Karl Kenyon

[dave_halsey]

I hope im posting this in the right section.

I've acquired a 7stw Remington 700 that was tuned by Karl Kenyon (trigger job, stock bedding), who apparently was quite the gunsmith a few decades ago. The factory barrel is shot out and is getting replaced with another stainless Remington factory 7stw barrel. I guess my question is what do I have? As a local to Ely Nevada, he was pretty talked about around here but was he known else ware?

 

[RockyMtnUT]

A rifle, hopefully a great shooting one.
He died 11 years ago in Sandy ,Ut it says. From a google search he was into benchrest. Looks like known a few places in the rifle world
for trigger work primarily and a good guy. I bet the trigger tuning dissolved somewhat with the quality aftermarket triggers.

It looks like Winchesters and rimfires lots of info on rimfire sites.

 

[dave_halsey]

Hopefully the new barrel will bring it back to life, a cool rifle none the less to hang on to. The trigger feels good but so do all my triggertech's haha.

 

[tobnpr]

The factory barrel is shot out and is getting replaced with another stainless Remington factory 7stw barrel.

Where'd you find a new factory STW barrel?

 

[KS2506]

I think the main thing he was known for was his designing one of the best triggers ever for the Winchester Model 52 target rifles.

 

[dave_halsey]

Where'd you find a new factory STW barrel?

A LRH member had one with low round count on it. The last owner was cooking some 140gr bullets out of the original barrel. Going to go heavier and slower.