Tom,<br><br>I really envy you the lathe & mill. You can do so much with it. A friend with some machining experience bought out all the tools in a small machine shop for $1,000 and the agreement to move all of the equipment within 1 week. Now his home workshop is filled with commercial grade tools. Even before that, in a minor emergency of mine, in his home workshop, he turned out a set of specially dimensioned bolts from scrap steel bar stock on hand, all in a very short time. I am duly impressed with such machinery.<br><br>Thanks for the reassuranceon the M700s. They actually had pretty good triggers to start with. They're even better now. And they are accurate. I've no complaints about them.Your comments on the Rugers are also assuring. <br><br>With your experience with the M7, I can understand why you have Rugers and not more Rems. I had an early Rem 572 that would not stay in working order. It was constantly breaking parts. Just 1 more reason why not to get a gun with an aluminum receiver. <br><br>I really appreciate your comments re excessive muzzle blast and recoil from the M7. A youth model had been in the planning stage. Learning to shoot & hunt is challenging enough for a boy with out compounding it with ill-designed guns. Naturally I was considering the .243 or 7mm-08 which would only have accentuated the blast & recoil. A friend got a .22-250 for his approximately 12 year old daughter for hunting medium to smaller sized game on an African trip. I think it had a longer barrel than I see listed for the gun now. Things worked well for them on that trip. <br><br>On your 10/22, what did you use for the rebarreling.<br><br>Thanks for all the ideas,<br><br>John