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Its finally here....I won't say "done", as I may have some color case hardening done to it, but it is "here"!

Damn! I felt my pants tighten as I looked at that!

Nice! Cool cartridge choice!

Jeff

Damn! I like it! Who did the work?

Please post pics when finished , absolutely beautiful!

That is gorgeous. I really like the "in the white" look of the receiver, it makes a nice contrast. Case hardening would be an option bu I honestly don't know if it would improve the looks.

I'd also like to know who did that. Looks like they might be beyond my budget but it doesn't hurt to know.

WOW!!!!

Dang.

Very nice.

That is sweeeeet!

You do realize, of course, that you suck!

Very, very nice.

You would have to go and post this while I am giving serious thought to building a .256 Newton. Enabler!

Sweet!!

Great cartridge and Beautiful rifle.

Thanks guys, it is pretty nice.

I've decided to leave the receiver in the white and have the lever, buttplate, grip cap, sling stud and rings color case hardened.

Then it will be complete.

Thanks for the comments!

Todd

ASS RA!

I'd not leave it in the white, but that's just me.

Makes me wish I had mine back...
Very nice!!

Very Nice !

She's a beauty!
I wonder what French Gray would look like on that receiver...

I had also thought about French grey, and might still go down that road....

It's been in the white for over 30 years now with no issues, so I figure it's probably okay. I'll just oil it as usual after each use.

And the cartridge marking is even neatly done, too

I recently had a custom #1 built and had the metal case colored. I tried to post pics but technology and I don't get along very well. All the metal was done including rings, skeleton grip cap and metal but plate.

I got as far as getting the pictures to the image gallery but can't get them to here

Stunning!

How about some pictures of the reciever and the entire rifle?!?

Caliber?

Wow! Thats really good work!

SHWING!

I have no idea how these pics got here but there are pics of the receiver on the image gallery. I'm still trying to figure out how to do the pics. The smith is a local one Central Michigan Gunsmithing in Mt. Pleasant Michigan. The rifle sports a 24 inch tapered octagon barrel and is chambered in 7MM-08 and it's scary accurate.I went all out on this one custom quarter rib, case colored metal but plate, island swivels. Needless to say I'm very pleased. This smith has done a half dozen rifles and a Parker shotgun for me.

Are the case colors done in house or does he ship them out?

And the rest of the show...

And how to do it:


It helps to have two windows open with the campfire up in each one so you’re not going back and forth from the image gallery to your post but you can do that as well if you want.

1. In the image gallery, click on your picture to expand it.
2. Right click on the expanded pic to bring up a small menu, then click on “Copy Image Location” - that records the image link temporarily.
3. Go back to your post and use full editor.
4. Click on the Insert Image Link icon, 9th from the left next to the smiley face.
5. Put the cursor in the little window that comes up and hit Ctrl-V, or you can right click in it to bring up another menu and click on Paste. Holding the Ctrl Key down and then pressing V is the shortcut for paste - your image link will be inserted into that window. Don’t worry about the highlighted http://, you want to overwrite that anyway since it’s already included in the link you copied in step 2.
6. Click Ok and you will see the image link inserted in your post surrounded by [img] and [/img].

And that’s it. Repeat as needed to put more pictures in. Once you do it a couple of times it really takes less time to do than it does to read these instructions.

Thanks Jim. One of these days I'll get the picture posting figured out.

He send it out for the case color work out. I think its in Illinois but I'm not sure. I can find out if you wish. They have a pretty quick turn around time and have done several rifles of mine.

Yes sir if you can find out I would appreciate it.

I would also appreciate the info on the case coloring.

Thx,
Todd

I will be talking to him soon regarding my 250 Savage plans and will ask who does this.

Thank you Sir!

French grey would be nice but color case is awesome , I sent big sky pics of mine , I also had a K80 combo built for trap shooting , I built a LH 416 Rigby and you guessed it color case hardened. I can't get enough! Your 256 is awesome , COLOR CASE HARDEN YOU WONT BE SORRY😊

Ha, thanks Chris. I think I'll stick to my guns and leave this one in the white. I have another build in the works that will be color cased for sure!

You really need to post pix of yours to show it off.

It is incredible!

The color case hardening on my #1 (and others) was done by Classic Guns in Crete Illinois.

Thank you Sir.

Todd

Lovely.

Leave the receiver!,

Big Sky your welcome.

Just plain gorgeous work. It's really classic stuff.

Here's a picture with some Turnbull case colors on the bottom rifle. The top is a Heym/Ruger HR38, engraved with a chamois on the left and a roe deer on the right side - also has an octagon barrel.
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/medium/59696.jpg

Beautiful! More pictures of either? Details on both...?

Dang this is not healthy for me to look at.

+ one for color case or french grey with the engraving highlighted.

If the 256 Newton had been a commercial success think how many fewer cartridges we would have now? Creedmoor no, 270 win. no, 260 rem no. 257 Bob probably but maybe not.

Ya, I might end up doing the french grey route...I already have a couple of color cased No. 1's, and I am having another one built, and I think the color might hide the engraving a little bit.

I think the french grey would indeed really accent it.

The only way the 256 Newton could be cooler is if it had a rim.

I tried to add another full view image of both rifles, but can't seem to conquer this site's overly complicated image system.

The Heym was produced by that German gunmaker in the 1980's, They imported Ruger actions and stocked and barreled them to European tastes. They were/are very pricey and the quality is top-notch. The drawback is the European scope mounting systems used. If the rifle doesn't come with a scope set-up (mine didn't :-( ), then you're looking at an expensive and time consuming effort to get a scope in it. This one is in 30-06, so cheap to shoot anyway. And they all came with Canjar triggers as standard equipment!
I got this one in a trade with a friend who imported it a few years ago.

The custom gun is one the same friend had put together from parts by Mitch Schultz whose shop is right behind the Ruger factory. It has a non-prefix 222 barrel on a 131-prefix receiver with Circassian "30-06 Centennial edition" wood. And also had a Canjar set trigger that I recently replaced with a Kepplinger that I think fits the rifle better for size and appearance. The case colors on the receiver and lever were done by Turnbull, as previously stated.

I haven't had a chance to fire either one yet, winter being what it is here in the great white north downwind from one of the great lakes. . .

Really nice!

Thank you for sharing.

There we go, French gray, WTF that is. I don't know but I like it.

Amen to French grey,