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Wow! Really cool history. Thanks for sharing

That is cool history. Good to see those blanks put to good use. Rifle looks top notch!!!

As always Tom, thanks for sharing another one of your great rifles....

Very nice 9.3 Tsquare has.

Like TDN's 375, too.

I am almost embarrassed to post pic's mine, after seeing all theses fantastic M70's.

But what the heck.
Mine is a 57 vintage featherweight in 270 with an english walnut stock I did myself.

Not really custom, or a build just a simple re-stock.
But then again a pre-64 fwt doesnt need much improvement.

I check this thread twice a day hoping to see another beautiful walnut or even the great utilitarian synthetic custom pre-64s. Thanks to all for sharing.

Thanks BSA, Randy, Bob, et all. She is the definition of utilitarian compared to many of these beauties... But sometimes beauty is as beauty does.

250s @2900 are flat enough for anything and a whole lotta whalop when they arrive!

Very nice,I'd be happy to hunt that one!You build some very nice stocks.

You want "utilitarian", here you go my friend:


375 H&H, damn near bullet proof:


1957 270 fwt:


These 2, along with my 338, are my most utilitarian rifles I have...

You shouldn't be embarrassed over that beautiful rifle. I would consider it priceless if I were you. There's a lot to be said of a man that can do what you did Sir.

270 Win Built by Bob Gipson. I can't say for sure but I think 257Heaven's rifle might be done by Bob also.

That sure is nice...

I ran across a photo of four of my custom pre-64s and thought you guys might like to have a look. I've run this photo on the fire before, but it has been quite some time. Top to bottom, a .270, a Rifle Ranch custom in .375 H&H, a .338 and my .458 Lott. The .270 stock was a bit of a disappointment as the wood looked much better in the blank than it does after being whittled into a stock. Functionally, it is an excellent stick, but the figure showing in the blank largely disappeared in the stocking process.

WOW!

Wow is right.

Beautiful rifles!

Great googly-moogly! Love those red pads!

Timing is everything some wise man once said. I guess that is the case here. A few days back, I posted a photo of four of my pre-64 Model 70 custom jobs. It was a photo that I had posted some time back on the fire. As luck would have it, I received, this morning, a couple photos of my latest and most likely last custom rifle from Gary Goudy (or anyone else). I had a Model 70 action that I believe is one I bought from Alan Day before he left us way too early. I gave it to Danny Pedersen for one of his superb cut-rifled .30 caliber barrels and had him chamber it to .300 Win Mag.

I didn't have a blank in my stash that I wanted to use on the rifle, so it hang on my gunroom wall for a couple years. Then, at a Custom Gunmakers Guild show, I met a new member, Jim Bisio who, in addition to being a fine craftsman, had a wood cutting business. He pulled a blank from under his table that literally knocked my socks off. Although it was priced well above my meager budget at $1500, but I simply had to have it.

Gary Goudy's stock artistry on that blank is pictured here. It still needs another couple costs of finish, and then Gary's Fleur de Lis pattern checkering jobs, and the stock will be finished. I presume the metal is out for rust bluing. At any rate, I'll post photos of the finished rifle when I get it back home.

Wow, that's pretty.

Ditto that's a nice rifle and very nice workmanship.

Wow that is a beautiful blank!