Got My .442 McRem Back

[Dave W]

Myers on the board is doing work on mls now and I liked what he did with Ramblers SMI plug, so I asked him to do one for me. The .442 needed a bedding and pillar job so I got him to do it also.

I had inletted the stock and it needed some touching up to even it out a little better but I never got around to it. I would rather be pulling the trigger than working on a gun, so he cleaned up my work while he had it and painted the barrel channel. I bedded the scope base but it came loose and he rectified that also. He also put some foam in the mag compartment to hold primers. Here are some pics.























Here are the groups with the 11/59 duplex I shot with this gun with the old LRT laminated stock back in November of last year before it cracked.

And with the B&C this spring.


Cole, I don't know if I can make your work look as good on paper as the gun does, may take a better trigger puller than me, but I will give it a shot at the end of the month.
Feel free to point out anything I may have left out.

I am no expert on this gunsmithing stuff but I think it looks excellent and the turnaround was very quick-2 weeks. Money well spent. IMO

[Deleted]

Looks really nice. Great job Cole.
Thanks for making my job harder now....he will be really hard to beat...

[Deleted]

Man that looks nice and a 200 yard group under .5 moa that is incredible! Is that with the unreliable savage 209 system?

[Dave W]

Nov 4, 2014 18:23:09 GMT -5 @78riverrat said:

Man that looks nice and a 200 yard group under .5 moa that is incredible! Is that with the unreliable savage 209 system?

You know it!.

[Deleted]

Nice gun Dave...And a bughole shooter to boot...Great work Myers
Zen

[rambler]

I'm waiting on another breech plug creation from myers129 as well...if you guys would stop interrupting his work maybe I'd get it

He does do good work. The plug Dave W is talking about really brought out the potential in my gun. The original SMI plug would bulge and actually blow up primers with powder loads over 60GR of IMR4198 as the primer hole did not totally enclose the primer.

With the new plug, which is a Savage style and encompasses the entire primer, I can use 70GR of 4198 with a 275BE and 300BE. It kicks like a mother tho. Now I got a FF die on the way from Swinglock so it's back to the drawing board again. I believe I may be able hit something out to 400 meters but time will tell on that.

[lakeplainshunter]

Very nice work. It looks like I might have found someone new to help me modify these guns.

[Deleted]

Shazam!!
That's a great looking gun, and a shooter too!

[Deleted]

Looks good Dave and Cole ...Nice shooting...What Bullet.? I'm guess MH but what gn..?

[Dave W]

Nov 4, 2014 19:54:31 GMT -5 @sml said:

Looks good Dave and Cole ...Nice shooting...What Bullet.? I'm guess MH but what gn..?

275 BE-old style

Thanks guys!

[Richard]

That will definitely be the stock for my next build!................8 at 200 is .4 at 100...........Nice.!

[Deleted]

That was the first thing I told Dave also! Love that stock and have several but the color Dave has is a favorite, like it a lot better than my tan. Thanks for letting me do the work Dave!

Some pics I took during destruction

Hogged out, Dave's B&C had a big air void under the ejection port, thank God I didn't break into the outer surface! Full of devcon now.







My 8' milling table, not everyone can have a setup this nice!




A new (to me) and hopefully better way to open up for bedding, especially on these aluminum block stocks.

[Deleted]

Nov 4, 2014 21:30:25 GMT -5 @myers129 said:

That was the first thing I told Dave also! Love that stock and have several but the color Dave has is a favorite, like it a lot better than my tan. Thanks for letting me do the work Dave!

Your work has just begun!

[Deleted]

Looking good!! What's that hog weigh in at?

[rambler]

Is that a Husky I see in the back ground? tsk tsk tsk lol

[cowhunter]

I thought I saw a body hanging in the reflection of that expensive machine. But I don't care who is hanging in that nice shop when you do that kind of work. I've been watching old True Detective episodes.

[rambler]

I've been salivating over the finish on that concrete floor. Must be nice!!

[Deleted]

Nov 5, 2014 7:24:20 GMT -5 rambler said:

Is that a Husky I see in the back ground? tsk tsk tsk lol

Stihl 025 had a 36" husky for a short while. Beast!!

[rambler]

oh, looks like a husky case. Sorry I've got the 025 and 026......phenom's

[Dave W]

Nov 4, 2014 23:23:35 GMT -5 @45omega said:

Looking good!! What's that hog weigh in at?

Approx. 11-12 lbs.

Cole, you might want to check into Rogaine for that hair loss problem.

Thanks for the work you did, very well done and I am extremely pleased. May send you another project next spring.

[Deleted]

How much dog hair did I leave you!! I hope it was just stuck to that tape on the outside of your case. Guy had a heck of a time even getting inside to see his rifle.

[deadeye]

davew-great to see that back in action! that action looks famaliar now go out & give that short barrel a lesson!

[Deleted]

Nov 5, 2014 13:47:15 GMT -5 deadeye said:

davew-great to see that back in action! that action looks famaliar now go out & give that short barrel a lesson!

Haha......It's on now....we both have 3 sml's each, to battle with...

[Dave W]

Nov 5, 2014 13:46:14 GMT -5 @myers129 said:

How much dog hair did I leave you!! I hope it was just stuck to that tape on the outside of your case. Guy had a heck of a time even getting inside to see his rifle.

I left the one on the barrel in the first pic on purpose. There were only a couple more but I exagerrated a little.
Payback for that pic of my gun tore down with the hammer and pliers close by. Pretty confident you were coerced by some wiseguy.

Thanks again for the donor Deadeye.

[Deleted]

<------------Totally innocent on all accounts!!!

[Deleted]

Dave, got them bullets sized and them duplex's ready? We need to go shoot one day next week. We got some proof testing to do for Mr. Myers......

[dannoboone]

Great looking setup, Dave. Happy to see that I'm not
the only one who will still use an Elite.

Great looking everything, Cole. Got a feeling that
I'd better make up my mind about that possible
barrel rework job......you ARE about to get real
busy!!

[Dave W]

Not my favorite scope for paper but it is a nice hunting scope.

[Deleted]

It might be better now that I cleaned the lens for ya, ya filthy animal!

[Dave W]

Took several years to buld that gunk up I will have you know