Thread: Walnut and blued steel,

nice, what is the wording carved into the stock?

Das Beste oder Nichts

Translates to "The Best or Nothing"

Mercedes Benz used it a lot for marketing.

A previous owner had it done.

Good caliber too for such a nice rifle

I bought a old Sako, AV in 7x64 a mouth or two back, super nice rifle, nicest trigger ive had on a factory rifle in ages, been doing a bit of load work, and decided the cheep 3x9 Leopold, wasn't doing the rifle justice, so a new scope Z3 bought for my cooper single shot, and a swapped that scope to the Sako 7x64.

Pretty Impressive accuracy , but finding load data is pretty anemic, Hornardys new 10th addition showing 200fps difference between the 7x65 and 7x64, sister cartridges I had thought, Ive found factory 173gr S&B doing 2600fps and the current Max load data for 154gr and 162 gr Hornardy, cup and core SST ELD-X is giving me 2600 and 2570 at max with H4350, 50g and 49gr with the 162gr,
Back to range perhaps tonight, and will see what a bit of extra powder delivers, trying up to 55gr with the 154gr.
Bugger all, suitable powder in town at present, only R19 and 7828, I try r19 if todays results are still slow.

Nice looking rifle! In my 7x65R I'm useing 57.5gr ADI2213sc with a 162 amax for 2750 fps.

Saved some walnut and blued steel. Gun shop had some parts guns on sale and I liked the look of the butt stock on this one. No safety, magazine or bolt and no rifling visable with all the dirt and dust in the barrel $50.00 and it came home on thursday.After a good scrub barrel looked good and smooth, sluged at .311 so replaced the missing bits from my parts bin, the first bolt head head spaced perfect and oiled the woodwork. Shot it at my 200 yd gong this morning 5" group with 180 gr Highland.






1939 BSA

Nice work, gotta be Happy with that result!

Very happy I have a scoped no1 mkIII that will do 1.5" at 100 yds this one if scoped may do the same. I wonder how many good barrels get dumped because of other faults.

That's really good especially for an Enfield, definitely makes you think aye.

The butt stock on that rifle is one of the ones made by Pat Neville when he was working for Joe White in New Brighton in the late '60's. Pat was a first-class stockmaker of world standard. Those early SMLE sporting butt stocks were very comfortable to shoot. The stock is worth much more than you paid for the rifle!

I could tell it was high quality as soon as I saw it and have a nice sporter that would have benefitted. As it turned out the BSA is a better shooter and the stock does feel very good.

Originally Posted by gundoc

The butt stock on that rifle is one of the ones made by Pat Neville when he was working for Joe White in New Brighton in the late '60's. Pat was a first-class stockmaker of world standard. Those early SMLE sporting butt stocks were very comfortable to shoot. The stock is worth much more than you paid for the rifle!

Having owned a rifle stocked by Pat Neville I would have to agree - top class workmanship. Form, fit and finish was absolutely superb.

Had a go with this little honey last weekend. 7x57R K95 Stutzen

Very cool

Originally Posted by FRST

Had a go with this little honey last weekend. 7x57R K95 Stutzen
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Left handed. Nice