Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Gunsmithing If it wasn't for the pu**y and the prestige.....

nobody would want to be a gunsmith. I'm putting the world on notice that the only Brownings that are allowed in our front door are the old ones built on an FN action!!!

I finally got the A Bolt to working. I freed up the bolt sleeve, bedded it into a McMillan stock, put it all together and the firing pin wouldn't fall. RATS!

I slept on the problem overnight the went to the shop, took the barreled action out of the stock and it worked just fine. Not all that unusual (if you put a Jewell trigger in a Remington and then put it in a McMillan stock you're gonna have to remove some stock and some of the trigger guard) but when I put the stock back it wouldn't work....again. No reason for it to have started working on the second try but I had to check. I removed the trigger guard and it works. I had to relieve the trigger guard about .050 directly behind the trigger and Cerakote it all over......again.

My question is, why wouldn't it work if it worked in the original stock? The trigger guard's position is dictated by the hole spacing in the action that the action screws go through so why did the guard block the trigger now and not before?

I've had all the prestige I want for awhile and got finished with the other several years back, thank Goodness. Only you old guys will understand and believe that last sentence.

McMillan a smidge taller so the trigger wouldn't function properly? Bottom metal inlet a little off?

The McMillan is inletted for the factory Remington trigger and the Jewell is a little fatter in places. You have to mill out the opening in the trigger guard a little for clearance. No big deal but it has to be done.

Well that makes perfect sense. Having 0 Jewell triggers and all.......

All these years and you hadn't learned to leave Brownings alone??

Geez, Mickey..

Lee, all he wanted was to get it Cerakoted. I figured that would be simple enough. I was wrong. I'll never let another through the front door.

Browning A-Bolt Stainless! Just wait until you remove the barrel and all the threads on the barrel and in the action gall together. Then you buy a new gun for the customer.

ROTFLMAO...

I've made the same determination re: Mausers...

No brownings around here either.

what is it with girls and lathes, Mickey?

That day won't ever come. I had the threads gall on a Kelbly stainless action once. Cut the barrel off just in front of the receiver, indicated the action to run dead nuts then bored the old barrel stub out. Once I reached the top of the action threads the rest came out like a coil spring.

Tom, at my age I seem to remember a 'girl' but can't remember what you do with one. I trust a lathe a lot more than I do a woman.

A-borts are pure crap. Hard to believe someone would spend money and having stuff done to one.

Mickey, Been there, and had to do that, mine was on a Remington stainless action that when rebarreled the person that did it never put anything on the thread. Took a pipe on the action wrench to break it loose and made like two full turns and locked up, and I mean locked up. I would never own a A-Bolt. Worked on one back in the 80's that had the trigger that broke off on the curve, had half a trigger. Called Browning and would not send a trigger. It looked like they use cast white metal in the trigger and plated it gold. No way to fix it, the owner call Browning and told him he was going to super glue it back together and they were liable for anything that happened, they sent him another trigger ASAP.

Amen brother, and I know nothing about lathes.

I bedded the first two of the new Browning rifles that I saw many years ago for another store -the ones with the light pretty stocks .

When I took them out of the bedding both now had cracks behind the trigger guards.

I then decided that these were not worth the aggravation at that time.

Especially with the Tikka rifles that were available in the same time period.

Glenn

Will you install a Lothar-Walther barrel?

Only if I have a carbide chamber reamer for the chosen cartridge.

Don't like to and it costs $50 extra.

Woof...

Wow.. I've never had an issue (YET) with an SS barrel not being able to be removed.. I usually add a few drops of Kroil into the front scope base hole over the threads and let it soak in for a couple days - adding a drop or two every few hours.. They've all come off without an issue..