GUNSMITHING SERVICES: Blueprinted barreled action service packages
From $500.00
Shortly after opening the doors to our new facility in 2011, LRI started a Remington M700 bolt fluting Group Buy on the Sniper's Hide web forum. It really opened our eyes on what is possible with work ethic and modern assets. TWO people processed OVER 600 bolts in a 5-week…
Reserved for stainless steel components, glass bead blast finishing provides an attractive satin like appearance. Parts such as barrels are first polished to remove any tool marks or surface inclusions. This is important because blast finishing does not hide stuff very well. In fact its quite the opposite, it makes them…
GUNSMITHING SERVICES: LRI Side bolt release and installation
$165.00–$175.00Price range: $165.00 through $175.00
Our external bolt releases are machined and installed in house. This "line-of-sight" approach allows us to deliver your project with the fit and finish you expect. Our side releases are made a little differently than others. The hole for the pin is slotted to allow energy transfer from the bolt…
Parkerizing, bonderizing, phosphating, or phosphatizing is a method of protecting a steel surface from corrosion and increasing its resistance to wear through the application of a chemical phosphate conversion coating. It been used extensively on automobiles to protect unfinished metal parts from corrosion for years.
$125.00–$215.00Price range: $125.00 through $215.00
This service is for restoring or converting an action's guard screws to the 1/4-28 size thread pitch most commonly used by domestic bolt-action receiver manufacturers.
GUNSMITHING SERVICES: Receiver scope base screw hole restoration and correction
$75.00–$250.00Price range: $75.00 through $250.00
Receiver scope base screw holes occasionally suffer from alignment errors due to flawed machining. Here, we correct the issue by soldering a plug into the existing hole or by TIG welding (when appropriate) the hole closed. Next, we finish blend the plug/weld and complete it with a bored (circular interpolation)…
A key element to building a replica ("clone") sniper rifle is accurately marking the barrel and receiver. LRI has researched this extensively and has acquired stamps that are duplicates of the original size and fonts used whenever possible. Some are unobtainable because OEMs used machines to "roll" the identifying marks…
The addition of a tombstone type recoil lug to a Tikka action is born from the experience and painful lessons learned on an international level. I once watched a close friend have his dreams and hard work shattered at the World Fullbore Championships due to a rifle that failed to manage…
GUNSMITHING SERVICES: 8-40 base hole receiver threading
$100.00
An unfortunate consequence of mass-produced guns is a screw hole being machined out of position. Our 8-40 optic base hole upgrade resolves this issue, additionally, we can also add base holes to receivers that were never made for optics. (1903 Spgfld, Mauser, etc...) Many a Springfield and Mauser have suffered…
GUNSMITHING SERVICES: ARC Magazine well modification to Rem M700 Receiver/ARC Mausingfield
$55.00
American Rifle Company's introduction of their 10 round magazine allows shooters the convenience of higher capacity while observing the need for a more compact footprint. The staggered stack, center feed behavior allows for a compact means of delivering ammunition to the rifle.
$250.00–$400.00Price range: $250.00 through $400.00
Blueprinting, or "truing an action," is a specialized machining process designed to maximize the accuracy potential of a factory bolt-action rifle. While traditional blueprinting focuses strictly on squaring and aligning core components, we have expanded the service to include a number of functional so that your mass produced receiver begins…