H&R 700 .22 mag Semi-auto
Here is an up date on my H&R 700 .22 mag. Never got much accuracy out of it, 2.5" @ 100. While trying different ammo and shooting for groups, I had a core and jacket separation. The jacket stayed in the barrel and not knowing this, I fired another round. This caused a bugle in the barrel right at 16".
I called the ammo manufacture and explained what happened. They were very nice and told me to have it rebarreled and send them all the receipts. I started looking for a .22 mag barrel and didn't want to wait for a custom barrel. I ended up buying a 22" blued / fluted 77/.22 mag Green Mountain barrel for $160.00. I had my gunsmith cut off the ruger mounting stub and trum and thread the barrel to my H&R 700 action. It was a job getting the old barrel off the receiver. H&R used 22TPI on this gun.
The ammo manufacture asked for all the receipts, the old barrel and remaining rounds from the box. I sent these to the ammo manufacture and two week later I had a check for the complete cost of rebarreling the gun.
This gun was in mint condition when I purchased, but with the new barrel on it was no longer orginal. So I thought what the heck lets go all the way. I didn't like the contour of the orginal stock, so I took a rasp and belt sander to it, completely reshaping it. Then checkered the stock and put a nice oil finish, 5 coats of Casey's stock oil. My first attempt at checkering.
I've polished all the trigger parts and have it a 4 pounds with zero creep. The barrel is still not broken in but is shooting 1" groups with Federal Gameshock 50 gr.
Here is how it looks today.
