I have a few rifles on FN actions, mostly J.C. Higgins M50s that were planned to be rebarreled and made into customs. One was gifted to me by a late friend and it's been well used. It now sits in a Butler Creek stock, the origin custom stock being broken in a bad fall. I should put it in a proper stock similar toe the custom stock my friend made.
I also have a couple of commercial FNs and one Husqvarna M640 that really needs to be put in a proper stock and not the cobbled one I used to test fire the rifle. Thanks to circumstances that test firing is yet to be done.
One commercial FN I got has a thin 24" soda straw barrel. Action looks like a 400 but may be a supreme, I just don't know. I picked it up in 1973 for $75.00.Don't know how I fell into that deal but it was new in the box and unfired. It's one accurate rifle for three shots, then that slim barrel starts to walk. Interesting thing s the factory stock is not walnut but some kind of light weight wood. Maybe birch or beech but definitely not walnut. Rollover cheek piece and definitely a Weatherby style influence for sure. Estimate weight, 6.5 pounds without scope and 7.5 pounds with scope. When I look at that stock, I cannot help but think of the word from that immortal Jack O'Connor. "That stock is so ugly it would abort a lady crocodile." I think it truly would.
PJ
