Took delivery yesterday on the completed 2015 project. To bring everyone up to speed, it started as a military 1909 Argentine 98 Mauser action, a Lothar Walther 9.3 mm barrel, a Dakota 3-position safety, Dakota grip cap and sling swivel bases, red Pachmayr pad and bottom metal and trigger from Blackburn /Swift. All that was delivered to Reto Buehler who turned those parts into a barreled action. He added a new bolt knob which he styled and checkered and shop made custom scope mount bases for Talley rings. While doing the metalwork, he decided that the action was a bit softer than he wanted so sent it out for re-heat treatment.

When Reto finished getting the metal functioning like a sewing machine, he sent the barreled action to Gary Goudy to stock. I had already sent a stick of good, but not flashy, Circassian walnut for him to use for the stock. He did the checkering while the metal was out for George Komadina's fine slow rust blue jobs.

Remaining to be done is to decided on and mount an appropriate scope and do the load workup for it. Hopefully, that will all be done in time to use it on a big bull bison next month.

Great work by all the craftsmen.

TT
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