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Well it's been a long road with many long hours of machine work many phone calls to MtMonkey and NineRing.
Lots of head scratching to get to where I can post up something worth while.
The project has been 6 months for me in the making. The barrel ordered last year from lilja barrels after a lengthy conversation with Carson Lilja whom I've know since he was a very young man. His father Dan made my barrels before that.
I have a long standing relation ship with the Lilja Family. Great people and products second to none. I ve built many 1 hole guns using there tubes. Always top shelf!
I started with a pawn shop special savage 308 model 10 top bolt release gun for this project.
Just to make sure I had the parameters the way I wanted I sacrificed the factory barrel in 10 twist. Cut in a hankins 9/16 plug and tested.View attachment 20240505_185411.mp4
The video is the first shot.
The gun went bang didn't blow up the primmers looked great.
The accuracy was minute of plywood.
But I'm not easily discouraged so I saw it for what it was.
I played around for a week or two and figured I just needed to grow a pair and build the sacred Lilja Barrel. I'd waited 12 weeks for it I wasn't waiting any longer.
I did some really cool things with this part of the build.
Developing a breach plug and chamber dimensions to mirror a 30 br chamber.
The goal was to shoot the 115 berger at 3050 ft/sec at better than moa accuracy.
This is what I came up with.
Details
Savage model 10 donor action
Lilja 16 twist .3015/.308 barrel finished at 27 inch hand lapped by Carson Lilja
A modified HIS breach plug.
Small powder chamber.
Desh bokt lift kit
Glades armory knob
Jard trigger set to 7 0z
Egw rail
Arken ep5 5to25x56mm
Arken rings.
All together in a mdt field stock.which i really like.
So I've been shooting it for a couple weeks now.
And I know lots of bullets not to use.
There were so many things needed that I didn't know I needed till I did.
I made a sizing die
Made a short starter.
Made a range rod
Made a jag.
Stuff we just take for granted in 45 and 50
It took time to noodle it all out.
Here is today's test with 115 grain burger bullets.
Smooth sized at 2975 ft/sec.
Intersting that the last 3 bullets went thru the same hole. The barrel was clean and really started to wake up as I was finishing up.
I've got way more testing to do and wY more fun ti have.
Tom at swing lock has been an awesome resource. And is making me a full form die.
I hope to hunt deer this fall with 110to 130 grain barnes monos
They ought to be a laser beem at 3100 to 3200
Lots of head scratching to get to where I can post up something worth while.
The project has been 6 months for me in the making. The barrel ordered last year from lilja barrels after a lengthy conversation with Carson Lilja whom I've know since he was a very young man. His father Dan made my barrels before that.
I have a long standing relation ship with the Lilja Family. Great people and products second to none. I ve built many 1 hole guns using there tubes. Always top shelf!
I started with a pawn shop special savage 308 model 10 top bolt release gun for this project.
Just to make sure I had the parameters the way I wanted I sacrificed the factory barrel in 10 twist. Cut in a hankins 9/16 plug and tested.View attachment 20240505_185411.mp4
The video is the first shot.
The gun went bang didn't blow up the primmers looked great.
The accuracy was minute of plywood.
But I'm not easily discouraged so I saw it for what it was.
I played around for a week or two and figured I just needed to grow a pair and build the sacred Lilja Barrel. I'd waited 12 weeks for it I wasn't waiting any longer.
I did some really cool things with this part of the build.
Developing a breach plug and chamber dimensions to mirror a 30 br chamber.
The goal was to shoot the 115 berger at 3050 ft/sec at better than moa accuracy.
This is what I came up with.
Details
Savage model 10 donor action
Lilja 16 twist .3015/.308 barrel finished at 27 inch hand lapped by Carson Lilja
A modified HIS breach plug.
Small powder chamber.
Desh bokt lift kit
Glades armory knob
Jard trigger set to 7 0z
Egw rail
Arken ep5 5to25x56mm
Arken rings.
All together in a mdt field stock.which i really like.
So I've been shooting it for a couple weeks now.
And I know lots of bullets not to use.
There were so many things needed that I didn't know I needed till I did.
I made a sizing die
Made a short starter.
Made a range rod
Made a jag.
Stuff we just take for granted in 45 and 50
It took time to noodle it all out.
Here is today's test with 115 grain burger bullets.
Smooth sized at 2975 ft/sec.
Intersting that the last 3 bullets went thru the same hole. The barrel was clean and really started to wake up as I was finishing up.
I've got way more testing to do and wY more fun ti have.
Tom at swing lock has been an awesome resource. And is making me a full form die.
I hope to hunt deer this fall with 110to 130 grain barnes monos
They ought to be a laser beem at 3100 to 3200