Have hunted with all of these, except the No. 1, due to buying it too late last fall to check it out thoroughly before big game season ended.
There will come a day when JB's guns will command a premium because he owned them, probably. (But only if he carves his name in the buttstocks with a dull jack knife. Provenance man, provenance!
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
I'm biting my tongue 'cause if I say....aw, hell with it, you guys have wood as nice as mine.
Originally Posted by ingwe
Yeah..but how are your screws?
This thread has taken a really weird turn...and it was started down that path by John B.
I am going to pour myself a double Scotch and go read some Corbett or Bell.
“My horn is full and my pouch is stocked with ball and patch. There is a new, sharp flint in my lock and my rifle and I are ready. It is sighted true and my eyes can still aim.” Kaywoodie
The screws are pretty good on all of them, but must note (as an ex-stockmaker) that generally screws on walnut stocks don't stay precisely "timed" forever, because even the best, well-cured walnut shrinks and expands.
About the only way I know of to prevent this is to install "pillars." But dunno how many real walnut-fiends allow that--or even contemplate the possibility....
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
Lot of talk about wood here... A few years ago, while I’ll was at work, Halloween actually, my wife saw a naked man stealing wood from our wood pile. She slid open the sliding glass door and said; “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?” He turned to her, put his hands behind his head, shook his hips back and forth and yelled; “GETTING ME SOME WOOD”. He got arrested. True story.
The screws are pretty good on all of them, but must note (as an ex-stockmaker) that generally screws on walnut stocks don't stay precisely "timed" forever, because even the best, well-cured walnut shrinks and expands.
About the only way I know of to prevent this is to install "pillars." But dunno how many real walnut-fiends allow that--or even contemplate the possibility....
Yeah Ive seen them get turned on good shotguns over the years...
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
Cool rifle, not to take anything away from JOC but more interesting to me because Fred Wells built it. Back in 2001 I was introduced to him and his wife Rachel by a friend in Prescott. Had an entertaining breakfast with good stories and then got a tour of his shop. Nicest guy around and built some wonderful firearms. Showed me one of the last remaining Mannlicher Schoenauer factory cutaway demo 6.5x54 guns. He would build 98 Mauser actions from scratch in custom dimensions as requested by the customer, a true master of the craft.
His wife Rachel is/was a master engraver and does beautiful work.
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"Why can't men kill big game with the same cartridges women and kids use?" _Eileen Clarke
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Sorta off the reservation concerning rifle wood, but being we're looking at shotguns, here's a Merkel 28 ga. May be Turkish walnut, not sure what they use.