Went Xmas shopping today

Cleaned the receiver, bolt with brake cleaner, then swabbed the barrel with Butchs bore bright. Two well soaked patches and then dry ones till they came out clean. I dont use a brush on any of my bores. But then I clean them after every shoot, 1 round or hundreds.

Wont be polishing the feed ramp, Its a plastic insert ..... GEEEEEEEZ

Used the buffing wheel on the Dremel with polishing rouge and slicked up the slot in the reciever that the bolt handle cams on, also polished up the edge of the bolt handle. The Action is Real tight to start and after a few thousand rounds will smooth up.

I then cleaned the reciever where the bases go with Acetone. Also cleaned the bases and screws with it. You dont want any thing on any of it for a good snug fit.

I test fitted the bases to make sure none of the screws protruded into the action. No worry about the front as the holes are in the Chamber area with lots of metal, they dont go through. But the rear base holes are drilled through into the bolt carrier channel. I visually inspected and test fitted the bolt to make sure. All was good to go.

I then applied VERY LITTLE Lock Tite ( blue ) to the screw threads and tightned down. Before doing the rear I stuffed the channel with a large piece of cotton cloth just in case the Lock Tite dripped down. the cloth came out clean so all is well. The base mounting instructions said that Lock Tite was not required on .22s ...... but I figure cant hurt.

I then check the Trigger Pull Weight with the gauge. 10 pulls yielded all readings in the 2.14X range. I will leave it at that for now..... Not Bad, none of my other Savage Accu triggers would go that low.

Well here is the Mark I Youth. Still have to do more polishing on the stock. These rings are a little high, will look for something a little lower. The scope is on loose and I will tighten it some beforfe shooting it. I will torque the receiver bolts to 13 inch lbs on both to start and go from there.

Tomorrow afternoon is supposed to be in the mid-upper 40s. I will take it to the bench and shoot at 25 yards for zero and preference of ammo. Then I will shoot at 50 yards.

My grand daughter Carlie with her Savage Mark I. The barrel is free floated, pillar bedded, and I painted the stock Blue, her favorite color. It shoots great, Aquila SV, CCI SV and Eley Target all about the same at 25 yards. It has a 20X Target scope with dot. The trigger pull is 2.14X constant. I will let her shoot it a while with the stock accu trigger and then probably put in an Appache trigger kit to bring it down to around 8oz. I will work it down to where she likes it, it can be adjusted back up also. Now she can shoot with her brothers and me at the bench rest range.

Merry Christmas Carlie