I've picked up a Model 70 stainless synthetic 375 H&H from the classifieds. Of course I have to make some mods right?

I'm OK with the stainless but the black stock has to go one way or another. Anyone know anything about the quality of these stocks? How about the recoil pad? If OK I may have Rick or CAS paint it up nice.

I really think my first choice is a wood/stainless combo.

So show me some stainless/wood combos if you have them. Also, any painted synthetic stocks or swirleys with stainless.

Thanks,
wyattd

SC, a really nice one.

Yes it is.

Looking forward to photos with it laying across an animal...

I've had two nights off since Sept 8 as I'm working 12 hr night sights at the local refinery. No hunting yet. Maybe in a couple weeks, I hope.

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Here are a couple of pics of two custom winchester big bores. THis were two of the nicest rifles I have ever owned but unfortunately I had to sell them both to avoid some financial pitfalls after the birth of my 2yr old daughter. I guess it was a fair trade, I have a beautiful baby girl out the deal

First a lightweight 375 H&H. All excess metal removed from action and barrel turned down to a minimal countour. Ultra light kevlar stock. Barrel cut at 20" and brockmans popup peep with talley quick detach rings..
FInished weight of 6lbs 4oz without scope right at 7lbs with 1.5-5 leupold illuminated VXIII.



Second is another winchester 70 rebarreled in 458 Lott. Accurate innovations wood stock with 1.5-5 illuminated VXIII in talley QD rings with brockmans pop up peep. WEights right at 10lbs with scope. I think I miss this one even more than the lightweight.



I really can't say enough good things about the popup peep by brockmans.

Left Hand Ruger Alaskan (375 Ruger)



BMT

Here are a couple of lefties. Tope rifle is a Dakota 76 in 375 Wby built by Biesen and topped with a Zeiss 2.5x8.
Bottom is a lefty MRC 458 Lott sitting in a McMillan stock and wearing NECG sights front and rear as well as a Leupold 1.5x5 in Talley QD mounts.

BTW, Both are for sale. PM me if you are interested. $2,300 for the Dakota. The Lott is $1,500. Neither price includes the scopes or rings.

1st pic is a .416 Swift which I built a few years back. It uses a .505 Gibbs case necked down and shoots a 400gr TSX at 2950fps with no pressure signs yet.(.30-06 case bellow for comparison). It's topped with a Zeiss 3-9x40. The 3rd pic is not a rifle but,,,,,,it's a .500 SD I built a few years back as well which started life as a standard .500 S&W BFR. I made my own cases (from full length Reformado cases) and it shoots 700gr hard casts at 1450fps with out sweatin. It shoots both the .500 SD and the .500 S&Ws (the littler case is a .500 S&W for comparison). Both are real thumpers. As usual the pics don't do them justice. They sure get attention at the range though.

i have the same one for lefties as some others here but for now no hunting with it ...!!!

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Hope ya make it out soon. We go for out for the first week of Nov. I'm just a little pumped...

Good hunting.

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Some fine rifles in this thread. I really like my LH SS 375 Ruger like BMT's.

Not a great pic, but the top one (dark tan & black) is a .375 Ruger:

Sako m-85

Best I can do at the moment,,,,,still at the smith's

Josh-that top rifle has always been in my top 10 of nicest rifles on the Fire. Too bad it had to go, but I totally understand and would of done the very same in a nano! Good on you for doing so!

Dober

My Lott

funny.....
how long till we see a pic?

I've always wanted a SS big bore, and two weeks ago I picked up an unfired M70 Classic in .375.

Trashed the plastic stock and bought a new McMillan (they actually had it in inventory.)

Called Sunny Hill and ordered their drop-box bottom metal in SS.

The bolt body and the inside of the action have both been stoned and polished. It's about 1000% smoother now than when it was new (lots of rough tooling marks in there from the factory.

Stock is now bedded (still need to clean off some of the leftover Devcon), and it is now ready for load development.

After I figure out what it likes this weekend, the metal will all be polished and sent out for bead-blast while the stock goes back to McMillan for paint (I wanted green instead of black.)

Here are some ugly WIP pics, but I promise it'll look a whole lot better in a couple of weeks.

Here are pics of the same gun, one with Winchester factory take-off with pillars & decel, also rubbed oil. The others are with the Bansner Hi-tech.
Gun is SS MRC in 375H+H

cmfic1,

Thanks for those pics. I have a lead on a take off similar to yours for my rifle. Red recoil pad and a barrel band like I have planned and it will look just like yours I think.

Very nice, R. Kinda Alaskanish. Aheada your time, I guess.

Ahead of my time?

Just that you, and a few others, dreamt up the blueprint for the Ruger Alaskan long before Ruger took the hint...

Very nice rifle you have there. Made even nicer by the fact that the bolt is properly located...

Here's my Win Mod70 Classic S/S in 375Weatherby. It wears a HSPrecision stock.

I bead blasted all metal surfaces.
Cheers.

My .375 RUM
Rem 700 SS, 26" bbl, KDF brake, pillar and glass bedded in a Richards laminated stock with a Limbsaver pad and a mechanical recoil reducer in the stock that I fitted, finished and hand checkered. Topped with a 2-7x Leupold scope on Burris mounts. It shoots 270 gr and 300 gr Barnes TSX bullets moa to 200 yds.

Glad to see you finally got it! Great!
Here's mine. Sako 85's are really done right - aren't they?

yes, I really like the rifle. Took 20 months since it was ordered. Shot a moose and m-deer with it with 250gr Accubonds this fall. Moose was thru and thru as was the deer, moose 220 yds deer 25yds. At 2700fps the 250gr load falls a little behind the H&H but the 286gr load at 2550fps puts it right in H&H territory. Shoots the same as my old Rem 700 C-Grade Custom but weighs 3.25 lbs less. I tell you I was real close to cancelling and getting same in a 375H&H . But glad I waited.

I'm trying to get a Sako in 9,3x62.

this is oprah my .375H&H

Ruger 77MKII .350 Remington Magnum. Barrel cut back to 18.25". New England Custom Gun rear sight with Williams Ramp front. Leupold 1.5-5...has been replaced with a Tasco Titan 1.5-6x42. Great bad weather/4-Wheeler rifle. Weight is 8 pounds 14 oz.



Ruger #1H in .405 Winchester with a Tasco Titan that is now on the Ruger. In its place is a 1.2-4 Tasco Titan.



Bob

Browning Mod. 71, .348 win. high grade

aalf,

nice stock

Plain vanilla 375 Ruger Alaskan in a black Borden Rimrock stock - at work in its natural setting.