Originally Posted by RDW
I have been watching for a reasonably priced 582 to sit next to my first rifle. A 580 I received for Christmas in 1976, here it is now with the un-finished Black Walnut replacement stock. I need to get busy and install the Burris Compact 4x12 AO on it and go hunt.

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That's a really nice stock.

Mine is a 581-S (well, it used to be) and really shot well, but I wanted to make it a bit better so now it looks like this. Sort of a 541-T wannabe.
Originally, I worked the stock trigger down to 18oz., then I replaced it with a Canjar, next I reworked a 788 Timney, and finally settled on a 3 screw 541. The barrel is an original 541-T sporter barrels that has been threaded, rechambered to a 52D chamber, and recrowned. The action is trued, locking lugs lapped, firing pin reworked, and pillar bedded in an old Bishop stock made for a 541 Rem. .3" or better at 50yds. is normal for this Squirrel rifle.

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