Flywalker
Shared on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 02:36Here are pics of my new gun i just built. I took a Ruger 10/22 and converted it over to a .17HM2.
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The stock is a laminate and the scope is a redhead 6x18x50mm. I will change the scope later. My wife picked out the stock because this will be her gun to shoot snakes with, this spring and summer.
We live in Arkansas and we have a lot of poisonous snakes. Cotton Mouths are the ones we go after. We have a lot of rice fields and that means water in the hot of the year. This attracts lots of snakes. We shoot the snakes every year. I know some of you maybe thinking this mean or you are an animal rights person. To bad these things stink and are dangerous. We also have problems with rats and pigeons around our grain bins. The pigeons poo and really make a mess. The rats well you do the math on those. We also shoot these. mostly though we shoot a lot of targets. This is the second gun I have built. I built a .22lr a couple of years ago and i shot this rifle so much that I wore the parts of the rifle out. I shoot thousands of rounds a year. I bought a 17HMR, the bigger shell in the above pics. I bought a savage rifle with a bull barrel. This is an extremely accurate rifle. However the trigger sucked. I took the trigger apart, polished, and shimmed it. It is now pulling around 2 pounds of very crisp breaking pull. The synthetic stainless steel rifle in the above pic.
I am hoping to build me another rifle this summer that is kinda like the 17hm2 above, but a 22lr. 17hm2 are about $8 for 50 rounds and .22 are much cheaper. After I build this rifle I am going to build another but make it for close quarters shooting at targets with a red dot or eotech sites. Then on to .223 AR 15. I also am wanting to get into shooting with a pistol in some kind of competition. I am a great shot with a rifle or shotgun. I have won many competitions with a shotgun shooting trap for money. I have never competed with a rifle. However I am a horrible shot with a pistol. I am wanting to get much better and to compete.
Well I hope ya'll enjoyed this blog. I was going to try to blog every day, but my life is boring. Until next time.
The stock is a laminate and the scope is a redhead 6x18x50mm. I will change the scope later. My wife picked out the stock because this will be her gun to shoot snakes with, this spring and summer.
We live in Arkansas and we have a lot of poisonous snakes. Cotton Mouths are the ones we go after. We have a lot of rice fields and that means water in the hot of the year. This attracts lots of snakes. We shoot the snakes every year. I know some of you maybe thinking this mean or you are an animal rights person. To bad these things stink and are dangerous. We also have problems with rats and pigeons around our grain bins. The pigeons poo and really make a mess. The rats well you do the math on those. We also shoot these. mostly though we shoot a lot of targets. This is the second gun I have built. I built a .22lr a couple of years ago and i shot this rifle so much that I wore the parts of the rifle out. I shoot thousands of rounds a year. I bought a 17HMR, the bigger shell in the above pics. I bought a savage rifle with a bull barrel. This is an extremely accurate rifle. However the trigger sucked. I took the trigger apart, polished, and shimmed it. It is now pulling around 2 pounds of very crisp breaking pull. The synthetic stainless steel rifle in the above pic.
I am hoping to build me another rifle this summer that is kinda like the 17hm2 above, but a 22lr. 17hm2 are about $8 for 50 rounds and .22 are much cheaper. After I build this rifle I am going to build another but make it for close quarters shooting at targets with a red dot or eotech sites. Then on to .223 AR 15. I also am wanting to get into shooting with a pistol in some kind of competition. I am a great shot with a rifle or shotgun. I have won many competitions with a shotgun shooting trap for money. I have never competed with a rifle. However I am a horrible shot with a pistol. I am wanting to get much better and to compete.
Well I hope ya'll enjoyed this blog. I was going to try to blog every day, but my life is boring. Until next time.
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