New Project Rifle: Rem 700 .223 w/pics

[responsiblehunter]

I have put this rifle through the ringer, and now as I am learning to work on firearms it is my project rifle. I want to glass bed it, add a rear sight and fix the trigger guard as the picture will show you the black coating is chipping away to reveal what looks to me to be stainless steel.

Some challenges right off the bat:

What type of rear iron site can I put on this quickly- I have a front bladed sight but nothing in the back. As you can see it's drilled for scope mounts, so can I screw on a rear ramp or peep? I would like to install peep sights.

This is a remington 700 synthetic (likely sps -special purpose synthetic) in .223 So i would imagine I would have to use epoxy of some type in order to glass bed this rifle (more to learn how to do it vs. what i expect for it to do for the rifle's accuracy) Standard glass bedding material i'm guessing wont stick-- what would you guys recommend I buy in order to do this?

and finally I am not sure what the black coating over the trigger guard is, and I am not sure that the metal thats revealed is stainless steel. I dont know which way is up on this or where to start, I'm thinking of chipping away the black coating (see picture) then determining if the metal is stainless. Can you blue stainless or would I have to leave it sit? Could I just find whatever coating that is over the metal and then strip it off and reapply a fresh coat? It's got to be 1-2 mils thick so it does chip off, its plastic or synthetic of some type I believe, not paint.

Thanks-- I hope to learn a lot from this project and you guys

 

[responsiblehunter]

the photos

sorry they didnt post last time, here are some photos

 

[nastynatesfish]

First I'm going to sight a barrel on a mauser I'm building. Just get a dovetail bit to run you mill( or whoever is doing it like my case). I'm putting express sights. On it.
I thing arca glass from brownells or midway will do fine on synthetic
And you can use a media blaster to remove all the finish from the metal and any light pitting that may be there also. I use berrymans chemtool and some rough steel wool first then a walnut media on mine.
You can use dura coat from lauer and their prevail sprayer or a airbrush and compressor. I use a hplv gun and a compressor that I did my sps 700 7mm mag with. It works great. You can also use kg guncote if you can oven cure it.
Hope it comes out well.

 

[responsiblehunter]

Thanks

Thats some great advice especially on bedding and the trigger guard

Here are the sights-- just installed. Shot the gun and it fired without touching the trigger, after a ton of problems extracting spent casings. I am unhappy about that. I have been thinking about sending this back to remington for a long time now and now i think I have to.

Next steps are going to be to send it back or learn how to glass bed on it. Should send it back first then bed it I think.

 

[Adair]

You could research and learn to do a trigger job! Then you learn something and it doesn't have to go to Remigton.