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WOW! that is stunning to say the least. That's a rifle I could keep for a lifetime and never grow tired of. Amazing work and your ability to see it's potential should also be commended.

Thanks for sharing!

Terry

The barrels are soldered and pinned (if you look carefully underneath each flat edge of the block, you'll see a blind pin) so the pins are drilled/extracted and then the barrel removed. I chose to just replace the barrel as the factory one has a bit of a funky taper to it... straight taper for a foot or so and then no taper from then on out. After the new barrel is soldered, the blind pin holes are redrilled (enlarged just a bit) and new pins secured. I went ahead and fitted #8 screws through both block and barrel when mounting the rib for a couple more nails in the coffin.

Terry,

I've been lurking on this forum long enough to get a sense of certain people's taste and overall devotion to rifle looniness... your comment has made my day.

Again, a most excellent job! I really like the way you fashioned the quarter rib and attached the scope. I have a couple of Lyman Alaskans that would work very nicely on mine, if I had proper mounts.

Wow !! I'm impressed !!
Nice work - very classy

I'm jealous -- both of your skills and of the results. Tip of the hat, for sure. Dutch.

Very nice job Ian. Enjoy.

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I'd like to thank Big Redhead for bumping this. I am quite covetous.

Just found this thread.

That's some outrageously fine taste and craftsmanship you've demonstrated.

Way cool.....you're a true craftsman.

OldSlowDog, Bristoe, rbmsmjr, Big Redhead, Dutch, Blacktail53, and others,

Thank you very much for all the kind words; they've given me a new pride of ownership for this little rifle and enthusiasm to start another project.

I just recently picked up another of these 110 rifles for next to nothing since this time it was just a barreled action for some reason. I tried the new barrel against my breach and was happy to discover that it locks up just as tight. Then I checked the scrap pile and rescued a nice, straight-grained, 24" long stick that was cut off the same blank.

So my question to the group is, should I use this extra barreled action (I guess just the monoblock, and throw away the rest) to make a second, switch barrel? I could experiment with makng a full-length forearm... mabey a carbine length in .357 Maximum? Or should a just make a whole new rifle in some other caliber?

Since you're obviously capable of doing it, and you have what's necessary to do so, make another rifle. In addition to being something to take pride in and enjoy, rifles like you're building are "money in the bank".

I like your choice of the .357 Maximum chambering, also. I shot a 10" .357 Max Contender in IHMSA for quite some time. It's as easy to load as a .38 special and generates near the energy of a .35 Remington.

They perform very well with cast bullets, also,..if that's one of your interests.

Greetings. My 1st post here. Beautiful work, Ian. I recently purchased a 110 in 222 Rem. This one here: url: http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=118553679
I probably paid too much, but I really like it. The butt stock is loose, and I can't see what kind of fitting is waaay down in there. Is it a metric allen, or nut? My old eyes just can't see it. Are there any schematics available for this rifle? Thanks in advance, and thanks Ian for sharing your project.
Steve

Ian, that's superb work!

I have a thing for switch-barrel guns and break-open actions, having a couple different barrel sets for the BRNO ZH3XX series, which I guess is a bigger sibling to the 110. So with that disclaimer, my choice would be a second barrel for the existing receiver and keep the second one as a spare. You could make up a nice fitted case for both. That stock deserves it.

With regards to the caliber/cartridge: The .357 maximum sounds like a nifty modern riff on the old Rook Rifle concept. And from what my friends with .357 Magnum rifles say, it should be a barn-burner coming from a longer pipe.

On the other hand, I have daydreams about something like this chambered in .30-40 Krag or 7x65R. That may have too much overlap with the .25-35, however....

I'll keep my eyes open to see where you go with this.

Rick

VA - thanks. We'll see if it makes meat soon... I've got an appetite for some late season hasenpfeffer.


MMPsteve - Yours looks much better than the one I started with. The metal on mine looked like it had been blasted with something very coarse and parkerized. They must have made a tarted-up version by the look of yours with its better (and checkered) stock, etc. Besides the ubiquitous plastic butt plate, you have to like the fact that the only two ingredients in these little guys are walnut and steel. As far as the draw bolt, I remember the tennon being an M5, but the head is a 1/2" hex. Slip the socket on your 12" extension and you�re in business. Hope this helps,

Ian

Ian (VA),

I have seen this thread last year and was awed into silence.

Been back a couple times to look at the pictures. Great work.

May I ask how the story continued?

Best wishes,

You definately turned a sow's ear into a silk purse. Fantastic job!

I hardly ever look in this forum but some nice old man told me I should look at this, so I did. I'm really glad I got to see these pictures, and congratulate you on your abilities. Nicely done!


Oh yeah, the nice old man was jimmyd223.

Jeez, guys, thanks! As an update, I can say that I have successfully stalked a couple pieces of paper so far with this rifle. Here are a couple of 5-shot groups at 50 yds (it's a stalking rifle, don't you know) with a load of 4198 and 90gr. Sierra BTHP's:



Also, I was given the rifle I had been trying to replicate as a surprise gift by my family, a genuine Blaser K95! Here they are together:

Ian,

Thank you for the update. Congratiolations on so thoughtfull a family.

I do hope you also like the Blaser.

Please take the comment in the compassionate feeling it is offered - I think, just from the pictures - were it me, I would reach for the 'Poor Man's K95' with monotous regularity. That I say, thinking highly of the Baronesse.