Blueprinting an Action $

[Brian in Montana]

How much should one expect to spend on having an action trued/blueprinted?

 

[noharleyyet]

Blue Print action Includes: Reboring the action, single point cut threads, square bolt face and action face, lapping lugs and Sako or Mini M16 Extractor...350.00

....from a known smith.

 

[MThuntr]

250ish. There's a guy in Butte (Nemesis Machine) that sometimes offers flash sale discounts on his facebook page. His website says $250 right now

 

[Fire_9]

Make sure you pay attention to what a smith will actually do to the action. Some give it the full meal deal and some just square the action face and run a tap down the threads.

 

[Schism]

GUNSMITHING SERVICES: Receiver Blueprinting

Blueprinting, or "truing an action" is a machining process meant to improve the accuracy potential of a factory bolt action rifle. While we still follow the spirit of this process, we've grown the process to also improve the overall functionality along with a menu of optional features. A lot of...

www.longriflesinc.com

LRI is arguably one of the best in the industry. You can peruse their site to see what options are available and at what price. Chad (owner) is known to be very good at answering questions via phone and email and prides himself in quality workmanship that the end user will be happy with.

 

[Fire_9]

So I just asked my brother what he charges. $200 if you just send him the action but he’ll usually include it in a build for free. He also said you’d get a better end product from LRI. What he can do with a 5 axis mill can’t be matched with a manual machine

 

[Addicting]

Also some Smiths time the bolt as part of a blueprint. That is the big difference in price at Straight Jacket Armory. But, if I did it over again it would go to LRI and have Chad do it. They have it on YouTube if you want to see first hand.

 

[cahunter805]

LRI blueprinting is extremely good and well worth a look. You can have him time your bolt and install a handle as well. He has 2 different packages and prices based on if you want threads recut or if you are going to use prefit barrels.
Also Chad’s turn around time is awesome.