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Yep, that's why I said many ways to skin that cat Unlike my pre 64 winchester model 100 (semi auto).

Does your M100 shoot? I never had a lot of luck with it's lever brother, the M88. Too finicky or inconsistant.

Like a rock star brother but it takes work. Still running the pos factory trigger. These rifles need to be bedded at the recoil block at the rear of the reciever and also at the forend screw (dissassembly screw):



Shot a 1" 4 shot (total in the magazine) group at 160 yards one day with a guy at the range and he was begging me to sell the rifle to him. I had to tell him no

Look at that! I've had a couple 88's that would shoot close to an inch, but nothing like your 100.

Do you think that 100 is one of a kind, or is it the way you skillfully bedded the recoil block and the barrel?

DF

I'm not sure DF. It's an intriguing rifle and is fun to shoot. I just spent some time working on the right load for it and it about knocked my socks off when I shot this group. It generally shoots around an inch or so now since I loctited everything (mounts and rings). Everything seemed to rattle loose after about 15 shots!!!!! It had me stumped for a while because it would shoot awesome little groups for the first couple of strings and then everything started falling apart. I finally realized everything was coming loose and shifting impact and groups would grow. It was very impressive with open sights at 50 yards and I knew it would shoot better than what it was (at the time I didn't know things were loosining up). I'll be honest here, my eyes suck so I didn't want to shoot open sights and decided to scope it. Here's how it shot at 50 yards with factory open sights and my chitty eyesight:

This is a 4 shot group (full magazine), 50 yards with factory irons:



This is a first year (1961) rifle and it hasn't been used much. I'm really impressed by it

Nothing under any part of the barrel. -Al