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Mine are not true customs, but all do have and aftermarket bbls and stocks. All 700s.
223AI
257Roberts
270Winchester
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I've got four.
two 7-08s, one 257 Roberts, and one 358 STA.
I'm probably done with the custom route. Next one will be a cooper and I don't really plan to add more any time soon.
Don't just be a survivor, be a competitor.
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As a gunsmith I have built several custom rifles for myself, over the years I've sold all of them. My current favorite custom rifle is a Griffin & Howe .35 Whelen built on a pre '64 Winchester M/70 action, I plan to take it deer hunting this fall.
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5 centerfire's, 2 10/22's.
Last edited by passport; 07/03/11.
It�s a magazine not a clip......
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I currently have 6 full custom rifles in my safe. Of these 2 were built for others by top smiths, 2 were built by me for me, and 2 I ordered built for me from other smiths.
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Nice day and nothin to do so I took pics....... Custom rifles.. ![[Linked Image]](http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e140/passport3006/026.jpg) and 22's ![[Linked Image]](http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e140/passport3006/022.jpg)
It�s a magazine not a clip......
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1 semi custom so far but I am thinking about starting a full custom soon...
If we lose freedom here there is nowhere to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. Ronald Reagan
who gives a [bleep] about the stuff that goes wrong
Tough to be pissed when God gives you dogs
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BobinNH, good post. I use and appreciate the plastic stocked rifles, but I'm at not at war with the animals I hunt. Ascetics must count for something. For me hunting with a beautiful rifle adds to the experience. Otherwise maybe the only thing that counts in the body count. Sardonically amusing to imagine an ascetic with a custom rifle. Poor chap.
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Panda action ,Lenard Stock,jewel trigger big fat short barrel in the 6 ppc and another barrel in the 30 BR. Been toying for another barrel but in reality these here cover all my needs . Do i need HP not really.
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have probably sold 10+ but still have 4 Bats.
ML
My biggest fear is when I die my wife sells all my gear for what I said I paid for it.
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What? Sako and Borden customs gone now? 
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BobinNH, good post. I use and appreciate the plastic stocked rifles, but I'm at not at war with the animals I hunt. Ascetics must count for something. For me hunting with a beautiful rifle adds to the experience. Otherwise maybe the only thing that counts in the body count. Sardonically amusing to imagine an ascetic with a custom rifle. Poor chap. +1
Jim
"The skillful woodsman who knows his game, and who gets close, can keep himself in venison or moose meat with a rifle most of us would consider entirely inadequate." - Jack O'Connor
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Nice day and nothin to do so I took pics....... Custom rifles.. and 22's Nice stable passport!
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I have a couple, but hope to add some more. The gun rack as it stands now: 6.5X47 Lapua, 300WSM, 260 Rem, 300 RUM, AR-10 and 280 AI.
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Passport,
What is the color rundown on the mcswirly ( center rifle in pic?)
really like the look of that stock
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Passport,
What is the color rundown on the mcswirly ( center rifle in pic?)
really like the look of that stock
Dam, I cant recall. Or it could very well be the booze. I gotta check
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I have 15 rifles that at least ONE of the people who's posted so far would call customs, but only four have synthetic stocks.
The discussion of what a custom rifle is and is not has turned out to be very interesting. All of my rifles would qualify by some standards.
One of my synthetic stock rifles was built to my specs on a Remington 700 action, with the barrel and stock I wanted--and I co-designed the wildcat cartridge. Does it qualify, even though it's just a restocked, rebarreled factory rifle?
With the exception of the very few off-the-rack rifles that Melvin Forbes started offering a couple of years ago, NULA's are built to customer specifications, including barrel length, weight, material and finish; stock length of pull and paint job--and even other dimensions if so desired; and choice of chambering, including just about any wildcat. Are they really factory rifles?
Some of my walnut-stocked rifles were built for somebody else, and I bought them used. But they definitely aren't factory rifles. Do they still qualify as custom?
I have seen rifles listed on the Campfire Classifieds as "custom" that were all-factory except for an after-market synthetic stock or a rebarrel job. These satisfy one of the owner's whims, but are they really custom? If not, does the .30-40 Krag O/U double rifle I have, built on a Ruger Red Label 20-gauge frame, really qualify as custom? It's essentially just a rebarrel job on a factory firearm.
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