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My long-term project is still percolating in the 'smith's dungeon:

6.5x55 SE
Lapua brass, Accubonds
Early 1920's Mauser action
Lothar Walther #1200 sporter profile, 1:8 twist, will be cut to 23.75 inches
Watt's Walnut exhibition grade American walnut blank duplicated to approximate my Rem 700 Classic stock, Schnabel tip
Talley fixed rings/bases
Dakota Arms Model 70 style shroud/safety
Dakota Arms Ken Howell (!!!) #2 swing swivel studs
Dressel grip cap
McFarland steel buttplate
Leupold 6x42 FX-3, Duplex

I plan to have the shroud/safety, scope rings, grip cap, butt plate lightly engraved then case hardened. Everything else blued, polish bolt body and new bolt handle to replicate the new Mauser hunting rifles; blue the extractor; polish trigger shoe

I don't have a target weight in mind, it'll be a sum of it's parts, this won't be a 'mountain rifle'.

That'll do Josh. What LOP is that?

My 1st Bighorn/Proof barreled action showed up wednesday. Bolted it all together and fired 8 rounds yesterday. 2 to sight-in, and 2, 3 shot groups. Both under 3/4.... I just used ammo already loaded for the Rugers. Good enuff, load workup done. Boom....

Oh yeah.... I had a pair of LRHSi's for the customs. Used one last week to replace the busted Burris off the RPR. Bought a 3-12 LRTS for the new Creed.

It's 14"....

Little write up in the Hunting Rifles section.

Great looking rifle there Don. Elk hunting with It?

Josh, Don - great lookin' rifles you've got going there.



Coming home next week.

6 Creedmoor

I’m building two rifles.

1. 300 RUM built on a model 70 classic action. #3 shillen select match with a McMillan stock that I picked up at a garage sale.

2. 284 Win built on a model 70 SS push feed classic action. #2 shillen select match with a McMillan edge stock and PTG aluminum bottom metal.
If the 284 is anything close to the 6.5x284 this will likely become my favorite rifle for most L48 hunts.

Only if the PRC doesn't show up before season.

Ya'll have some cool stuff coming together!

Finally got the 1-7" Shilen .22 br spout today.

21" Sendero or some schit.



Had a friend mill flats.

After we get through October Deer and Elk here in Idaho, I will be starting a new project. I bought my buddies Rem 700 AWR 300 RUM as he just couldn't shoot that large of a rifle as well as he liked.

It has a muzzle brake and a timney trigger. I am going to send it to kampfield customs to deeply flute the barrel and bolt, add a campfire knurled knob, mini 16 extractor, side bolt release, and re cerakote the entire rifle graphite black.

The greyboe stock has already been replaced with a black edge mcmillan hunter - going to have that painted to something similar to the GAP camo. Will top it with 4-16x42 ATACR....May take me a few months and in stages - but should finish nice. I have already liquidated quite a bit to get this lined up.

Plan to run my 6.5 CTR and have one nice high end large 300 magnum. That combo should cover the sprectrum quite well.

Been slowly working on the Norwegian Krag barreled action I picked up so many years ago. You can't have too many 6.5X55s. Stock should be here soon. Inventing in my head a bolt mounted peep. Metal will be rust blued. Stock is classic design and will be trimmed down as much as possible. Dreamed of doing this stuff after I retired. Now doing it. Next, a long slide 45acp or a 280 as light as I can make it. Haven't decided yet.

I'm not sure if this project falls within the boundaries of custom rifles, but here we go.

I acquired a mid 1970s push feed model 70 in .30-06. The rifle had not been overly cared for by the first owner, the second owned removed the few bits of rust and the little bit of blueing left and gave the barreled action a nice coat of black krylon. the stock was refinished with a very dark stain and then glass bedded.

Insufficient application of release agent resulted in a gun glued together. The second owner tried to separate the action and stock by drilling out the screw heads on the fore and aft actions screws with no success.

To date I have the barreled action and the stock separated and the paint off of the action.

Further plans are to polish the action and either blue it or do some sort of coating. Re-barrel in stainless; not sure what calibre yet, waffling around with .240 weatherby, 6.5x55, 6.5-06 or .270. The stock is rather chunky and will be going on the rasp diet and will be finished in a manner to show the wood grain. I will re-bed the action and seal the barrel channel with epoxy. Not sure what I'm going to use for a recoil pad.

Hoping to keep finished weight on the lighter side.

Its going to be a bit of a frakenstein thing when its done but the push feed model 70s can be made to shoot well. It is mainly just a cheap fun winters project.

I'll post pictures of Frankenstein when its done.

the true 7mm!

A Montana in 300 WSM is turning out to be my all-around big game rifle and works very well for 95% of my needs, but for certain high wind, longer range situations, I'm building the following:

Win 70 SS Classic "Express" action
Broughton #3 fluted barrel, 1:9 twist, 26"
Manners EH3 stock
Bushnell LRHS 3-12x44

It'll be chambered in 30 Nosler, which to my mind is just a LA 300 WSM. If Federal ever gets around to releasing the 200 gr. TBT to the market, that'll be the bullet of choice.

You only have 6 mils of wind hold with that scope. I hope it's enuff for the 'certain high winds' you expect.....grin

I have a M700 223 sporter with BRUX 1:8" bbl in a Bansner stock. Might replace the action with another and make it into a 1:8" 22-250.

That should be a pretty nice shooting rifle, quality barrel and stock.

7 RM Eddie Fosnaugh put together for me. Scope will be switched out for a NF ATACR 4-16X50 F1. Bighorn SR2, Hart #5 9 twist, Bix-N-Andy Tac Sport, McMillan Game Hunter.




GAP Hunter in 6.5 PRC. Not really a spec'd build since it already came the way I would of put it together plus, I didn't have to wait for it. Did change out the trigger to a Trigger Tech Diamond.