Thread: Walnut and blued steel,

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

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 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’!

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

9.5x57 Mannlicher-Schoenauer model 1910 take-down rifle, in a custom stock. (In English its called the .375 Rimless Nitro Express.)

Essentially this is an 8x57 case blown out to hold a .375 bullet of 270 grains at around 2200 fps. It recoils about like a .30/06 with 180 grain bullets.
The cartridge is sort of known as an ""African cartridge" but it's not really: it is a version of the earlier .375 flanged Nitro express 2.5 inch, which was a straight wall cartridge with the same ballistics chambered in double rifles and was a favourite for hunting red stags and boar in the UK and Europe at the turn of the 19th century. The 9.5x57 MS was an attempt to adopt the same cartridge performance into a repeating magazine rifle: the Mannlicher and the Mauser which were the new darlings of the sporting world. (The 9.3x62 was born the same way - an update of the older 9.3x74 to fit into a Mauser action.)
Of course English and German people took it to the colonies and shot African lions and things and to India to shoot sambar and tigers, as one does, but the Austrians intended it for shooting red stags in the Austro-Hungarian empire.
So that is what it is again, I will use it for stags in the roar.

The stock is custom, and all credit to Nakihunter who is a member on here and made the whole thing from a blank - and bearing in mind that this is a take down rifle and totally different from a normal stock. (There are no action screws!) The figure in the walnut looks better in real life than in these poor photos. The rifle retailed from CB Vaughan in London and has the 100 year old case. It seems that it spent it's life in Ceylon on a tea plantation before coming to NZ.

The stock is ready to be checkered once I source some more tools, which are hard to get nowadays. The pattern will be a standard Mannlicher Schoenauer pattern from the period, and done in flat top checkering, because it seems right and because that's how I roll.

You can borrow my checkering tools if you wish. Just pay post and you can use them free.

Checkering will transform that rifle

Originally Posted by stug

.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.

Cool. Bring it next time you come up and we will take it for a hunt.

Originally Posted by garyp

You can borrow my checkering tools if you wish. Just pay post and you can use them free.

Hi Gary, I really appreciate that. Have sent you a pm