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Lacking professional scraping tools,
just took a couple of hours to use wood chisels and 80-grit sandpaper wrapped around wooden dowels
to remove about two ounces of old epoxy and wood from the barrel channel of the CZ Phat American stock.
No. 6 Light Target McGowen contour with straight taper to 0.820" muzzle diameter at 24" length
required a little elbow grease.
The .500 Jeffery Match heavyweight rifle is in the middle of the "workshop" photo below:



1:20" twist like CIP but with some extra throat instead of the CIP .500 Jeffery no throat.
I might use this as a BPCR with greasers or paper-patched, saves me from ever wanting a 50-140-3-1/4" Sharps 1874.











There is no recoil lug on the barrel, but there will be soon. Not done yet.

With a heavy barrel and a heavy stock, the .500 Jeffery Match is not a sheep rifle.
Field-ready, scoped and loaded, a .458 WinMag will be about 3 pounds lighter.
That is the ultimate sheep rifle.