What rifle do you think is a real fine looking weapon? If you already own it please post an image if you don't what would you consider buying. I still have an itch for a huntable beauty. I think some Ruger #1's and the new Cooper #54 would be a good start to look at. That's right need to see a little gun porn! Buckfever1

No pics, yet, but a Ruger no. 1 is in my very forseable future.

maddog

If that thing don't flip your switch you're dead.

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http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/4125784/1/Classic_Biesen_Rifle

Knock out Wood..Me I want a custom #1.

Guy, those are GORGEOUS #1s!!

Someday I'd love a little #1 in 7x57... I'd be happy w/ wood half as nice as that...

It's really hard to beat the '98 Masuser when it's slicked up a bit.













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Adding a Mannlicher stock to one don't hurt either!

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Hmmm. All those fine looking rifles and I saw not one ding/scratch of any of them.I'd be ashamed to show mine becasue of it.Are those actual rifles used in the field?

I used this one, one time only, on an elk hunt- took the biggest bull of my life.

Some folks don't beat the hell out of their equipment when they use it.

Just becuase you don't see enough dings in the above rifles to suit you, does not mean they have not been used.

My Cooper 57M Custom Classic 22 lr.

I don't own this rifle but I was given the pictures for posting on another forum - the rifle is a Sako L 57 based custom in 6.5x57 built by the firm of Dorleac in France. The rifle is unusual in having a stainless steel barrel that was blued using a proprietary process by Boener in Germany. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Good hunting, everyone!













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These are some special firearms and I am really enjoying seeing them! Buckfever1

My .30-06:















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Cheers!
-Bob F.

well, here's a factory remington 7x57 classic with the most awesome piece of wood i've seen on a factory gun.


and 2 pics of my 280ai.

Lots of good choices, but if I wanted a nice wood stocked factory rifle. A Merkel KR-1 Stutzen would be on my short list.

For a custom, the one mehulkamdar pictured would work just fine for me.

Terry

#1V - 22-250, factory wood, and 3 consecutive 100 yard groups

I love blued steel and beautiful wood, but over the last dozen years, I've come to appreciate low maintenance stainless and synthetic for woodland hunting.

Home made 50 Cal. Flintlock.
Doc

Sheesh Jim62, don't get your panties in a wad. I have carried my .06 for 20 years in a scabbard, over some mighty rocky country and in some nasty country.I ain't been sitting in some tree blind all those years.Put a few goat and sheep hunts on one, and if you don't get some dings, you haven't been hunting

That rifle gives me a Boener too. Gorgeous.

All of the rifles posted above are exquisite, and I would be proud to own any and all of them.
I don't own these rifles, but feel that they represent the very highest quality of rifles I dream about owning, in my favorite chamberings.

Stephen Heilmann 250 Savage




Maurice Ottmar 7x57




Bob Owen Springfield

buckfever1;
Thanks for starting the thread as I never tire of looking at unique wood patterns and what craftsmen have been able to do with it.

With the understanding that it's pretty dry here and since we have generous seasons don't have to hunt in the rain if we don't want to, here are a few of ours or one's I've worked on for BC folks.

My saddle gun for years, a No. 1 in .300WinMag with a factory butt stock and a fore end made by yours truly as I really don't prefer the factory "B" type fore ends.

One of my "walking around rifles", a Ruger 77 in .308Norma stocked with a fairly light Richards blank. It now has a 6x42 on it, but otherwise is the same as the photo.

A 1958 Brno that has taken a pile of BC grouse over the years both in my hands and in both of our daughter's hands as well. It pretty much lives on the back seat of the pickup for 3 months every year.

A Model 70 in .300WinMag that I restocked for a fellow out of a Boyd's blank who said he has every intention of hunting it this fall.


Thanks again for the thread and thanks to all who've responded, it has made for enjoyable viewing.

Regards,
Dwayne

A Dakota 416 Rigby.









A Walther 8x57.





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A J.P. Sauer 35 Whelen.

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Don't know if any of my rifles are in the same league as the previous rifles, but here are a some of my favorites. Yes, I do hunt with them.




Pre-64 M70 264 Win Mag and a M70 SS '06

WinModel70;
Well for whatever it might be worth this fine Sunday afternoon, in my view that top rifle you posted doesn't take a back seat to many rifles when it comes to figure and depth in it's stock.

If the bolt was on the other side and we lived in the same country I might even try to talk you out of it.

Thanks for putting that photo up anyway, it is one fine looking rifle.

I hope you and yours have a good week.

Regards,
Dwayne

I was not the one with my panties in a wad. I also was not the one on this thread who claimed to "be ashamed of rifles that looked like that" -not me.

You were the one who implied just because the rifles in the pics are not in nice shape, that somehow their owners have not used them. Which is utter bullschit.

I have seen PLENTY of rifles that have been used on hard hunts that had usage marks,dings that would not have shown up in most pics.

I have also seen guns with enough dings and scrapes from storage and ignorant handling that have hardly ever been FIRED let alone hunted, to know that wear from abuse is no indicator of how "hard" a gun has been hunted with. It's mostly just an indicator of how poorly some folks take care of a rifle.

Like I said, just because someone does not beat the hell out of their equipement,does not mean they of not used it.. whether it is made from blued steel and fine walnut or stainbless teel and painted fiberglass.

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A BIG amen on that rifle. It is exquisite.. WOW!!

I will add a third amen to that and I do have a question about the top rifle.

Is it a factory Winchester stock? I have never seen a post 1981 Winchester featherweight stock with a cheekpeice. Is is a custom shop gun?

It is an Ultimate Classic stock from the custom shop. I got it fully inletted without the finish and checkering. I love the FW checker pattern and had a local stock maker checker and finish it for me with that pattern. He's a stock maker for Ljutic. They send him the blanks and he does the work in his basement.

Thanks for the great pictures guys, boy those are some good looking rugers,I've posted this before, but I never get tired of looking at nicely stocked rifles. Here's my 1957 .270 fwt and 1937 7x57.

Classy touch, love that forend tip. Never have seen one like it before.

I'm jealous!! VERY beautiful rifles and they make a gorgeous pair! Thanks for posting the photo!

Cheers!
-Bob F.

I guess I'm fairly simple to please but I reckon the Ruger Hawkeyes are just about the nicest looking blued/wood factory rifles on the market. The stock dimensions fit me perfectly. They are a fairly plain design, but I think that is where the class shines through. My two get carried a lot. I also like the Ruger No.1As. It's a pity they are offered in so few chamberings.

Nice rifles Dwayne!


Travis

Gentlemen, I can't thank you enough for the great wood and blue show. I would love to own any that I have seen here! They are all truely works of ART! Buckfever1

Those two rifles are exquisite, in every respect.
Kudos on owning them.

Even the Savage 110.......

My most favoritest (technical term) rifle on the 'Fire.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...a_Johnson_s_Oberndorf_Mauser#Post2637106

I wanted a Blued look and wood stocked rifle so I went with this;



Has the heart of a tank, the look of a classic...

Donor Gun: Winchester M-70 Classic; Stainless Steel
Caliber Choice: 338-06 A-Square
Barrel Make: Pac-Nor
Barrel Material: Stainless Steel
Barrel Profile: #3 Contour , 5 groove
Barrel Length: 24�
Extractor: Williams Stainless Steel Extractor
Barrel Crown: Recessed Target Crown
Rate of Twist: 1 in 10�
Metal Finish: All Metal, even action screws/bolts Cerakoted �Midnight Blue� (H-238)
Stock: Winchester Factory Super Grade
Recoil Pad: Pachmyr
Trigger: Factory � set at 2.75lbs
Bottom Metal: Montana Rifle Company 1-Piece Trigger Guard Assembly Stainless Steel
Bedding: Aluminum Pillar Bedding of action, Free Float Barrel
Replaced slot head action screws with hex head stainless steel screws
Replaced factory Tupperware follower with a quality polished stainless steel follower
Weight: 8.5003 lbs

Smith: Lee Christianson (Redneck)

I did something similar to make a lowly 700 ADL look a little more interesting. No it ain't on the same level as some of the work previously posted, excepting maybe Steelhead's Savage, but she's mine and I use the schit outa her.
Teflon coated, maple stock, Lilja stainless barrel, .264 Win Mag I may have shown about a couple dozen times around here. My raghorn slayer.



And who says 27.5" barrels are no good for swinging on running deer in big Maine woods?

That's my second favoritest rifle.

Don't have pic yet, but out of US production products, I'd have to say any of the Shiloh Sharps line. Those folks can mesh wood and steel like the finest English makers.

I like the Ruger # 1 lines, and own two of them. Again, great lines, but any close inspection clearly shows a rather sloppy meshing of wood and metal especially around the receiver.

This has been on before. It's a Yugo 24/47 converted to a 240 Weatherby. I did the wood work.

I like it!

Just about the plainest wood to be found on a Number One . Actually , the fore end is from a different rifle .This 'un is chambered for 270 Roy .

Its' beauty lies in how the set trigger sends the 130 TXXX exactly where the Swaro crosshairs happen to be at the time . And it does this time and again from a cold , fouled , barrel .

So ; not pretty ,but ------ it IS blue and wood

My 1964 Burgess Mauser 98 in 7mm Rem Mag with a 2.5-8 Balvar scope on an adjustable Buehler mount. Not as pretty as some posted here (some spectacular rifles!), but I love this Mauser and have total confidence in it. Oh, and though there are some scratches that don't show up in the pics, the rifle has been hunted hard in and out of a scaboard, but I also am very careful with and take good care of my guns and equipment. My hunting buddy, not so much...

I dropped this one off at the smith today to have a new tube screwed on, chambered in 257 Roberts with a 1-9" twist. The 30/06 was a bit much for the steel butt and a Roberts in a 98 action seems about right.















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You're leaving it standard ? No Ackley improvement ? For shame !

I really need to get some better pics of this one as these don't do it justice. Remington 700 35 Whelen a friend stocked for me.

I know, what the hell is wrong with me. There is something said for x57 cases as they are in a Mauser action.

I bet it's a winner.

I gave him 3 dummies loaded with 120gr Partitions.

Whilst factory all the way, no wood/blue thread is complete without a Savage 1899/99, in this case a pair chambered for 250-3000.

Sticking with the factory theme, how about my first M70 that I received this week.







Or a pair of Husqavarna rifles, albeit the half-stock model does have an Douglas 7x57 barrel.

I have a lot of trouble with lever guns.....it's a bad right hand....but if I could have any gun....
answer to this:

It'd be a Model 88 Winchester in .284.

That's a very nice gun IMO.

Sorry guys I couldn't help myself. Since we're talking wood. Here are my favorite pieces. My 3 Blacktail custom recurves.

Steely,

You're too modest. The rifle and pics are smashing!

Gorgeous!

As long as we're showing more than bolt actions. Not the best picture, but you get the idea.

Brno ZKK 600 7x57 Mauser with folding aperture in the rear bridge.

The final word hath been spoken.

amen

Ok, I just added this Cooper 57M in 22LR to my stable last week. The wood is AAA French Grade. When I called Cooper, they said it was, in their opinion, nearly exhibition grade. Oh, and I've already put a scratch on it.

leveluvr, I was thinking your avatar is what completed the thread. Smokin' babe!

Interesting grain pattern. At first glance it looks like a laminated stock. Then you look again. Nice stock!





Bruce

I think most makers would call that exhibition grade in this day and age.....

Scott, that should be one NICE Roberts. Is the throat short enough that you can seat 75 V-Max's out close to the leade?

Lever's can have nice wood too....99 in 250-3000...

Here is the Cooper 57M, up the canyon behind my house, after I finished shooting a couple dozen different loads, settling on the RWS Target Rifle 22LR load. I took the NF 2.5-10x32 Compact off and mounted this VX3 1.5-5x20 in S&K Sculptured bases/rings.

With Win CB Long Match loads it quite the cherry eatin bird killer.

Alan

As a stock maker of some 50 plus years I see some real nice guns on here..I can't post so can't put any up, but if I were to answer the original posters question I would tell him to find a nice Brno double square bridge Mod. 21 or 22 in 7x57 caliber and he would have the finest of rifles and the best bang for the buck..They just cannot be beat IMO.

Nice Savage Boswell!

And the cheekpiece is on the correct side too!!!!!!