Professional Accurizing With A Remington 700 Gunsmith

By Phyllis Schroeder


Anyone who owns a firearm wants their piece to be an elegant ornament of self-defense with the greatest precision possible. Fortunately, there are after-market upgrades available for many brands and of firearms available. To ensure proper installation, one should seek out a professional, such as a Remington 700 Gunsmith.

The process of making a firearm accurate is a delicate one. Being able to hit whatever target is being aimed at seems simple enough. However, anyone who has fired an old revolver or some of the out-dated machine guns can attest to the necessity of precision when firing a weapon.

One of several factors involved in accuracy is a firm hold on the grip without clenching. One basic upgrade that can improve grip strength is simply to install a better grip that allows the shooter a better hold on the gun. This is an item which should be shopped for personally rather than finding an upgrade online, as the shooter will want to experiment with more than one style.

When firing a rifle or an airgun, the vibrations traveling down the barrel can impact how the gun fires greatly. By minimizing the recoil, or harmonic effect, one is better able to control where the barrel is pointed at the moment the bullet exits. A longer barrel reduces the harmonic effect, resulting in less recoil, which ultimately helps prevent the shooter from becoming uptight or afraid of the weapon.

There is a level of kinetic energy which is lost with a longer barrel, however, and this loss of speed and power can mean a clean kill versus a messy injury to big-game hunters. In order to make up for the loss of speed, they will generally change the ammunition they use. An armor-piercing slug will do much more damage on impact than buck shot, but one is warned to make sure such ammunition is legal in their jurisdiction.

Creating the greatest tolerance in a firearm is an art to many gunsmiths, and they will cite this as reason enough for hiring a professional rather than attempting to obtain pinpoint accuracy by installing upgrades themselves. The tolerance means that the moving parts fit together so well that they have less shift under recoil. All guns must have moving parts, but getting these parts to move much less is the goal for anyone looking to fire round after round into a grouped cluster.

Consistency of the ammunition quality is a factor which surely cannot be ignored. Gun manufacturers have ammunition that they recommend because those bullets have shown themselves to perform consistently well with a particular weapon. This type of accuracy is more than adequate for most afficionados, leaving the high-precision professional shooter as the only one likely to hand-load ammunition of their own making.

In order to fire bullets in proper groups, accuracy must be very high, and the shooter must be well-practiced on the gun they are firing. Being experienced with many guns is an honorable pursuit, but having an intimate knowledge of a single weapon will always bring about more consistently desirable results. This intimacy is why so many marksmen and women give their firearm a name.




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