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Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. custombolt #12728523 03/18/18 Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,071 SE Texas swamp hclark Campfire Regular hclark Campfire Regular Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,071 SE Texas swamp Pre '64 Mdl 70 270 Win stocked by Sam Marino, Beaumont TX in the '60's: "Not a Gun Free Zone"

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. custombolt #12728553 03/18/18 Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 662 near Hershey PA C custombolt OP Campfire Regular OP custombolt Campfire Regular C Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 662 near Hershey PA Beautiful rifles and never a dull moment on this thread. Just keep it going................stock by Al Lind. Grisel #0022. Metal work refreshed by Roger Ferrell. Life is brief. Treat yourself. You earned it.

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. Jmbrown #12728937 03/18/18 Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 25,107 South Carolina MadMooner Campfire Ranger MadMooner Campfire Ranger Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 25,107 South Carolina Originally Posted by Jmbrown Custom mauser in 270. Dakota Model 10 in 257 Roberts Not the fanciest, but one of my favorites it this Dakota 22. Love the stock on that Mauser. Cheek piece certainly has unique lines. “Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. elkhunternm #12728972 03/18/18 Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 37,146 Likes: 1 Central Louisiana D Dirtfarmer Campfire 'Bwana Dirtfarmer Campfire 'Bwana D Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 37,146 Likes: 1 Central Louisiana Originally Posted by elkhunternm Originally Posted by custombolt A shotgun which aspires to be a rifle is OK. Nice wood there Ken. Thanks. Lots of nice guns here. Thanks! +1 Yeah but where da wabbit..? DF

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. Dirtfarmer #12731903 03/19/18 Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,317 Likes: 9 Oregon Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,317 Likes: 9 Oregon Mercy, there's some beautiful rifles there. _______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack LOL

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. custombolt #12731934 03/19/18 Joined: Dec 2016 Posts: 5,506 Wind River Wyoming S szihn Campfire Tracker szihn Campfire Tracker S Joined: Dec 2016 Posts: 5,506 Wind River Wyoming Some I have made. Please forgive the poor photography on some of them. I never have been very good with a camera. 97 Jaeger carving by Steve Zihn, on Flickr 97 Jaeger comb by Steve Zihn, on Flickr 100_1198 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr 100_1199 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr aag-443_2 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr aag-443_6 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr [img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4213/35622518126_a32e615201_k.jpg[/img]11290005 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr Last edited by szihn; 03/19/18.

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. custombolt #12731940 03/19/18 Joined: Dec 2016 Posts: 5,506 Wind River Wyoming S szihn Campfire Tracker szihn Campfire Tracker S Joined: Dec 2016 Posts: 5,506 Wind River Wyoming 11290005 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr TM Rigby 66 1 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr IMGP2480 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr Christmas Tree 006 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr Christmas Tree 007 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr Christmas Tree 004 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr Last edited by szihn; 03/19/18.

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. custombolt #12731945 03/19/18 Joined: Dec 2016 Posts: 5,506 Wind River Wyoming S szihn Campfire Tracker szihn Campfire Tracker S Joined: Dec 2016 Posts: 5,506 Wind River Wyoming 100_1479 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr 100_1484_2 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr Zihn Muzzleloaders May 31 008 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. szihn #12732577 03/20/18 Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 37,146 Likes: 1 Central Louisiana D Dirtfarmer Campfire 'Bwana Dirtfarmer Campfire 'Bwana D Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 37,146 Likes: 1 Central Louisiana Wow, szihn. If you keep practicing, you may get it down... I think you getting pretty close... DF

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. custombolt #12732696 03/20/18 Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 662 near Hershey PA C custombolt OP Campfire Regular OP custombolt Campfire Regular C Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 662 near Hershey PA Love the fiddle back wood grain.. Life is brief. Treat yourself. You earned it.

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. szihn #12732962 03/20/18 Joined: May 2005 Posts: 10,449 north central PA S shootinurse Campfire Outfitter shootinurse Campfire Outfitter S Joined: May 2005 Posts: 10,449 north central PA Here's a youtube clip of Steve and his carving. (BTW, beautiful work, Steve.) "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. custombolt #12733241 03/20/18 Joined: Dec 2016 Posts: 5,506 Wind River Wyoming S szihn Campfire Tracker szihn Campfire Tracker S Joined: Dec 2016 Posts: 5,506 Wind River Wyoming I have not done a perfect one yet. But that's why I keep trying. If I could do perfect work I'd get bored and stop doing it. I'd have to find something else to make me work at improving.

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. custombolt #12736356 03/21/18 Joined: Feb 2018 Posts: 69 A avfromvt Campfire Greenhorn avfromvt Campfire Greenhorn A Joined: Feb 2018 Posts: 69 Floyd Butler custom made for my father in law. I really love his work. This is a 270 on a mauser action.

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. custombolt #12736591 03/21/18 Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 2,962 Mid Michigan G GSPfan Campfire Regular GSPfan Campfire Regular G Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 2,962 Mid Michigan 257 Roberts built on a 1909 Argentine Mauser action [img]https://s9.postimg.org/k4ljrh467/257_Roberts_2.jpg[/i g] [img]https://s9.postimg.org/coma5u8sv/257_Roberts.jpg[/img] /qv2112jnv/][/url] Last edited by GSPfan; 03/21/18.

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. custombolt #12738055 03/22/18 Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 662 near Hershey PA C custombolt OP Campfire Regular OP custombolt Campfire Regular C Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 662 near Hershey PA Now there is some interesting stock work about the rear tang GSP. Nice bone charcoal CCH as well. Great responses on this thread. Thanks. CB. Life is brief. Treat yourself. You earned it.

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. szihn #12739321 03/22/18 Joined: May 2005 Posts: 10,449 north central PA S shootinurse Campfire Outfitter shootinurse Campfire Outfitter S Joined: May 2005 Posts: 10,449 north central PA Originally Posted by szihn I have not done a perfect one yet. But that's why I keep trying. If I could do perfect work I'd get bored and stop doing it. I'd have to find something else to make me work at improving. Keep up the fine work, Steve. It's beautiful. "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. custombolt #12739687 03/22/18 Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,005 SW MICHIGAN Polecat Campfire Regular Polecat Campfire Regular Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,005 SW MICHIGAN What a great thread. I find myself going back though the pics all the time. Thanks to everyone for their pics. Lee

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. custombolt #12742957 03/24/18 Joined: May 2012 Posts: 1,222 slc utah M mooshoo Campfire Regular mooshoo Campfire Regular M Joined: May 2012 Posts: 1,222 slc utah beautiful guns!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. handwerk #12743067 03/24/18 Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 29,786 Land of milk and honey...for s... J JSTUART Campfire Ranger JSTUART Campfire Ranger J Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 29,786 Land of milk and honey...for s... Originally Posted by handwerk And one I sadly no longer own, a Gary Goudy 7x57 built on a 1937 M70 action, the most beautiful rifle I've ever held. https://imgur.com/a/TGu1d Posted this as a courtesy to Handwerk. Not mine. Last edited by JSTUART; 03/24/18. These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.

Re: Show me your nicest blued steel and fancy wood rifle. JSTUART #12743262 03/24/18 Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,164 tn. domit Campfire Regular domit Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,164 tn. never really wonted a 7x57 but if confronted with that 1 i would have now had one. nice in every way.