SGW Gunsmith
Blackhawk
After deer season and the Christmas holidays have departed, I try to find some time to get a few of my ideas for personal firearms accomplished. I've had an itch to assemble a 100 yard 10/22 bench gun with all the pertinent components that I wanted to incorporate into this project. It's now done, but the temperatures and "white stuff" that's piled up and around my bench have not cooperated to make shooting comfortable. Yup!, I know a bolt gun will be a much better platform, but once my shooting partner and I get our antelope in October, we do several days of Wyoming prairie dog shooting, prone, using bi-pods, so the massacre can be fast and furious quite often. Here's a quote from another post that I found very interesting:
Quote: "If you do mostly bench or position shooting the comb is to high."
Well, here's a picture of my current 10/22 project and the comb is just perfect for bench shooting. My shooting bench has been built so it's rock-steady solid. The rifle rest I use to rest the forearm in is at the best height for me and the comb to optic position when I have my cheek pressed into the roll-over comb.
This project involves a KIDD barrel, bolt and two-stage trigger. The barrel is a heavy weight target grade barrel. Because of the barrel weight, some folks recommend that a "support tang" be added to the rear of the factory receiver to provide more stability to the action. I have not done that yet to this rifle and want to see how it shoots without the tang, only so I have the experience gained to speak about. If/when the time comes when I want to add that support tang, I have the set-up to get that done.
A place for the tang is milled into the rear face of the receiver and then, after the tang is mounted to the receiver, a round threaded cylinder is inlet into the stock and "steel powder" bedded and used for the anchor point.
Quote: "If you do mostly bench or position shooting the comb is to high."
Well, here's a picture of my current 10/22 project and the comb is just perfect for bench shooting. My shooting bench has been built so it's rock-steady solid. The rifle rest I use to rest the forearm in is at the best height for me and the comb to optic position when I have my cheek pressed into the roll-over comb.
This project involves a KIDD barrel, bolt and two-stage trigger. The barrel is a heavy weight target grade barrel. Because of the barrel weight, some folks recommend that a "support tang" be added to the rear of the factory receiver to provide more stability to the action. I have not done that yet to this rifle and want to see how it shoots without the tang, only so I have the experience gained to speak about. If/when the time comes when I want to add that support tang, I have the set-up to get that done.
A place for the tang is milled into the rear face of the receiver and then, after the tang is mounted to the receiver, a round threaded cylinder is inlet into the stock and "steel powder" bedded and used for the anchor point.