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Has anyone had a custom sporter built using a Springfield 1922 M2 as a basis? I'm wanting to build one and am looking for pics and ideas. I already have a semi-custom and will not be altering an original rifle.

Go to D'Arcy Echol's blog... He has pics of both Jerry Fisher and Jack Haugh M-2's. It will be back a year or two but it is worth looking. Both guns are quite wonderful.

Here is one that might work... Joe Smithson metal work. Lee Helgeland did the stock

Beautiful rifle, sir!

That's just damn pretty! I have a M2 that had been dropped into a semi sporter/target stock that ended up being put back into its original military configuration. The stock wasn't walnut but it did have decent lines, though nothing like what is posted above. If I was to do a sporter I would put it into a replica NRA sporter stock. To me, that's the baseline on which all M1/M2/03 sporters are compared. Best of luck in your project.

Thanks for the great pics, that rifle certainly works for me. It has many of the features that I want when I have my custom built. Currently my rifle is in an NRA Sporter stock that has been checkered. The barrel has been shortened to 22" and a banded ramp front sight installed,all the metal has been rust blued. The bolt handle has been altered to allow scope use and an Ed LaPour three position safety installed. It has a Timney trigger and it features a Lyman Alaskan with LEE dot in a Griffin & Howe double lever QD mount. At 50 yds. it will put 50 shots of CCI S.V. into one ragged hole, it shoots every bit as well as my Winchester 52 custom sporter of similar vintage.

gunswizard - it sounds pretty classy as is.

Wow!!

That is so nice that words escape me.

+1


Whitebird, that is awesome.

Very elegant and I love guns that you can shoot a lot.

That's about as good as it gets!

I have pics of the Jack Haugh Springfield sporter in my files and I have admired it for years. Many years ago a gentleman responded to a classified ad that I had placed offering me a Griffin & Howe 1922 Springfield sporter at a great price. I foolishly sold that rifle when I was offered twice what I had paid for it, I have never seen another G & H 1922.