ded the B&C stock, worked the factory trigger, and baked on a black ceramic coating. As an added feature, the scope base was bedded to the action, assuring full contact. A case length gauge and a concentricity gauge were cut with the same reamer that cut my chamber. When an expert friend oversees a project, good things
happen. Once completed, Rich picked up the rifle and offered to do the break-in and load development. I had to have some unpleasant surgery and was laid up for a while, so Rich took care of business. He noted that the feed rails were scratching cases, so he fixed that problem with some smoothing and polishing. As I recovered from the surgery, I asked how it was coming along, and Rich told me he had just shot a 11/2" group. I expected a little better for as much quality and expense that was in this project, and then Rich let out that was at 250 yards in a gusting 20+ mph crosswind. One hundred yard groups were closer to a 3/8" spread — not bad for a mini-sized lightweight sporter. Shooting one round at a time from the bench, Rich had not had the occasion to test the safety. By the time I was able to gimp around, the UPS truck came
up my snow-covered driveway, bearing the same cardboard packing box in which I had shipped out the unassembled parts. I had heard about the ooohs and ahhhs that other shooters ex- pressed when they saw the rifle, and I had formed an image in my mind of how nice this piece would be, but when I opened the box the actual product looked even better than I anticipated. The complete rifle weighs about six pounds with scope. As I began working with the rifle, I noted that the safety seemed very difficult to work. I removed the action from the
stock and noted the safety adjustment tightened to the max, squashing the tension spring. I backed it off 1/8 turn and then the firing pin would fall on closing the bolt. This is not good, so I contacted the builder, who said that he had done the best he could with the “inferior materials and poor workmanship” of the factory trigger. To make a long story shorter, the rifle went back to the builder for adjustment. He claimed that there is no safety adjustment on that trigger, so I emailed schematics and adjustment directions from factory literature to no avail. My concerns increased when he stated that he had to reconfigure the sear and install a larger diameter trigger retaining pin to reduce the “slop” in this inferior trigger. When the rifle came back, the trigger was in even worse
shape. I then contacted Bob Blymiller who built “Old Blue,” and he examined the trigger but could not get the sear to hold at all. The sear had been filed down over 0.020" and the angle of engagement changed. Bob is an old time ’smith who adjusted the triggers on my .223 and Old Blue down to a crisp 21/2 pounds with complete safety function. As a temporary fix, I installed a Mauser 98 Bold trigger, which worked but required removal of some stock material for clearance and modification of the safety lever to clear the bolt shroud. I was able to start load development with the Bold trigger.
I contacted Timney, but they no longer make an aftermarket trigger for this model, so I ordered a replacement sear and spring from Numrich. Numrich also had a complete trigger for a Remington 798-799 available, so I ordered that also. When the Numrich parts arrived, I installed the complete trig- ger assembly, and it easily adjusted down to a safe hunting
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