Q. What about shipping?

A. Shipping quotes are to lower 48 only!

Q. How much does the kit cost?

A. The cost is $556.50 black anodized and ready to assemble. Any AR15 buttstock and pistol grip is needed to complete the stock. I have everything run with the exception of the buttstock piece. I hope to have them available by the end of June. Assembly requires gluing in a barreled action....JB Weld or Devcon works well. We have glued them in with and without a "lug". Most of them have been just a barrel screwed in the receiver but some have used a washer in between the barrel and receiver. Mitch Maxberry uses the washer basically to hold the Devcon in place in his tube gun. Also, the rail is not drilled or the receiver for the rail. The reason for this is that we have been gluing in the barreled action and then inline with the barreled action drilling the rail and sleeve so there are no sight issues.

Q. What rear sight base do I use on my Tubegun kit?

A. Order a a 527-100-100 Lipski rear sight base for the weaver rail, from Brownells.

Q. How high will that make my rear sight?

A. The distance from the top of the weaver rail to the center of the aperture in the rear is ~ 1.115". On the front, the distance from the center of the barrel to the center of the aperture is ~ 2.350" at 1000 yards and ~ 2.485" at 600 yards. These settings are from my 308 tube gun.

Q. Which front sight do you recommend?

A. We recommend the MO's (phone # 203 775 1013) adjustable front sight base. It's built like a tank and will utilize anyone's front base whereas the ladders that I have require a special Anschutz 18mm base. I use the Anschutz 9742 (2.3 - 4.3mm) adjustable front sight as I like to be able to adjust the size of the aperture between 600 and 1000 yards. It has a crosshair which I have converted to from the level. I found that the level would cause glare on sunny days.

Q. How do you clean it? It doesn't look like you can push a rod through from the chamber to the muzzle. Are these rifles cleaned like a service rifle?

A. The buttstock assembly is removed by the two cap screws. The rear of the action is then exposed for cleaning from the chamber side. My cleaning rod guide is basically flush with the rear of the sleeve at this point. Hopefully soon we will have pictures of all of this on the web.

Q. Is a large washer used as a 360 degree recoil lug.

A. Some use a washer, some do not. They both seem to work.

Q. With the tube gun being glued in with "whatever" can you ever return the receiver to it's original configuration? Or would you have to have it refinished to restore it?

A. To get the receiver out of the sleeve, you have to heat it to around 400ºF, which is the point at which the JB weld and most other epoxies break down.  You would then remove the remaining epoxy and refinish if it were to be used conventionally.

Q. Is the factory Remington bolt stop used in the single shot tube gun setup?
 
A. No, the factory bolt stop is not used, the aft cap encloses the bolt and provides the stop. If using an A1 or A2 stock, a rod can be installed in the buffer tube to stop the bolt if desired. The rod length should be 8.625" in length and 0.995" in diameter. The buffer tubes are normally ~ 1.000" so this provides clearance for the rod to be installed.

Q. Can a loaded 6.5 x 284 round be extracted without removing the aft cap.

A. Yes. The round in the picture has an overall length of 3.025" and extracts very easily.