Thread: Innovative Gunsmith Wanted?

Hi Ljp,
As I followed a similar path 15 years ago with my dreming expectations not matched ,I have Just a few suggestions regarding your built:
Once you found your gunsmith .

-Make sure that the reamer used is a Rifle reamer and not a pistol Reamer. A custom one with tighter tolerances would be a plus. ( with interchangeable pilots to perfectly match your barrel, we are talking at least 250$ worth of tooling here)
- if you fancy a picatinny base go for it, but the ruger Steel rings properly lapped with your March scope should give you all satisfaction for the range you are going to shoot at.
-regarding the blue printing, the face truing of the action can be useful, recuting the thread, I am not sure you will get any advantage, as to truing the bolt face, the bolt being in two parts with the front part floating, I am not sure you are going to get much. However insuring that the lugs have good contact on the action is important as I had to correct that on one of my 77/22 in the past.

Suppressor wise, whatever brand you are going to go with , you are going to be disappointed by the noise reduction with a 44 pill, specially if you use heavy 300 xtp, as the heavier the pill, the more powder you need, the more gases it produces that you have to contain and suppress.

As to the original plastic stock, I would replace it with a Boyd laminated, simply because it will be more rigid and way way better for doing an acceptable bedding inside.

Before committing to the built, I d suggest that you get your suppressor fitted to your original barrel, replace the trigger if you want and fit your March scope in some ruger rings and start shooting the gun as is and develop some sub loads. and then, if you are happy with noise, trajectory ..etc then commit to the built. That might save you some money.
I have been there with 2 ruger 77/44, three different suppressors, and a custom 458 socom built.