Rockrivr1
NES Member
I'm thinking everyone has "that" gun in their collection. One that you vowed to fix, clean up, get working properly, etc. and for whatever reason it's just not happening and your tired of trying. So the gun sits in the back of the safe with a vague thought that you'll get to it sometime down the road when you have some spare time. If so, what gun is it and what's problem.
For me it's a Chinese T53 (Mosin M44 Clone) in a Archangel stock. The T53 was a wreak when I got it. The outside appearance was, well, it looked like it went through hell and back. The stock was a complete loss and the metal was in dire need of some TLC. The only good things were that the rifling was good and the bolt/trigger functioned properly. So I purchased an Archangel stock for it, sanded down the metal and refinished it with Brownell's DuraHyde. It came out looking very good.
It still had a big problem though. I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with it. I was shooting at a target at 50 yards, then to 25 yards and I was barely hitting the cardboard that held the target. Also the round hits were not repeatable as they spread all over the place. After several tweaks and range trips I gave up and into the safe it went. That was last year. So yesterday comes around and it's beautiful out so I make a pac with myself that I was going to fix that damn rifle or I was going to smash it. So off to the range yesterday I went armed with a number of tweaks and fixes I pulled from the internet.
After 2 plus hours, and many rounds, my shoulder was starting to get sore and I was in no better luck. The last thing to try was installing a weird little buffer in the stock that supports the rifle bbl. The buffer ha a screw you can tighten or loosen it necessary, which changes the pressure the buffer has on the bbl. Everything I had read indicated you didn't need it with the Mosin and installing it would cause accuracy problems. So as a last and final attempt I ignored that information, from the Archangel folks no less, and installed it.
After I installed it accuracy improved a little, but not a lot. Over the next hour I tweaked the tightness and to my amazement I tightened up the groups considerably. At the end I hit a water bottle at 100 yards!! Some locktight and a few more shots proved I was dialed in. It's not a MOA type rifle but it's what I would call Accuracy of Man, which is probably the best I can hope for. At least now I'm happy with it.
That is until the next project gun comes around.........
For me it's a Chinese T53 (Mosin M44 Clone) in a Archangel stock. The T53 was a wreak when I got it. The outside appearance was, well, it looked like it went through hell and back. The stock was a complete loss and the metal was in dire need of some TLC. The only good things were that the rifling was good and the bolt/trigger functioned properly. So I purchased an Archangel stock for it, sanded down the metal and refinished it with Brownell's DuraHyde. It came out looking very good.
It still had a big problem though. I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with it. I was shooting at a target at 50 yards, then to 25 yards and I was barely hitting the cardboard that held the target. Also the round hits were not repeatable as they spread all over the place. After several tweaks and range trips I gave up and into the safe it went. That was last year. So yesterday comes around and it's beautiful out so I make a pac with myself that I was going to fix that damn rifle or I was going to smash it. So off to the range yesterday I went armed with a number of tweaks and fixes I pulled from the internet.
After 2 plus hours, and many rounds, my shoulder was starting to get sore and I was in no better luck. The last thing to try was installing a weird little buffer in the stock that supports the rifle bbl. The buffer ha a screw you can tighten or loosen it necessary, which changes the pressure the buffer has on the bbl. Everything I had read indicated you didn't need it with the Mosin and installing it would cause accuracy problems. So as a last and final attempt I ignored that information, from the Archangel folks no less, and installed it.
After I installed it accuracy improved a little, but not a lot. Over the next hour I tweaked the tightness and to my amazement I tightened up the groups considerably. At the end I hit a water bottle at 100 yards!! Some locktight and a few more shots proved I was dialed in. It's not a MOA type rifle but it's what I would call Accuracy of Man, which is probably the best I can hope for. At least now I'm happy with it.
That is until the next project gun comes around.........
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