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All that was left to do was scope it and develop a load for it.
The owner dropped off a new Bushnell Forge FFP scope for it which I fitted up and got to the loading bench.
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So all up the chassis block weighs 440 grams.. not a lot.

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I pre-assembled it to see how it all looks and feels and it didn’t disappoint....

Fitting pistol grip, trigger guard and bottom metal

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More machining of final shape

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Next mission was to address the over all length of the bedding block. I knew when I started it was going to be too short but rather than waist a nice bit of billet (and machine time) I planned to...

Remington 788 adjustable trigger mod.

For those of you with 788s and a few tools here is a great mod to make a sweet adjustable trigger out of your factor unit.

Timney is the only trigger maker...

This is the trigger out of something else used to illustrate how far the 788 trigger had to shift forward and down.

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Back into the mill to inlet it for the action, a series of drills and end mills to start with cut out the mag and trigger slots and rear action screw position
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I have the reamer for the .22BR too but have never built one. I hovered over it for a while while considering a .224 barrel on my desert tech but ended up going with a .22x47 Lapua AI instead.
The...

Then it was on to chambering it in the mighty .30BR.
For my past builds I used a 7mm Rem BR reamer and finished it with a .308 neck and throat reamer which always ended up with quite a long...

Next up was to rebarrel it.
The 788 tenon thread is a fairly small 1"x20tpi so there was plenty of meat left in the palma profiled knox once the .308 chamber was trimmed off.
Once centred in the...

I was also handed a Krieger 1-13" twist .308 win 30" Palma match barrel to use on the donor action.

I stripped the rifle down removing the barrel and the trigger (which was in for some serious...

So onto the build.

The donor rifle was a 1967 shot out cut down iconic Remington 788. the barrel was rough but the rest of the rifle was quite tidy.

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Yes, .473".

I will add to this build thread today and through the next few days between entertaining kids etc.. it will be a lengthy one with a lot of information and pics for like minded...

.30BR Rem 788 Chassis build


I put this rifle together some time ago but never did a build thread for it. Lock down has given me a tiny bit of time to do so now so here goes…

Over the past 20...