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This Remington 721 in .300 H&H and I go back to the 1980s when I first purchased it....and for a song!!!! But the poor fitting stock wasn't to my liking so I traded it for something alse.....and then as I was visiting Fajen's in Warsaw MO.....I took a detour to the Bishop factory and found a nice stock just for the old work horse.....So I bought it and when I got home the old Remnton 721 was srtill for sale, so I purchased it a second time..this time to restock

I used it on two African safaris with the new stock but with 100 % of the metal untouched. It's been a special gun to me but it started to have some problems with case separation and hard bolt opening. So I removed a thread from the barrel and rechambered it .055 to a snug fit on the go-gage and while the barrel was off (that was quite a job!) I polished the metal, removed two inches of barrel to make it a 24" gun and installed new iron sights.....it also got the 11 degree crown I like.

The forend and grip cap are walnut root wood that was dug out of a river...it's full of sand and is very hard on saw blades!

John Farner (too many tools) did the bluing for me and walla....here it is!