Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Winchester Collectors 1959 Alaskan Re-Stock project ( pic heavy)

I will guess that he is in Florida.

Awesome skills and craftsmanship. Great post.

Just fantastic work,craftsmanship, I will make on rec, if you really want to make her super sharp, put yourself a supergrade thrubolt in her, they are engraved, I have an extra one some where ,I remember they were less than 30 bucks, they really set a stock off! Maybe its just me, I will take a photo of one of my stock with one one installed . again fantastic work!!! very best WinPoor

No it was Perry County. I have been told that the person responsible for this type of business is no longer working there, but it doesn't matter.

I was able to get her out and shoot her.

Scoped up in some Talley Low's with the C4 Burris.



This was the first load down the pipe after bore sighting. 180 gr BT;s over 67 of IMR 4350 in brand new Winchester brass: Those are seven consecutive shots " walking the scope". The last three are the top three, without adjusting the scope, 2 minutes in between shots.




Next up was the 210 Partition. I started with 69, 70, 71 and 73. 73 is listed as max charge in Nosler manual #4.

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73:



That last group of 73 was three shots taken 15 minutes apart as it was getting hot here in NM. Even though it was sub MOA at .87 inches C to C, pressure was extreme and the brass had extrator marks and the bolt handle was extremely hard to lift. I am going to change powders and find some R19 after consulting with Quickload. For my case capacity, the IMR charge of 73 was at 59900 for pressure and not safe.

Very happy though for the rifle and I may even play with the seating depths a bit and try to bring that 71 charge in a bit. Not a bad day at the range.

I'd try 71.5 and 72 grains just to see what happens. How far off the lands are you running them? Most of my rifles work well with the partitions about .020" off... Looks like it's wanting to shoot them. Sounds like you should definitely back off the 73 gr. charge by about a grain though if you are seeing that much pressure...Again, very nice rifle. Excellent workmanship!!!