Building a new rifle, almost from scratch

Hey team,

This will be a bit of time in the making, but I'll keep it updated as things progress

Currently making the stock, our kitchen makers have kindly sponsored me a large hunk of purpleheart, white oak, and some yellow wood they make power pole spars from????

Rifle will be used on NZDA 4P and maybe sporting rifle(if i can hold it up)

Rifle will be made from a "trimay" action, triggertech trigger, trueflight barrel (22" straight taper) and chambered by a member here (feel free to pedal your wares if you come across this), an old lad down the road is helping with brass trigger guard etc, and of course I'm making the stock.

First person to guess what it's chambered in gets a beer, I lion red beer at that.

Thanks Lars

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What he said:thumbsup:

6BR :cool:

Lion Red? That settles it for me, I ain't playing. No guesses from me, you can keep ya poison plonk thanks.

Not 6br, and not .308 for 4P

6.5 creedmoor :-)
If you can take some close up picture or the trimay action, as I have never seen one in the flesh

6x47 Lapua?

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Originally Posted by Friwi

6.5 creedmoor :-)
If you can take some close up picture or the trimay action, as I have never seen one in the flesh

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Definitely not any kind of creedmore. I'll take plenty of picks when I get it in my hands, went and met with Ian, top fella, also just up the road, even had a bedding block for me to work with.

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Originally Posted by Tentman

6x47 Lapua?

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Negative, smaller in both dimensions

6mm PPC

Gota be the new .22 ARC or maybe the .22 Dasher?

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Originally Posted by TonyT

6mm PPC

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Smaller, only going to be shooting 100m, and 200m rarely

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Originally Posted by Hermitage

Gota be the new .22 ARC or maybe the .22 Dasher?

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Right diameter....

22 Creedmoor or 22 GT?

.22 swift or hornet

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Originally Posted by Chiefyboy

.22 swift or hornet

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Very similar in case capacity to the hornet.......

222

221 Fireball

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Originally Posted by Larrygoat

Very similar in case capacity to the hornet.......

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.22 TCM nah...
Jezz, this is difficult. I would have said the .22 PPC, but it has double the case capacity of the hornet.
I give up.

.22-250?

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.22-250?

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Can't be as that has close to 3x the case capacity of the Hornet...

I with @chainsaw, the classic 222

The Lion red goes to @Hermitage, .22tcm

Cheap to run, no recoil and plenty enough grunt for 100m

And now that you've finished dishing out poison, they rest of us can rejoin the chat!!!

Any info on the action you are using, never seen one before.

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And now that you've finished dishing out poison, they rest of us can rejoin the chat!!!

Any info on the action you are using, never seen one before.

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Poison/mother's milk, potato/patato

Ill post loads of images when I get it in my hands. He usually makes them RH feed LH eject, I got Ian to make mine RH port only, as ill be using a sling etc so will need to drop rounds in. From what i understand its a take on a Barnard, with improvements, and a nitride? finish. 3 lug bolt, super quick lock time.

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Poison/mother's milk, potato/patato

Ill post loads of images when I get it in my hands. He usually makes them RH feed LH eject, I got Ian to make mine RH port only, as ill be using a sling etc so will need to drop rounds in. From what i understand its a take on a Barnard, with improvements, and a nitride? finish. 3 lug bolt, super quick lock time.

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*Iain

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Originally Posted by Larrygoat

The Lion red goes to @Hermitage, .22tcm

Cheap to run, no recoil and plenty enough grunt for 100m

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Cheers for that @Larrygoat but I stopped drinking in my 20's (over 20 years ago), so please enjoy the Lion Red on me :thumbsup:

Here are a few photos of the Tri-May action for those who are interested:

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Originally Posted by Larrygoat

The Lion red goes to @Hermitage, .22tcm

Cheap to run, no recoil and plenty enough grunt for 100m

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Nice choice! Do you have any info on the .22TCM? Is a cost choice vs using a .222 or .223?

To be honest, I learned about the cartridge on here, from a members build, see the link

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....e-build-45619/

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Originally Posted by Larrygoat

To be honest, I learned about the cartridge on here, from a members build, see the link

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....e-build-45619/

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Mint, will have a read.

Still trying to get my trimay action :(