graycrait

Thought I would "squeeze" a little more accuracy out of the Remington 581.

Having been to both armorer courses, M&P and Glock, as well as having worked on many of my own of each make, as well as other friends' M&Ps and Glocks, the Glock is easier to take down to the last part.  No roll pins to punch out in the Glock like there are in the M&P and the sear spring and plunger is more fiddley in the M&P. But heck some iconic handguns can be great guns and be a bit fiddley like the K-frame S&W, Browning High Power and CZ 75.   If I had to reach for either a M&P or Glock to save my bacon I would reach for whichever one was closer.

If you have access to a soda blaster and a compressor that can keep a steady 90psi it will take, no time to speak of, no damage to the gun or the environment.  I have a crappy compressor and the $25 soda blaster from Harbor Freight and a big bag of soda.  It comes in handy from time to time.  With my compressor I can go in spurts and it works fine for handguns, receivers and barrels, but takes a longer and wastes more soda.  I like the soda blaster better than solvents.

P.S. According to a post he made on Rimfire Central Fred Feddersen is going to test 10 1022 barrels after nitridiing and may offer it as an option. http://www.fjfeddersen.com/about   As many know Feddersen barrels are made in Loudon, TN.

Because I am primarily concerned with .22LR I am more interested in the"lower friction" aspect of the process, and its permanency.  Corrosion resistance is a plus too, extending the life of a .22 rifle barrel might be "gilding the lilly," but for centerfire I think it would a good addition for a barrel that will see much use.   Right in TN http://www.trutecind.com/trutecind/plant_tenn.aspx   http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/...-is-impressed/   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiegZ...layer_embedded

MKII http://www.1bad69.com/ruger/field_strip.htm   http://www.1bad69.com/ruger/field_strip_quick.htm   MKIII http://www.guntalk-online.com/fsprocedures.htm

ferritic nitrocarburizing: Tenifer, Isonite, Melonite, etc.   Does anyone have any experience with having a .22LR barrel having this treatment done?  Positive or negative comments?  Who did it and how much did it cost?  I see there is an outfit in Sevierville doing this: http://www.trutecind.com/trutecind/isonite.aspx  but it looks like they probably don't do one off barrels shlepped in by some nimrod (me).

I am not a slow fire 50M bullseye shooter, but I slept in a Holiday Inn Express and know several, "Hey!" not in the "Biblical way."  A young friend of mine, while at the Trinidad gun smith school, had the opportunity to shoot a recrowned and tuned trigger MKIII against a HS Super Matic Citation and a S&W 41 with 4 other shooters.  The consensus was that the MKIII could hang with these two acknowledged successful US made target pistols if it had a good trigger. The MKIII was recrowned as some hapless owner had dropped it barrel first onto the sidewalk.       I realise that the Ruger MK series is not a "free" pistol, or can keep up with FWB, Pardini, Benelli or Hammerlis.  But in most of our hands, properly triggered and with the right sight/optic, the MK series, for 99% of us can't keep up with the Ruger MK series in terms of mechanical accuracy.   The stock trigger/sear has to go though INMHO.

Posted 30 May 2013 - 06:32 AM I've ripped the mag disconnects out of a dozens of MKIIIs and replaced them with standard MKII bushings or this guys machined product.  I took the LCI out of several also.  I used this guy's product to fill the gap where the LCI went in mine.  I just don't like all the gunk that accumulates around the LCI.  If you replace replace the sear and trigger with VQ parts you will drop your trigger pull to a clean 2.75lbs.   This part more accurately replaces the space of the mag disconnect in MKIIIs  http://www.tandemkro...ushing_p_9.html   LCI replacement http://www.tandemkro...nsert_p_16.html   http://www.tandemkro...Combo_p_34.html   These are nice replacement parts also:   Volquartsen triggers (adjusts for over and pretravel) http://www.rimfiresp...tegory_Code=VC2   http://www.rimfiresp...tegory_Code=VC2   MKII bushing to be used in place of the MKIII mag disconnect apparatus:  http://www.rimfiresp...tegory_Code=VC2     Volquartsen sear will do amazing things for your trigger pull http://www.rimfiresp...tegory_Code=VC2

I am done fiddling on gross parts. I may tweak the triggers, bedding, and maybe get a couple of barrels rechambered, or if I fall into another stock and receiver I could put one more together with spare parts. However, these 5 are it for the foreseeable future. From top to bottom: 1) Barrel: 29" Bentz chambered Urban Rifle Supply standard taper; Stock: Archangel target; Scope: Swift 6-18AO Mildot; Bolt stock 2) Barrel: 29" Bentz chambered Green Mountain standard taper; Stock: Archangel target; Scope: Tasco Varmint 6-24AO Mildot; Bolt stock 3) Barrel: 24" Green Mountain Running Boar; Stock: OEM carbine stock cut and painted; Optic: C-More red dot; Bolt stock 4) Barrel: Green Mountain varmint taper rechambered and crowned; Stock: OEM DSP modified; Scope: Mueller 4.5-14AO duplex; Bolt refaced, headspaced and firing pin pinned 5) Barrel: OEM Ruger 16" threaded rechambered and crowned by Que; Stock is OEM modified birch stock; Scope is Simmons .22Mag 3-9AO duplex; bolt refaced, headspaced and firing pin pinned. The top 3 are currently play rifles with trigger varying from 2lbs to 3.5lbs. The bottom two have triggers in the sub 3lb category. No. 4 is a verifiable sub MOA .22 (groups less than an inch at 100 yards). No 5 probably will be capable of that but remains to be verified.

Fellas on rimfire central say you can find paper that works pretty good at office supply stores as long as it is 40-65lbs Vellum marked "short fiber."  Some other guys say card stock at 110lbs is good.  I'm looking for cheap.

I have a few 10m air rifle targets a guy gaveme  that were made in germany.  When you shoot them with a .22lr it leaves a hole like you used a paper punch. I would like to find some relatively inexpensive short fiber paper that acts the same as the paper these german targets are made on.  Anyone have any idea where to get that kind of paper in some quantity?  8.5" x 11" is preferred, very cheap would be very good. 

LOL.

Here is the current crop and I am trading for another 1022.   http://i862.photobucket.com/albums/ab181/graycrait/41022s_zps5bcf6843.jpg

That thing screams Graycrait!  Trouble is that isn't a Glock!

Just got a couple of OEM stocks redone to accomodate 2 rechambered and recrowned threaded OEM barrels. One threaded by Ruger one threaded locally. Both triggers break at about 2lbs, one is a Kidd, one I did. Both bolts are tuned too. I call them Blondie and Dagwood. I hope they both can beat MOA at 100 yards, which should be good for such light semi auto rifles.

If had kept all the guns I sold this winter I would have enough trade fodder to keep trading guns for a couple of years.  However, that money went to bills and some other hobbies.  Now I am hamstrung with only a couple of trade guns.  That is good because there isn't anything new that I want to shoot that I haven't already committed to.   The only gun things I want right now are a good adjustable bench rest front rest, more decent standard velocity ammo and a slow scope upgrade.

OP, I just traded a Sig 220 SAO .22Lr  with threaded and standard barrels for the most Accurate 1022 I have personally handled.  I also traded a SA/DA 220 .22lr, but for what I can't quite recall, oh yeah, another cool 1022:)     Anyway if I were going to get a Sig .22LR I would try and get a 220 SAO .22LR and try and get a threaded barrel with it, the threaded barrels are something like 235.00 by themselves.   Put a .45 X-change kit on that SAO 220 and you will be shooting circles around most 1911 .45ACP fanboys.

600 for a  19?  Does that come with 5 or 6 mags?  Holy crap, I guess Newtown has really skewed the market. I better walk in a gun shop again. I had no idea that a G3 19 was worth more than any NIB LEO/MIL sale 19.Poor bastids who can't qualify for LEO/MIL discount and feel they must pay 6 bills for a gun that in real terms is worth little more than, well, let the buyer beward!  

I have had two, trying to like them.  Had both completely dis and reassembled and tried to fix/tune them according to RFC's noted expert :"Mississippi Dave."  They are in my mind a steaming pile of dog crap.  Buying a Jennings or Phoenix, especially a Phoneix, is money better spent.  The trigger system is pure junk and they have proportionally as much pot metal as a good working Hi Point.  If somone were to give me one I would refuse it, regardless the resale value.  I actually HATE everything about the Mosquito except the grip ergonomics.  Sig shoujld be ashamed of themselves for allowing their name to be used on that gun.

Hmmmmm...you're right.  But this one isn't moving cause I know it is accurate, reliable and carefully made up by a friend of mine.

HiPower,   This one is staying.  Up to this 1022 I have 6 firearms that won't leave, now I have 7, probably 3 or 4 more.   I have an Anschutz I got from a fellow TGOr that appears to be a shooter, as well as a couple 2 or 3 1022 projects that are coming along.     Craig

Dolomite knows 1022s as well as anyone and has provided me a "tuned" bolt in the past for one of my projects.  Mike243, by all expert accounts the Ruger hammer forged T barrel is a great barrel with a mediocre chamber and crown.  When properly chambered and crowned with ammo it likes the experts say it will shoot right with a Lilja target barrel as along as trigger/stock/bedding/bolt vagaries are taken out of the equation.  I have a T that I got from another TGOr and when I can I am going to send its bolt and barrel off to be "tuned."  In the meantime, also considering the .22LR ammo shortage, especially limiting choices in types of ammo, I plan on shooting the T alongside this Super Stock 1022 to see if I really need to send the barrel and bolt off.  My shooting skills may not be up to either rifle's mechanical potential as is.  But then I will know.  Maybe I am just as well off with one of those bent barrel gallery guns we used to try to win stuffed animals at the carnival - those days are long gone, .22 rifles at the carnival. 

I would be hard pressed to remember how many 1022s I have had.  I know I gave away 4, sold a couple and traded 2 or 3 others.  I think I have 5 right now.  I used to have a pile of various .22 rifles but I only have 6 now.  

Oh Shoot, in the world of 1022 bolts "blueprinting" isn't quite the same as what is shown on the link.  Head space is tightened up, front of the bolt is squared up, firing pin is pinned so that it does not wander up and down like in stock 1022 bolts and the rear of the bolt is radiused for ease of hammer cocking when using subsonic ammo.  Anyone with the right tools can do it but there are only 3 or 4 guys in the country who do it well as a commerical enterprise.