Tuning up my truck gun

[Boucher]

Ferrell hogs are becoming a real problem in this area. A short fast handling gun with moderate power is needed. My choice is a little Marlin Model 62 lever action 256 Win. with a shortened barrel. The barrel to Action interface is a cylindrical pinned affair. To improve the accuracy I chose to make a bedding block.

This is epoxied onto the barrel and subsequently epoxied into the stock as well. The integral scope base free floats over the action, And the action floats in the stock. This illustrates the concept.

This gun is roughly a 1” at 50 yards type accuracy. With the 25 cal. 60 gr. Hornady flat nose, it will push 2700fps even with the shortened barrel. This is adequate for the intended purpose. I failed to get any pictures when I had it together and shooting. My next design iteration is going to be a Vee block glued into the stock and mated to a shortened version of this block glued to the barrel. This will provide normal type disassembly. This is a substantial departure from my main interest in long-range prairie dog guns and it has been fun.

[38_Cal]

Looks good to me. You may want to strip the barrel out of the action and epoxy it back in without the pin in place, just to prevent any action to barrel flex, then replace the pin. Set it up vertically, muzzle down, while the epoxy cures. Yep, I would use release agent on the barrel. This same method of a bedding block on the barrel and bedding the barrel breech end to the action works quite well on Ruger 10-22 rifles to increase their accuracy potential.

David

[Al Messer]

I have always thought that the .256 has been under-rated and ignored. I think that you have made a very good choice of both gun and caliber. Good luck on your improvements.

And these pigs make great barbecue! A friend of mine gave me one that he had already dressed out, about 75 pounds went on the pit and since they are mostly lean it was fabulous eating, especially the ribs.

[deltaenterprizes]

A lot of people I know were using 7.62x39 in SKSs and 30 Carbines for pigs because they were cheap at the time.
If that mount was turned 180* and a long eye relief shotgun scope was mounted on it you would have a version of a "Scout Gun" promoted by Jeff Cooper.