Varminterror
Blackhawk
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- Feb 25, 2014
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I have yet to find a factory model that is exactly the way I want it.
Putting quotation marks around "Improvements" the way you have is really implying that you don't believe that factory firearms can be improved. I've owned over 300 firearms in the last 20yrs, and have yet to find a single one that didn't need SOME KIND of action work, refinement, etc to bring it up to my standards. I buy factory firearms with the intent of modifying them, as it's often cheaper to do that than buying custom actions and paying a smith to build them. Even on affordable rimfires rifles, adding a bedding job will almost always make MEASURABLE IMPROVEMENTS in accuracy.
Another "improvement" might be a duracoat/cerakoe/hydrographic finish job, transforming a black synthetic and blued rifle into a concealable game getter. There is no black in nature, and too many of these low quality "blued" finishes that are so common these days LOOK black, let alone the cheap tupperware black stocks they strap them into. Should an animal ever be able to spot your rifle before you ventilated it? Not really, but some times they have keener eyes than we do. I'm not a "camo gun" guy, but I'm much more into camo guns than black guns (referring only to finish, not to AR's).
The "wear it in" trigger job is a joke to me. Nothing but a great opportunity to ruin what could have been a good trigger by working it over itself with uneven sear engagement and rough mating surfaces. It'll slick up as one surface eats away the other, but it'll always feel "grittier" and have a rougher travel than a properly tuned trigger. A heavy spring will work in with a bit of use, but it's still a heavy spring. A 14lb mainspring will never become a 9lb mainspring, even if it might lighten up from a factory 16lb over strength to a regular 14lb.
And of course, there are those of us that want our guns to look as good as they shoot. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and you can't please everybody, but I don't think there's anything wrong with throwing some embellishment on a firearm that you're going to build memories with in the field.
If you don't want to modify your firearms or have them professionally modified, that's fine, they're your guns. But there's no real sense in diminishing the REAL advantage of action jobs and trigger jobs that other people want in their firearms just because they have different standards than you.
Putting quotation marks around "Improvements" the way you have is really implying that you don't believe that factory firearms can be improved. I've owned over 300 firearms in the last 20yrs, and have yet to find a single one that didn't need SOME KIND of action work, refinement, etc to bring it up to my standards. I buy factory firearms with the intent of modifying them, as it's often cheaper to do that than buying custom actions and paying a smith to build them. Even on affordable rimfires rifles, adding a bedding job will almost always make MEASURABLE IMPROVEMENTS in accuracy.
Another "improvement" might be a duracoat/cerakoe/hydrographic finish job, transforming a black synthetic and blued rifle into a concealable game getter. There is no black in nature, and too many of these low quality "blued" finishes that are so common these days LOOK black, let alone the cheap tupperware black stocks they strap them into. Should an animal ever be able to spot your rifle before you ventilated it? Not really, but some times they have keener eyes than we do. I'm not a "camo gun" guy, but I'm much more into camo guns than black guns (referring only to finish, not to AR's).
The "wear it in" trigger job is a joke to me. Nothing but a great opportunity to ruin what could have been a good trigger by working it over itself with uneven sear engagement and rough mating surfaces. It'll slick up as one surface eats away the other, but it'll always feel "grittier" and have a rougher travel than a properly tuned trigger. A heavy spring will work in with a bit of use, but it's still a heavy spring. A 14lb mainspring will never become a 9lb mainspring, even if it might lighten up from a factory 16lb over strength to a regular 14lb.
And of course, there are those of us that want our guns to look as good as they shoot. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and you can't please everybody, but I don't think there's anything wrong with throwing some embellishment on a firearm that you're going to build memories with in the field.
If you don't want to modify your firearms or have them professionally modified, that's fine, they're your guns. But there's no real sense in diminishing the REAL advantage of action jobs and trigger jobs that other people want in their firearms just because they have different standards than you.
