The bolt-lugs’ working surfaces after lapping showing a smooth gray finish from the abrasive paste


striker/firing-pin achieving its full forward travel.


“You’d be surprised what the makers leave inside some bolts!” says Dave, and sure enough some muck is removed. The ejector pin was removed and polished, a quick function check showing no binding as it slid in its recess in the bolt-face. The striker/firing assembly was inspected and the front section of the firing pin also smoothed and polished with a check made that it would slide smoothly in the bolt-face. At the rear, the cocking-cam surfaces were inspected and pronounced spot-on. Dave says he rarely finds


anything badly wrong on 700 actions despite the regular bad-mouthing that Remington gets these days for alleged poor build-quality.


We’d now finished the attention given to this assembly, the work done smoothly and apparently without hurry, but nevertheless in an astonishingly short time, testimony to the scores, maybe hundreds of times, Dave has done it on other Remington actions as part of building South Yorkshire Shooting Supplies’ ‘semi-custom’ rifles alongside SYSS proprietor Roger Francis.


The main part of the work is on the barrel using a lathe


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