Soltis Rifles

Name: Soltis Rifles
Address: 829 Brown School Road, Evansville, WI, 53536, US
Telephone: +16088821229

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Custom Gun Shop - specializing in full/partial bolt-action rifle builds, custom gunsmithing, AR-15 Building, finishing/DuraCoating®, Retail/Transfers and personal fi****ms instruction

06/23/2026

...continuing with this 7PRC.....with a factory Mod 70 trigger, to take all the creep out of it and make it really nice, we have to re-machine the sear engagement and then we'll tune the pull-weight down to a minimum safe level by adjusting our spring pressure with the lock nuts, then polish and locktite everything and do our safety checks. With this rig, we're also going to custom mill the Talley Aluminum rings to make everything a little sleeker and more stylish and then we'll lap them in, make sure they align perfectly, and we'll mark them for positioning...

06/16/2026

...continuing with this 7PRC build....it's getting a new custom over-sized tactical-style bolt-knob....turned from aluminum, gives you much better control and ease of cycling, especially with the larger scopes these days, the size of the Occular bell of scopes has continually gotten larger...

06/08/2026

...continuing with this 7PRC build...fitting the new DBM (Detachable Box Magazine) bottom-metal properly is tedious. We have to mill on the receiver so the magazine-well fits, along with the magazine, you want to take just enough steel, it's slow and it's manual. The stock as well, we end up milling it so the DBM fits, remember it's inletted for a standard BDL Hinged-Floorplate bottom metal. Also, the height of the magazine is key and has to be close to perfect, too high and the bolt-head hits the magazine feed-lips, too low and it won't strip the cartridges properly....very tricky to get it just perfect....

06/02/2026

...continuing this 7PRC build....trickiest part about this project is the PT&G DBM Bottom-Metal. Most PT&G parts are really "gunsmith" parts, they're about 80% of the way, but need some finishing/tuning/fitting/customizing. This bottom metal is getting everything done to it. We're shortening up/milling off the mag release lever so it doesn't snag on things as easy. We're actually deepening the recess where the lever sits so it sticks out and "jams" the AICS Magazines better. We're milling a small recess for the lever's spring to sit in, to better control it, and we're replacing the spring itself with a stronger one so as less chance it can release accidently if bumped. We're deepening the front action screw hole so we get the right amount of thread contact with the receiver. We're also going to break all the hard edges before finishing to make everything smooth...

05/28/2026

...continuing with this 7PRC Mod 70 build...re-cutting/truing the bolt-face, lugs, and final hand-lapping of lugs. Once everything is square and true, we'll take all our measurements for barreling and we can verify our blueprinting with a depth micrometer. We'll do our barreling next; one of the trademarks of the Mod 70 (The Rifleman's Rifle) is the "cone" breech, seen in the last picture, makes feeding a round into the chamber smooth and nearly dummy-proof....

05/27/2026

...unique new customer project...taking the client's older Win Mod 70 in 7mm STW and updating it into a modern day long-range rig in 7PRC, suppressor-ready, in a new Boyd's Laminate Stock. The interesting part is we're going to customize it from a factory BDL bottom-metal into a DBM (Detachable Box Magazine) system using a PTG DBM that takes AICS Magazines....never done this with a Mod 70, we'll see how it turns out. After removing the factory barrel (will be replaced with a new Rock Creek Match Barrel), noticed the action face is ugly. We're going to blueprint that, along with the action threads, lug seats and then we'll blueprint the bolt and final hand-lap the bolt-lugs....

05/19/2026

...every once in a while I'll do a Savage build for a client. This one started as a Savage .338 Win Mag with iron sights that the client already had.....got a new Rock Creek Match Barrel, chambered it in 300PRC, dropped into an MDT Chassis with the big 3.850 AICS mags for that big 300PRC cartridge, upgraded trigger, Vortex Rings with one of the new Leupold MK4's.....nice long-range set-up, shoots great, no more barrel nut, threaded for suppressor....

04/21/2026

...another factory rig we ordered and set-up for a client...this time a Bergara B-14 Timber in .308. If you like a nice walnut stock, there's fewer and fewer to choose from; the Timber is a good one for the money. We epoxied the sling studs permanent, added a Harris Bipod. On a budget, we got him a Burris Fullfield Scope, decent glass/features, nice and light, and mounted in Talley Rings. For the muzzle, he wanted a .30Cal direct-thread suppressor in the future, so we threaded 1/2-28, got him a 5/8-24 reducer with a thread-protector. With slim hunting barrels this is a good set-up, lets you run standard 5/8-24 end-caps and the oversized thread-protector protects the flared shoulder of the reducer....good looking, functional hunting rig....

04/15/2026

....one of the new Bergara Light-Weight CIMA rigs I set-up for a client for an Alaska trip. My advice, quality control continues to decline, even on the higher-end stuff....this client had the wisdom to have me order everything, go through everything and even test fire. The rifle's bedding was non-existent and badly needed (especially with a 300 WinMag). The factory muzzle brake was junk and wasn't even screwed tight or locktited, we replaced it and we replaced the trigger with a nice TriggerTech, professional scope mounting, epoxied the sling studs permanent....very comfortable recoil now, good scope, accurate/consistent and reliable rig...

03/30/2026

....I get the Cerakote and Duracoat discussion here and there. Here's the answer...I've used both, I prefer Duracoat. The key to finishing is proper surface preparation, not as much the finish itself. Do the prep right and Cerakote/Duracoat are fairly interchangeable. However, Duracoat is easier to work with and less nasty/stinky; it dries quickly and can be handled soon after applying. This is nice for multiple-color coating projects. Also, you don't have to bake it, it will cure naturally, which is nice. Lastly, Duracoat is a WI company, I try to keep it local if I can. Pictures below...MDT Magazine that was Parkerized and Cerakoted at the factory, see the scrape lengthwise and the gray Parkerizing underneath. This is how a coating wears/flakes off when certain metal on metal happen, completely normal. On the right is a Parkerized Bolt with Duracoat...see how it wears in front of the firing pin cocking piece and you can see the gray Parkerizing underneath...totally normal...no coating is impervious, they will wear and flake when there's repeated contact with metal, but overall very tough stuff....

Address

829 Brown School Road
Evansville, WI
53536

Telephone

+16088821229

Website

http://www.soltisrifles.com/

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