Thread: Walnut and blued steel,

Most likely a Kevin Gaskell rifle

New lease of life for my old 788. Definitely lots learned checkering for the first time, and it’s far from perfect, but it’s mine and I will take great joy in carrying and shooting it!

Just an airgun, but…

Had to do a safe reorganise the other day. Had time for another walnut/blue pic. A nice M1917 I bought off Dad before he sold it out of the family...

My one. 1982 zkk601 in .243. Almost sold it in a moment of reloading frustration madness but ended up getting it to shoot beautifully. Love carrying this rifle about.

Finally back together and ready for some load development Saturday morning. Zastava action with 1-7.5t 6mm rem barrel. Stock work done by the late Howard Lopdell. One beautiful peice of walnut

Picked this up this last month, Blaser k95 in 243
Was bought off a real gentleman who has had some bad luck with his health, as the story goes he ordered a quite standard k95, he was known to the blaser dealer who took it upon himself to upgrade him into grade 7 wood. Also has a cool system of ammo storage in stock. The high grade wood did make it hard for him to get it on the hills. I've decided to use it after some load development and I've also got a new 308 barrel to go with it

Originally Posted by BOPR93

Picked this up this last month, Blaser k95 in 243
Was bought off a real gentleman who has had some bad luck with his health, as the story goes he ordered a quite standard k95, he was known to the blaser dealer who took it upon himself to upgrade him into grade 7 wood. Also has a cool system of ammo storage in stock. The high grade wood did make it hard for him to get it on the hills. I've decided to use it after some load development and I've also got a new 308 barrel to go with it
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Certainly a beautiful rifle that I’d love to own, wicked piece of walnut too. Just a shame that (considering the price) the checkering is machine cut….
Get out there and give it some ‘character’!

Very nice @BOPR93 , first glance I went shit that’s nice wood , I had to spend a lot of $ to get grade 7 , and then I read it , very similar stock to my one actually , did it come with 2 barrels or did you but the 308 ?

Originally Posted by Lucky

Very nice @BOPR93 , first glance I went shit that’s nice wood , I had to spend a lot of $ to get grade 7 , and then I read it , very similar stock to my one actually , did it come with 2 barrels or did you but the 308 ?

Nah didn't come with the 308
Had to bite and bullet and fork out for new (3.5k) which was a bit of a shock, but I'll be keeping it and handing it down.

I was quoted over $4k for a barrel, who did you order it with ?

Price for barrels went up early this year. I snuck in just before the price increase.

Originally Posted by stug

Price for barrels went up early this year. I snuck in just before the price increase.

What did you get?

.222, closest I could get to a .223 for the K95. Fingers crossed it is a 1:12 twist. Hoping to use 60-63gr projectiles. The rimmed .224 cartridges are too much of a hassle to get components in NZ.

have shot .222 for over 50 years dropped big stags pigs great caliber still have the .222 remington from the day I started culling for NZFS will not part with it