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I stumbled onto this rifle at a gun show and ended up buying it. Al I knew was that it was exceptional.

There were some rifle builders at the show that helped determine its pedigree. Lee Helgeland pulled it out of the stock and found it was checkered by Gary Goudy. The barrel was a Herman Waldron dated 1991. Further investigation with a magnifying glass, I was able to see the engravers name, Terry Wallace, an extremely fine engraver.

After spending several hours replacing the scope on it with a Swarovski 3-10X42 BRX, I have it ready to shoot and see how it does.

Rarely do you find something like this leaning in a rifle rack at a gun show…

Some 135 grain longe range bullets would be bitching in that thang !

Finding a rifle like that is a bit more than luck - that's winning the lottery multiple times!!
Beautiful, and not one you can find often congrats!

Gorgeous gun.

several hours?

Nice rifle! What’s the trigger pull like ?

Let me know when it's time to add to my "Shrapnel Collection"

ya,


GWB

He’s pretty elderly.

Takes a while to perfectly time those flathead screws Don…

When you run around a ranch recklessly shooting skunks and coons, your skill set can be fairly limited. But getting a gate or driving across a cattle guard can give you an unfair advantage in firearm skills…

That's a hell of a nice rifle, and it's immediately obvious that the folks who put it together knew what they were doing.

That’s an amazing find, Shrap! Congrats!
I can’t help but wonder if it’s ever been hunted…..

I doubt that it had, but I ran a wet solvent patch down the bore and it came out green. It definitely has been fired…

Nice 😎

Sweet!

Very nice.

In his prime I thought Gary Goudy laid down the most nearly perfect checkering of all.

What a beautiful piece.

shrapnel;
Top of the morning to you sir, I hope you and your fine family are well, warm and dry on what's looking to be a damp and coolish sort of day up here.

Thanks much for throwing up a few more photos of that amazing piece of craftsmanship.

Since I've never done engraving or color case hardening, I'm only able to appreciate the beauty of it.

Having done a fair bit of checkering, stock shaping and even making and installing fore end tips, I'm just nodding in appreciation as I look at the photos.

The fore end tip alone would be at very least most of an entire day at the bench to perfectly shape the stock, then shape the fore end tip to fit into that. I've got a few decent woodworking tools in my shop too - but that's all finicky handwork to come up with just that.

The built out swivel base pads are something I've not seen often and now have to try to replicate - if I can find the right bases of course - but just shaping them takes time - but - the hard part is leaving them alone for the rest of the sanding and finishing.

Same goes for that little lip/hump behind the bolt handle. In my experience it's not that tough to put one in, the hard part is not having it break off before the stock is finished...

When I read that Steven Dodd Hughes considered Goudy one of the best checkering masters, it confirmed the perfection that I was looking at.

Anyways, that stock is an amazing display - in my opinion and in this case experience as a hobbyist.

Thanks again and all the best.

Dwayne

Schit break...