Thread: Walnut and blued steel,

Just finished this blog so can go in the "Walnut and blued steel" finally

1875 Swedish rolling block 8mm rebuild
45-70 Vulcan barrel parralel octagonal to tapered round
New walnut fore end
Colour case finished action
Slow rust blued metal work
Repop rear mid range sight with Hedley eye cup
Lee Shaver front globe with level
Barrel band sling mount
9 pounds exactly

Basically set up as a BP target rifle so I can learn the skills required

Looks very sexy @akaroa1
You have the perfect rifle now
Better come up and shoot a match one day

1916 p14 eddystone in a custom stock made in the 50,s at a guess, anyone out in forum land know who it may belonged to? See the initials HS under the pistol grip

This is for gundoc, best grade cogswell and harrison built 1935, was my father in laws and used in ethiopia where he was a superintendant of police. It has shot countless birds, a leopard, heads of buck including this reed buck when my wife was a little girl

Originally Posted by raydafish

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1916 p14 eddystone in a custom stock made in the 50,s at a guess, anyone out in forum land know who it may belonged to? See the initials HS under the pistol grip

Have a look at the barrel. If it's got a bsa marking it is likely to be a model a or b I think. They bought a lot if them and ended up with the d and e models with new stock, flattened floorplate, reciever ground off for scope bases and holes drilled in the sides for a lyman type peep sight

My 265 RCBS...6.5-06 Improved with 30 deg. shoulder....1977 Mod. 70 with Stainless barrel and Gabe Gatti stock, 12x scope.
BRNO 12g / 7x57R combination

Shot a roo at 732 metres off a bench with the 265...



Roger

Winchester Model 70 Featherweight, in .30/06. She is an old campaigner and I have had her for many years. She shoots extremely well, despite looking battered. Half the checkering is worn off the port side due to rubbing on a pack. The Leupold M8 was made the same year - 1981, and still serves very well.

But it always annoyed me that it had an old ugly ventilated recoil pad, and the length of pull was too short. I tried putting it in a different stock, but I actuallly like the old repeating arms featherweight stock, its one of the best rifle stocks ever designed I think, and I couldnt find a replacement. So I thought I would do something about it.

After seeing what they did with shotguns to increase length of pull, I fabricated another butt end, spliced it to the rest of it and fitted a butt plate (because I had some laying around) The walnut almost matches. Anyway I like it well enough that I don't notice it anymore, and it fits me.
I may fit a traditional red/orange recoil pad to it yet. Just because.


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Originally Posted by JohnDuxbury

Winchester Model 70 Featherweight, in .30/06. She is an old campaigner and I have had her for many years. She shoots extremely well, despite looking battered. Half the checkering is worn off the port side due to rubbing on a pack. The Leupold M8 was made the same year - 1981, and still serves very well.

But it always annoyed me that it had an old ugly ventilated recoil pad, and the length of pull was too short. I tried putting it in a different stock, but I actuallly like the old repeating arms featherweight stock, its one of the best rifle stocks ever designed I think, and I couldnt find a replacement. So I thought I would do something about it.

After seeing what they did with shotguns to increase length of pull, I fabricated another butt end, spliced it to the rest of it and fitted a butt plate (because I had some laying around) The walnut almost matches. Anyway I like it well enough that I don't notice it anymore, and it fits me.
I may fit a traditional red/orange recoil pad to it yet. Just because.


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The old Trapper Nelson wooden frame packs were buggers for wearing and damaging the fore-end of stocks.

Yeah, for years I had a pack with external aluminium frame that did the same. Hallmark I think was.

no bsa markings on it anywhere, british proof marks on the receiver and barrel, matching numbers throughout and ready to be fitted to an original fat boy stock I have to make it as issued
cheers

I've been enjoying looking at the way guns used to be so thought I'd post one that fits the bill.
This was my main hunting rifle for many years and despite having succumb to the practicalities of stainless synthetic, I still dust it off for a couple of outings each year. It is scary accurate with what ever you decide to shoot out of it (as I hear a lot of rifles in this caliber are). The action feels like it runs on ball bearings and is the smoothest in my safe by a long way. I'm currently running 270 gr pills at a tad under 2700 fps and given the general construction of the projectiles it's an emphatic slayer of game without too much 'splatter' (although the 235 grain Speers at 2900fps are a bit more ''). Also, for those that are wondering it's way nicer to shoot that my 30 cal. magnum shooting 200 grain bullets at 3020 fps.

Sako .375 H&H (well before the cost cutting started :-) )

Also, cheers all for the great pictures in this thread!

Walnut and Blued Steel.Well actually European Walnut and Blued Bofors Steel.1st gen Trebly L 461 Vixen circa 1963.With earlier 'S' mag floor release.Them Scandinavians knew how to do it right.Dont know about the ersatz black Berretta Sakos.218273

That one is unusually tidy! Nice Rifle!

Yeah never been on the hill.Thought i'd drag it out of the safe today & put up a happy snap in case some wag wanted to wish it happy 60th birthday

Originally Posted by bluebaiter222

Yeah never been on the hill.Thought i'd drag it out of the safe today & put up a happy snap in case some wag wanted to wish it happy 60th birthday

Or try and buy it

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