New Shilen barrel

[GunnyMack]

IS A KEEPER!
For years I've been debating a new barrel for my favorite 22. Ruger 77/22. Seemed like every time the barrel bug would bite there wasn't a barrel to be found. I was bit again a couple weeks ago and this time Midway had the cure in stock!
I ordered the factory profile stainless steel. It needed very minor polishing of the shank to fit the receiver. I decided to give it a free float. Yesterday I was able to put a half box of CCI std velocity through it, following Shilen break in of shoot 1, clean repeat for 5 shots then shoot 5, clean. All the while sighting it in. Here is a group , I was holding on a previous bullet hole , a 5 shot group, the low right I called when I shot.

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Here is the stock I made for my 77/22

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[AJMD429]

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I have the 'all-weather' version and I put a NEGS rear peep (fits the Ruger Ring Base) on it. Fine gold bead up front. Golf-ball accurate at 75 yards.

I put a Green Mountain bull barrel on my other 77/22 and cut the groups in half. 77/22's have the lever in the wrong place, but are great guns. 96/22's are fun but nowhere near as accurate (though I did turn a 96/22WMR into a 96/17HMR using a light weight Green Mountain barrel, and it is a tack driver; possibly more reflective of the 17HMR's inherent accuracy.

[2ndovc]

Cool!
Hard to beat an accurate .22lr for an afternoon of fun.
That stock looks fantastic!

jb

[GunnyMack]

Doc, I have a 10/22 mag and I've been thinking about a 17 barrel. It has a carbon fiber tension barrel on it, very good shooter hench my trepidation to swap it out just to play.

Thanks Jason! Yes that hunk o Claro is a real head turner. Ill tell ya that fiddle back sure looks beautiful but boy is it a bear to inlet, grain changes will drive ya nuts!

[gamekeeper]

Nice work on the stock Gunny, beautiful....
Glad it shoots as good as it looks....

[GunnyMack]

Thanks GK, it is a Purdy thing and its got the chops to prove it.

[Oldncrusty]

Awesome stock! I thought it was maple at first.

[piller]

My next door neighbors in Ennis are good at making barrels. Shilen has earned their reputation.

[GunnyMack]

Thanks Oldncrusty, no it's walnut.

Piller do you get a neighbors discount? I've had very good results with Shilen barrels. I think this is my 3rd or 4th that I have put on different guns I've built.

[piller]

Wish I could.
Once a year, they have an open house. Factory seconds are sold then. Even those go fast. Great people there.