Brady Miller's Rifle Build - Part 3 Scope Mounting / Bedding / Trigger / Arca Rail 

Thank you, that means a lot! This is Brady responding back to you.

Yes sir. I changed up the scopes on all my rifles and put a new one on my magnum. They were all different. The turret caps are waaay off on some scopes. My old Nikon pro staff 5 was the closest. Bottom of scope and then use the corner of a wall or hang a string to double check it. Also having a rifle that you can get the level in the action. Leveling the pic rail isn’t always accurate

Thanks for watching! I enjoy setting up rifles a lot.

@@brady_j_miller it’s fun to do 👊🏻

Happy to help! So if you use a Browning rifle stock, you will have to drill out and install claw nuts to put the SRS rail on. Browning's stocks have some cross bracing material in them, and that is what you need to work around (you can use some of the original holes Browing has in their stocks, but sometimes I just remove them and install claw nuts in those areas). I use the supplied claw nuts from SRS. It's honestly not that hard of a process. So what I do is mock where I need to drill, and then I take a soldering iron (or sometimes different bits) to cut/melt out the area where I want to put the claw nuts. I've found that the soldering iron works really well to remove the braces inside the stock. Then I will continue to cut away material and test the fit. You might find a drill bit can be handy sometimes as well. When I know I have the placement perfect, I will use JB Weld around the base of the claw nut and sort of make a home for the nut inside the stock. I use a release agent on the screws, and then I will tighten down the screws to the claw nut through the stock and let it dry for 48 hours at least. If I'm using a McMillan stock, I do the same process, but I use a Forester bit and still JB Weld the claw nuts down. Hope that helps, let me know if you have any other questions.

@@brady_j_miller thanks for the reply/ help!

Glad you saw some value in it. I level off the top rings, then I also double check the level off the top of the picatinny rail as well to get the left to right dialed. I do have another level that I use from time to time in my action that will help with the left and right, but I'm not 100% confident in that level, so I've found using the rings and the picatinny rail to be best. Really no particular reason for the difference in JB weld besides for the cure time. I do believe the tensile strength is stronger with the original JB weld and in my head, it seems that area might benefit more from the original. I haven't tested using JB kwik on the picatinny rail, but I believe it would definitely work.

We are sorry for the delay. We experimented with a little different format and had some audio issues that the team worked a bit on to correct. So, we will be releasing that episode tomorrow.

Sorry for the late reply. Brady here responding to you. I use this off barrel chronograph mount: grayopscnc.com/products/magento-speed-v3-mount

Happy to help you out with this. The video starts with a picatinny rail on the rifle, but Brady changes that up and does install an arca rail and has to do some modifications to his stock which we show later in the video. At 20:04 you'll see Brady talking about adding his combo pic/arca rail. And then if you keep watching, we show a clip where Brady is in his garage adding that rail onto this rifle stock. Let us know if you have any questions. Always willing to help! Have a great day.

No not of the shelf, but you can get for about 3k by building it yourself. Action with pic rail made into action. Good rings and you don't have to bed scope rings. Prefit barrel, buy a trigger , stock of your choice. Better than anything you can buy in a traditional store

I know.. hilarious choice.

Why not? Xbolts are great especially for the price. Only other production rifle Id take is a Tikka/Sako