I picked this up at the local shop this morning. Decent enough deal, but I have some work to do.



Weaver K10-1 and a 26" aftermarket varmint profile barrel marked "257 Rem Imp" and a name. Any ideas who this is?


Took it to the range on the way home with a box of Hornadys. It was cold and raining sideways; wasn't very impressed with my 2" 5-shot group. One failed to fire and extraction was funny (they came halfway out and stopped--uh oh). But I was gratified to see that 40degree shoulder come out of the chamber; I had bought it at the risk that it was the 28degree flavor which is impossible to find dies for and got a decent discount on that argument.

I think I figured out the fail to fire and extraction problem; two chips were broken off of the underside of the extractor and were jammed up under the claw. The ball was MIA (though I found it in the mag well later). I think the chips caused the ctg to go farther into the chamber than you'd normally get feeding Roberts into AI--the shoulder of that one round is noticeably crunched.

There was a modest amount of pitting under the wood, but no biggie. The bedding, IMO, is a trainwreck. Souring Acra-glass applied in some obsolete manner--full barrel channel bedding, a dab between the mag well and the trigger, and some at the tang. Virtually zero contact anywhere at the receiver ring.

My plan is to bed the lug area and the area between the trigger and magazine. There's not really anything to do between them on this stock, so I'm leaving the area between as-is.


So I've got this going on on the other side. I'm thinking of doing pillars. The front one seems easy; bed it and file te pillar flush with the wood. Not sure about the back one since I won't be able to get at it with a file, and I'm not confident that I can get it to the correct length, compress epoxy, and have everything work out right. Thoughts?

I'm half tempted just to bed the top and leave the pillars out of the equation.

The wood has some honest wear; a couple dents, some chipped varnish, etc. I may strip it, lift dents, sand lightly, and refinish with oil before I get into bedding. But I'm not sure if I can wait that long. I guess going in plan is to bed the top and see if it shoots. If that works out, maybe then do the stock up pretty, excavate some bedding, do the pillars, and skim.


Finally, any ideas on how to get out the half acre of Acra-glass that's in the barrel channel?