Thread: New Ruger Build

Well I enjoyed building my 6.5x.284 at the beginning of the year that much I've been stupid enough to start another, but hey why not...

So a Ruger M77 MkII again (4 now) in Long Action is now off to the Gunsmith to have the barrel removed and fitted to a mates, the action will be cleaned up and a brand new Bradley 416R barrel will be made in medium weight (don't want too heavy) with a 1:10 twist at a length of 24', fluted and threaded for a MAE LEM-A10 Suppressor.

Mr Bradley will ream this little beauty out to fit a .308 Norma Magnum, this is where I look at responses...lol Then he'll float and bed it in the new rather tasty Boyd's stock on the way from the US.

Once I have it back it'll then be of to Victor at Cerakote NZ to have a nice 2 colour job done on it (does a damn fine job too)

Then it'll be topped off with a Vortex Viper PST 6-24x50 FFP

Looking forward to seeing some progress when I'm back from Bali later in the month.

A couple of pictures of some of the bits...

Wont the .308 be a bit rattley in the 416 barrel

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Wont the .308 be a bit rattley in the 416 barrel

Nice work mate...

What sort of performance are you expecting and which projectile do you plan on using?.

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Had a little bump in the road and there has been a slight change...

We are now going to be chambered in Norma .300 Blaser Magnum, a round Norma developed for Blaser on request, very much looking forward to this...

Originally Posted by Cartman

What sort of performance are you expecting and which projectile do you plan on using?.

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From what I've seen so far, pulling 3200 +/- on 165g, a little less on bigger pills, thinking of sierra TMK/GK will probably look at some Norma options...

And how much powder for that performance?. So you've got a 300 barrel now or its still a 416 but with a 300 blaser mag case

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Originally Posted by Cartman

And how much powder for that performance?. So you've got a 300 barrel now or its still a 416 but with a 300 blaser mag case

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Don't know about load data yet, have just read some info online, no it is a new barrel being made for the Blaser Magnum case...