Volquartsen Acurizing Kit x 3
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 10:17 pm
I have three stainless Mark IIIs, a Target with 5-1/2" bull barel and an Ultradot 30, a Competition with 6--7/8" slab side barrel and a 4X scope, and a Hunter with 6-7/8" fluted barrel and Hi-Viz sights. I bought three Volquartsen Acurizing kits over the pat few months and finally got around to installing them this past weekend.
The first kit I tried was on the Hunter. I started Friday evening with the disassembly and cleaning. The gun was a real bear to disassemble. I beat it with a rubber mallet and finally got it apart and clean just before bedtime. I started installing the kit Saturday morning and gave up just after lunch. I took it to a local gun shop and they told me they did not work on Volquartsen Acurizing Kits because they were too hard to install. I took a break till just after dinner and started in again. I finally got it all together around midnight. It was just as hard to assemble as it was to disassemble. Total time spent was 12 hours and I probably had it fully assembled 4 or 5 times, but something was always wrong. Lots of that time was spent memorizing the part names, locations, and orientations with additional time spent learning how to use scotch tape as a temporary way to hold parts together and developing a way to grip my mini Maglite in my mouth so I could see inside and have both hands free.
I started on the second gun, the Target Sunday morning and had it back together by lunch, total time was 3.5 hours. It was a lot less tight than the Hunter and I was still working out some of the knks in the process.
I started the last gun, the Competition, just after lunch Sunday and had it back together in 1.5 hours.
The steps on the Brownell web site were very helpful:
http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/Gun...317&mc_ID=2020
As were the steps shown on Bullseye's GunTak Online:
http://www.guntalk-online.com/fsprocedures.htm
There are several videos online, all of which are too fast and too grainy to help much. I found it took a lot of practice to get good with the diassenbly and reassembly. There are a lot of little tips and tricks that are not shown such as taping over the ends of the sear pin so it doesn't fall out until you get ready to install the grips.
It helped to do three guns in a row because I always had a complete working model to refer to. I took them to the range tonight after work and all three worked great wirh no misfires or failures to eject after 100 rounds through each one. The difference in the before & after trigger pulls is amazing. I guess I need to go back and train the gunsmith how to do it.
The first kit I tried was on the Hunter. I started Friday evening with the disassembly and cleaning. The gun was a real bear to disassemble. I beat it with a rubber mallet and finally got it apart and clean just before bedtime. I started installing the kit Saturday morning and gave up just after lunch. I took it to a local gun shop and they told me they did not work on Volquartsen Acurizing Kits because they were too hard to install. I took a break till just after dinner and started in again. I finally got it all together around midnight. It was just as hard to assemble as it was to disassemble. Total time spent was 12 hours and I probably had it fully assembled 4 or 5 times, but something was always wrong. Lots of that time was spent memorizing the part names, locations, and orientations with additional time spent learning how to use scotch tape as a temporary way to hold parts together and developing a way to grip my mini Maglite in my mouth so I could see inside and have both hands free.
I started on the second gun, the Target Sunday morning and had it back together by lunch, total time was 3.5 hours. It was a lot less tight than the Hunter and I was still working out some of the knks in the process.
I started the last gun, the Competition, just after lunch Sunday and had it back together in 1.5 hours.
The steps on the Brownell web site were very helpful:
http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/Gun...317&mc_ID=2020
As were the steps shown on Bullseye's GunTak Online:
http://www.guntalk-online.com/fsprocedures.htm
There are several videos online, all of which are too fast and too grainy to help much. I found it took a lot of practice to get good with the diassenbly and reassembly. There are a lot of little tips and tricks that are not shown such as taping over the ends of the sear pin so it doesn't fall out until you get ready to install the grips.
It helped to do three guns in a row because I always had a complete working model to refer to. I took them to the range tonight after work and all three worked great wirh no misfires or failures to eject after 100 rounds through each one. The difference in the before & after trigger pulls is amazing. I guess I need to go back and train the gunsmith how to do it.
