Thread: Walnut and blued steel,

A couple more "Rescues" as it were , arrived within the last week with nothing done except I've had a a sissy pad put on the 1960's 30 06. It's gong to end up stripped and re stained with the pictured euro scope on
The 30 30 is 31 years old, an 'as' Model with the 336 receiver and barrel but the birch [I think] stock.
It's going to end up with the pictured close to period 23yr old Vari x 11 2-7 and nothing else done , I want it as it is. It has had almost no work, the loading gate has wear on the very tip only, I've had a bore scope down and it's immaculate.

Shoot here a few weeks ago had a nice haul.top to bottom PH safari 3006, large ring huski 9.3x57, small ring huski 9.3x62, obendorf mauser 9.3x62, the last 2 are the work of Alan Carr

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Shoot here a few weeks ago had a nice haul.top to bottom PH safari 3006, large ring huski 9.3x57, small ring huski 9.3x62, obendorf mauser 9.3x62, the last 2 are the work of Alan Carr

I'm especially fond of the 9,3s, and those three made my tongue hard.


This is my only 9,3X62 at present. It's a large ring Husqvarna commercial action with a Timney Sportsman trigger I tossed in. It shoots sub-MOA with anything it's fed, characteristic of the 9,3X62.

That bottom gun was a Baikal 45-70 DR I had. $omeone wanted it a lot more than I did. I can't seem to delete the photo.

wouldnt want to part wit that lovely small ring husky Mr henry

I saw this, can't afford any more guns for a while, and got it as fast as my fingers could pound the keyboard.

It is a Nagel & Menz, Hofbuchesenmaker to Kaiser and King Strasbourg U Baden drilling from 1887 and bears a royal crest.

It's 16ga and possibly 10.5X47R, and the bores are mirror. I think I can modify 45-70 brass to get the rifle shooting.

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Originally Posted by luv2safari

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Like like like, guns like that are sex on a stick. It probably cost less than a modern Holland and Holland or Purdy I'm guessing.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Like like like, guns like that are sex on a stick. It probably cost less than a modern Holland and Holland or Purdy I'm guessing.

It was the price of a Benelli Ethos at Cabela's. No way I could afford it right now, but I couldn't afford not getting it. These are my heroin and meth. I get a definite high from squiggly engraving.

Bought secondhand of TM, I got a bit lucky I think as its a hard rifle to photograph well, the stock is a surprisingly nice bit of dark hard walnut - consequently its a tad heavier that they are supposed to be. Scope is a Tasco World Class 3-9 for now, its perfectly functional but I'd like to get better glass on it at some stage. Came with 110 rounds of Frontier 55 gn, which it seems to like just fine. It shoots everything I've put through it to pretty much the same point of impact at 100 yards, so I'd like to get a "if I stumble across a deer on the side of the road" load sorted with a heavier projectile ( @Tahr might explain !!)

64 grain Winchester power point factory for " stumble across a deer "

I always had a mag of it for the AR just in case
Now I'm using it in the G2

I have 12 boxes of it here if you want a few ?

Originally Posted by akaroa1

64 grain Winchester power point factory for " stumble across a deer "

I always had a mag of it for the AR just in case
Now I'm using it in the G2

I have 12 boxes of it here if you want a few ?

Just a box would be great, I only need a couple to check point of impact then the rest can be stashed in my daypack (as long as I don't try and take it to Aussie as a carry-on bag without thoroughly cleaning it - my wife tried to kill me after she recovered from the grilling I got from AVsec and it was only one measly 260 round that i'd thought lost on the hill)

Originally Posted by Tentman

Just a box would be great, I only need a couple to check point of impact then the rest can be stashed in my daypack (as long as I don't try and take it to Aussie as a carry-on bag without thoroughly cleaning it - my wife tried to kill me after she recovered from the grilling I got from AVsec and it was only one measly 260 round that i'd thought lost on the hill)

Well there are some here when you come pick up all your other stuff and drop off more jobs

The chambering is not original . . . the originals were 250-3000, 8x51, 6.5x54 Mauser (not the same as 6.5x54 MS) and 8.15x46 among others. My one originally was 250-3000 but the barrel was very badly pitted/rusted and even my optimistic gunsmith couldn't get it to shoot.

So since I already had a Kurz in 250-3000 (now residing with @nor-west) the original 6.5x54 appealed. However its not a really good fit to the action, much too long. 6.5 Creedmoor and 5.5x47 Swiss were just coming on the scene and both are very similar in length at least to 250-3000.

I chose 6.5x47 as I didn't think any factory ammo would ever make it to NZ (its loaded to 65,000 psi like the Creedmoor) and I was worried about some future owner inadvertently "hot-rodding" it by using factory ammo.