Originally Posted By: mark shubertNice work on that 03-A3, what are the spec's?
Mark
Thanks, Mark.
Built this rifle as a practice gun when I was shooting at least 100 rounds a week practice + rounds fired in NRA XTC matches. Barrel is a takeoff (Mark Chandlin) from one of my Pre-64 Mod. 70's that had begun to throw a flier every now and then @ 600 yd line. It had been 26 or 27" long on the '70 so had it cut off enough to clean up the worn throat and re-threaded for the A3 action which left it @ 24". I built the stock to duplicate the feel of my Mod. 70's and put a Timney trigger on it. I had to alter the bolt stop to work backwards from normal A3 in order to clear the Redfield International rear sights I used on my other rifles.
This gun shoots just as well as the Mod 70's but the slower lock time was not as good for offhand. Since it was just a practice rifle, I soon learned that my offhand shots would be one ring outside my call due to the slower lock time. If I called a 10 @ 3 o'clock, it would be a 9 @3, but it was consistent, so didn't matter in practice and saved a lot of wear and tear on my match rifle barrels 
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The takeoff had a tad over 7500 rounds through it when removed from the Winchester and I put another 1500 or so rounds through it on the A3 before I had to quit shooting competition and it was still shooting great when I put it in the safe.
Rifle weighs right around 13# IIRC.
Edit to add: Forgot that I added the Freeland adjustable buttplate, rail and forend stop.
It was a fun project.
Regards,
hm
