I haven’t posted here in a long while as life has a way of providing distractions, but here I am.
About 20 years ago I picked up a decent Remington 581 clip fed .22 rifle, yes I said CLIP fed! I’m using the same terminology Remington used to ID this rifle, so haters just hush up.
Well back to the tale; I was working night shift and had access to the company machine shop on my lunch breaks. I removed the stock barrel and purchased a 26 inch .22 sleeve from Numrich gun parts. I had a .84” blank that was going to be a new 30 caliber barrel for an old Mauser action but it didn’t happen. I drilled the blank and epoxied the new sleeve in it. I then shortened everything to 20” and fitted it to the 581 action. Now comes the sad part; I misplaced the bolt!! Fast forward to this week and lo and behold I find the bolt in the bottom of a box that had made the trip to our new home (15 years ago) and was stuck in the attic. Yesterday I finished assembling the rifle and topped it with a inexpensive BSA 6-24x50 scope. Later this afternoon I will finally hit the range bench with this project for a long awaited testing.
I’ll report back on the performance. Thanks for listening......Biganimal
About 20 years ago I picked up a decent Remington 581 clip fed .22 rifle, yes I said CLIP fed! I’m using the same terminology Remington used to ID this rifle, so haters just hush up.
Well back to the tale; I was working night shift and had access to the company machine shop on my lunch breaks. I removed the stock barrel and purchased a 26 inch .22 sleeve from Numrich gun parts. I had a .84” blank that was going to be a new 30 caliber barrel for an old Mauser action but it didn’t happen. I drilled the blank and epoxied the new sleeve in it. I then shortened everything to 20” and fitted it to the 581 action. Now comes the sad part; I misplaced the bolt!! Fast forward to this week and lo and behold I find the bolt in the bottom of a box that had made the trip to our new home (15 years ago) and was stuck in the attic. Yesterday I finished assembling the rifle and topped it with a inexpensive BSA 6-24x50 scope. Later this afternoon I will finally hit the range bench with this project for a long awaited testing.
I’ll report back on the performance. Thanks for listening......Biganimal