What makes an Accurate Rifle?
An accurate rifle will have a blueprinted (trued) action, properly fit barrel with a concentric crown, trigger job, good bedding, and quality ammunition made to match the chamber. The following suggestions are developed from many years of experience as a full time professional gunsmith. Maybe more important is our experience in shooting and hunting. The idea is to give you an overview of what it takes to build an accurate hunting rifle. If you are looking for bench rest magic that requires lots more time and money than the suggestions below. I have never seen an animal that was impressed by sub- quarter minute of angle groups, have you? Next Subject Action tuning (blueprinting) is the process of making all the parts that make up the action square and true to the bore. First the locking lugs of the bolt must be lapped to insure even solid contact with the locking surfaces in the receiver. When finished the lugs should have equal contact area and contact should exceed 80%. This is accomp
