accurizing Finnish M39?

[spartacus2002]

My M39 has a barrel that freefloats between the receiver and end of the stock, where there is maybe a folded dollar bill's worth of space around the barrel. I'm thinking of opening that up so there is absolutely no contact if a sling were to pull down on the stock/handguard.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Or, does anyone have any M39 accurizing tips to share?

 

[benEzra]

The Finns accurized them very well already, though you might be able to do a little more. IIRC, the accuracy standard an M39 HAD to meet in order to be accepted for military service was 3 shots into 5 centimeters at 150 meters (somebody correct me if I'm wrong; I don't have Doug Bowser's book handy at the moment). Many M39's have brass shims at the receiver-stock contact points, and they all have trigger jobs. My M39 has shot a 1 3/8" 4-shot group at 100 yards with 148-gr Wolf, not exactly known as target ammunition.

Optics would probably give the biggest benefit as far as practical accuracy, I suspect. Or try a set of Mojo aperture sights.

 

[pbhome71]

You can check the following thread..

http://p077.ezboard.com/fparallaxsc...ssageRange?topicID=707.topic&start=21&stop=40