000 yards should clear up any doubt. 6-ish inch group at 1K yards with genuine reactions from the actual customer isn't too shabby... Even though not every second of the operation was shown, please do not assume things were not done properly. There are many ways to "skin a cat" so to speak...A good lathe with a dual 4-jaw chuck can and will align a cylinder with a hole in the middle to within a couple tenths, as proven many times in our video library. Geoff has trained and apprenticed with the best in the business (Gordy Gritters, Greg Tannel, etc.), a CST graduate, and a former CST instructor, has over a decade of experience, has done hundreds of rifle builds, and knows his craft inside and out. Each job is unique and the customer chooses which path to take in the overall process. SSG seems to have a very good contraption for holding and aligning barrels, but it's not the end all way. Our rifles shoot 3/8 MOA or better consistently. Mister Dagley does not respond to questions that we have asked (we wanted to purchase his system, but unfortunately he seems to ignore all emails, phone calls, etc.), so we use what we have. We do appreciate you watching the videos and engaging the channel.
you've only shown that the barrel was dialed in while the barrel was flexed, and like I said, when the jaws are loosened, it goes back to its original shape. Nathan dagleys TBAS is the only way to prevent this. if you truly understood alignment you would know this. gordy gritters, greg tannel, and the like have only made do with what they had. That doesnt mean the explanation above doesn't happen. If anything, the results on target shows that gunsmiths don't have as big of an effect on accuracy as they think they do. with two indicators, some trigonometry, and an understanding of alignment, what is going on with these old school methods can be shown.
It didn't go all the way through (I do point that out early on in the video). May have been a CNC robot error, or intentional. I don't know. I was contracted to do the machine work and was not present for scope base mounting, so I cannot comment on if it was an issue or not.
Awesome video and details always love your long videos 😁 I see in wrote in that sheet the minor diameter is 0.785, isn't that small for the 1 1/6 -16 thread size? Thanks again mate
I think Whitetail was the one that made the rifling gauge and they sold out to Horny, Whitetail made good small tools for Benchrest Guys, I had the Whitetail before the Horny came out something of that nature I can't remeber
Performed a very similar development except with a Bartlein M24 contour barrel and a Palma barrel, defiance Anti-X action with an AG composite stock. When I do my part I have no problem consistently scoring in the 190s at 600. I believe you can get 3000fps with the right brass powder bullet combination with the shorter barrels too
I saw a video once from a well known bench rest shooter that said you should fireform the case to the chamber then knock the shoulder of the case back a couple of thousands and then make the gauge. I realize you cant do that in this case, just thought I would pass it along
That's correct and preferrable. However, in this case (as you know), it was simply a way to check and verify the depth of cut as Geoff pushed the throat back. For an OAL gauge for bullet seating depth, one would fireform as you say so it's a perfect match to the chamber avoiding any false readings. Thanks for watching and engaging the channel!!
I enjoy your videos, but i think you overestimate the entertainment value of bore scope shots. 30 seconds would have been more than adequate, 5 min of looking at rusty crap is unwatchable.
@@stevenicholas5651 the rifle is getting better the more I shoot. I'm putting down 6 inch groups at 800 yards in REAL world conditions, wind changes, heat changes during the sessions... from the ground resting on a pack...my velocities have standardized so I'm getting 20 fps spreads, 10 up 10 down from average. I did end up putting a Hypertap slim stainless brake on the rifle... recoil is comparable to a 308. Insane rifle . THANKS again! with any luck it will be the tool for taking a bull in November, a mulie buck in mid November and a white tail buck late November!
Thanks for chiming in, ST! Very pleased to hear the rifle is performing well and that you are happy with our work!! Can't wait to see what you harvest this coming season!! All the best and tell all your buddies about us!😁👌🫂
Anither nice build Geoff. A term i have always heard is inherently accurate in reference to cartridges, i believe they meant "consistency" (size of the group) accuracy is more hitting what you are aiming at. So, any cartridge with good brass, good primers, powder and bullets should be consistent. Put that in a high end barrel, action and stock, with a fine trigger and you get performance. Geoff you build performance oriented rifles. Nice job!
This is My rifle! it is wild... velocities I am seeing with a 165 grn accubond are averaging 3280fps with ZERO pressure signs! and it is silly accurate!!! fantastic build! If you want 300 hh have him build it, it will become your favorite.... I will post more here later....
I gave the thumbs up and having taken three summers on precision rifle buiding and action blueprinting at TSJC and another summer session at Lassen College ( not in that order) your technique is solid and produces results. We know nothing about the owner/shooter behind your build but i can say for the average shooter/hunter his one three shot group is impressive. Most people think because of equipment anyone can accomplish that. And although one three shot group does not by any means tell the "real" consistency of the rifle it does speak of its possible potential. In a hunting configuration it would run with any of the 4.5 to 6.0k "factory" customs with maybe the exception of one manufacturer in Boise. Kudos to you Geoff.
Went to Trinidad for almost four years, two year course. Took every extra class I could. Even summer school. Learned a lot. Miss being close to the Whittington center
Geoff, follow up on a question I had on part 1 of the series: How, after adding the sleeve to the bolt, did you eliminate the bolt handle resistance on the down stroke to allow for setting shoulder bump on fired cases when resizing brass? In part one there was definitive resistance due to the addition of the sleeve. Your response to me was it would be resolved in the barreling and chambering in part 2. I must of missed something because the bolt dropped with zero resistance in this video. Question 2: Using the "scotch tape" method no-go, what do you think your final headspace is allowing for "crush" and what fpt are you using to tighten action to barrel? Assuming, from barrel contour, this looks to be a hunting profile barrel. If "crush" is .001" to .0015", head space would be worrisome for any type of debris ending up in the chamber shoulder area and rendering the rifle inoperable. What's you opinion on this?
Hey John! I really appreciate you watching the videos and engaging the channel as you have. The bolt did drop freely around the 58 minute mark in part 1. After lapping the lugs and all the playing around with it, it definitely had no resistance. I hope that makes sense... 2: Yes, I chamber headspace on the "tight" side and have never heard back from a customer complaining about inoperable rifles due to debris. I work with a lot of hunters and out here the dust blows a lot! Never had an issue... I suppose it's possible, but so far so good! It's a discussion we have before the work begins and if the customer wants a "looser" headspace (within safe limitations of course), we can do that too! Thanks again and take care!
I've heard that from just one other builder who said he could not get repeatability from them. I believe it was Gordy who told me that. He had returned to using the "gauge" rod for preliminary indication and then direct to the bore except for the really long cartridges, then he uses the "gauge" rod all the way. I've only used the "range" rod on one occasion and did my own testing by placing it in the bore, indicating the barrel co-axially, then removing it and rotating it 90 degree and indicating again. Doing that four times I got a total of .0002" variance. That could be from the piloted bushing play between the reamer bushing pin/shaft and the internal diameter of the bushing. What has been your experience to speak so negatively regarding the range rods?
@@johnseptien3138 I could never get them to repeat after removing them and putting them back in the bore. Also reaching up where the throat will be with a indicator the barrels just where not dialed in that true. I’ve used the gordy rod as there called for ruff dialing and they can work pretty good. I still prefer to dial off the grooves and I also don’t use a pilot on my reamer. The reamer will follow the true hole I’ve bored that will be concentric with the throat.
