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My latest is in the mail back to me as we speak

Squared 700
Brux #3 1 in 8 twist chambered in 6br finished at 20.5"
McMillan MR stock with PTG. DBM for AI magazines
Will wear a 6x SS but might pick up a 3-9 SS on the black Friday sale.

I'm looking forward to this one

Yeah, Shaen sent me a pic.

It's a beaut.

Gunner your rifle sounds awesome. I have a 6.5X55 Swede in the works. Using a 1909 Argentine Mauser action matched to a Douglas premium barrel at 23 inches. It will be a full stocked Manlicher using a nice piece of English walnut. It should be done in October but I'm gone grouse hunting for 6 weeks so if all goes well I'll get it in November get it sighted in and hopefully the barrel broken in for deer season.

Thanks Hig. Shaen said he digs it too. Can't wait to see it.

Shaen rebarreled my Montana to 22-250 AI earlier this year and did an awesome job. His work is first class

Patrick Holehan is finishing up a 340 Wby for me with his SOP Mod 70 in both wood and synthetic stocks.

Just got my Ruger no. 1 back with a Brux 1-10 twist 224 dia. barrel,cut to 26 inch length and chambered in 220 swift, I did glass bed the forearm also,nightforce 4.5-14 x56 .this rifle will be used as my truck gun with 60 grain Nosler Partitions to save coyote hides for money using the better bullets,this rifle shoots without much testing of reloading ammo shoots 1/2 -3/4 inch 3 shot groups good enough for killin coyotes. also glad the 60 gr. Nosler B.T. shoots in the same place as the 60 Partitions at 100 yards, the nice thing about a Ruger no.1 it is 4 inches shorter than other type rifles,because it has a much smaller type receiver, so it swings easier in the truck,deer stand or any tight spaced areas. my speed with a 60 grain bullet is just over 3600 fps with my handloads and my once fired cases look just fine too out of this Ruger no.1.Pete53

Glad you keyboard boys caught that !

What does the barrel screw into?

Is this gem worth saving?

Hey, pete. What does the barrel screw into? The buttstock?

huntsman22 - You made me spit up my coffee

I actually don't know yet. About the only thing that's set is it'll be a short action and the flavor will be 6mm cal, in either Bartlein 2B or #3 / 1:8. And that the weight will be ample.

6x47 would be a fun one.

The 3F is near. 3F= 6.5 WSSM AI 40*
Should be a fun little shooter.

Going with a mod7 in mag face. high tech stock and obermeyer in #3b. PTG DBM. It’s getting a SAW brake hopefully 135 Berger at 3100 and 129 LRAB at 3200

Hunts, it’s a truck gun. Barrel screws into the engine block. 😃😎

Looks like Petes rifle...😎

I started a rifle 4 days ago. Convert a Sav 111 from 7mmRM to 300WM.
I put a Shilen select match #3 taper 13" twist 308 barrel in the lathe and dialed it in.
I cut threads and chamber.
I have it headspaced with a piece of brass that measures 0.195" to the front of the belt. I have 0.005" clearance from bolt head to barrel tenon.
I cut the shoulder [no castle nuts for me] for a tenon length for a 0.225" thick recoil lug. That was a mistake. I do not have one. I ordered one from E Arthur Brown on Fri night with 2 day shipping.... that will probably be a week.
So for right now, what looks like a finished barrel breech is stuck in the lathe with me afraid to take it out until I get that recoil lug.

So I started working the stock in the mill.
I have a 52 ounce black painted Boyds pro varmint made of laminated wood that I milled out for a Whidden 20 degree V block with pillars.
I drilled out the action screw holes in the stock to take the pillars.

I suppose I could take out the accutrigger and install the Timney trigger.

TFF

And maybe I should have gone with a Bunx barrel?

I understand there is at least one .270 Ingwe under construction...

Not so much building as rebuilding.

A couple years ago I bought a Kimber Montana in .257 Roberts. Brass eater. Fire once, resize/reload, fire again ... bad, bad ring around the case at the web. Best I can tell the chamber was under-diameter such that it was headspacing on the body taper, not reaching the shoulder. Thought it was dies so I got another FL die. No fix. So I went in to PTG last fall with a dummy case, a new .257 case with a 100 grain ballistic tip set to 2.81 inch OAL and told 'em I wanted a minimum SAAMI chamber with the throat cut so that bullet tapped the lands. It's at my buddy / ex B-I-L gunsmith's shop now.

1) Maybe shoulda gotten a new barrel but I finally got the factory barrel to stop fouling, cleans easy, so .. that's good.

2) Considered changing cartridges but I have 500 or so 120 grain partitions and enough H414 to push 'em .. and every .257 I've owned loved that combination.

If everything goes as planned, it'll be a load-em-up-and-kill-stuff gun, not a lot of load work needed. I've got a Leupold 2.5-8X B&C for it.

I have a new Kimber Mountain Ascent in .308 which I'm working with. I'm figuring Leupold 1.75-6x for hunting timber.

Given that I've got short and medium covered, I think my next build will be something in the 7mm or .30 range, heavier, with an eye to long range. I might go in search of a BPCR type rifle instead. Haven't decided.

Tom

35 Whelen, sitting on a Douglas #3, Triggertech primary, Sunnyhill bdl metal and Leupold VXR 1.25x4. Still 6 months out on a Deviant ultralight and McMillan woody

Please post pictures when complete!