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Carl,
I trust you may remember me from our previous
conversations. I was and still persevere to
introduce BR to my local club. While I am making
progress. The uptake is regretably slow. This,
as I am sure you have experianced, is due to
specialised cost of the front rests etc. We
currently improvise with a kind of affordable
“Logrest” approach.
To the point of this communication. I am
intending to persue the conversion of my
Steyr LG110 air rifle to BR. Having read your
informative article (and realising it would be an
imposition). I am wondering, since I am local
to you. if it might be possible to afford me the
opportunity to look over and take basic
measurements your featured woodwork. I
am quite well known in the local and Bisley
communities and can give any security
referances you may require.
I make this request of you since I am not
familiar with the regulations or the desirable
features neccessary to perfect this project. I
am a competant stockmaker of many years
experiance and so have the craft, but this
exercise requires some expert technical and
class rule knowledge which I do not posess.
Thanks in anticipation of your kind indulgence.
Rod
Hi Rod. Yes starting up in benchrest can be
expensive and your approach is novel but
worrking in the right direction - you are
starting which is half the job. I made up some
wooden rests when I first stated. You don’t have to buy
expensive to start with as there are cheap Hoppes
and Caldwell rests out there, starting from around
forty pounds and bags around twenty pounds.
This is not that pricey and is in the realms of
getting club gear to start you all off - if your club
will help all the better. I know how hard it is, as
rimfire and air rifle benchrest did not even exist in
this country when I first started.
Its funny that I am about to help make a second
stock for an LG series rifle. The template is there to
measure, although I would say that mine was very
much a prototype. You now have my email so by all
means contact me for further data.
If you have any other questions or need for help,
please contact me, as if I don’t know I know lots that
will. Cheers, Carl
Hi Target Shooter,
I can’t find a torque setting for the 2 pallor
screws for my 1422 anschutz 22 rifle. Does
anyone know these figures as the manual
doesn’t have the settings? I would appreciate
it very much. This would be the 2 screws
that attach the stock to the receiver. Thanks
Cregg
Hi Cregg. Torque is one of those things that
I would work up to, depending on a lot of
factors such as if you have bedding, what type of
bedding, the condition of the stock, etc.
Personally I would start at a low setting and see
what groups you are getting. I tend to work with
newton meters to be honest, shooting a 2013
action set at 5nm, with pillar bedding in a wood
stock. If you prefer there are a number of online
convertors to change newton meter data into
inch pound data or visa versa;
http://www.asknumbers.com/TorqueConversion.
aspx
I believe the 1422 is a 54 action and the
absolute limits for this would be about 38 to
40 inch pounds, but be very careful on the
upper limits. Again this depends on the quality of
your setup. Personally I would start at about 24
inch pounds and work up to what suits the rifle
accuracy the best. Each rifle will be different so
saying that everyone will shoot the same at the
same torque setting may the answer you want,
but it depends on your own beliefs.
For better answers than I can give on older
models, a good place to visit would be rimfire
central forums. I would start here first. There is
an Anschutz forum that has its own section and a
lot of answers can be found here for a variety of
subjects or by posting you own question. Let us
know how you get on.
http://rimfirecentral.com/forums/index.php
Carl
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