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I figure the point of all my projects is to learn something... in that, I have not been disappointed by any of them!

I have kept a few, and sent a few down the road, with each try I get a better idea of exactly what the NEXT one should be!

..and there is ALWAYS a next one!

Got lots of gun projects...

The REAL upside to 'em is, they take up a lot less room than vehicle projects!

My project over the next couple of months is to get rid of some of my projects so I can start another project.

I have been playing with lee Speed styled sporting rifle lately and am in the latter stages of a 400 LS (405 Win case shortened to 2.410 and loaded with 320gn cast bullet)
I used a take-off Marlin barrel and the only work I have had done by someone else was to get it sleeved for and threaded tyo suit the Mk l Lee Enfield action (for the 1900 action I had)
I timed it to my action and finished the chambering. Have nearly got the stock done and have started to make grip caps from ebony and some buff horn I was given. The 400 has ebony grip cap and forend tip ( but I did use the buff horn for both bits on a 303 Lee Speed I just finished)
Have made a single stack infill for the magazine and it holds 5 down so I am just a bit pleased with how it is all going.
I suppose I should add that I don't have a lathe or mill so it is all done with hand tools and the stocks start from the blank

that is a great project ....

look forward to hear about it.

Phil

I just bought a well used Brown Precision for a 700 long action. Not sure what to do with it but a recent posting of a 300H&H got me thinking. A 30/06 would be waaaay more practical.

My project was 3 keepers...DONE

223, 260, 7mag pictured?

Paul,

a 300h&h is really appealing me.

i will use a lh zastava 375h&h as a start base.

any hints on the barrel maker?

Ow.

I picked up a 1948 FN .270 last summer with an old K4 in Buehler mounts and a left-hand stock.

I want to remove the LH cheekpiece, replace the old pad, and replace the Tenite forend tip and grip cap with contrasting wood ones.

I also want to replace the long Buehler base with the short one that places the front ring over the receiver ring instead of out over the barrel. I just picked up the Buehler Little Blue Peep sight that fits in the rear ring slot. The trigger also needs work.

I haven't even fired this thing yet, but the barrel looks pristine.

Larry, Mo, and Curly. Should cover a few bases.....

Not sure yet. In the past I would have asked Bevan King, but that's not longer an option. I think it's best to have dies and brass and a reamer lined up before getting a bbl. No hurry on this one and it might not even happen. See what I get for an action first.

I've got a trued stainless 700 short action and three barrels that I'm going to have fitted to it. Going to be an 8" twist 22-250, 8" twist 6.5x47 Lapua and a 10" twist .308, all Bartlein 2Bs. In the interim, it will go in an LVSF stock, but might eventually reside in a Manners EH3.

John

Very interested to see how that turns out! Though I've never had one, I've long been enamored with the idea of a switch barrel rig.

about a year and a half ago i found a rough cut stock for a 40-x, took it to a gunsmith, took him almost a year to get the metal sitted. I just finished the wood last week and put a 12power scope on it.
In no particular order, mating a really rough cut replacement stock to a wWII k98 training mauser in .22
Figuring out how to load some metallic black power rounds for some 1860's lee enfields.
rebuilding a 1842 springfield circa the mexican war.
i am sure there are more in there if i dig around.

I just posted this a few minutes ago:
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...ERAKOTE_on_a_barreled_action#Post9779490
I have a stock I am going to take and have fitted to it. That will be it for Stage 1. I intend to have the stock re-checkered next year, likely refinished too.

I have a left hand 700 HB 22-250 I'm getting ready to barrel with a lighter barrel. I just purchased a # 4 SS Shilen SM barrel , 22 Cal 1&8 Twist. Problem is i can't decide if i want to chamber it for the 220 Swift, 22-250 or 22-243. Decisions

Hey Powdr

Just held up by a lack of money here. I have three barreled Rem 700 actions that need to be turned into completed rifles.
#1 Short Stainless 243 - destined to be a 6.5 Creedmoor with the intent of being a steel/hunting rifle.
#2 Short Stainless 7SAUM - will be #1 hunting rifle, going with the 6.5 SAUM/GAP chambering
#3 Long CM - started out as a 7MM Rem Mag and was rechambered for 7 STW. It will get rebarreled too, 7 something. Thinking maybe the good old Mashburn.

Of course so many others need work - minor improvements, trigger springs, etc on pistols; addition of some optics on Ruger 22/4 Lite, maybe buy a bobbed hammer for my 2" S&W Scandium to replace current hammer - I really don't want to grind the original. I have a Mossberg 500 w/a pistol grip and 18" cyl bore that I carried forever bear baiting and camping in AK that I think I'll get Ceracoted something like dark earth/black just because it was one of my very first shotguns and I'll always own it.

Plenty other little stuff that I have to write down so 1) I have a list, and 2) so I remember it when the thought pops into my head!

I have 6 rifles out to various gunsmiths. 3 are being built up from existing actions with new barrels and wildcat chamberings (22-6mm, 375 Whelen Imp. and .450 Alaskan). One is getting a surplus barrel and wildcat chamber, and one needs to have the rear sight brazed and the throat opened up for cast bullets. I will do the stock work on the first 3...