So I got the call from Dave Henry mid last week that my barrel was complete and ready for pick-up. I made my way out to Dave's place on Saturday morning to pick up the barreled action and start the rest of my install. Barrel started out as a 28" .284 medium contour 8.5 twist blank from Proof Research. I had it cut and crowned at 24" and chambered in .280 rem. Dave does beautiful work, work definitely recommend his services. The action was off a couple year old 30-06 ADL that I had laying around.
About a year ago, my dad decided to pick up a new 30-06 as we couldn't get his old one to shoot worth a damn anymore. I wanted to use the stock off his old hunting rifle to sort of carry on a legacy. He had hunted the past 30+ years with that rifle and taken plenty of critters with it...
I had to open up the barrel channel to accommodate the larger contour. I took some material down around the action as well and drilled out a few divets for the devcon to flow into.
I took a bit of advice from an old there where Dean and Dick had mentioned boring out the action screw holes to allow the bedding material to flow around the action screws and basically create a devcon pillar. This worked wonderfully.
After a bit of clean-up. This is my third time doing a full action bed job, so it might not be the prettiest (mainly at the rear of the action) but it certainly has 100% contact. I covered the barrel in a couple wraps of tape to allow for it to still be free floated then sanded a bit more bedding material out of the barrel channel.
I went with a triggertech primary single stage trigger (thanks Leigh) and I'm very happy with how it breaks.
Finally, I topped it off with a Leupold VX3 3.5-10x40 in a set of low 1 piece talley lightweight rings. Can't wait to shoot this sucker!