charliemopic
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Pretty guns can shoot well, too.
For example, a 1969-vintage Belgian Browning BAR, w/French walnut stock, and a vintage Weaver 3-9 auto rangefinder scope can place .30-06 rounds in tight groups, while looking good doing so:
Speaking of .30-06, nothing wrong with an M1 Garand or two:
For example, a 1969-vintage Belgian Browning BAR, w/French walnut stock, and a vintage Weaver 3-9 auto rangefinder scope can place .30-06 rounds in tight groups, while looking good doing so:
Speaking of .30-06, nothing wrong with an M1 Garand or two:
Schleprok62
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Gewehr,
Very nice collection... :drool
How do you travel to and from the range?? In a S.W.A.T. van???
Very nice collection... :drool
How do you travel to and from the range?? In a S.W.A.T. van???
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texasguy
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Gewehr98 said:Still plenty accurate to get the intended job done.
For long range work, nothin' says lovin' like a WWII Z-prefix 1903A4 Remington sniper, as restored to original condition from a Bubba job by yours truly:
While not benchrest grade, I reamed the chamber on the tight side of SAAMI for .30-06, using a pull-through match reamer by hand, and glass-bedded it after installing a Timney Featherweight trigger. 3/4" groups at 100 yards with 168gr MatchKing handloads are fairly easy to do, even with the vintage 2.5x scope. I take this old girl deer and elk hunting without qualms.
In a concession to more modern times, here's a .308 Winchester Remington 700PSS in the original green H-S Precision stock. It has a Shilen trigger, Gre-Tan modified striker, Armstech floorplate extension, Leupold QRW bases and rings, Sightron 4-16x42 Mil-Dot scope, and was skim bedded before torqueing to 65 inch-pounds. Best groups to date put the rounds inside 1/4" at 100 yards, using Lapua brass and Sierra 155gr Palma bullets on top of IMR4895. I'm currently working with Lapua D46 rebated boattails for work past 500 yards.
Your 1903 Springfield is the most beautiful gun I have ever seen. My grandfather was a sniper in WWII and he carried one.
Anyway, heres my handbuilt 10/22
Unfortunately, there was no stock on that 1903A4 when I found it.
It's a replica "C-stock", as supplied by DuPage Trading Company. I used my original Springfield 1903A1 rifle, below, as the dimensional pattern for the replica stock, which came somewhat oversized. I planned on returning it, it was covered in a sticky combination spray-on polyurethane and brown stain mess. (DuPage, are you reading this? Get a hint!) But when I cleaned on it some, that beautiful grain line going down the right side through the pistol grip and back through the buttstock caught my fancy. The finish is simply Minwax Mahogany stain/sealer, and several dozen coats of boiled linseed oil, with a 0000 steel wool rubdown back to the wood each time the next coat dried. It took several months to get there, and the gloss is purely a function of the Birchwood Casey stock wax I applied - it's really a satin finish.
The stock on the M1 Garand I pictured in my previous posting above was a bit neglected as it came from the DCM, so it got the steam iron/wet rag treatment, then the same boiled linseed oil and steel wool treatment.
As a matter of procedure, almost every time I either restore or complete an unfinished rifle stock, it ends up with a hand-rubbed boiled linseed oil finish. It takes a long time, but in the end, I feel it's well worth it. No polyurethane, Tru-Oil, or LinSpeed for me, thank you.
It's a replica "C-stock", as supplied by DuPage Trading Company. I used my original Springfield 1903A1 rifle, below, as the dimensional pattern for the replica stock, which came somewhat oversized. I planned on returning it, it was covered in a sticky combination spray-on polyurethane and brown stain mess. (DuPage, are you reading this? Get a hint!) But when I cleaned on it some, that beautiful grain line going down the right side through the pistol grip and back through the buttstock caught my fancy. The finish is simply Minwax Mahogany stain/sealer, and several dozen coats of boiled linseed oil, with a 0000 steel wool rubdown back to the wood each time the next coat dried. It took several months to get there, and the gloss is purely a function of the Birchwood Casey stock wax I applied - it's really a satin finish.
The stock on the M1 Garand I pictured in my previous posting above was a bit neglected as it came from the DCM, so it got the steam iron/wet rag treatment, then the same boiled linseed oil and steel wool treatment.
As a matter of procedure, almost every time I either restore or complete an unfinished rifle stock, it ends up with a hand-rubbed boiled linseed oil finish. It takes a long time, but in the end, I feel it's well worth it. No polyurethane, Tru-Oil, or LinSpeed for me, thank you.
Schleprok62
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BucksDC said:Not yet finished. Hopefully it will slay some prarie dogs and groundhogs this summer.
Nice rig... Specs???
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And now an AK. Bulgarian SA93.
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texasguy said:
Ditto. Gewehr -- you have a lot of nice rifles. Even among all that fine weaponry, your restored '03 stands out as something special. Nice work.
Rambosky said:
Wow. Beautiful wood. That may be the nicest looking AK I have ever seen.
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