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Left hand mauser - first rate.

I love the touch with the Williams Sight on top of the Scope base. Best of both worlds.

Nicely done.

I'm still jealous about the LH Mauser part!

Absolutely gorgeous... And you're gonna HUNT with that???

Sure, I am going to hunt with it. It actually started as a budget project. The wood came off eBay, it is just a basic Douglas barrel, and I think the action was only about $300 at the time. I did as much of the work myself as I could. But as I added more bells and whistles, the budget concept got left further and further behind. It was probably the trip up to Gentry's for the barrel band, bolt handle, and 3-position safety that hammered the nail in the coffin of my hope that this would be low cost.

But perhaps next year I will draw a tag in Montana to hunt whitetailed deer in the NW part of the state. Given that there are bears there, this might be just the ticket.

EXCELLENT rifle with tons of great touches. Thanks for posting the pictures and sharing with us.

Nicely done. You have a good eye for the custom touches. They really set it off.

I really wanted to stay with a classic American style. I think the key to good stock work is a straight edge and files/small planes. All your flat surfaces need to be truly flat and your lines as straight as they can be. And then your curves need to flow smoothly with no dead spots. The dreaded sandpaper only comes out at the very end--you can do more damage with that stuff in 60 seconds of mindless sanding than you can fix in an hour--if ever.

I love it. Not enough guys doing custom mausers or wood stocks these days.

Utah, what brand recoil pad is that?

That is the Decellerator Sporting Clays model. It has a hard plastic rim at the heel that provides a slicker surface so that the sporting clays shooters don't hang up as they mount their shotguns. It has similar value in a large bore rifle where you are anticipating a rapid shot. Since I was thinking about this as a sneaking through the timber/jump shooting rifle, that seemed like a good choice. The only downside is that a gun standing on the slick edge of the pad can slip and fall if you are not careful.

That is what I thought it was. I looked for the same style pad for a rifle, but couldn't find one. It appears the sporting clays model will work.